This weekly bulletin contains the latest news updates across Year 11.
WEEKLY BULLETIN
4 OCTOBER 2024
ENJOY - ACHIEVE - EMPOWER
KEY SCHOOL DATES
HEADTEACHER’S MESSAGE
Drop Down Day - 10 October Year 11 Parent session, exam stress and revision - 10 October 5-5.45pm Sixth Form open evening - 24 October
This week it has been wonderful to welcome prospective students and their families into school for our Open Mornings. I was delighted with the wonderful Year 8 tour guides who have shown our visitors around. Parents made a point of telling me how friendly and helpful they were. As I told our
A MESSAGE FROM OUR HEADTEACHER
visitors, we are proud of our school and students everyday and despite torrential rain and broken bells, the mornings were a great success. On Tuesday afternoon our A level Mathematicians took part in the UK Senior Maths Challenge, enjoying the opportunity to apply their mathematical knowledge and skills to solve a variety of problems. Maths is our most popular A level subject so it was busy in the Hall! Today we have ended the week with a Waldegrave favourite, our Macmillan coffee morning, which we postponed due to Open Mornings last week. The Hall became a carnival of cake as our Houses competed to raise the most money for charity. It was lovely to see students involved all the way from Year 7 to Year 13. We will update you with the total raised next week. Tonight the Friends of Waldegrave are hosting our Year 7 Bingo Evening and I am looking forward to seeing many of our families there. This week we have begun our activities marking Black History month with fantastic assemblies delivered by a number of our students. On Friday 18 October the school will be marking Wear Red against Racism day as part of Black History month. Further details will be shared with students.
HOLIDAYS & NATIONAL DAYS
Breast Cancer Awareness Month - October
Libraries Week - 7-13 October
Dyslexia and Dyspraxia Awareness Week - 7-13 October
World Mental Health Day - 10 October
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~ Ms Tongue, Headteacher
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HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Next week is World Mental Mental Health Day and The Art of Brilliance has released a new blog about how to deal with feeling overwhelmed. The impact of rolling news cycles, conveying endless images of distress, crime and escalating conflict compounded by scrolling through social media, can result in us feeling overwhelmed and hopeless. The Art of Brilliance suggests three top tips for dealing with overwhelm; manage your inputs, control the controllables and focus on one thing at a time. You can read the full blog here and encourage your children to stay positive by participating in Optimistic October. The Anna Freud Centre has some good tips which I would recommend for talking to secondary school age children about mental health and Unicef also has helpful guidance for parents, If you would like to have a conversation with your child/ren about conflict and war.
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A MESSAGE FROM HEAD OF YEAR 11
On Monday and Tuesday this week we held open mornings for new prospective students to have a school tour and see the students in action around the school. Our year 11 prefects assisted in supporting the younger pupils, proudly showing the parents and students around the school site, while our Head Girl and Deputy Head Girls also delivered fantastic speeches about their experiences as Waldegrave students. All week we had the Scholastic Book Fair running with a wealth of new and interesting books to choose from, lots of students got involved with this over break and lunchtimes. This morning we held our annual Macmillan fundraising coffee morning where students brought in a variety of beautiful and colourful house themed cakes. Staff and students had a wonderful time looking, buying and consuming them all for a fantastic cause. A big well done to all of our prefects who have been busily working away on their prefect duties, all around the school new display boards and exciting projects have been popping up. Each prefect has a tracker card which is signed off by their allocated subject teacher when they attend their weekly duty. Prefects who have attended all their sessions this term will receive a bronze certificate and be entered into the prize draw at the end of the term to win amazon vouchers.
Just a reminder to sign up to the Sixth Form open evening Thursday 24th October.
Additionally next week on Thursday we are running an exam skills and revision workshop for parents run by Michele Miller, former teacher and coaching expert. The session runs from 5pm and you can find more informa- tion in the letter sent home.
On Friday 18 October the school will be marking Wear Red against Racism day as part of Black History month. We will be running assemblies all that week to celebrate Black History.
MRS ROOK, HEAD OF YEAR 11
BOOK OF THE MONTH
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ - Margaret Atwood This book follows the Handmaid of a wealthy family as she struggles to fight for her rights in a dystopian society where women are used as breeding machines. While those in charge use threats to suppress the desires of the Handmaids, nothing can stop the desire she has to reunite with her daughter who was cruelly taken away as the repressive state was gaining power. Atwood combines fictional aspects with real world issues such as oppression of women and power divide to create a story that will make you simultaneously devastated and filled with motivation to ensure that we con- tinue to fight for what all women everywhere deserve the right to choose.
~ Isla
WALDEGRAVE RECRUITMENT We are currently recruiting for Exam Invigilators to assist with the conduct and supervision of the School’s public examinations. If you are interested in joining our team, please contact Shelli Fong, Exams Officer, for an applica- tion form exams@waldegravesch.org See full job description here: Exam Invigilator - Job Description
WORD OF THE WEEK
Waldegrave School has introduced Word of the Week focus time on Friday afternoons. This activity works alongside our school focus on literacy and oracy.
We have chosen words that are applicable in day to day life, across a variety of subjects, applicable to future careers, and something that can form the basis of group discussions within form groups and by sharing this at home with this new section of the weekly bulletin we hope to inspire conversations at home too!
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 KS4@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 11 HEAD OF YEAR AND TUTORS
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