Warlingham News - July 2017

News Warlingham School

ISSUE 6 2016-2017 JULY 2017 In this edition FROM the headteacher

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Sociology Trip to Manchester

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Healthy Schools

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Emergency First Aid Course

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Author and Illustrator team, Knife and Packer

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LRC and Attendance Reports

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Primary Multiskills

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Warlingham PTA and Governors

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Rugby Report and Charlie’s Hair Donation

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Ylenia Priest - Outstanding Sportswoman!

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WHere are they now?

Richard Sackey-Addo and Harriet Crome

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FEATURE: Sociology Trip to Manchester

FEATURE: Emergency First Aid Course

FEATURE: Knife and Packer

FEATURE: Primary MultiSkills

Wide Horizons High Aspirations

FEATURE: Ylenia Priest - Outstanding Sportswoman

From the Headteacher...

individual school. Initially this has The end of the Summer Term is always placed a requirement on us to recruit new governors for the Warlingham a good time to reflect on the current academic year and look forward to the local governing committee as some of our governors have moved up opportunities and challenges ahead. to the Trust Board. Please see the Looking back on the year the most governance structure committee significant change to the School has diagram (opposite) and the article from been the formation of a Multi Academy Karen Quinton, Chair of Governors.

Trust (MAT) – the Tandridge Learning If you are interested in becoming a Trust with four of our neighbouring governor at Warlingham School do get primary schools – Hamsey Green, in touch!

Bletchingley Village, Tatsfield and Woodlea schools. We are hopeful that We are now in the last week of term following a highly successful Activities over the next couple of years further Week for Years 7-9 and two weeks of local schools will join us to share the Work Experience for Year 10 students. benefits of working together. This These events are fine examples of our change in structure will have quite commitment to our motto of ‘Wide an impact on the way the school is governed. The MAT Trust Board now Horizons, High Aspirations’ and allow sits above the local school committees students to develop their resilience and independence. The Activities Week to make strategic decisions that reports and photos will feature in the impact on all the schools, whilst each October Newsletter. school still has local committees Next year we will be reporting to dealing with the function of each Dear Parents/Carers,

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parents slightly differently than this year. All parents will still receive tracking data reports each term. One of these reports (Year 9 just before Options, Year 11 after mock exams, Year 10 in the spring term and Years 7 and 8 in the summer term) will also include a more detailed Form Tutor report outlining the contribution of each student to the School and their personal skills and qualities. There will also be a senior leader comment summarising academic achievement to date. This will replace the annual subject teacher comments.

Looking forward to next year the priorities of our School Improvement Plan can be seen on the next page.

The overarching aim is to make sure there is a clear and consistent approach to teaching and learning across all key stages. An element that has come to the fore over the last year is the need to improve the resilience of our students. As a result we will be developing strategies to strengthen this throughout the curriculum. Year 7 will be undertaking a resilience project during registration time throughout the year. The three boxes across the middle of the diagram are issues identified during last year and reflect the areas for improvement from our recent Ofsted Inspection in February.

The need to improve some of our internal and external communications has been flagged up through our staff

and parent questionnaires. I would like to thank all the parents who attended the recent Parents’ Forum to discuss ways to improve our communication.

We have started the process of updating our website to show more regular updates for student activities – we will be producing a weekly roundup of sporting results and other events as well as introducing more easily accessible year group information for each term. We are also investigating how we can more effectively use social media. As these changes come online in the new term we will update all parents.

I would like to remind all Year 11, 12 and 13 students of exam results days and the time that they can come in to collect results. A-Level and AS Level results are given out on Thursday 17 August in the front section of the Main Hall and students can come between 9.00-11.00am. Enrolment of Year 12 students into Year 13 will also take place on this day in the rear part of the Main Hall. GCSE results are available a week later on Thursday 24 August and can be collected from the Main Hall, again between 9.00-11.00am.

I hope that all students, parents and staff are having a relaxing and restful summer holiday.

Mr N Bradwell Headteacher

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Sociology trip to Manchester

On the 15th June the Sociology Year 12 students came together to go on a residential trip to Manchester.

