Welcome to this week's parental bulletin with all the latest news for Year 8.
WEEKLY BULLETIN
2 MAY 2025
ENJOY - ACHIEVE - EMPOWER
HEADTEACHER’S MESSAGE
KEY SCHOOL DATES
Star Wars Day - 4 May Mental Health Awareness Week - 12 -18 May HOLIDAYS & NATIONAL DAYS Early May Bank Holiday - School closed Y11 Dress Up Day - Tuesday 6 May Y10 German Trip information evening - Tuesday 6 May Y11 Final Day Celebration Assembly - Wednesday 7 May *Please note there is a late start to the school day for Years 7-10 on this day* Y10 PCM - Wednesday 7 May
Next week our Year 11 students will complete their last lessons, take part in our annual Leavers Dress Up Day and celebrate their time at our school in their Final Celebration Assembly. Please can I remind you that the school day will have a late start on Wednesday 7 May, with all pupils in Years 7 to
A MESSAGE FROM OUR HEADTEACHER
10 asked to arrive for 11.15am for a prompt start to classes at 11.25am. Pupils should go straight to their usual Period 3 classes and be registered there. Our Year 12 pupils have also been working hard on their mock exams for the past two weeks and next week will take part in enrichment activities related to their post-18 options. The week will end with a fun trip to Thorpe Park which I’m sure they have earned after all their hard work! This week our Year 8 students visited the Buddhapadipa Temple in Wimbledon Village. This was the first Thai Buddhist temple to be built in the UK. The students enjoyed learning about Buddhist traditions and appreciated the beautiful meditation gardens in this week’s wonderful weather. I would like to ask parents and carers to speak to their child(ren) about our behaviour focus for this half-term which is related to Waldegrave’s First Rule: Respect and value learning, each other and our environment. As such students must ensure they bring a charged chromebook to lessons and be ready to learn. Please support your child(ren) to get into the simple routine of charging their laptop each evening.
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Send us your achievement stories and photos to share by email to
~ Ms Tongue, Headteacher
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
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A reminder to parents and carers that our school has access to the Mental Health Support Teams (MHST). The MHST is a school based Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) offering early intervention and prevention work to support positive mental health and wellbeing. The team works in partnership with local schools to offer a whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing. In our school the MHST works directly with young people with mild to moderate anxiety or low mood. They can run targeted groups around subjects such as exam anxiety, improving low mood, emotional distress tolerance and emotional regulation. They also offer assemblies and workshops on mental health issues. For parents, the MHST holds regular online parent webinars on a range of topics linked to young people’s emotional wellbeing.To learn more about what the MHST is, please visit their website. If you feel concerned about your child’s mental health please contact their Head of Year or Ms Moore via safeguarding@waldegravesch.org If your child/young person would like to make a self-referral for their emotional needs to be discussed with the school in a consultation, please follow this link.
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A MESSAGE FROM HEAD OF YEAR 8
We have had a very positive start to the Summer Term including some wonderful weather! During form time this week, students were reminded of the school routines as well as places that they can go to for support if needed. Looking ahead, students are reminded to bring in a reading book for silent reading during form time on Mondays as we are dedicating time for students to read independently. At the end of last term our wonderful Year 8s were once again spreading kindness across the school community and writing thoughtful appreciation cards to teachers and staff across the school - in total they hand delivered over 450 kindness messages which were well received. A special mention must go to our Kindness Ambassadors Lillia G 8STR and Immy W 8STR who were instrumental in leading on this project. A huge well done to all the students who participated in the Easter Bonnet Parade at the end of last term. We are incredibly proud of all of our Year 8s who took the time to meticulously design detailed and beautiful Easter Bonnets! Our extra curricular sports clubs have changed to summer activities and have been posted on all Google Classrooms - Rounders, Athletics and Cricket are on offer afterschool and there will be opportunities to represent the school in up and coming fixtures. If your child would like to find out more about these opportunities then please ask them to speak to a member of the PE department. Our top three epraise forms this week are as follows 8PUN, 8PIR and 8EBH so very well done to those forms. Topping our epraise individual leaderboard this week is Yovela H 8PIR - very well done! We would love to hear about and celebrate our students’ achievements outside of school. Please be sure to let us know of anything your child has been involved with that deserves recognition. As the summer weather seems to have arrived, please encourage your daughter to apply sunscreen and bring a water bottle which can be filled at any of our water stations around the school. Keeping hydrated will also help students maintain focus in lessons.
MRS LYDDON, HEAD OF YEAR 8
BOOK OF THE MONTH
‘The Princess and the Suffragette’ by Holly Webb This is a truly inspirational book about the struggles for women and children in the early 1900s. Set in 1913, the book revolves around the suffragette movement, a campaign group active from 1903 to 1914 which used direct action to advance their aim of achieving women’s suffrage (the right to vote) in the United Kingdom. The book describes the difference in lifestyle for the poor and the rich, covering relatable topics such as divorce and adoptions. I loved how relatable all the characters were and it has slowly become one of my favourite novels of all time! I suggest this book to any historical drama fans, comedy and even non-fiction lovers. Read this if you enjoyed the ‘Rebel Girl’ series or ‘Secretly a suffragette’. I absolutely recommend this book to all ages!
- Eesha R, 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: 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 HOW TO CONTACT YEAR 7 HEAD OF YEAR AND TUTORS
MULTILINGUALISM AT WALDEGRAVE
Each and every student in our school contributes their amazing strengths to what makes Waldegrave School such a rich and precious environment - a great attitude to learning, solid content knowledge, artistic talents or sports abilities. Speaking another language is another great example of our collective superpowers. This half-term pupils will be using their Friday afternoon registration time learning a bit more about the most spoken languages in our school. Last Friday pupils explored Mandarin Chinese and this week the focus was Turkish. We hope their enjoy the activities, learn something new and that you can talk about this at home.
BEHAVIOUR FOCUS For this half of 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 focus we are asking students to be ready for their lessons each day by coming into school with a fully charged chromebook every morning. This area has been selected as the largest number of behaviour points are given to students for not having their chromebooks ready for lessons. Please support your child(ren) to get into the simple routine of charging their laptop each evening. PARENT GOVERNOR RECRUITMENT Our Governing Board is currently recruiting for a parent governor who wants to work at a strategic level to develop the school. We would be particularly interested in appointing someone who works or has experience in Higher Education or Careers Education. Continuous training and development are key to the role and will be provided to help you acquire/develop the skills to be an effective governor and you can read more about the work our governors do on our website. We have sent a letter home with further information and details on how to apply.
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