Welcome to this week's news from Year 11.
WEEKLY BULLETIN
31 JANUARY 2025
ENJOY - ACHIEVE - EMPOWER
KEY SCHOOL DATES
HEADTEACHER’S MESSAGE
This week we have been marking Holocaust Memorial Day, learning not just about the Nazi Holocaust but examples of more recent genocides. This year’s theme is ‘For a Better Future’. Our Year 9 students were privileged to be invited to Richmond Synagogue where they learned about the
Children’s Mental Health Week - 3-9 February World Cancer Day - 4 February Time to Talk Day - 6 February HOLIDAYS & NATIONAL DAYS Year 9 Options Evening in Hall - Tuesday 4 February, 5-6pm Y9 Vaccinations - Wednesday 5 February Y13 PE Mocks - 5 & 6 February Sixth Form Music Trip - Royal Holloway University - Friday 7 February
A MESSAGE FROM OUR HEADTEACHER
holocaust, hearing the personal histories directly from survivors and survivor families. Students took part in workshops reflecting upon how we can all choose to act in ways that reduce hatred and fear in our com- munity.The scale of the atrocities is difficult to understand but when told that if we held a minute of silence for each victim of the holocaust our silence would last 11 years, this hit home as the pupils understood this would have been most of their lives. In assembly Mr Greaves illustrated how such atrocities start by othering and excluding members of our community. I have been so impressed by the thoughtful responses of our students. Please can I remind parents that we encourage students to travel to and from school by public transport. An increasing number of parents are dropping off and collecting students and the increased traffic is making Fifth Cross Road congested and dangerous. Less traffic is not only better for our environment but also makes our roads safer. This week Year 8 has taken their turn at the Bake Off. We had a delicious array of fruity flavours this week and again struggled to choose our winners but I am delighted to announce that first place went to Emilia, Gabby and Hayley in 8FLE with gorgeous green strawberry and matcha cupcakes. 8PIR and 8STR were very tasty our runners up. Well done all!
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~ Ms Tongue, Headteacher
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
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Next week is Children’s Mental Health Week. This year’s theme is ‘Know yourself, grow yourself’ encouraging children, young people and adults to embrace self-awareness and explore what it means to them. This will help them grow and develop resilience to cope with what life throws at them. Place2B have created a series of resources, using the characters from Disney’s Inside Out 2, including some excellent Tips for families. It’s also a good time to encourage your children to have a look at the on-demand student webinars created by the Anna Freud Centre, on topics including exam stress, anxiety, low mood and staying well online. The full list can be accessed here. Additionally, we’d like to remind you about the upcoming in-person workshop on Exam Stress with the Mental Health Support Team, at 6pm on Thursday 27th February at Waldegrave. You can register your interest here.
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A MESSAGE FROM HEAD OF YEAR 11
This week our language students have started their mock oral exams. The mock exams give the students the experience of what it is like in the exam room with the teacher and a chance to get real feedback on their performance ahead of the real exams in the summer. This week we had our Holocaust assembly held by Mr Greaves. Students were taken through the main events that occurred and then encouraged to reflect on the importance of justice in the face of discrimination and the significance of speaking out in our modern society. At school the students are busily working away in school on their GCSE content and we hope they are busy at home with their revision as well. Please remind your child(ren) they can attend subject intervention sessions that are running at lunch times and after school. If they want more information about the sessions we encourage them to speak to their classroom teachers. We are very much looking forward to having January behind us and moving towards (hopefully!) the start of Spring. With only a few more weeks until the half-term break, let’s keep working hard in lessons and on subject interventions.
MRS ROOK, HEAD OF YEAR 11
BOOK OF THE MONTH
‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins
In a dystopian future, the capital holds annual games where one boy and one girl (aged 12-18) from each of the 12 districts is chosen to fight to the death in an arena. The games are televised and shown across the country as a reminder to the labourers in the district that they are powerless against the capital. When Katniss’ sister has her name called during the annual reaping, Katniss volunteers to take her place as a daring act of sacrifice. The contrast between the glamour of the capital and the harsh conditions of the districts is an eye opening com- mentary on the dangers of political corruption and capitalism.
- Isla S, Year 11
Please contact us with any queries or problems you may have. To get in touch with a member of staff from your child’s year group, you can: Send an email to KS4@waldegravesch.org Or you can contact the school via phone by calling: 02088943244 WALDEGRAVE SCHOOL Fifth Cross Road, Twickenham, Middlesex, TW2 5LH HOW TO CONTACT YEAR 11 HEAD OF YEAR AND TUTORS
FRIDAY MATHS PUZZLE Our learning focus for tutor time on Fridays this term is mathematics, with the maths department setting some thought provoking brain teasers each week for pupils to grapple with. Maths puzzles can help foster problem-solving skills by challenging children to think creatively about the problem they are facing. This skill cna be transfered to everyday activities, such as decision making and even managing emotions. Please have a go at this week’s problem, talk to your child about how they approached it and what the solutions were. We hope you enjoy these at home as much as the students have enjoyed them with their form!
SPORTS FIXTURES
Date
Fixture
Result
27.01.25
Year 7 Basketball v Hampton High
Won 34-8
29.01.25
U15 Borough Basketball Tournament
Tournament winners A Team: 6-3 Loss B Team: 10-1 Won
30.01.25
Y7 Netball Friendly vs RPA
This has been a week of wins for our Basketball Teams. Our Year 7 Basketball team (pictured) are keeping up their winning streak, with a 34-8 victory over Hampton High on Monday evening. The game was played at home and was a really good team performance with everyone trying to play their best. Well done to the whole team and congratulations again to Shaleen C who was voted players’ player of the match. Our Year 8/9 Basketball team have now officially been named as Richmond Borough’s under 15s Basketball champions following the tournament on Wednesday! We also had a friendly netball match last night against Richmond Park Academy, playing away. It was a balanced evening with our A team losing their match and our B team winning.
Well done to all our pupils who took part in sports this week.
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