A MESSAGE FROM HEAD OF YEAR 7
This week two more Year 7 form groups experienced the Thames Young Mariners trips. I am delighted to say we were really lucky with the weather as the sun shone on both days and a great time was had by all. Many showed their knot tying skills and made really efficient rafts. They paddled these around the river and then sped along during the “pack-down” race. They even withstood the instructor’s build quality checks when they made a few waves each team had to keep afloat on! Whilst Kayaking many of the students developed their paddling skills and water confidence playing various games and exploring the far end of the river. Well done to them all! My thanks goes to the Form Tutors and accompanying members of staff for supporting and encouraging everyone to achieve our aims of having fun,
developing teamwork skills and challenging yourself. Well done Year 7 for earning 2,098 points so far this term. It is a tight contest and the top 3 tutor groups this week are: 1st 7FSM, 2nd 7PRE and 3rd 7SSN. Great efforts and please keep it up!
With the Thames Young Mariners trips complete for this year, the next Year 7 visit will take place on Drop Down Day, our termly off-timetable day of activities which will take place on Wednesday 15 October. More details to follow on this. We encourage all pupils at Waldegrave, especially our Year 7s to join a lunchtime or after school club. Please take a look at what we have on offer on the school website here to check if there is something that your child(ren) would enjoy doing and is offered at school. Please note next Friday is a bumper day for Year 7s. Firstly we will be holding our MacMillan Coffee Morning and I would love to see Year 7s showing off their baking skills by contributing to this event (see poster on page 4 for more information). In the evening, the famous Year 7 Family Bingo Night will return, running from 6.30-9.30pm in the school hall. This is a great chance for you and your children to have some fun, meet other Year 7 parents and tuck into some pizza. There will also be a bar offering a range of refreshments. We have a limited number of tickets available so please visit ParentPay to book tickets and order your pizzas - book now to avoid disappointment!
MRS BASHFORD-HYNES, HEAD OF YEAR 7
BOOK OF THE MONTH
Being Miss Nobody by Tasmin Winter Miss Nobody is a book about a girl with selective mutism, who rarely speaks and even then only to her family and her very much trusted neighbour. Rosalind has to deal with being the ‘mute ant’ in her school and has lost all hope of having a social life when she is tasked with being the buddy of a new girl at school. Having to tour Ailisa is a big struggle but this is a turning point, as a great friendship blossoms leading Rosalind to challenge herself further and further with her speech. Little did she know on meeting Ailisa that she would encourage her to speak in an assembly in front of the whole school and reveal in this assembly that she was the author of the ‘blog’ about the rude students in school that accidentally went viral… I really enjoyed this book because it reminds me of how we all struggle with school life but eventually we manage to find the answer to the solution. Read this book if you liked the Lottie Brooke’s Diary series!
- S Cushnie, 8PFO
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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