Belfast Model
School for Girls

Each year the Energy Saving Trust run a competition for talented photographers to submit entries based on a different environmental brief. This year's brief was:

Can you capture in a photo what one change you will make to be more energy efficient?

Girls' Model pupil Rebecca Hume entered an image reflecting her intentions to switch from motorised transport to foot and pedal power. The judges thought her image captured the brief quite well and awarded Rebecca a Highly Commended Certificate. There is a possibility that her image may be used in a calendar published by the Energy Saving Trust next year.

Rebecca's entry

Rebecca Hume

The Young Writers’ Away With Words competition is entered by thousands of school children nationwide.  Budding young writers enter their poems hoping that maybe, just maybe, their poem will be picked out of the thousands and published.  Imagine, your work, chosen from thousands!  What are the chances?

For 17 Girls’ Model pupils, it’s not a work of imagination….it’s reality!  Their poems have been published in the Co. Antrim version of Away With Words.  The poems cover such diverse topics as ‘bullying’ and ‘homelessness’.  All are truly inspirational and give us something to think about.  Congratulations girls, you deserve this fantastic reward for all your hard work.  Keep on writing!

The published poets are: Jennifer Sanlon, Jade Smyth, Tanya Todd, Gina Hearst, Beverly Hunter, Lauren Braiden, Leah Holland, Emma Crowther, Tammy Cushley, Demi-Louise Irwin, Amy Phillips, Hollie Smith, Victoria Ferguson, Kirsty Brown, Lauren Spence, Rachel McClure and Naomi Morrison.

Away With Words is available from bookshops for £14.99

Rebecca Hume, a Deputy Head Girl here at the Girls Model, joined many aspiring Jewellery Designers by submitting her work in the Fred J Malcolm Awards for Jewellery Design 2007.

It was great to see the superb standard of entries from the contestants. We set out to give young designers the chance to work to a commercial brief whilst allowing their entries to match the AS/A2 Art and Design curriculum. The standard was very high and competition fierce.

Martin Watt,
Director of Fred J Malcolm

Rebecca Hume

Winning Entry

Rebecca was chosen as the overall winner and receives prizes in the form of a trophy, cash and the possibility to see her final design fabricated in precious metals.

Necklace by Rebecca Hume

Necklace by Rebecca Hume

On Wednesday 18th April Rebecca and Miss E McWilliams attended the awards ceremony held in the Belfast branch of Fred J Malcolm Jewellers. Rebecca was presented with her prizes by Company Director Martin Watt.

Rebecca, Shop Representative and Miss McWilliams

Rebecca, Shop Representative and Martin Watt

Read more in the Belfast Telegraph

Congratulations to the pupils and teachers who put so much effort into Rock Challenge 2007. Their hard work paid off when they were awarded first place and an opportunity to compete for national title in Grimsby at the end of May.

You can read more about the performance and watch related video clips on the BBC Website.

8M thought that their News Reports about dinosaurs appearing back on Earth were a bit of a joke but actually, Mrs Chisim’s Rocks and Fossils project has unearthed a little known fact…

DINOSAURS ARE ALIVE AND WELL but not in Montana.  Palaeontologists from the USA, working in conjunction with local universities, have discovered a link between recent sightings of the Loch Ness Monster and strange rumblings heard at the top of the hill above Glencairn.  It is thought that ‘Nessie’ has an underground passageway that links Scotland to Belfast Lough, under the Belfast Hills and through to Lough Neagh, in the same way that the Giant’s Causeway extends under the Irish Sea to the Scottish shoreline.

Senior Palaeontologist, Rolac Misich, from the University of Dexter, North Dakota has issued a statement that informs the residents of North Belfast to be vigilant when out and about.  Rolac thinks that the rumbles heard in Glencairn are the footsteps of the monster from Lough Ness stopping off at one of the many streams crossing the hills to have a drink before heading down to Lough Neagh. 

Rolac has been conducting this research for the past 6 years and has noticed that the beginning of April is the time residents would be most likely to hear the tell-tale signs of Nessie’s arrival in Belfast.

If you live in North Belfast, keep a look out for the monster.  Don’t panic though, it’s a vegetarian and won’t harm you.  If you happen to see old Nessie, take a photo and email it to webmaster@emailgms.org.