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25/03/25

Yesterday our Year 7s worked up a sweat with an inter-house Benchball tournament. Great team work & lots of fun! 🤩🏐🎽🙌 pic.twitter.com/bERLABzvOs— Waldegrave Sports () March 25, 2025

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24/03/25

Paris, je t'aime ! 💓 The Waldegrave French A-Level cohort enjoyed four days in the French capital over a long-weekend ✨️ They visited Notre Dame, The Louvre, the Dior museum & watched a live debate on narcotrafficking at the French Parliament! pic.twitter.com/XtSQ0frWk9— Waldegrave School () March 24, 2025

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21/03/25

At Waldegrave we are wearing something red to celebrate 40 years of - take a look at our insta story to see the jokes we have been sharing in our Joke Competition. Winners to be announced later today… pic.twitter.com/2cTRqohWmc— Waldegrave School () March 21, 2025

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18/03/25

Our Year 7 choir joined the Kew Wind Orchestra on Saturday for their To The Stars concert, along side choirs from Halliford School and Kew House School, they sang the key piece for the concert, ‘To the Stars’ by Nigel Hess. 🚀🪐👽💫 We look forward to working with again! pic.twitter.com/hiCP0mmXlG— Waldegrave School () March 18, 2025

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17/03/25

Year 7 are studying Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Here is some of their spectacular art work completed as creative homework for Drama 🎭 pic.twitter.com/p9X0bOMYeM— Waldegrave School () March 17, 2025

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10/03/25

Yr10 History students are visiting the this week, learning how surgery evolved in the 18-1900s. Patients who undertook surgery here were poor. Surgeons used operations as a learning experience for medical students & removed limbs used to study anatomy. 🩸🪚🩸 pic.twitter.com/ZRpEbqY91b— Waldegrave School () March 10, 2025

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10/03/25

Last week our lucky Year 12 linguists took part in SCOOP! a workshop where teams designed & wrote up a front page of a newspaper in a modern foreign language. We had pupils working in French & German and the teams had very close results. Tres bon!! 🇫🇷🇩🇪 pic.twitter.com/u6v66LDo6S— Waldegrave School () March 10, 2025

07/03/25

Ahead of International tomorrow we want to celebrate our incredible pupils & staff - together we support students of all abilities, empowering young women to take ambitious next steps in education and creating the workforce of the future. pic.twitter.com/LCK47d2rQI— Waldegrave School () March 7, 2025

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07/03/25

Exciting technology upgrades in Geography - digital anemometers are now in use. Anemometers are used to measure wind speed and direction. https://t.co/dnWedcKb2P— Waldegrave School () March 7, 2025

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06/03/25

Happy World Book Day! We have been talking about our favourite books in school and next week you can use your World Book Day vouchers towards any book at our ! 📚#worldbookday pic.twitter.com/CUr49iYo4t— Waldegrave School () March 6, 2025

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03/03/25

As today’s we are doing a throwback to the photos which won our very own Waldegrave Wildlife Photographer competition in the Autumn Term. 📸🦌📸🦢📸 We had so many fantastic entries! We are running it again next year so keep taking your photos. 📸🦌📸🦢📸 pic.twitter.com/zuxoGxSXAT— Waldegrave School () March 3, 2025

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28/02/25

There’s still time to get quizzical with the Friends of Waldegrave QUIZ & CURRY NIGHT. Tickets will be available on the door from 6.30pm tonight - if you don’t have a team don’t worry, we will find you a place. Cracking curry and a bar will be available too! pic.twitter.com/uXQQYpqkoJ— Waldegrave School () February 28, 2025

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25/02/25

It’s time to get your thinking 🧢 caps 🧢 on ahead of this year’s Friends of Waldegrave QUIZ & CURRY NIGHT! Tickets and curry are available NOW on ParentPay - get in fast or miss out on your chance to show which year has the biggest brains 🧠 at Waldegrave! pic.twitter.com/UpcwUGhimF— Waldegrave School () February 25, 2025

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13/02/25

“I really enjoyed spending a lesson practising debating skills; English lessons can feel quite based on written work, so having a chance to express ideas verbally was really exciting. I was a bit nervous going but found the experience overall exciting.” - Holly C, Y10 pic.twitter.com/KWd5uLkokI— Waldegrave School () February 13, 2025

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11/02/25

Join us after half-term for our Quiz & Curry night: Friday 29 February, 7-9pm Get a team of 6-8 together and enjoy a scrummy curry while proving your brainpower! Tickets now on ParentPay pic.twitter.com/5ypkkrl14L— Friends Of Waldegrave () February 11, 2025

