This weekly bulletin contains the latest news updates across Year 12
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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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 12
This week students in Year 12 were briefed in tutor time around expectations and reactions to mock exam results. I would encourage all students to take on board the advice given and use their mock results in a positive way in order to improve. Students from a variety of subjects were fortunate to hear from Professor Jon Davis OBE about his work and research on the contemporary history of the British central government. He was a comprehensive school student at Abbs Cross School in Hornchurch, Essex and he worked as a labourer on a building site through his GCSE and A Levels holidays. His insight into politics was well received and especially relevant in this election year. I was very pleased to hear that the Year 12 students who took part in the MBA programme were able to make a profit as they put their enterprising and business skills to use. The B and B Collective made up of Coro, Jiaya, Freya, Tegwen and Nicole, made over £400 from the sale of their brownies and bracelets. I can vouch for how tasty their produce was! 10 of our wonderful students have been representing Richmond in Milan since last Thursday as part of a European Youth Orchestra. The students in Year 12 include; Coroico B and Yasmin I. Well done to all who participated, I hope you had a lovely time! Ms Lewis is very generously running a series of workshops for students to help with writing their personal statements. Students are encouraged to sign up to this via their Google Classroom. Social Science students are invited to attend a talk on Tuesday next week. Dr Kaili Rimfeld from Royal Holloway will be visiting Waldegrave to talk to our students about her research. The talk will take place in the afternoon between 15:30-16:30 in the study base.
MS SILLWOOD, HEAD OF YEAR 12
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
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 sixthform@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 12 HEAD OF YEAR AND TUTORS Prima Facie by Suzie Miller Based on the award-winning one woman show of the same name, this novelisation is a first person account of a woman’s fight for justice in an unfair system. A working class woman, the protagonist has fought hard to get to the position she is at: a successful criminal barrister. However, when she becomes a victim of a crime, her faith in the system that she has dedicated her life to is called into question. The audiobook, narrated by Jodie Comer, is highly recommended. ~ Recommended by Mrs Nowicki
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