As both a fun end to the year and a taster of our media unit in September Page 8

we set off in the early hours of Thursday morning ready to go.

We arrived at 7:30 at East Croydon Station and waited for all the class to arrive and whilst just waking up, Page 9

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we were all buzzing with excitement and anticipation. After travelling to numerous stations and getting on the Virgin Train to Manchester we finally arrived just before lunch. Upon arrival we made our way straight to our first activity – the Breakout Rooms.

Noticing large amounts of cultural change and some rather interesting behaviour from certain members of the public we got to the rooms a little later

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than planned. When there, we split into our teams. Team Detective VS Team Police began at the same time and it was a race against the clock. One hour to escape and find all the clues with the timer ticking steadily down.

Both rooms consisted of a range of different padlocks and codes, with some fairly difficult puzzles to decipher, however we were helped hugely by the Breakout team. With a couple

minutes between them Team Detective won, of course after letting the other team believe they had victory by hiding behind the corner.

computers and various equipment is set up. Continuing the tour we were bought to a smaller room set up with microphones and a couple of computers. Here we were taught From here we rushed out the door about radio dramas and how certain to our next stop: The BBC Studios. sounds are created, for example, a After the initial confusion with the trams and a small conversation with a bundle of rubber gloves to imitate flying birds. In this activity, some of travelling lawyer we hopped onto the our group got a little hands on and tram to media city where the studios even recorded a segment from a small are located. Half hour later we got off script at the back of the room. It was and had a few group photos by the strange hearing it back, but along with river just before heading over to the all the background music and sounds main building. We gathered round it was very effective. After climbing up and collected our lanyards and spent some time taking photos of the Daleks, a mountain of stairs we got to the BBC Breakfast Studio which was decked TARDIS and small Eastenders set at out with very expensive equipment the entrance. with a range of automatic cameras and autocues. Our tour guide took over once again and described both the filming process and a little about the weather. We were taken back down the stairs and were carried off to our final room. Lay out in here was the original BBC Breakfast Studio and weather as well as some of the dresses from Strictly Come Dancing and a back wall full of props for Horrible Histories. Once again some Later, after a small wait we were taken of our class got a little involved and next door for some security checks presented a show. By the time that and a talk with our guides before was done, our tour was sadly over and being bought to the Radio 6 Studio we made our way to scope out our Room. In here we learnt about the accommodation for the first time. radio process as well as how the Page 11

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After being at the YHA for 5 minutes we realised the Wi-Fi connection was awful, but there was no time to complain as we were making our way up to our rooms to get settled in. Once accustomed to our sleeping arrangements we had 45 minutes to kill before heading out once again to find some food. During the majority of this time most of us cleaned ourselves up and may have had a small nap to give us a much needed energy boost.

Once the evening came we took a stroll to Pizza Express and gorged ourselves with dough balls, pizza and pasta. We had some light conversation even though we were too tired to hold it, but we were relaxed with some beautiful live music. Luckily, we all enjoyed what was being played!

After dinner, we leisurely walked back to the YHA and dropped anything off that we didn’t need in our rooms. We then all came back downstairs after getting changed into tracksuits and pyjamas and sat around on beanbags enjoying some topical chatter, hot tea and a great assortment of chocolate and snacks. After a couple hours we all headed for our beds and had a great night’s sleep ready for another day in Manchester.

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got ready and packed up to leave.

We had a lovely cooked breakfast and collected our extremely heavy belongings and signed out of the hostel, leaving us to wander the city streets. We arrived at the coach station and got ourselves comfortable for the hour journey to Bradford. We spent some time reading, looking out at some incredible views, or for some, caught up on some very important Love Island episodes! Eventually we got to our location and took in our surroundings.

We stretched out our aching legs on a short walk to the Bradford Media Museum and had another photo opportunity before making our way inside. Once indoors we were left to our own devices and discovered a range of floors to explore. I think it’s safe to say our favourite was the Wonderlab. We lost ourselves in a mirror maze, tested our hearing and experimented with UV light and sound.

