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Visiting Speaker - Adam Kay
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Students had the opportunity to listen to Adam Kay, accomplished
author, comedy actor and former doctor who wrote the bestselling book, “This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor”, published in 2017 (left). The book is a collection of diary entries written by Kay during his medical training from 2004 to 2010.
During his presentation Kay talked about his journey into the world of medicine and how he ended up moving into the fulfilling career he has today. Kay is now an established screenwriter, having written and co-created the 2015 BBC Three sitcom series “Crims”, along with other television work as a writer and script editor including “Mrs. Brown’s Boys”, “Mongrels”, “Very British Problems”, “Mitchell and Webb” and “Child Genius”.
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Students found the talk useful and enjoyable. “It was very helpful as he gave us a realistic outlook about what it’s like to be a doctor and prompted us to ask ourselves important questions about our future career choices”. Mayukha Bhatt, 12T
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VE and VJ Day Commemoration
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2025 marked the 80th anniversaries of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day), on 8 May and VJ
Day (Victory over Japan Day), on 15 August. At CCHSG, we designed a number of cross-curricular activities to mark these anniversaries. As well as our whole-school assembly delivered by three of our History Ambassadors on the 8 May, we organised the following:
The History Society showed the National Theatre’s “The Next Morning” short film and the Royal British Legion's “I’ll remember: Discovering stories of VE and VJ Day” short film. These examined inter-generational perspectives of WWII.
The Music Department dedicated lessons at KS3 to learn the Royal British Legion “I’ll Remember” song, which was performed to the wider school community in the Summer Celebration Assemblies.
The English Department engaged with the Imperial War Museum's “Learning from Letters” activity, to promote creative writing with KS3 students.
The Art Department launched a competition led by the Art Ambassadors, to design a VE/VJ Day 80 commemorative plate.
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