It has been another eventful few weeks of term filled with activity. This newsletter demonstrates what has been a feature of this term throughout – our students and staff finding every way possible to overcome the barriers presented by the Covid-19 pandemic and still undertake a great range of activities that support learning, personal development and enrichment. It is great to see the successes of students and range of opportunities that have been provided this term. While we have had to change the arrangements for sports days to support avoiding the spread of Covid19, we are really pleased to be able to provide this opportunity for sporting achievement and team building for the students. I look forward to seeing them enjoy the various sporting events and enjoy participation and competition over the last few weeks of term – no doubt spurred on by the success so far of the England football team in Euro 2021.
This week, I had the pleasure of meeting with the Student Council to discuss what they are proud of at school and what they see as the most important priorities to improve the school. It was great to be able to meet the group in person (if socially distanced and wearing face coverings) and talk to them about their experiences at school this year and hopes for the future. I am really looking forward to working more closely with the Student Council in the future to capture their views and reflect them in how we take steps to further improve the school. On Thursday morning, I took a tour of all the Year 12 induction classrooms and spoke to the Year 11 into 12 students about how excited we are to welcome them into our Sixth Form College and to support their academic success whilst providing them with great opportunities and experiences to develop the personal skills and attributes that will set them up for success in their next steps. I am very excited to see the impact that they will have as role models and
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leaders of our school community in the Sixth Form next year as our school community opens up for more interaction between different year groups. Please take the time to look at the free guide to ‘County Lines’ from Unseen in this edition of the newsletter. As a parent myself, it is essential reading to ensure we are aware of the issues, how to spot the signs and where to go for help. Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to draw attention to and congratulate the achievements of the Young Enterprise Team on their success in making it into the top 5 companies nationally. A fantastic achievement and a great learning and leadership experience for the students. Thank you to Miss Scanlon for supporting the students in their achievements.
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We look forward to the final few weeks of term and the chance to celebrate the successes in face of the disruption and adversity faced.
Year 9 Spanish Pen Pal Exchange The Modern Foreign Languages Department (MFL) have recently made the most of technology during the long period of Covid-19 restrictions, which caused foreign travel and therefore school trips to be cancelled. Instead, our Year 9 MFL students have had the opportunity to practice their Spanish language skills by writing to their peers in IES Viera y Clavijo School in Tenerife. The Pen Pal exchange was organised by Noelia Acuna Perdemo, our former Foreign Language Assistant, who has her home there.
Students from both schools paired up to write letters to each other and the activity was very much enjoyed by all those involved – as you can see from the examples here!
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Unseen Launch Free Guide to County Lines This week, Unseen, a charity fighting modern Click here to get your free guide to County Lines delivered to your inbox. slavery and exploitation in the UK, launched a campaign to raise awareness of What is County Lines? County Lines. The charity County Lines describes the found that almost 5,000 The more that people understand the mobile phone lines used by children were identified as issues, how to spot the signs and where to criminal gangs to organise victims of County Lines in the go for help, the sooner we can reverse the illegal drugs to be moved UK last year. Yet over half of growing numbers of children involved in and sold from one village, all parents do not understand modern slavery. Children caught up in town or city to another what County Lines means, County Lines are not criminals – they are across the UK. according to a new poll victims of exploitation at the hands of carried out by Unseen. Children are most often organised criminal gangs. used to move and sell the Unseen’s End Child drugs. They are recruited by Exploitation Campaign Justine Currell, Executive Director of Unseen gang members who pose as launched this week with a friends and then trap the young Free Guide to County Lines for people into a terrifying cycle of violence, parents, carers and teachers to raise exploitation and abuse. awareness. The guide includes information about who is at risk, how children are recruited, how to spot the signs of exploitation and where to go for help.
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Unseen’s County Lines Research Unseen commissioned poll company Opinium to find out more about County Lines awareness. The research found that: One third of parents (34%) would not feel confident spotting the signs if their child was being used for County Lines 38% of parents would not know what to do if their/a child had become involved in County Lines 37% would not feel confident about who to contact.