We spent the majority of our time in there but that wasn’t the only thing to see. We saw how photography and the media has changed over the past 250 years and what impact that had on society, not only this, but how the internet and technology has vastly improved since the first computer

made. The museum and was filled to the brim with so much more information to be seen and enjoy.

contact with any strangers. Ever. But that’s another story!

Overall it was an incredible trip packed We made our way back to Manchester with activities and travel, allowing us to in the early afternoon and had some take in another culture. We all enjoyed free time to ourselves and we headed every minute and socialised with straight to the food court in the middle people we may have not have thought of the city. We stuffed ourselves with of before. As a class, we’d definitely do KFC and Fish and Chips before having it again, and maybe even stay another a quick look around the shops. It was night. However most importantly all a slight rush however, as we had to we’d all like to thank Miss Tindall for promptly make our way back to the putting all this together and planning station to get on the 2 hour journey an excellent trip - the first of many train home. hopefully. We would also like to thank Miss Bhogal for joining us and making By the end of the trip we were sure that we were all safe and enjoying exhausted but happy. We shared ourselves. some laughs and picked up some questionable Manchester/Yorkshire Caitlin Stone accents and learnt not to make eye Page 13

Healthy Schools It has been another healthy year for Warlingham Students. Warlingham continues to be a “Healthy School” and we aim to be gaining the “gold award” next year. The Healthy Schools award is focussed on 4 main areas: PSHE (Personal, Social, health and economic) Education, mental and emotional health, physical activity and nutrition. In all these areas it is a combination of home and school that impacts on our children’s health.

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Our PSHE programme has been revamped and next year every student in year 7 to 10 will have discrete PSHE lessons as well as the PSHE delivered through tutor and enrichment time for all years 7-13. If you wish to find out what is covered in these lessons, please visit the website.

Next year, as many of you will realise following my repeated e-mails asking parents to register with SIMS Activities, we are having a concerted push on

improving children’s participation in extracurricular activities. All research shows that children who are engaged in activities beyond the classroom have better outcomes in life. With this in mind, we would love it if you could have meaningful conversations with your children about their participation.

Many children join in our wide selection of clubs already and we would like to see these numbers increase. If your child does not participate in a club either inside or outside of school life, I would be grateful if you could explore the possibilities of this with them. If there is nothing available that they would like to do, please contact me and tell me what they would like and we will explore the possibility of providing this.

available on the website. However, we have some children arriving in school who have not eaten any breakfast.

It is very difficult for a teenager to concentrate on an empty stomach and I would like to remind all parents of the importance of monitoring your child’s eating habits. Again, this is one of a significant factor in educational achievement. As a parent I know too well the struggles that this provokes.

If you are having any concerns in these areas, please do not hesitate to contact the school to discuss further.

Lastly we are very proud of our work in mental health where we are a leading school in promoting wellbeing. Mindfulness is being embedded now at many levels and there is an increasingly sophisticated support There is real benefit from joining in with structure available for students who are anything, from voluntary work to chess experiencing a wide array of difficulties. club. However there are extra benefits The most important thing here is that from talking part in physical activity. If students feel they can access the help your child does not regularly take part and support we provide, so please in a physical activity, could you please remind your children that the school is here to help them find happiness look into exploring the possibilities when you see our clubs and activities in all areas of their life and if they are timetable which is usually published in struggling, they should not hesitate to speak to their tutor, head of house the second fortnight. Active children or, indeed, any member of staff in the are healthier, happier and achieve better results in exams. school.

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Emergency First Aid Course

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On Friday 23rd June eleven sixth formers (ten Year 12 and one Year 13) and I sat our Emergency First Aid qualification which lasts for three years.

The course is an intensive day of training provided by NEST (North East Surrey) which looks at the

role of the first aider, emergency life-saving procedures, blood loss and wounds, trauma and medical emergencies.

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trainer, Sam Coomber who was a new tutor and from another organisation called South East Training Skills.

Learning the basics of CPR and how to administer a defibrillator was very interesting and we all felt more confident after being able to practise on life-size dummies and mock machines.

