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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

Disadvantaged Students

Background

In April 2011, the Government introduced the Pupil Premium Grant which was additional funding given to schools to support pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds by closing the attainment gap between them and their more affluent peers. Government and National documents now also refer to Pupil Premium students as Disadvantaged students. Schools receive a set amount per pupil registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years (known as Ever6 FSM). At Waldegrave any student in Years 7 to 11 whose families financial circumstances change is able to apply for free school meal status and school records are updated during the academic school year to reflect such students as disadvantaged once free school meal status is confirmed. To check eligibility of Free School Meal status please see the Free School Meals application, complete the  form and send to finance@waldegravesch.org

Further details of this and other disadvantaged qualifying pupils can be found on the GOV.UK website in the document Pupil premium 2024 to 2025: conditions of grant Schools can decide and are responsible for how the Pupil Premium grant is spent since they are best placed to assess what additional provision should be made for the individual pupils within their responsibility. In doing so funding is strategically aimed at tackling significant barriers to learning for disadvantaged students within the school and wider community context. Waldegrave has embraced the recommendation and guidance through the Department of Education which states ‘Pupil premium is not a personal budget for individual pupils, and schools do not have to spend pupil premium so that it solely benefits eligible pupils’. Therefore at Waldegrave the funding is used to support  pupils identified who are or are at risk of being vulnerable in terms of poor attendance to school, disengagement, low aspirations, low self-esteem and confidence, and outcomes that are below expectation.

The primary objective is to use the pupil premium funding to ensure disadvantaged pupils of all abilities are well supported to raise their educational attainment, achieve high outcomes that are at least in line with their more affluent peers and reach their potential. National data shows pupils in receipt of free school meals significantly achieve less well compared to their more prosperous peers. The difference in this attainment gap widens as pupils move from primary through to secondary schooling. The key priority is to reduce this difference in attainment and progress for disadvantaged students from their starting points when compared to non-disadvantaged students nationally with the same starting points, thus securing high achievement and successful outcomes, thereby improving life chances.

Waldegrave School Pupil Premium Student Strategy

Our Waldegrave school values ‘Enjoy, Achieve, Empower’, embodies the culture of the school where each child is valued. We are committed to ensuring the progress, achievement and well-being of all our pupils. To ensure the effectiveness of targeted strategies employed at Waldegrave we refer to the use of educational research via the Education Endowment Foundation’s 3-tiered approach which is line with the Department for Educations ‘menu of approaches’ to help school allocate spending impactfully across the following 3 areas:

  • Developing high-quality teaching
  • Providing targeted academic support
  • Tackling non-academic barriers to academic success

Waldegrave embeds these approaches into our whole school ethos of high aspirations and attainment. All Waldegrave staff are hugely committed to ensuring disadvantaged students are given the same opportunities as their peers through a high quality inclusive educational experience which is designed to meet individual learning needs. Therefore, it is important to recognise that high expectations, great teaching and learning, excellent pastoral care, and strong academic resilience are strands that build the fabric of school life at Waldegrave for all pupils, and through this all pupils including disadvantaged students can reach their full potential irrespective of background or disadvantage. 

 

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement 2024-2027

Pupil Premium Strategy 2023-2024 Review