Y7 Bulletin 04.07.25

Welcome to this week's bulletin with the latest news from Year 7.

WEEKLY BULLETIN

04 JULY 2025

ENJOY - ACHIEVE - EMPOWER

KEY SCHOOL DATES

It’s hard to believe it’s only been a week since our thrilling Sports Day last Friday, despite the heat pupils tried their hardest and the cheering crowd could be heard across the school site! Well done to Seacole, just pipping Eliot by 14 points, as our overall house winners, ranking in the top two spots HEADTEACHER’S MESSAGE

Richmond Symphony Orchestra Concert - 6 July Y8 Battle of the Books - 8 July Y7&8 Author Event - 9 July Y9&10 Author Event - 10 July Summer Festival Concert - 7-9pm 10 July

A MESSAGE FROM OUR HEADTEACHER

across all year groups. You can read some of the highlights in our Sports Fixtures section and get a full breakdown in the termly School Magazine published at the end of term - only two weeks away now! Year 10 has been on work experience this week with placements at local schools, Sky TV, Google, The National Archives and even on a farm! I am sure they all had a rewarding week and are excited about future careers. On Wednesday we held our second Drop Down Day of the year. Year 7 had very weather appropriate Smoothie Making workshops, Year 8 learned life skills including self defence, water safety with the RNLI and first aid while Year 9 visited many of London’s top attractions from the V&A, London Zoo to the London Dungeons. Our remaining Sixth Formers also took part, holding their own Year 12 sports day! This week also saw 20 of Year 9 take part in a Theatre Outreach program, touring a play of ‘The Smeds and The Smoos’ to four local Primary schools. They performed for delighted audiences of Year 2 pupils. This Sunday our Chamber Choir will again be performing alongside Richmond Orchestra at the ‘Beyond the Skies’ Summer Concert. Tickets are still available for this spectacular event. Our end of year muscial celebration takes place next Thursday book your place for the Summer Festival now. I hope to see you there! ~ Ms Tongue, Headteacher

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We are delighted to have achieved the Attachment Aware Schools Gold Award, which was presented yesterday, to recognise our work on under- standing the impact of trauma on students’ learning and wellbeing. You can find out more about it through these videos: Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences & Their Impact on Youth The Importance of Seeing the Individual Child This week is Alcohol Awareness Week and it’s a good time to remind ourselves of the dangers of alcohol for young people, particularly as they may be planning end of year celebrations or going to events or festivals over the summer holidays etc. This fact sheet is really helpful, as is the Talk to FRANK guide to festivals. Finally the Anna Freud Centre are holding their final webinar of the year on Tuesday 8th July 12-1pm. ‘Supporting your young person with anxiety before they get their exam results’ will explore ways in which parents and carers can support their young person with feelings of anxiety before re- sults day. The webinar offers top tips from the Anna Freud Centre young champions and healthy coping strategies that can be used to support their own and their young person’s mental wellbeing. Parents and carers can register here.

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A MESSAGE FROM HEAD OF YEAR 7

Last Friday Year 7 experienced their first Sports day, everyone worked hard and showed great team spirit. They certainly did themselves proud! Congratulations to 7FLY who were crowned Year 7 Sports Day champions and to 7SON & 7SDE for their part in helping Seacole to become the overall Sports Day winners. Read more about

sports day in the Sports Fixtures section further on in the bulletin. This week Year 7 have been planning for next week’s book week and thinking about their favourite book and characters. On Wednesday during drop down day they took part in various workshops as part of their Smoothie project; they designed really imaginative packaging, planned their pitch ideas to win the judges’ votes. They made and tasted theirs and others Smoothies and ranked their favourites and finally created a catchy jingle to perform to the judges if their Smoothie gets through to the final. It was a very creative day and Year 7 had lots of brilliant ideas. We look forward to finding out who the winner will be after their pitches next week!

On Thursday Year 7 moved into their new form bases ready for next year, with information shared in the Year 7 to 8 Option Process and on their Tutor group google classroom. PLease can I ask you to remind students to complete the relevant google form in this folder by next Friday, 11 July. As next week is book week in School we will have a Dress up day on Wednesday 9. Year 7s are invited to come into school wearing something in the theme of their favourite book character or anything to do with nature. We look forward to this event. The Smoothie Project final judging will take place in next Friday’s assembly. The best Smoothie project ideas, as voted by the students on Drop Down Day, will be pitched against each other to find the Year 7 Smoothie Champion. Good luck all!