The students who attended and

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successfully passed the course this year were: Rebecca Adams, Taylor Beck, Ross George, James Gordon, Amelia Hill, Lucy Hughes, Callum Ledger, Joe Moore, Aimee Rocke, Felicity Stinson, Onuma Wiset.

They were a pleasure to have on the course and I would like to think that the Warlingham School community is a safer place as a result.

Here are some comments from the sixth formers who took part:

consider for next year (after all this heat) was:

Lucy Hughes (Yr 12) writes:

Rebecca Adams (Yr 12) writes:

The course was extremely beneficial and our instructor was very supportive and explained the course in great detail. Was a fantastic experience!

The first aid course was good but I think that we should have been in a better classroom as P1 gets very warm!

James Gordon (Yr 12) writes:

I agree P1 does get very warm but fortunately we are now better equipped to deal with anyone suffering from heatstroke‌..Callum!

All in all I thought the course was very helpful and beneficial. The trainer was brilliant, explained everything really well and made sure we all understood everything.

Perhaps one piece of feedback to

Mrs Salem, PE Teacher

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Author and Illustrator team, Knife and Packer

Warlingham School welcomed author and illustrator team, Knife and Packer, on Thursday 15th June 2017.

As a team Knife and Packer (Duncan McCoshan and Jem Packer) have written and illustrated more than 40 books for children. With mad illustrations on every page, their books have been translated into many languages and enjoyed by children across the world. Knife and Packer have performed to thousands Page 20

of children in Britain and beyond, in schools, libraries, festivals and bookshops. With drawing and humour these highly interactive sessions have been a huge hit with children.

All 240 Year 7 students participated in one of the sessions and the school also welcomed some year 6 students from Hamsey Green Primary School.

During each session, Knife and Packer highlighted the creative, enjoyable side of reading by harnessing the

audience’s imagination. Taking suggestions from the audience they set about designing a brand new character, then they put this character into its very own story. Students participated in this process every step of the way, both drawing their own designs for the character and offering ideas about its personality and style.

Once the character was fully-formed, it was set into a beginning of a graphic story. By the end of the session, everyone left with a much better sense

of how to create characters and how the process works. They also had a new understanding of what makes a character tick.

Nick Bradwell, Headteacher said, “We were delighted to welcome Knife and Packer to the school. A fantastic time was had by all and the students have learned key skills in character development.�

Melanie Filmer B&E/Marketing Manager

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LRC and Attendance LRC Report The LRC has had another extremely successful year, with both student and staff uptake remaining at a high level.

We have purchased over 500 new fiction resources covering many genres this year, taking inspiration from our students as well as a number of book sellers, and now have a health stock of some 12,000 physical resources available to students and staff and a further 12,000 web based resources available via Eclipse. These web resources have proved particularly popular during the exam season with many students using them for revision purposes.

These figures give us a clear indication that our efforts continue to be met with enthusiasm from the students.

During the end of year achievement assemblies the LRC rewarded some of our most prolific readers and reviewers. The students below are this year’s winners and have been given WH Smith vouchers as their reward.

The rewards were issued based on the number of books borrowed excluding renewals or the number of published reviews on Eclipse.

Top Reader – Girls: Amira Hartley (9H) Top Reader – Boys: Joshua Alexa (7H) Top Publisher Book Reviewer: Harry Liu (8N)

Book loans have increased substantially, as has the number of students borrowing books as we continue to encourage reading for pleasure across the whole school. We are also delighted that the gap in loans to girls and boys continues to close as well.

For me it’s been another hectic but extremely rewarding year in the LRC. I have thoroughly enjoyed supporting the students and looking after this fantastic space for them. I’d like to remind you that the door is always open if you would like to make an appointment to visit the LRC with your 01/09/2013 – 30/06/2014: 1011 loans children after school. Please email me at l.ferguson@warlinghamschool.

(677 girls, 334 boys) 01/09/2014 – 30/06/2015: 1428 loans co.uk if you would like to make an appointment. In the meantime, I wish (890 girls, 538 boys) 01/09/2015 – 30/06/2016: 2298 loans you all a restful summer break.

