Headteacher's Message
This week we received the wonderful news that six of the Waldegrave students who ran in the Kingston and Richmond Youth Council and UK Youth Parliament elections were elected. Well done! We are proud to share that following these elections Waldegrave has been awarded as ‘Most Democratic’ school in the Richmond Borough, having had over 800 of our pupils casting their votes in these elections. Well done to everyone who took part by standing as a candidate or taking part in the voting process, this is particularly important as many of our current pupils will be eligible to vote in the next general election.
We have also heard this week that a team of Year 9 pupils have been selected as finalists in ‘Innovate’ a national design competition with the Victoria & Albert Museum! The team will attend a presentation day on Thursday 25 June where they will take part in creative workshops as well as pitch their design to a panel of industry experts. We wish them luck and look forward to hearing more about how they got on.
While exams got underway this week for our Year 11 French, German and Spanish students another language could be head in our corridors on Monday, as we welcomed Year 8 pupils from choral school, Brunnsbo Musiklasser, Gothenburg, Sweden. Thank you to our chamber choir members who welcomed their Swedish peers and brought them along to their lessons in the afternoon.
Our Year 12 students also had a trip to UCAS Discovery Farnborough on Thursday. This event offered pupils the opportunity to meet with representatives from Universities including Bristol, Durham, Exeter, Cardiff and many more, employers and expert advisers, helping our young people to explore university applications and apprenticeships. They were able to ask about specific courses and entry requirements, meet employers offering apprenticeships and find out about earnings and qualifications they would gain and how these can lead to a chosen career. There were also careers advisers on hand as well as UCAS experts, so it was an incredibly useful day for them all.
Next week is our final teaching week for Year 11 soon to be followed by Year 13’s final day on Friday 8 May. We look forward to celebrating our wonderful Year 13s later in the term at their final celebration assembly on Thursday 18 June.
I hope to see many of you at tonight’s Friends of Waldegrave Quiz and Curry Night!
On Thursday our year 12 students attended the UCAS exhibition in Farnborough. This was extremely useful for all students as they were able to chat to universities and colleges about their courses and university life, as well as speak to employers and apprenticeship providers about what an apprenticeship is like.
