A MESSAGE FROM HEAD OF YEAR 12
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
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