(1261 girls, 1037 boys) Happy Reading!

01/09/2015 – 29/6/2017: 2362 loans Mrs Ferguson, (1189 girls, 1173 boys) Page 22

L RC Co-Ordinator

Attendance Warlingham School continues to have excellent attendance and this year we have a higher than usual number of students achieving 100% attendance for the whole school year, which is a real credit to them all: Oliver Gladwin 7A Sophie Harwood 7A Katie Innes 7A Mollie Lidbetter 7A Gabrielle Mubenga 7A Beth Bailey 7G Abbie Foster 7G Luke Marsh 7G Olivia Bird 7H Cameron Handley 7H Max Firth 7L Tommi Kelha 7L Grace Clark 7M Ryan Cooper 7M Jack Duggan 7M Freya Horn 7M Alex Moore 7N Cydney Biggle 7R Kenzie Beck 7W Ronnie Gillam 7W Henry Jobling 7W Matthew Mussett 7W Michael Reeve 7W Harry Wicking 7W Rhys William 7W

Emily Hunn 8H Amy Johnstone 8H Madeline Lincoln 8H Charlie Morris 8H Mya Patel 8H Shayan Patel 8H Zak Perot 8H Mia Rouse 8L Holly Woodgate 8L Kate Moseley 8M James Clarke 8N Maisie Connery 8N Abbie Hamilton 8N Nattwaine Lawrence 8N Harry Liu 8N Matthew Woodgate 8N Joshua Archer 8R Amy Collins 8R Holly Cornwell 8R Rowena Dewar 8R Joel Ekins 8R Clare Richter 8R Ethan Smith 8R Ryan Burton 8W Georgina Cooper 8W Joshua Scott 8W Jelani Allman 9A Shania Blake 9A Jake Rose 9A Paul Tucker 9A Jay Dance 9G Page 23

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Becca Jordan 9G Charlotte Baker 9H Joshua Hazelton 9L Matilda Roche 9L Hannah Sparks 9L Codie O’Connell 9M Charlie Riches 9N Jasmine Hadouka-Taylor 9N Fiona Bentley 9R Kathrine Merritt 9R Rachel Sharp 9R Lewis Tong 9R Hayley Miles 9W Page 24

Sam Coole 10A Hannah Dawson 10A Vishnu Divakaran 10A Henry Firman 10A Oliver McGowan 10G Josh Sills 10G Cailyn Fourie 10H Rebecca Morris 10H Leah Perot 10H Lucie Scott 10H Lizzie Anyaeji 10L Danielle Eydman 10L Henry O’Neal 10L Harriet Preston 10L Jai Bhagvan 10M Hollie Clarke 10N Shleena Coulson 10N Adam Dunn 10N Marnie Ekins 10R Harvey Fitzgerald 10R Zara Butt 10W Natalie Reeve 10W Katie Copland 11A Jake Corr-Rudling 11A Connie Hill 11A Jack Murray 11A Dylan Norman 11A Charlie Wicking 11A Adam Browning 11G

Dylan Tahirovic 11G Adam Taylor 11G Harry Durrant 11H Holly Elvins 11H William Graham 11H Lucy Gutteridge 11H Ella Bishop 11L Jack Bishop 11L Abbie Clarke 11L Anastasia Matsenko 11L Jonathan-Maxwell Owusu 11L Megan Quinn-Edwards 11L Harry Throssell 11L Oliver McCourty 11M Katie Blatchford 11N Grace Cooper 11N Thomas Frost 11N Sophie Johnson 11N Ellie Moore 11N Nathan Skelton 11N Daniel Boyle Smith 11R James Clay 11R Alfie O’Brien 11R Beth Sharp 11R Erin Smith 11R Oliver Stinson 11R Luca Crawford 11W Carter Goddard 11W Holly Hayes 11W Nicholas Jones 11W

Absence from School In line with Government legislation and other local Schools, leave of absence during term time will continue to be unauthorised accept in very exceptional circumstances and penalty notices are being issued in all appropriate cases.