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11/02/25

Today the 13 students who won the Waldegrave Wildlife Photography competition last term are celebrating with a day off timetable, visiting the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at The Natural History Museum for more inspiration. 📸🦌🦢🐍 pic.twitter.com/bTz07dhLs6— Waldegrave School () February 11, 2025

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11/02/25

We’re celebrating International Day of Women in Science by looking back at STEM activities pupils have undertaken this past year. From Science Club to science trips & competitions, our annual Maths PGL trip & much more, STEM is truly embedded in Waldegrave life. pic.twitter.com/SW03Uxyb5W— Waldegrave School () February 11, 2025

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10/02/25

Seven Y10 pupils took part in our Jack Petchey Speak Out Final Assembly on Friday. Well done to them all for such impassioned speeches, 3 of them - Isabelle E, Pea R and Coco B - will go on to the Regional Finals taking place at Waldegrave on 13 March. Good luck 🤞 pic.twitter.com/bWB7r7gajh— Waldegrave School () February 10, 2025

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08/02/25

Applications for our Girls Engineering are open until 5th March. If you're the parent/guardian/teacher of a girl in Year 9, please share this exciting, FREE opportunity! Eligibility criteria apply. pic.twitter.com/kvrtaykpGv— Imperial College London Outreach () February 8, 2025

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07/02/25

Year7 has rocked the Bake Off with a smashing array of flavour combos!. Congrats to 7EEL: 🍋lemon & lime 🥇, 7ESU: 🧁biscoff & vanilla 🥈, 7SON: 🍫chocolate & orange 🥉. Well done to all & special mention to 7SDE for their tempered chocolate swans 🦢🦢🦢 pic.twitter.com/Nj0oJsjWgF— Waldegrave School () February 7, 2025

History

We aim to create the very best historians.  We challenge students to think, act and speak like those working in the field would, to research thoroughly, weigh up evidence, understand chronology, evaluate interpretations and develop arguments.  We do this by a consistent approach across the department ensuring all students develop the range of skills needed to become confident in their own opinions, make well-supported judgements and learn to express themselves articulately using historical vocabulary. 

The purpose of our curriculum is to give students a broad (mostly chronological) knowledge and understanding of significant people, events and developments and their impact, from the classical world to the 21st century. Within this, there will be aspects of depth study and aspects of thematic study.  

Our enjoyable Key Stage 3 curriculum aims to provide a good foundation and smooth transition for those who opt to study History at GCSE and A Level.  We start with developing students' chronological understanding with the creation of timelines and historical overviews. This is followed by three years of enquiry based lessons covering a range of historical periods and topics including the Middle Ages; The Silk Roads, the Tudors, African Kingdoms; Industrial Revolution; Empire, Rights of Women and War in the 20th century. During lessons students are introduced to key historical concepts and skills including change and continuity; significance; causation and interpretations which provide students with the tools to fire their curiosity and start asking interesting questions about the past.

The Key Stage 4 curriculum provides students with the opportunity to develop these foundational skills and apply them in a more sophisticated way to new areas of study. Our breadth study on the History of Medicine, 1250 - Present provides students with the opportunity to study a topic over an extended period of time. This contrasts with a depth study of Germany 1919-39, which examines the challenges of starting a new democracy in post WW1 Germany, and the reasons for Hitler’s ascent to power. The course is completed with two further studies: Elizabethan England and the American West. At KS4 students' enjoyment becomes more intellectual, enabling students to articulate their ideas more effectively in class discussions as well as on paper in extended writing tasks.

Students who choose to continue History at Key Stage 5 start their A Level with a study of two Communist States in the twentieth century: Russia and China.  Here students start to ask more complex questions which help them to understand issues relevant to the modern world, e.g. why economies sometimes fail;  whether the idea of communism was successful and how successful revolutionaries are as rulers. The coursework unit of A Level is valuable preparation for degree level study where the students learn to work as an historian, researching areas of academic debate and formulating their own extended responses to key historical questions. The Tudor unit on rebellion and disorder, 1485-1603 provides students with the opportunity to study the enormous political and religious changes of the period which marked the beginning of our modern nation state.

Underpinning all aspects of our curriculum is the importance of students being able to see themselves represented in the past so they understand their place in the present. We aim to deliver a diverse outward looking curriculum which examines some of the key events which shaped the Britain we live in today such as the arrival of the Empire Windrush in 1948 which brought some of the first post-war migrants from the Caribbean to Britain. We also cover areas of non European history including African Kingdoms; Silk Roads and the American West. 

Beyond the curriculum we offer students the opportunity to attend an exciting programme of talks from professional historians on a diverse range of topics. 

History Learning Plan