This weekly bulletin contains the latest news updates across Year 9.
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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This week Year 9 participated in the Macmillan Coffee Morning and we were so impressed by the incredible bak- ing talent. It was a lovely event to share, eat and donate to a worthy cause.
Many clubs are underway and we encourage our Year 9s to get involved in as many as possible. Please see the Extra-curricular club list attached on their Form Google Classrooms.
The Epraise competition is definitely ‘hotting up’ this week and we have three forms in the running for 1st place.
1. 9SSR- 391 2. 9EMU- 360 3. 9PWA -340
A huge congratulations to the following students who are top in Year 9 for Epraise: Anastasiia M, Ella R-J and Esme D-S.
Congratulations also to Jessica S in 9SSA who received a Distinction in her Grade 6 MTB violin exam.
This week we have also had the Scholastic Book Fair, where the purchases help our school library earn free books. Students have been encouraged to take a look at the books on offer and explore different genres as part of their English classes. Next week we have our fabulous Drop Down Day in which all students will be off timetable to allow them to take part in enrichment activities. Year 9 will be taking part in taster GCSE sessions as well as a speed networking event in which they will get to meet a range of figures in the world of work and be able to find out about their careers. We would appreciate it if you could spend some time this week speaking to your child/ren about GCSE choices and careers ahead of this upcoming event.
MRS MORTIMER, HEAD OF YEAR 9
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 continue 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: HOW TO CONTACT YEAR 7 HEAD OF YEAR AND TUTORS 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: HOW TO CONTACT YEAR 9 HEAD OF YEAR AND TUTORS
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