Parents are reminded that they are required to contact School each day of their child’s absence with a detailed explanation of the reason. Any unexplained absence will be recorded as unauthorised and illness must be supported by medical evidence as appropriate.

Attendance issues? Just ask We work closely with families to help improve and maintain good attendance. There is a clear link between attendance and attainment and the earlier we work together on attendance issues the better the outcome for all students.

Please contact the Attendance office if you have any concerns about your child’s attendance as we are able to support students and families in many different ways.

Vicky Stokes Attendance Manager Page 25

Primary Multiskills Year 3 and Year 4

Goodhand, Henry Still, Lewis Kelly, This year we were able to enjoy great Charlie Payne, Josh Sills, Will Standen and from Year 9:Katie Merrit, Becca weather for both our primary multiJordan, Issy Edwards, Abigail Jones, skill events. On Tuesday 25th May, we hosted the Year 3& 4 competition; Katie Burn, Sarah Howie, Olivia Tucker, eight schools were eagerly competing Emily Wilson, Jack Coyne and Oliver for the top three places and the overall Creed.

Multi-skills are designed to develop winners’ cup. key physical skills in young people Our competitions are run by our which can be transferable across a Young Ambassadors from Year 9&10 range of sports. The young primary who were selected on their sporting children in both events were being abilities, attitude and contributions to asked to test their agility, balance, the school. We would like to thank speed, endurance, strength and from Year 10: Eden Anderson, Ylenia co-ordination over the course of Priest, Katie Stanford, Shannon ten different skill based activities. It Doherty, Marnie Ekins, Hannah was the responsibility of our Young Dawson, Andrew Dearden, Ben

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Ambassadors to lead the children in these events and to keep score.

Our results table was run and organised by two of our sixth form CSLA students, James Gordon and Lucy Hughes who have been working hard this year within the Community Sports Leadership award course. This was just another example of sixth formers being generous in volunteering their time.

Here are this year’s results for Year 3 & Year 4: 1st – St John’s 2nd – Audley 3rd - Hamsey Green 4th – St. Francis

5th – Marden Lodge 6th – Whyteleafe 7th – Warlingham Village 8th – Woodlea

Year 1 and Year 2 On Tuesday 13th June was the turn of the Year 1 & 2 Competition. This was a particularly hot afternoon and much water was consumed to help cool down the very red faces.

We had 7 local schools compete in this competition. As mentioned before, these events rely on the good will and support of volunteers in the local community. We were very pleased that so many parents volunteered to transport children to Page 27

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these competitions. We would also particularly like to thank the primary staff for organising their teams at this busy time.

Here are this year’s results: 1st – Woodlea School 2nd – Whyteleafe School 3rd – St. John’s 4th - Audley 5th - Marden Lodge 6th - Warlingham Village 7th - Hamsey Green As we come to the end of another busy year we would also like to Page 28

thank Warlingham PE department for relinquishing their facilities, the site team for their continued support in setting up, Pam Mutter for all her work in reprographics and to Fiona Delaney for all her help with the medals.

The primary children enjoyed the opportunity of receiving their medals and certificates from Deputy Head Teacher, Mr Paul Kinder.

Our sixth formers and Young Ambassadors made these comments after the event: ‘I feel that the mulitskills event ran

really smoothly due to the fantastic organisational skills of the young ambassadors who did a super job leading their groups in a range of activities.’

Lucy Hughes Year 12 ‘I enjoyed meeting and working with all the different schools. I learnt new skills and I would happily do it again.’

Becca Jordan Year 9

‘It was a good experience working with children who are as keen at sport as I am!’

Oliver Creed Year 9 ‘It was fun working with young kids and teaching them new things; it was a rewarding experience.’

Olivia Tucker Year 9

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Warlingham PTA and Governors

Warlingham PTA My name is Angela Smith – I have been a member of staff for four years and a parent at the school for two years.

I feel that Warlingham School is missing out on a great opportunity to increase parental engagement with the school as well as potential earnings by not having a Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). I am sure many of you have either been involved or come across a PTA at primary school.

If so you will be aware of the amount of funds that can be raised via many different fun activities and the way in which the children benefit from this extra money. It is also a great way to get involved with your child/children’s school and support the education it provides.

