Please find this week's bulletin with the latest news from Year 8.
WEEKLY BULLETIN
06 JUNE 2025
ENJOY - ACHIEVE - EMPOWER
KEY SCHOOL DATES
HEADTEACHER’S MESSAGE
It has been wonderful to welcome back pupils to school after the half term break and hear all about the adventures pupils had on the Boppard trip, Maths PGL and personal holidays. I hope everyone had a chance to relax during the break, particularly our Year 11 and 13s who have continued with their
Y9 Duke of Edinburgh Practice - 6-7 June European Youth Orchestra - 6-8 June HPV Catch Up Vaccination Clinic - 9 June
A MESSAGE FROM OUR HEADTEACHER
exams. This week has been exciting for our Year 10 pupils as not only did our Geography students enjoy taking part in fieldwork in Teddington but we also had 25 pupils joining us in school from Washington High School in Taiwan. Each girl was assigned a Waldegrave buddy who showed them around our school. We said farewell at a special assembly today but it was not all tears as this afternoon we welcomed members of the European Youth Orchestra. These visitors from across Europe will be practising and performing in support of the Richmond borough European twinning reaffirmation celebrations this weekend. I look forward to seeing the concert on Sunday as well as hearing from our Year 9 students next week about how they get on with their Duke of Edinburgh practice expedition. I wish them all the best of luck and clear skies! On a final point I would like to thank everyone who has so far contributed to help raised over £2,000 towards the £30,000 target of the Friends of Waldegrave Minibus appeal. If you would like to make a donation to support the school please look for the Minibus appeal on ParentPay. Thank you, have a lovely weekend and best wishes to those celebrating Eid over the next few days.
Y8 Parent and Carer Meetings - 11 June Y12 English visit to Keats House - 12 June
HOLIDAYS & NATIONAL DAYS
Pride Month - June D-Day anniversary - 6 June
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Send us your achievement stories and photos to share by email to
~ Ms Tongue, Headteacher
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
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As we enter June and make our way towards Midsummer’ Day, the long and light evenings can help us feel happier and more optimistic. While this week’s weather is trying quite hard to undermine this optimism, there is little doubt that small things can have a big impact on our mood. This month the organisation Action for Happiness is reminding us to appreciate the little things that can keep us feeling positive. They have created a ‘Joyful June’ calendar and today’s tip is to get out into green space and feel the joy that nature brings, which can help us to reframe the rain and remember that it is invigorating our green spaces. Over the next week, other tips include: doing something healthy, doing acts of kindness for others, and expressing gratitude. Sunday’s tip is finding joy in music, which happily coincides with the European Youth Orchestra’s performance at the Landmark Arts Centre in Teddington! The full Action for Happiness ‘Joyful June’ calendar with tips to remind you to look for what is good in life can be found here and below is a link to a useful video explaining the links between joy and resilience. Joy As An Act Of Resilience - Joyful June with Vanessa King
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A MESSAGE FROM HEAD OF YEAR 8
It is a pleasure to welcome all of Year 8 back to school after the half term. We hope that you enjoyed a restful break and have returned to school feeling refreshed after the half term.
This term during form time our year 8s will be following a programme of daily mindful techniques to encourage positivity and positive internal dialogue. These sessions will help build resilience, wellbeing, self-confidence, strong character, and powerful coping strategies on a daily basis. It has been wonderful to see year 8 engaging in these activities. This week was the first round of the Borough Athletics Team Trials for the throwing events. It has been encouraging to see so many Year 8s putting themselves forwards for the events and striving to be selected to represent Waldegrave. Next week (Thursday 3- 5pm) will be the trials for the track events please encourage your child along. Well done to the Year 8s who are part in the Y7/8 Rounders Team who played a competitive match against Hampton High School on Tuesday. They lost 9 - 11 but it was a great game and experience for all who took part. Well done to all those students who are consistently demonstrating the enjoy, achieve and empower aspects of school life and continuing to accumulate very well earned epraise points. This term our focus is maintaining high uniform standards and Year 8 form tutors will be continuing to check uniform and equipment daily. I will also be visiting form classes. Please support us in reminding your child to be fully equipped with their lanyard and in the correct uniform each day.
Thank you for your continued support. Looking forward to a wonderful Summer Term!
MRS LYDDON, HEAD OF YEAR 8
BOOK OF THE MONTH
‘The Princess and the Suffragette’ by Holly Webb This is a truly inspirational book about the struggles for women and children in the early 1900s. Set in 1913, the book revolves around the suffragette movement, a campaign group active from 1903 to 1914 which used direct action to advance their aim of achieving women’s suffrage (the right to vote) in the United Kingdom. The book describes the difference in lifestyle for the poor and the rich, covering relatable topics such as divorce and adoptions. I loved how relatable all the characters were and it has slowly become one of my favourite novels of all time! I suggest this book to any historical drama fans, comedy and even non-fiction lovers. Read this if you enjoyed the ‘Rebel Girl’ series or ‘Secretly a suffragette’. I absolutely recommend this book to all ages!
- Eesha R, 7PFO
HOW TO CONTACT YEAR 7 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: 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 8 HEAD OF YEAR AND TUTORS 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
SPORTS FIXTURES
Date
Fixture
Result
03.06.25
Loss: 11-8 1/2
Year 7/8 Rounders v Hampton High
On Tuesday our Year 7/8 Rounders Team played away against Hampton High. This was a very competitive game but unfortunately a loss for Waldegrave. The player of the match scoring the most full rounders was Darcie-Emily R.
On Wednesday our Year 9 Sports leaders helped run the Primary Borough Sports event, from supervising the track events of 600m, 60m sprint and relays to ensuring the smooth running of the Team 1000 inclusion events. Students met the Richmond Mayor, while Ms Bashford-Hynes met Twickenham MP, Munira Wilson at the event. Mr Corke, Headteacher of Bishop Perrin school where the event took place thanked the students for their hard work ensuring primary pupils had a good time, which helped make the event such a success.
BEHAVIOUR FOCUS
For the Summer Term the school’s leadership team has chosen to focus on our First Rule at Waldegrave:
Respect and value learning, each other and our environment.
As part of this we are asking students to respect and value learning, putting aside distractions and following our uniform policy by wearing the correct uniform at all times.
The full uniform policy can be viewed here.
Waldegrave Performing arts
AUDITIONS
JUNE 12 3:30 - 5:30 TH STUDIO THEATRE AUDITION DATES: 2025 WALDEGRAVE SCHOOL PRODUCTION MY FAIR LADY
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The following items are not endorsed by Waldegrave School. There are a number of upcoming shows at
The Exchange in Twickenham which maybe of interest to enrich your students’ study of English at GCSE and A-Level and also their study of Art. National Theatre Live screening of A Streetcar Named Desire (Gillian Anderson, Vanessa Kirby, Ben Foster) - 7 June, 12 pm (subtitled) and 19 June 7 pm
Theatre: 1984 Edinburgh Preview - 12 and 13 June, 7.30 pm
Art: Exchange with Nature - 28 and 29 June, 10am - 4 pm
Theatre: Frankenstein, 26 September - 26 September 7pm
Theatre: A Christmas Carol - 10 December, 7.30 pm and 11 December 1 pm and 7.30 pm
Click on the images to book or the Exchange Logo below to see their full list of what’s on.
The following items are not endorsed by Waldegrave School.
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