A MESSAGE FROM HEAD OF YEAR 8
This week the Year 8 students and tutors practiced the Open Morning tours which then kicked off on Thursday. Many prospective new students and parents have already visited and many more will be attending next week. Our wonderful Year 8 tour guides will be able to show them around and tell them about all the exciting things we get up to here at Waldegrave. This week we had a guest speaker come in and talk about air pollution and hosted a workshop on Green and Healthy Travel as a part of Our Air, Our Action – Richmond Council’s environmental project. They learnt about how the travel sector causes air pollution and is responsible for a high amount of greenhouse gas emissions. Pu- pils agreed that how they travel was very important and so we are asking all pupils, teachers and staff to try and switch one journey a week to a sustainable travel journey. This means leaving the car at home and switching to either walking, cycling, scooting or taking public transport just once a week. We’re excited to hear how you all get on! Waldegrave has also launched our Book Champion Competition where the most dedicated readers in each tutor group will receive prizes. We look forward to hearing about all the wonderful reading the students get up to over the next few weeks. This week in the spirit of the Women’s Rugby World Cup, we held the inter house rugby tournament with 5 play- ers from each form representing their house. Many of the tutors made it down to spectate and we were blown away by the skills and spectacular performances of the students. The final was between Eliot and Franklin with Eliot House taking the win. The player of the tournament was Sham from 8PCO and special thanks to everyone that took part and the supporting spectators it was a wonderful atmosphere.
Have a lovely weekend!
MS ROOK, HEAD OF YEAR 8
BOOK OF THE MONTH
‘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 tend to try and solve them like full-on detectives, but unpaid, of course. This is the second book in the series, so I recommend reading the first book first. But a brief summary is – the two girls are at Daisy’s house (Fallingford) for a tea party Daisy’s mother was throwing and Daisy’s whole family was invited. When mysteriously one of them fall extremely ill and pass away due to poisoning. Who could have done it, and how? It was thrilling to read it, going on the way to the answer with our protagonists. To suspect a character and finding out the truth is like a whole adventure without having to move around. 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. Of course there are other books in the series as well, one as good as the other, so if you enjoyed this one, there are many more.
- K Ng, 8PFO
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
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