This weekly bulletin contains the latest news updates across Year 12.
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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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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It has been another busy week, on Tuesday afternoon a number of Year 12 and 13 A Level Maths and Further Maths students took part in the Senior Maths Challenge. It was a 90-minute event, at which students needed to answer 25 multiple-choice questions.The competition is aimed to stimulate both beginners and experienced problem-solvers, with questions designed to make students think. The attendees were delighted to take part and once the results come back, I will update you on how our students performed. Good luck to them all! Today, we had our Macmillan Coffee Morning cake sale. This is one of the biggest fundraising events for the charity and its aim is to support people living with cancer. Last year, Waldegrave raised £964.18 at our cake sale and we hope to reach a similar figure again. Year 12 students were encouraged to bake nut-free cakes at home and bring these into school, to share for the sale. It was really nice to see how many of them got involved for this really worthy cause. I would like to also thank parents and carers for their support.
As mentioned last week, Waldegrave is hosting our first ever Wildlife Photography Competition and we would love to see some entries from our Year 12 Form students.
This coming Monday, Year 12 students are invited to attend a Police Apprenticeship Talk about the degree apprenticeship route into policing. This will take place in the study base at 3.30pm. It is a great opportunity to hear about this apprenticeship pathway and will also be interesting to students wishing to pursue criminology and forensic psychology. Students are encouraged to attend this talk and will need to fill in the google form, which has been shared on the Year 12 Career and Progression Google Classroom. As part of next Thursday’s Drop Down Day, Year 12 students will attend a lecture from a University professor, as well as take part in six different career talks. More details will be shared with the students next week. Attendance at both events is compulsory. Finally, next Friday, 15 of our Year 12 students will attend a Humanities’ conference at St Paul’s School. This event is for those who are considering pursuing a Humanities course at university, subjects covered will include: Ancient History, Economics, English, Geography, History, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology and Sociology. On the day the students will also participate in a group prize activity, listen to a talk by Professor Julia Black, the President of the British Academy (the UK’s National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences) as well as other relevant talks. I am certain that the students will all find this conference extremely useful and may inspire some of them to consider a Humanities-related degree they have not thought about before.
MR STAVROU, HEAD OF YEAR 12
BOOK OF THE MONTH
‘The old man and the sea’- Ernest Hemingway
A beautiful tale of a fisherman’s extremely challenging journey through the gulf stream, with a burning desire to catch what he has never been able to previously. The emotive effects of isolation and the physical toll chasing your dreams can take become more and more prevalent throughout. Hemingway masterfully combines carefully crafted and peaceful imagery of the sea with immense mental torment, as well as taking readers on a journey regard- ing the emptiness we may feel once our goals have been achieved, and perhaps don’t bring the fulfilment we dreamt of, we always wish for more. ~ Zara
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 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
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