Headteacher's Message
This is our final bulletin for the Spring Term. It has whizzed by as we knew it would with only five weeks in this half term and so much to fit in. The trips have included visits to the Natural History Museum for our Wildlife Photographer competition winners, listening to the annual world traders Tacitus lecture for Sixth Formers, attending the Old Operating Theatre to support the history of medicine unit for Year 10s, a theatre trip to see ‘Our Town’ for Year 12s, conferences for Sixth Formers – Maths in Action, Medics Conference, the Candle Conference and a Community Safety Conference. This has all been in addition to departmental events such as the talk with feted playwright Ava Pickett, the Independent State Schools Partnership (ISSP) music day, Richmond Music Trust’s Choirs Connect and our wonderfully fun Waldegrave Bake Off!
I’m not quite sure how we have fitted it all in but the students have certainly excelled as this week’s termly celebration assemblies demonstrated. These events recognise the achievements of the term for each year group and this week we celebrated with Year 9, Year 10, Year 11 and Year 13 all marking their successes.
Congratulations to 8PCO this week’s winners of the Year 8 Bake Off Challenge – we had a few Sixth Formers enjoying being part of the judging panel this week too! Their chocolate and strawberry cupcakes with a chocolate curl were a real standout but everyone of the entries was thoroughly enjoyed by the judges at breaktime today. Well done to runners up 8PFO and 8FGC.
Today we have also cracked a few jokes for Comic Relief and we are very grateful for all the donations received for today’s non-uniform day in aid of this fantastic cause. We have raised over £1200 and will keep the ParentPay account open this week for any additional donations.
Next week there will be no parental bulletin but our termly School Magazine will be published. I do hope you enjoy reading the pupils’ articles covering the events of this past term.
