A MESSAGE FROM HEAD OF YEAR 9
Everyone at school has been very much looking forward to today’s Sports Day. Students have been allocated to different events ranging from the 500 metre sprint to the egg and spoon race. It promises to be a fantastic day and we are all getting very excited for this. This week we had an assembly by our Assistant Headteacher, Mr Sharp about improving study habits and using our time wisely. There were lots of useful strategies given which I am sure would have helped the students, especially in the build up to starting their GCSEs in September. Congratulations to 9PFO, 9EJO and 9PGO for getting the most epraise points this week. Well done! Next week is very busy for Year 9. We have the Year 7 taster day on Monday which some of the Year 9 students are helping out with, supporting the new Year 7 students in the move from Primary to Secondary School. Thursday next week we have Drop Down Day where the students are off visiting sites in Central London including London Dungeons, London Eye and a River Cruise, London Zoo and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Everyone is very excited and this should be a really fun day to experience something new. The English department will be visiting Strawberry Hill House next week. The House & Garden was created by Horace Walpole in the 18th century, and has been open to visitors for over 250 years. This extraordinary building is internationally famous as Britain’s finest example of Georgian Gothic revival architecture and home to an increasingly important collection of paintings and objects.
MRS PORTEOUS, HEAD OF YEAR 9
SPORTS FIXTURES
Date
Result
Fixture
20.06.24
Year 7/8 Rounders v’s Orleans
WON, 8-2
26.06.24
Borough Sports
VARIOUS
27.06.24
Year 9 Rounders v’s RTS
WON, 11-8
BOOK OF THE MONTH
Away With Words by Sophie Cameron Away With Words is about a girl called Gala who has moved from Cataluña to a town in Scotland with her dad. She doesn’t speak much English, so she feels really lonely and lost, not able to be her usual funny self. This all changes when she befriends a girl called Natalie, who has selective mutism. They find their own ways to communicate, which improves their lives and the lives of others around them. In my opinion, Away With Words is a brilliant book because it gives meaning to a lot of phrases or sayings like, ‘having a way with words’ or ‘drowning in a sea of words’. It sheds light on a different view of words. Words are not just things that we say. They are things full of meaning and emotion, some more than others. Away With Words represents this and embodies the meaning of words.
~ Recommended by Ella B, Year 7
HOW TO CONTACT YEAR 9 HEAD OF YEAR AND TUTORS
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 KS3@waldegravesch.org
Or you can contact the school via phone by calling: 02088943244
WALDEGRAVE SCHOOL Fifth Cross Road, Twickenham, Middlesex, TW2 5LH
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