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This fortnight, I wanted to draw your attention to a great series on BBC iPlayer that looks at various industries through the eyes of teenagers spending time on Work Experience. This series is called The Nine to Five with Stacey Dooley and there are two series currently available, each with five episodes in it. Five teenagers are taken to places ranging from a care home and a trainer factory, to a zoo and a plumbing company. These are available free of charge and each last 30 minutes. Definitely well worth checking out as an interesting and engaging way to discuss careers at home. Click here to view the episodes on iPlayer.
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Wednesday 14 July
5 July: Year 7
P2: Year 8
7 July: Year 8
P2: Year 9
8 July: Year 9
P4: Year 7
Behind AWC @ Lunch
Athletes only to the Field
Monday 19 July
Tuesday 20 July
P1: Year 7
P2: Year 9
P2: Year 8
P4: Year 10
P4: Year 8 Track
P5: Year 9 Track
P5: Year 7 Track Rounders & Cricket – Field Uni-Hoc – A3 Dodgeball – B Courts Benchball – Sports Hall
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Make sure you know when and where your event is. Remember to have your kit and wear your house colours on the day!
GCSE & A Level Art Exhibition We are so pleased that we were able to host the 2021 GCSE Art and A Level Art, Photography and Textiles Exhibition in the Tandridge Learning Trust Building last week. Despite Covid-19 restrictions, a great number of our students, with their parents were able to attend. Everyone was impressed with the standard of work, and it was lovely to see how proud our students and their parents were. Miss Woodhouse, a previous headmistress of Warlingham School, was amazed with the quality and professionalism of the students’ work. We would like to thank all our students for their exceptional performance under such challenging times. We really are proud of you all.
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Former Warlingham Students Become Staff Members We are really pleased to have successfully employed 7 ex-Warlingham students in new jobs at Warlingham School over the last few months. We welcome our previous students to roles in our Science Department and Premises at Warlingham, as well as in IT working in our centralised team across the whole of the Tandridge Learning Trust. These roles are either for apprenticeship training or are to fit around their University choices. It’s great to be able to welcome these students back and to provide them with development and workplace opportunities. They all succeeded in a competitive selection processes, so well done to them all!
Joe
Premises Apprentice
James C
IT Apprentice
James F-T
IT Apprentice
Grace
Temp Science Technician
Katie
Temp Science Technician
Saul
Temp Science Technician
William
Premises Letting Assistant
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Warlingham’s Young Enterprise Team Makes the Top Five Young Enterprise is a national scheme in the UK for A Level students who are interested in Business. The programme aims to create a realworld experience of entrepreneurship by tasking students with the job of creating and running a business and generating a profit. The students involved consisted of Frankie Gaudoin, Shayan Patel, Ewan Lewis, Romy Maleki, Suneet Bakshi and finally Matthew Woodgate – who led the team. The Warlingham students set out to create stainless steel customisable water bottles in which all profits went to Water Aid. When doing Young Enterprise, they began by setting out a business plan surrounding a service or product they wanted to produce. I asked Frankie Gaudoin why they focused their enterprise around a water bottle. He recalled that as a team, they went through many ideas due to Covid-19 regulations – in which they concluded that many propositions that were contributed wouldn’t have worked. The group operated through Wednesday period 5
and their own free time to conduct research on the product, create the water bottles and to deliver the team’s project to their customers which SOLD OUT! The group of young individuals worked efficiently and as a team sold 50 bottles in the matter of 2 weeks. Due to their hard work and determination, the team made an overall profit of £191.51 and even made it onto the top 5 companies nationally during their campaign. A huge congratulations to the team!
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Year 12 & 13 Geography Trip to Iceland
Warlingham Geography Department welcome Year 12 & 13 Geography Students studying at Warlingham Sixth Form College in September 2021/2022 to join them for a sensational trip to Iceland!
When: Monday 7th to Thursday 10th February 2022 Please Email: R.Gardner@warlinghamschool.co.uk for more details
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The Warlingham Learner
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