Please find this week's bulletin with the latest news from Year 12.
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 12
I hope all Year 12 students had the chance to rest over our recent half-term break. By now, they should have received most of their grades back following the recent mocks they took part in, which should help them with their revision strategies moving forward. The monitoring is due to be sent out to all parents and carers during the week commencing Monday 16th June. This week Mr Montgomery arranged for all Government and Politics students’ to have a tour of Parliament and visit the Supreme Court. This was a very interesting trip and hopefully helped bring their A Level studies to life. Next week we have a plethora of events taking place. The Year 12 Textiles students are due to sit their mock exams, so I would like to take this opportunity to wish them all the best of luck! I look forward to seeing the end product at the end of next week. As part of next week’s enrichment activities, the students who are applying to study Medicine or Medicine- related courses will be invited to attend a careers speed dating event. This will give them the chance to speak to a number of different professionals and find out more about different careers in this field of work. On Wednesday Ms Lee-Lewis is running an additional session to support prospective Oxbridge candidates with their personal statement. More similar sessions will run for the rest of the students in due course. All details regarding the latter two sessions have already been shared with all students. Our English Literature students will be visiting Keat’s House on Thursday, a house museum in what was once the home of the Romantic poet John Keats. Also on Thursday, 12 of our students will go to Birkbeck College in order to attend the annual World Traders’“World of Work Conference”. Students will have the opportunity tomeet with professionals from a range of industries, as well to get advice on next steps, CVs, and interviews. Finally, on Thursday after school, we are welcoming Simone Finegan to pseak to pupils about Business Ethics. Simone is the Sustainability Controller at Lindt & Sprungli UK, leading the company’s implementation of their sustainability strategy, focusing on decarbonisation, sustainable packaging, and employee training. In this lecture, Simone will be discussing pieces of EU legislation regarding packaging, as well as Lindt’s corporate social responsibilities. The talk is open to students studying Religion, Philosophy and Ethics, Geography and Economics. as well as Lindt’s corporate social responsibilities. I am sure students will hugely benefit from attending any of these activities.
Have a lovely weekend!
MR STAVROU, HEAD OF YEAR 12
BOOK OF THE MONTH
The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak ‘The Island of Missing Trees’ weaves history, memory, and nature into a powerful story of love and loss. Set between war-torn Cyprus and present-day London, it explores the marks conflict leaves on the lives of the characters, with a fig tree entwined through this narrative. Shafak’s storytelling is deeply human, highlighting the pain of displacement and the resilience of identity. This novel is both moving and thought-provoking, poignantly discussing how generational trauma is instilled in our lives today.
- 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
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.
The following items are not endorsed by Waldegrave School.
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