Year 11 Bake and Book Sale
The Year 11 Bake & Book Sale was the first bake & book sale of the year. The year 11 students sold a great range of baked goods and books. The year group that raises the largest amount of money gets to choose…
LEAP Award
Lead Engage Achieve Progress What is the purpose of it? The LEAP award was designed to enable students to grow and develop into responsible young adults who can demonstrate areas of their life in which they have accomplished personal goals and contributed…
Club of the Month: CREST Awards (The Engineering Club)
Nachiket Dighe, co-leader: The Engineering Club was actually founded last year by former U6 students Tahir and Ludovic. This year, Avanija and I, along with the valuable support of Mr. Lucas, have taken the initiative of introducing the CREST Bronze Award to…
TRDP Update
Tareq Rajab Docent Programme: First meeting for the year 2019/2020 - The Tareq Rajab Programme is the first of its kind in the Middle East. It gives NES students an opportunity to pursue their interests in the humanities such as history, geography,…
World Mental Health Awareness Day: Sixth Form Edition
Mental Health Sticky Notes Project If you took a look at the sixth form common room any day of the week, it would look like a typical adolescent school space: you’d see kids studying, eating instant ramen noodles and passing around popcorn, card…
Roald Dahl Competition 2019
What is the competition about? The Roald Dahl competition was an event that took place between Year 7 and Year 8, where students had to create either a new ‘Roald Dahl-type’ character with a description or a fact file about an existing Roald…
Go Green Challenge
What is the Go Green challenge? The Go Green Challenge is an event that takes place over the course of five days. Some of the student responsibilities that are highlighted during Go Green week include caring for the playground, collecting recycled material, and…
M.U.N. Opening Ceremony 2019
The MUN Opening Ceremony was on the 22nd of September and had over 140 delegate attendees; the experience was grand. Every year, the opening ceremony is an integral part of the programme that introduces the trainers and executives to the newly-joined MUN delegates.…
Year 8 Entrepreneurship Day
The Year 8 Entrepreneurship Day is an event where students become entrepreneurs and sell homemade products for a day. This event was greatly anticipated as it was a new event for the Year 8 students, and it helped them develop their business acumen…
2019 Graduation Ceremony: Head Boy Anthony Salandy’s Speech
Good Evening parents, staff & students, At the start of this evening I was quite nervous. Not nervous to speak or to address you all, but nervous to know that this is the last time I will be addressing a Community in which…
Last Beach Clean Up
The beach clean-up is an event where volunteering students clean the beach by collecting trash in large bin bags. I know it might sound a little monotonous but we always end up with a memorable day. When we first arrived at the beach,…
Memorising Pi Competition 2019
Memorising Pi Competition 2019 During the week of the 1oth of March to the 14th, the school hosted a memorising Pi competition where participants had to memorise as many digits of Pi as possible. The final showdown was held on Pi day…
The story behind the Raheel Bahman Fun Run
Firstly, I would like to thank Ms.Rawa for her time and effort in honouring Raheel Bahman; this article would not have been possible without her. Every year our school raises a large amount of money for charitable causes. This event, however, holds…
Go Green Day
Well, it’s in the name... Go-Green day is a day where we are allowed to dress up in green accessories. The catch is that to earn this day, we have to keep our playgrounds clean for the week. Sure, the week is all…
