This weekly bulletin contains the latest news updates across Year 7.
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 7
We finished the final Thames Young Mariners trip last Friday, despite it being a very wet and windy day, I have to say how impressed I’ve been with all our students’ attitude, effort and the teamwork. I must say that SON and SDE won the resilience award as they kept a smile on their faces despite the awful weather for most of the day! Here are some quotes from 7PFO which summarise their experiences: “I thought it was too good to be true!” - Primrose
“It was really good to get to know other people in my form” - Marianne “Jumping off the dock was a once in a lifetime experience” - Sophie “It was exciting and epic and a great time to make friends” - Mia “Even though we were cold and wet we had the time of our lives!” - Eesha
On Wednesday Year 7 had an assembly from Mrs Dhir on the topic of Black History Month. Year 11 students shared insightful real life stories about a member of their family to help explain this year’s theme of Reclaiming Narratives. It was lovely to see year 7 listening so carefully to what they had to say. Congratulations to Lily Knox-Johnston who is top of the student leaderboard this term. This week the following tutor groups have earned the most epraise points - well done: 1st 7FLY, 2nd 7 ESU, 3rd 7PCO. The first football matches took place this week in the Year 7 & 8 RSSP league, we look forward to hearing about how the team got on in next week’s newsletter. 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 Thursday 10 October is the first Drop Down Day of the school year. We would like to remind parents that Year 7 will need to be in school earlier than usual on this day at 8.15am and will return to school at approximately 4pm to be dismissed. School uniform is to be worn for this trip. We are very much looking forward to going bowling and to the cinema!
MRS BASHFORD-HYNES, HEAD OF YEAR 7
BOOK OF THE MONTH
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
The first book of a majestic fantasy trilogy, Northern Lights introduces readers to the bold heroine, Lyra. Set in a sideways world, where everyone has a daemon in animal form, the story opens with the ominous news that children are going missing, which begins Lyra’s quest for knowledge.
This is a magical book, which is wonderful to read together with children, perhaps paired with the relatively recent BBC adaptation.
MS O’BRIEN, HEAD OF PERFORMING ARTS & MUSIC
~Recommended by Mrs Nowicki, Joint Head of English
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: 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 HOW TO CONTACT YEAR 7 HEAD OF YEAR AND TUTORS HOW TO CONTACT YEAR 7 HEAD OF YEAR AND TUTORS
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MR GREAVES, HEAD OF YEAR 7
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