Welcome to this week's parental bulletin with all the latest news for Year 9.
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.
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~ Ms Tongue, Headteacher
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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 9
Welcome back to our Summer Term Year 9! We have had a wonderful start to the term and students have loved enjoying the sunny weather outside in their break and lunchtimes. This week we had an assembly on Feminism based around the book ‘ Feminists’ don’t wear Pink’, a collection of essays curated by Scarlett Curtis. I wanted the assembly to be a positive and empowering look into the women who shape us and how we should strive to create a community which celebrates each other’s achievements. Congratulations to 9EMU who won the award for most Epriase points for the second term in a row - brilliant work ! Our termly attendance award goes to 9EFR for having the best Year 9 attendance. This is a great achievement and they will have a celebration at the end of this week. For the Summer Term the attendance focus is on ‘most improved’ attendance. Please can I ask parents and carers to discuss the importance of being in school on time with your child(ren). We know that attendance below 90% means students miss on average 1 school day in every 2 week cycle, which equates to missing almost 4 weeks of school in a year! All clubs have started again. For our budding sports enthusiasts we have athletics, rounders and cricket clubs for Year 9. There will be Borough Sports coming up - please can your child(ren) express their interest to their PE teacher. Our behaviour focus for this half term is Chromebooks. As a school we are making it a priority that all students who have a Chromebook bring it to school every day, charged and ready. Failure to have a Chromebook for a lesson will result in a behaviour point awarded - please remind your child/ren of this moving forward. We hope you have a fabulous bank holiday weekend and we will be back in school on Tuesday 6th May.
MRS MORTIMER, HEAD OF YEAR 9
BOOK OF THE MONTH
‘Things a Bright Girl Can Do’ by Sally Nicholls
Set in the early twentieth century, this novel follows three brave young women as they all become involved in the Suffragette movement. I loved how Nicholls brought the time period to life, showing what it felt like to be a woman and girl during that turbulent time. But if historical novels aren’t usually your thing, don’t be put off. It feels really modern and fresh, exploring issues like class differences as the three main characters come from different backgrounds. There is also a beautiful love story between two of the characters. It has something for everyone!
- Mrs Nowicki
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 9 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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