This weekly bulletin contains the latest news updates across Year 8.
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 8
We have finished our Open Morning tours and I have to say I have been incredibly impressed by the levels of maturity shown by our Year 8 Tour Guides as they showed Year 6 parents and students around the school.
Well done to 8PUN who are topping the epraise league table this week for Year 8! They are closely followed by 8EBH and 8FLE. Keep up the great work! Please remind your child that you can be awarded epraise both in lessons and form times for: working collaboratively, great work and homework, supporting each other, engagement in class activities, helping in the classroom, and supporting the teacher/tutor.
This week Lucy L from 8PIR successfully passed her Grade 3 Trinity Violin exam with Distinction, this is a wonderful achievement - you should feel very proud - well done!
Rugby sessions which are run by Richmond Rugby Club on Wednesdays after school are proving very popular with year 8s and this has been great to see - there are still places available - this is a great place to develop determination and teamwork skills and also try something new!
There were some incredible sweet treats baked by our Year 8s which were sold as part of our Macmillan Coffee Morning sale today, the year 11 house captains were incredibly impressed by their creativity.
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 Autumn Term Drop Down Day which is focused around African Culture. There will be lots of fun and engaging activities for our Year 8s and we hope that they approach the day with positivity and enthusiasm.
MRS LYDDON, HEAD OF YEAR 8
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: 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: Send an email to KS3@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 8 HEAD OF YEAR AND TUTORS Send an email to KS3@waldegravesch.org Or you can contact the school via phone by calling: 02088943244 WALDEGRAVE SCHOOL Fifth Cross Road, Twickenham, Middlesex, TW2 5LH
MR GREAVES, HEAD OF YEAR 7
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