MESSAGE Spring has certainly sprung at Waldegrave this term and the atmosphere is buzzing with the expectations of Summer just around the corner. We have channelled all this energy into trips, events and opportunities for students to have fun, develop their talents, extend their learning and reflect on important issues. In January our Year 9 students marked Holocaust
Memorial Day with visits to Richmond Synagogue hearing personal stories but also taking part in workshops to reflect more widely upon issues of discrimination. We have encouraged students to find confidence using their own voices, with Year 10 taking part in the Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge this term. Well done to them all for such passionate speeches! Students have taken part in many sporting fixtures with particular success in basketball as our U13 and U15 teams have been named Borough Champions with Year 7 unbeaten as League Champions. The U14 cricket team who has success in the borough competition have progressed to the Middlesex finals. Read more about our sporting activities from page 29. Well done to them all! Our stand out trips this term included Year 8’s visit to see ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’ a new play based on the book by Onjali Q. Raúf, about being a child refugee in Britain. This was a fantastic play and certainly prompted a lot of discussion in tutor time. Year 10 went to the Old Operating Theatre in Southwark for a gruesome lesson about the history of surgery from the oldest surviving surgical theatre in Europe, while our winners of last term’s photography competition got to visit the Natural History Museum to see this year’s Wild Life Photography Exhibition for further inspiration. We ended the term with today’s cheerful annual Easter Bonnet Parade, a much loved Waldegrave tradition. Thank you to those pupils who made such an effort with their bonnets, this year’s efforts were simply fantastic. We wish everyone a wonderful Easter break and ‘buon viaggio’ to our pupils heading to Italy on the ski trip. Safe travels to all and we look forward to welcoming everyone back on 13 April for the Summer Term.
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