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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

Peer Pressure - What It Is, What It Does and Why Girls Experience It More Than Boys.

Peer Pressure - What It Is, What It Does and Why Girls Experience It More Than Boys.


Most of you will have experienced, or will experience peer pressure at some point in your life, but it is most ordinarily found in teenagers. This is because they are going through lots of changes, alongside schoolwork, exams, and the usual trials and tribulations involved with being a teenager. They also now have social media to contend with too. Peer pressure is when you are pressured into doing something by your friends that you would probably not have done otherwise. For example, it could be that someone started vaping because their friends were doing it. Or even just going to a party you didn’t want to go to. Either way, it’s a very common situation and it is good to learn about it and how to cope.

 

Peer Pressure - Causes and Situations

 Peer pressure mostly occurs when you're with friends or in a group of people. Trying to be popular is one of the main causes, along with fear of rejection and just the fact that humans naturally want to be liked. 

People can be pressured  into doing many different things: drinking alcohol, going to parties, watching movies for older adolescents and even things as bad as drugs and sex. ‘Love to Know’claims 55% of teens tried drugs for the first time because of pressure from their friends and 70% in another survey said that they started smoking because of other people. According to The Canadian Lung Association “My friends smoke’ and ‘I thought it was cool’ are two of the most common reasons people start smoking.

 

Girls and Pressure

Did you know, girls experience more peer pressure than boys? Many studies show this. 32% girls felt pressure about their body image vs 19% of boys feeling pressured. Also, 24% of girls vs 17% of boys felt peer pressure to           do better in tests and school. 

 

Interviewing  a Safeguarding Leader

We interviewed a safeguarding leader from Waldegrave School about peer pressure.

What is the most common thing people are peer pressured into? - I would think friendships - being friends with people you don’t like and not being friends with someone. 

Why do you think girls experience more pressure than boys? -  I used to work at a mixed school and I would probably agree with that statement. Though boys have pressure not to lose face but girls want people to be on their side and don’t want to fall out with their ‘friends’.

Why do you think peer pressure and anxiety has increased over the years? - People take it more seriously now that it has a name and people are more willing to talk about it. Also because of social media and phones, you know all the great things people are doing. This encourages you to compare yourself.

 

Peer Pressure Can Be Beneficial

But peer pressure needn’t be all bad; there are positive effects of it. Here are some of the positives that peers can influence;

 

  • Inspiring positive choices

There are plenty of different ways teens inspire others to do things, for example if there was a volunteer project and some people were doing it, other people who weren’t going to might end up participating

  • Offering moral support

Teens often have a lot of stress and through social media they can see that others are going through the same things and this can make them feel better

  • Sharing new experiences

Trying new things can be hard, so it’s often helpful for teens if their peers are trying new things. This encourages them to do the same.

 

Peer Pressure and How To Help

Peer pressure is inevitable; everyone experiences it. But there are ways to help and deal with it. First, you could talk to a trusted adult or friend and ask them for advice. They could help you decide what to do next. You could also talk to the person/people who are pressuring you and tell them how it makes you feel and tell them to stop, they might understand where you’re coming from and stop but they also might not. A big thing that would work is just not hanging out with the people who are doing it to you and make friends with similar values to you. This makes it less likely for peer pressure to happen to you again.

 

Peer pressure is very common so if you get it don’t feel alone. Hope you found these tips and information helpful!