THE WALLINGTON WEEK

15 May 2017 - Issue 26/2016-2017

Message from the Head Teacher

Dear Parents and Carers This morning, Year 11 enjoyed their Celebration Breakfast before departing to start their GCSE examination leave. We watched

videos recalling the many happy memories our students have accumulated during their time so far at WHSG. We enjoyed

performances from the GCSE musicians as well as a rap from Mrs Bates, Head of Year 11. We wish Year 11 well in their GCSE

examinations and look forward to seeing them on Sixth Form Transition Day (Friday 30 June) and their Prom (Monday 26

June).

Well done to three of our Year 12 students, Maisha, Hannah and Sufia, who spoke at an Oxfam Education Conference last

week in Central London, having spent the past couple of years as Oxfam Youth Ambassadors. You can find further details later

in this edition of the Wallington Week.

Thank you to our local parking enforcement officers who have been outside the school this week at the beginning and the end

of the school day. They will be regularly visiting the area around WHSG to help ensure the safety of our students.

Finally we are delighted to be able to announce that the new House Leaders have been appointed and will take over the role

with immediate effect. They are as follows:

Athena – Alisha & Zoe

Bronte - Augustina & Megha

Curie- Yasmine & Ella

Johnson - Kia & Lakchana

Pankhurst - Aarani & Samara

Seacole – Emma and Sophia

Sharman – Philomena and Maajoah

Thank you also to our Senior Prefects Lucy and Sunmi for managing the whole process so efficiently.

Have a great weekend

Richard Booth

Headteacher

Outgoing House Leaders

Thank to our outgoing House Leaders for their service to the school over the past year and doing such a fantastic job to pro-

mote our House system. They are:

Athena – Juliet & Rachel Bronte – Deesha & Alisha Curie – Ama & Ellie Johnson – Diya & Katie

Pankhurst – Ami & Ianna Seacole – Anika & Olivia Sharman – Maggie & Ellie

Dates for your Diary

Monday 22—Friday 26 May

Years 7 & 8 End of Year exams

Wednesday 24 May

15.00-16.00—DOE Silver kit drop

Thursday 25 May

17.00-20.00—GCSE Art Exhibition

Saturday 27—Monday 29 May

DOE Silver Practice Expedition

Half Term—Monday 29 May—Friday 2 June

Monday 5 June

Return to school

Wednesday 7 June

15.00-17.30—DOE Bronze & Silver route planning

Thursday 8 June

17.00-20.00—A level Art / Photography / DT Exhibition—Hall

Thursday 13 June

08.25-14.50—Year 12 Higher Education Day

18.00-20.30—Year 12 Higher Education Evening for Parents

Friday 16 June

19.00-22.00—Years 7 & 8 Disco

Monday 19 June

08.25-14.50—Year 10 Art Mock (1)

Tuesday 20 June

08.25-14.50—Year 10 Art Mock (2)

Wednesday 21 June

Borough Athletics

08.25-14.50—Year 10 Photography Mock (1)

11.30—Year 12 UCAS Exhibition, University of Greenwich

15.00-16.00—DOE Bronze Kit drop

Thursday 22 June

08.25-14.50—Year 10 Photography Mock (2)

13.50-20.00—Women in Engineering Event

Saturday 24—Sunday 25 June

DOE Bronze Qualifying Expedition

Monday 26 June

19.30-23.30—Year 11 Prom

Wednesday 28 June

Open Evening for Prospective Year 7 students

Thursday 29 June

09.30—Late start for students following Open Evening

The Week Ahead

Monday 15 May

18.00—World Challenge Information Evening—School Hall

Tuesday 16 May

19.00-20.30—Music KS3 Recital

Wednesday 17 May

08.45-11.00—AS Dance Practical Mock

15.00-17.30—DOE Gold route planning

15.00-16.00—DOE Bronze kit drop

Friday 19 May

11.00-13.00—Year 13 Leavers' Breakfast—students then on

study leave until the end of term

Saturday 20—Sunday 21 May

DOE Bronze Practice Exhibition

If you’re in Years 9,10 or 11, a budding explorer or

wannabe Bear Grylls and are looking for an

amazing experience to develop your confidence,

leadership skills, outdoor skills and see some in-

credible places then come to the World Chal-

lenge Information evening on Monday 15 May at

6.00pm in the Hall.