MRS BASHFORD-HYNES, HEAD OF YEAR 7

‘Arsenic For Tea’ by Robin Stevens A murder-mystery, with two curious girls as the main protagonists – Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong. As chaos unfolds around them, they try to solve the clues like full-on detectives, but unpaid, of course. Daisy’s mother throws a tea party, with the whole family invited but when one of them mysteriously falls ill with food poisoning and then passes away Wells and Wong are suspicious. Who could have done it, and how? The book is a thrilling read, as you unpick the clues with our protagonists. To suspect a character and find out the truth is a whole adventure without having to leave home. I picked this book from the series specifically because of how suspenseful it was. Almost every character seemed like the culprit, every single one of them acted edgy, so it was even harder to work out. This is the second book in the series, so I recommend reading the first book first, but there are other books in the series as well, so if you enjoyed this one, there are many more to enjoy! BOOK OF THE MONTH

- Kiera N, 7PFO

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

SPORTS FIXTURES

SPORTS DAY RESULTS - OVERALL POINTS

HOUSE

POINTS

RANK

ELIOT

1,552 1,395 1,471 1,566

Second Fourth

FRANKLIN

PANKHURST

Third

SEACOLE

First WALDEGRAVE RECORD BREAKERS!

EVENT

STUDENTS/CLASS

TIME/DISTANCE

Year 7 100M Year 7 800M B Year 7 Relay B Year 8 800M B Year 9 DISCUS A Year 9 JAVELIN B

14.15 sec 3.07 mins 32.14 mins 2.58 mins

SOFIA B (7PFO) HANNAH R (7FLY)

7PCO

JESSICA F (8FFR) OLIVIA D (9EFR) LILY F (9EFR) MILA C (9EMU) MAE P (10ERU)

21.70 m 18.66 m 7.80 m 4.10 m

Year 9 SHOT PUT B Year 10 SHOT PUT B Year 10 LONG JUMP B

CONNIE A (10PGO) JASMINE G (10PGU)

7.5 m

Year 10 800M Year 10 800M B

2.32 mins 2.44 mins

ALEX A (10FWD)

Last Friday the sports fields were a sea of blue PE uniforms and the air was filled with cheers of encouragement for our annual Sports Day. Form classes had chosen their participants for the events during tutor times, with every student participating in at least one event and supporting their house. House points were awarded based on the placement of the participants and as you can see from the tables above it was a close contest, with only 207 points between the highest and lowest totals. The day began with Years 7 and 8 taking part in the amateur events including egg and spoon, sack and skipping races as well as more traditional track and field events. Highlights included Year 7 and 8 breaking Waldegrave records across the 800m B! After morning break Year 9 and 10 competitors took their turns with a further seven records broken, many of which were by our field participants. In the afternoon competitors took part in the 100m, 200m and relay track events and as the whole school gathered on the fields the cheering came to a crescendo! There were two more records broken by the Year 7s but the biggest excitement came as the staff limbered up for their relay race. PE retained their title as staff relay champions for the fifth year running but Maths and Science fought hard for the silver with Mr Reynolds securing second place with his sprint. It was a wonderful day for all and left everyone full of school spirit!

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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.

The following items are not endorsed by Waldegrave School.

Whitton Youth Zone

Hampton Youth Zone

Family Hub

The White House

Summer Holiday Programme

Summer Holiday Programme 2025

Monday 21 July to Thursday 29 August Completely FREE activities for young people in school years 4 to 13 (9 to 18 years old) This is a FUEL/

Monday 21 July to Thursday 29 August Completely FREE activities for young people in school years 4 to 13 (9 to 18 years old) This is a FUEL/HAF programme Scan QR code to book tickets

HAF programme Scan QR code to book tickets

Contacts and queries For more information about any of our summer offers including the bookable activities and trips, please contact: Justin Johnson Hampton Youth Project Lead Practitioner E: justin.johnson@achievingforchildren.org.uk or youthservice@achievingforchildren.org.uk

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