HRH The Duke of Edinburgh Meet the Future To Topknot or Not

HRH The Duke of Edinburgh

The School marked the sad passing of His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh with the flags at half-mast. We express our gratitude for the establishment of the DofE award scheme that has taught generations of Chigwell students about outdoor skills, resilience and team work, while making a difference to the community.

Meet the Future

We recently hosted a ‘Meet the Future’ talk with Natasha Gandhi, a former Chigwell Student, who is in the final year of studying for her doctorate in Applied Psychology at Warwick University. Natasha is currently researching how people perceive and judge food healthiness with the aim of helping the public make better-informed food choices. She applies novel methods such as machine-learning and computationallinguistics to quantify non-nutritional knowledge about foods. This is so that beliefs about concepts such as “natural”, “homemade”, and “fried” can be considered equally to nutritional information like calories, salt, and saturated fat content. Read more: http://bit.ly/CSappliedpsychology

To Topknot or Not

Congratulations to Sahib (IVth Form) who starred in To Topknot or Not. The film tells the story of Jag, a fourteen year old Sikh boy, who grapples with the decision as to whether he should cut his hair to fit in with his friends or wear a turban to honour his family’s values. Sahib auditioned for the production which was filmed in February for the BBC by Drummer Television as part of the Snaps series which covers issues faced by young people in the UK. You can watch the film at http://bit.ly/CBBCtopknot