You will be able to hear about the exciting trips

we have planned for Summer 2018 to Romania.

This will also give you a chance to ask questions

about all the opportunities and benefits of taking

part in a World Challenge expedition.

If you have any questions then please see Mrs

Watson, Miss Grenville or Mr Sanderson or visit www.world-challenge.co.uk

Year 11 Breakfast Celebrations

First Aid Procedures / First Aid Room We wish to remind parents and carers of the procedures we have if students are unwell at school. Our aim is to keep our students healthy, resilient and prevent the spread of infection to students and staff.

The first aid room is the last port of call for students feeling unwell. Students may be sent back to lessons if they are deemed fit to attend. However, if your daughter is feeling unwell at school she should tell her teacher who will assess and send her to the first aid room. On arrival she will be assessed by a first aider and if they feel she is not well enough to stay in school, they will ring a parent/carer to collect her. Students should NEVER phone a parent themselves to inform them they are unwell.

If your daughter has been vomiting or is suffering from diarrhoea, she should not come into school for 48 hours after the last episode of sickness or diarrhoea to prevent the spread of infection to others. We are still seeing students who have come into school despite being sick that morning!

A reminder that we do not keep pain relief e.g. paracetamol, throat lozenges or any medication in the first aid room

other than that stored for individual students (see below). Please therefore encourage your daughter to come to the

first aid room only if she feels too unwell to continue in school for the remainder of the day and we need to contact you to collect her.

If your daughter needs to take medication whilst at school, she should hand it in to the first aid room in an envelope marked with her name and form and instructions on dosage. A relevant permission form must accompany the medication which can be downloaded from our website—School Life, Pastoral, Parental Permission Store and Administer Meds or via the following link:- https://fluencycontent2-schoolwebsite.netdna-ssl.com/FileCluster/WallingtonHighGirls/MainFolder/School-Life/Pastoral-/Parental-permission-store-and-administer-meds.pdf

E-Safety recommendation - Live My Digital: Learning about digital living, together

The Girls' day School Trust has created 'Live My Digital', a unique video series to help parents help their children to stay safe online. The series consists of six short films for parents and six matching films for children to empower families to use social media safely and responsibly.

The videos look at the ways in which the internet and digital technology can be used positively by young people as well as identifying the potential issues they may face. The most critical themes in online safety today are covered including:

Cyberbullying

The digital footprint

Identity and self-esteem

Relationships and grooming

Security and privacy

Sexting

The films, together with the downloadable online safety factsheets, will help encourage and support open discussions in your

family about how to enjoy the online environment whilst staying safe.

You can access the videos here: www.gdst.net/livemydigital

The St Pancreas Poet Laureate—Archita (9 Curie) - seeks to

Inspire Next Generation of Young Poets

With three months to go before this year’s Betjeman Poetry Prize

Competition closes, last year’s winner and the second St Pancreas Poet

Laureate, Archita (9 Curie) has written her second poem to inspire the next

generation of young poets to enter the competition.

Titled The Sky of My Imagination, Archita’s poem captures her feelings when

she is writing poetry – happiness to laughter to fear and confusion. The full

range of emotions, helping to bring to life her words on the page.

Closing at midnight on 31 July, this year’s Betjeman Poetry Prize is calling for

entries from young poets aged 10-13, around the theme of ‘place’. From

favourite spaces, to memory filled buildings or holiday destinations, the

interpretation of the theme is down to the individual and what moves them

to write.

Entries can be submitted by post or online and more details about the

competition, including the full rules, can be found on the website

www.betjemanpoetryprize.co.uk

Celebrating our Students’ Achievements

The Sky of My Imagination

The sky of my imagination is unfolding

Like a stain of blood on paper.

