A MESSAGE FROM HEAD OF YEAR 9
It has been another exciting week at Waldegrave. Advent calendars have been passed around to forms to start this Friday, as we enter into December. A different student will be selected every form time to start the Christmas countdown. Congratulations to the Year 8/9 Basketball team who represented Waldegrave in the RSSP tournament on Wednesday and came runners up. We were in a pool with Twickenham and Grey Court, winning both games 6-0 and 8-4. This meant we faced SRRCC in the semi final and the team performed really well winning 11-4. The final was against last year’s top rivals Christ’s, which we sadly lost. However, the PE department was incredibly impressed with the level of effort and determination put into the matches. Well done to all who played, it was a great effort. Congratulations to Alex A, Marwah B, Karis C, Olivia D, Marielle EL R, Keira E, Lily F, Freda L, Eva MC. At the top of the Year 9 epraise leaderboard for this week we have 9EJO. Well done! They are closely followed by 9SPI. Congratulations to you all and keep up the good work. A reminder that our Year 9 PCM will be taking place on Wednesday 6 December. Coming up on 14 December we have the KS3 Christmas lunch taking place. This will also be Christmas Jumper Day. Students are given the opportunity to wear a festive jumper over their uniform and hopefully this will allow everyone to get more into the Christmas spirit! Christmas concerts will also be coming up soon. Well done to those students who have been busily rehearsing after school, we look forward to seeing this very soon! Finally, it appears that a lot of Year 9 students have lost or misplaced their locker keys. If needed please order new ones for your children via ParentPay, as we have a lot of coats and books going missing, due to students not having a safe place to store them.
MRS PORTEOUS, HEAD OF YEAR 9
SPORTS FIXTURES
Fixture
Result
Date
24.11.23
Year 10 Netball Tournament
3RD PLACE
29.11.23
Year 8/9 Basketball Tournament
RUNNERS UP
29.11.23
Sixth Form Football vs Orleans
WON 3-2
BOOK OF THE MONTH
The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris “I tattooed her number on her left hand, and she tattooed her number in my heart,” The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a true story which follows a Slovakian Jew who was imprisoned in the concentration camp Auschwitz in 1942 and fell in love with a girl whose number he tattooed. It’s a true story which follows themes of love, survival and hope as an unforgettable love story unfolds in the midst of an atrocity. I found it to be an extremely emotive, thought provoking and inspiring story which stays with you long after you turn the last page. It’s a very gripping and deeply disturbing novel which encapsulates the horrors of the holocaust and simultaneously sheds a light of comfort and hope; even in the darkest most tragic times, love and hope prevails. ~ Recommended by Marina M-B, Year 11 student
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