Welcome to this week's news from Year 12.
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 12
Year 12 students have had lots to keep them busy this week. On Tuesday, we were very lucky to wel- come Chris Wright for a careers talk, about working in central government and more recently advising the Prime Minister on how to improve education and skills programmes. This talk was very interesting and I’m sure the students found it useful. Today and as part of their A Level studies in Photography, students attended Taylor Wessing’s Photogra- phy Exhibition, which I am certain they thoroughly enjoyed. Next Monday after school in the study base Lilit Ovakimian, a Waldegrave alumni, will be joined by some of her colleagues at Samsung to speak about how to get accepted into high profile programmes at large companies, in and beyond the tech sector. She will discuss career options available after school: briefly discussing apprenticeships, placements and then also graduate programmes. Each speaker will discuss their department to give a wider perspective on the range of opportunities and discuss various projects they’ve worked on. They will also talk about Samsung as a company and the many opportuni- ties they have for students of all ages, including their ‘Solve for Tomorrow’ competition for anyone aged between 16-25. This talk is open to all. On Wednesday Year 12 can join a talk led by Deloitte & HSBC about working the financial sector, what they will need to enter the workforce and skills required to be successful in the future. Our A-Level French students will spend the day at the BFI on Thursday. The aim of this event is to help them develop their film analysis, as well as listening and linguistic skills. Also on Thursday, all Sociology & Politics will attend a talk with Lucy Owen after school. This is another talk about working in the public sector at different levels of government, the types of job available and the key skills that will help students when applying for jobs and to get ahead in this area. Finally, as part of the students’ A-Level in Music, there will be a University Taster day trip taking place next Friday at Royal Holloway University.
MR STAVROU, HEAD OF YEAR 12
BOOK OF THE MONTH
‘Hag-seed’ - Margaret Atwood A marvellous retelling of the infamous Shakespearian play ‘The Tempest’. The story is weaved into the life of troubled, grieving Felix, theatre director, as he is exiled out of his town by his closest friends. He tries to avenge those who betrayed him and come to terms with the loss of his daughter as he directs ‘The Tempest’ with inmates as the actors as part of his new job. Atwood’s clear intelligence in Shakespeare’s work along with her unique, compelling writing style makes this book perfect for people who are interested yet perhaps intimidated by the complexity of Shakespeare.
- Aisha Y, Year 12
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 sixthform@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 12 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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