The sky of my imagination is blank

Like eyes without humour.

The sky of my imagination is lonely

Like a melancholy rumour.

The sky of my imagination has clouds

That envelope the grief.

The sky of my imagination has stars

That move in my dreams.

The sky of my imagination has a moon

Which scowls in disbelief.

The sky of my imagination has sadness

Like an unfinished song in the summer.

The sky of my imagination has happiness

Like the brightness of spring flowers.

The sky of my imagination has fear

Like the loud autumn thunders.

The sky of my imagination has confusion

Like the eerie mist in winter.

The sky of my imagination is a crop

From seeds that life has sown.

The sky of my imagination is a mystery

In which nothing is known.

Ella - 12 SMC - London Regional Champion - 200 Backstroke

Ella competed over three days at the championships which took place at the London Aquatic Centre, Stratford. The championships are for swimmers aged 15 and over. Events were swum as heats, with finals later in each day for the fastest qualifiers

Ella won Gold in the age 17+, Senior Ladies 200m backstroke, a Bronze medal in the 400m freestyle and also made finals in 5 other events, with a 4th, 6th and three 8th places being her other final places.

Ella swam four personal best’s over the weekend. It was Ella's best performance to date at the London Regional championships and her coach was impressed with the effort and hard work that has gone into her training this season and that her great work produced these great results.

Oxfam Youth Ambassadors

On Thursday, three of our Year 12 students Maisha, Hannah and Sufia were invited to speak at an Oxfam Education conference on ‘Global Citizens in Turbulent Times’ at Foyle’s bookstore. This was in recognition of their hard work as Oxfam Youth Ambassadors over the past couple of years, which has included a postcard campaign in school, lobbying Carshalton MP Tom Brake and creating a video on climate change.

At the conference they spoke with confidence and passion about climate change and the importance of citizenship education in school to a room full of experts and representatives from a number of charities. After the conference, they were approached by a number of people who wanted to use their video on their own websites and social media campaigns.

Congratulations to the team on doing themselves and Wallington Girls proud.

Abisola—9 Johnson—Tennis Achievements

Abisola took part in the annual Sutton Tennis Academy Easter tournament. She won the 16U Girls singles category and came runner up in the 18U girls singles category. Abisola is making steady progress with her tennis goals.

TFL (transport for London): road safety

Hello we are the TFL ambassadors and our mission is to ensure that all our students are safe on the road. Our project was to make people aware of one big reason why so many people endanger themselves on the road – because they are distracted by their mobile phone. We worked with Idris from TFL who came in to share some statistics and facts. To start the first part of our campaign we delivered an assembly with a PowerPoint and video to all students in Years 7 and 8, reaching over 420 people. We did this as we had a desire to help our community, friends and our school. At the assembly we also launched a competition – to design an oyster card wallet, where the winning design will actually be printed and handed out! We have now picked our winning design and we are looking forward to seeing the real thing.

Next, we are going to focus on the roads around our school specifically and the problems we have with parking and students getting dropped off in dangerous places. We are planning to put hand out the oyster card wallets, along with some information leaflets and we also hope to create a wall of pledges made by students. We aim to reduce the number of people who get dropped off right in front of school as this causes traffic and more importantly is quite dangerous to many. Watch out for the next part of our campaign!

Quotes

Student: I think that the assembly is very important and I was also amazed on how many people die due to this distraction

Student: Road safety is important and I really like how these TFL ambassadors have tried to make people more aware especially in this society where we have a lot to distract us and so meaning that we pay less intention and are really endangering ourselves.

Student: All we can do now is hope people will heed these messages.

Parent of student: people who use the mobile phones on the roads must make themselves aware of their own safety.

By Xin (9 Pankhurst) and the TFL Ambassadors

A Level Art and Photography Exhibition—

Private Viewing Thursday 8 June 2017 5-8pm