This weekly bulletin contains the latest news updates across Year 7.
EEKLY W B ULLETIN 29 SEPTEMBER 2023
KEY SCHOOL DATES
A MESSAGE FROM OUR HEADTEACHER
HOLIDAYS & NATIONAL DAYS Pitru Paksha - 29 September - 14 October Black History Month - October Breast Cancer Awareness Month - October World Animal Day - 4 October Dyslexia Awareness Week - 2-8 October Year 7 PTA Bingo Night - 29 September 6-9.30pm PTA uniform sale - 30 September 10-11.30am Year 11 Silver DofE Assessed Expedition - 5-7 October Drop Down Day - 12 October Sixth Form Open Evening - 19 October
A huge thank you to all the bakers who made our Macmillan Coffee Morning such a success. We raised £1000 for such an important cause. This was our first big house event of the year so it was lovely to see students across the years celebrating their houses and getting creative with their decorating. We even had a DNA themed cake baked in honour of Rosalind Franklin. The Year 11 House captains worked tirelessly
*PICTURE OF BILLIE*
throughout the day, organising and selling the donated bakes, as well as having the glamorous job of cleaning up at the end of the day. This has been an extremely busy week for trips at Waldegrave so we were pleased that Storm Agnes has passed us by. Our final Year 7 trip to Thames Young Mariners took place yesterday. It has been lovely hearing from the students about their day of adventures on the river making new friends and courageously trying new things. Our Year 11 students completed their practice expeditions for their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh in the Ashdown Forest last weekend and are looking forward to the assessed expeditions next weekend. On Wednesday our Year 10 Art students were inspired by their visit to Kew Gardens and really enjoyed the opportunity to draw and sketch. I am really looking forward to seeing how their sketchbooks develop over the term. Finally, our Year 13 Geographers have enjoyed a fabulous field trip to Barcelona gathering data for their coursework. On Thursday afternoon we were incredibly grateful to Jim McKeown, one of our parents, who gave a talk to Design Technology students in Years 9 and 10 about his career as a set designer for film and television. The students were fascinated learning about the creativity and understanding of materials to produce a prop suitable for a range of requirements, for example Captain America’s shield, from anodised aluminium for close ups to rubber for fights. Thank you to all our families who have donated uniform to school ready for the sale taking place this Saturday between 10.00am and 11.30am.
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~ Ms Tongue, Headteacher
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Last week it was Youth Mental Health Day and The Charlie Waller Memorial Trust launched their new resources on mental health and wellbeing for teachers, parents and carers. Their recent research found that the five key themes that young people wanted support with most were: Managing change and uncertainty; feeling lonely, isolated or disconnected; feeling bored, flat or unmotivated; feeling anxious about social situations; and getting help or support for mental health. The pack of resources can be found here and you can follow the links to the useful videos on encouraging young people to seek help and managing change and uncertainty.
CONTACT PTA
A MESSAGE FROM HEAD OF YEAR 7
This week saw the last of our visits to the Thames Young Mariners centre in Ham. These visits have been a nice way for our students to try something different and get to know each other. Well done to all those who brought in cakes for the MacMillan Coffee Morning. It was great to see so many Year 7 students contributing to this popular and hugely successful event. The Year 11 house captains were very impressed by their creativity. Our Year 7 footballers made up the entirety of the Year 7/8 team in a resounding 5-2 victory last week against Twickenham School. An impressive beginning to the season! It has been lovely to see the students excited to visit the Book Fair this week talking about the new titles and writing up wish lists particularly as they will be embarking on year group Reading Challenges soon. Each sale earns rewards for our school which allows us to buy new books for our library. Thank you for your support. 7FLE have stormed ahead in the weekly house point totals followed by 7EST and 7EDA. At time of writing, Artemis M-P in 7EST is topping the house point leaderboard in Year 7. Well done! The Year 7 chromebook programme has started and students have received their chromebooks this week. Please can parents/carers ensure that students bring their chromebook to school each day and that it is fully charged.
MR GREAVES, HEAD OF YEAR 7
BOOK OF THE MONTH
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon The sun is also a star is told through the perspective of two teenagers whose lives cross paths and so they spend 12 fateful hours together. It explores how they struggle with parental relationships and expectations, coping with pressures of racism and immigration and the meaning of love and life. ~ Recommended by Marina M-B, Year 11 student
MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who contributed towards our Macmillan Coffee Morning fundraiser, whether that was by bringing in homemade goodies to sell or purchasing some cakes on the day. All houses did a fantastic job with their stalls, it was so lovely to see all the bright colours across the hall. We are pleased to announce that we managed to raise £1000 at our bake sale! £800 will be going to Macmillan and £200, raised by our sixth formers, will be going to the Evie Dove Foundation.
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 HOW TO CONTACT YEAR 7 HEAD OF YEAR AND TUTORS
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