This weekly bulletin contains the latest news updates across Year 9
EEKLY W B ULLETIN 17 MAY 2024
A MESSAGE FROM OUR HEADTEACHER
KEY SCHOOL DATES
This time last week a group of our musicians were making their way to Lodi in Italy to take part in a Youth Orchestra made up of students from a number of twinned towns across Europe. As ever Mrs O’Brien and Ms Lewis ensured that this was an inspirational weekend for the students, who not only grew as performers, but also gained a
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wonderful insight into Italian life and culture. The students were representing Richmond and we could not have asked for better ambassadors. Next year the Youth Orchestra will be coming to Richmond to celebrate the reaffirmation of the twinning so we can all look forward to enjoying a beautiful performance on our doorstep. This week Mrs Clarke and Mr Page took a group of Year 9 students to 4 of our local primary schools to lead a drama workshop. Students in Year 1 at Archdeacon, Twickenham Primary, Stanley and Trafalgar were treated to a performance of Beware of the Storybook Wolves. Our Year 9 Duke of Edinburgh participants had their training days for the upcoming expeditions after half term. They really enjoyed learning new skills, unsurprisingly in an age of Sat Navs, they found the map reading really challenging, but this will definitely prove useful. Yesterday Professor Jon Davis OBE, Director of the Strand Group at King’s College London spoke to our sixth form students. Before joining King’s, Professor Davis was Director of the Mile End Group at Queen Mary, University of London. His major project partnerships included those with No. 10 Downing Street and HM Treasury. His research focuses on the contemporary history of the British central government. In an election year students were fascinated to hear his insights into our political system.
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HEALTH AND WELLBEING
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and our partners at the Anna Freud Centre have shared a number of additional resources for students and parents to support their wellbeing. This includes a series of on demand webinars (details found on this poster) and a selection of online workshops which can be booked through the links below:
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A MESSAGE FROM HEAD OF YEAR 9
This week the Year 9 students have been busy doing their in house DofE training on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. This was a great success with students learning a variety of skills to aid them when it comes to their expedition trips in June and July. Students are reminded to keep up their DofE volunteering outside of school and to ensure that their assessors sign off on their completed hours. The DofE external expeditions take place on the following dates: Practice Expeditions (Surrey Hills): Friday 7 - Saturday 8 June; Sunday 9 - Monday 10 June; Friday 21 - Saturday 22 June. Assessed Expeditions (Ashdown Forest): Sunday 23 - Monday 24 June; Friday 5 - Saturday 6 July; Sunday 7 - Monday 8 July. Communication about these events will have been sent home. Students need to make sure that they have all of the appropriate equipment in preparation for this e.g waterproofs, walking shoes, torches etc. It is Mental Health awareness week this week and, as such, in form time the Year 9 students have been doing mindfulness activities with their tutor group, looking at different strategies for dealing with anxiety to allow us to unwind and relax. This has included mindful colouring, meditative music and self reflection on how to conserve our own ‘mood’ batteries. Hopefully students will find this useful in preparation for GCSEs in Year 10. Congratulations to 9PFO for coming top of the leaderboard this week for epraise points. They are followed by 9FBH and then 9EPA. Congratulations to the Poetry by Heart finalists who submitted their poetry performances to the final. Unfortunately we did not win, but the students should be incredibly proud of their efforts, as their performances were absolutely incredible. Well done to the Solo performers: Lucy D (9EJO), Coco B (9SPI), Alexa M (9SPI) and Mia W (9FBH) and the Group performers: Andrea T (9EPA) and Ady N (9EPA), Amelia F (9SPI) and Charlotte H (9SPI), Elina S (9FWD) and Audrey C (9STH). Myself and Ms Lewis were delighted to welcome these students in for a celebration tea party during today’s AM registration.
MRS PORTEOUS, HEAD OF YEAR 9
SPORTS FIXTURES
Date
Result
Fixture
13.05.24
Year 7 Cricket vs Twickenham
LOST 71-41
14.05.24
London Youth Games Swimming Event
SILVER MEDAL
BOOK OF THE MONTH
Turtles all the way down by John Green. Turtles all the way down follows the 16 year old character Aza Holmes as she struggles with OCD and anxiety. However, she embarks on a journey to find out the mysterious absence of her ex million best friend’s father, despite the dangers involved within this. I found this book really intriguing as it gives you a first hand perspective on the experiences that people struggling and persevering with mental illnesses face. It also delves into the strong connections of friendships and how they shape you to be the person you are today. ~ Recommended by Yasemin A, 11ERU
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