Would you enjoy being a school governor?

We’re volunteers who give a lot of our time and energy to the school, to try to make things better for children, for staff, and for the local community.

You may be wondering what on earth would possess someone to want to do that! These are some of the things that appeal to us: Learning:

If you are interested in joining the PTA please email me at a.smith@ warlinghamschool.co.uk.

• new skills – like getting on with people with whom you disagree • about the complexities of the educational environment within which schools and teachers operate • what being a governor is all about, our obligations and role • how the school runs, what its strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats are • respect – for the dedication and huge effort that the staff put into the education of Warlingham’s children • how to organise, manage and even chair meetings.

Angela Smith, Teaching Assistant and Staff Governor

Taking your existing knowledge and skills and adapting them to apply to a school environment:

Warlingham PTA is in its infancy at the moment and will only come to fruition with your help.

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the papers for it in advance and professional skills to bear on school come to the meeting ready to ask problems questions • working as part of a committed team • commit to attending training and becoming well informed.

• having your opinion heard, and respected, by a group of your peers. Officially, the governance handbook defines our role as to: Giving back: • ensure clarity of vision, ethos and • many governors derive great strategic direction satisfaction from feeling that they are helping the school and community • hold executive leaders to account • we are driven by our desire to help for the educational performance of all of our children get the very best the school and its pupils and the possible experience of their time in performance management of staff school and for each child to be the • oversee the financial performance of best they can be the school and make sure its money Making friends – we: is well spent.

• are friendly, welcoming, and We will invite applications from parent supportive governors in September, to fill a number of places being caused by • may not always agree, but we experienced governors moving to the treat each other with courtesy and Tandridge Learning Trust Board at the respect end of next year. Parent governors • conduct meetings in a very should be elected by the parents in the professional but relaxed way. school.

You can be a parent governor if you If we can give you any more are the parent or carer of a child in information, do please contact us here: school. You need to be able to: info@warlinghamschool.co.uk.

• interpret sometimes complex information and data Karen Quinton • support, and challenge, in equal Chair of Governors measure • commit time – there is one meeting Zoe Taylor Clerk to Governing Body, a half term, you will need to read Page 31

Rugby Report and Charlie’s Hair Donation Report on the Rugby Season It was a season to remember, but although it was a season to remember, before Christmas we had fights with each other and opposition on the pitch and we lost game after game.

But, when we came back after Christmas the boys must have received nice gifts because we were a completely different team. They were raring to go and they began to listen to me as their captain.

We started winning games friendlies and league, we then went on to win the Surrey league. Two out of the two Warlingham School students that attend Old Whitgiftians rugby club Charlie said that she chose the trust won were awarded trophies during our because she had lost someone to presentation evening. cancer and liked the idea of another Zack Rhodes in Chichester House won child getting hair. She also wanted to an award for new comer of the season do something for charity. and I was presented with player of the season.

Alfie Lamb (7N) Charlie’s Hair Donation On the 20th of May Charlie Morris of 8H had her hair cut and donated to the Little Princess Trust. They help get free real hair wigs to children who have lost hair through chemotherapy for cancer.

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Charlie had the idea of donating her hair in Year 7 but she didn’t do it until Year 8 because, I quote, “her mum was not ready”. But once she was “ready” Charlie and her mum set up a Just Giving page. A Just Giving page helps money being donated online go straight to a charity. Just Giving makes sure your details stay safe and aren’t sold on after donating. You make a profile and set a target. Charlie’s target was £150 and she raised £355! Her page shows how much of the target has been raised, 236% has been raised but that can still go up. If you want to donate go to justgiving.com, search Charlie’s haircut for cancer and donate!

After a date was set and appointment was booked the day arrived. The

first stage was to measure Charlie’s hair so we could see how much was going to be cut, Charlie’s hair was 30 inches long. Annoyingly for her mine was longer. Next the stage was to plait Charlie’s hair into four. The plaits were loose so that some hair was left for her.

Charlie nominated me, Madeline to cut the first plait I was a bit worried so it went wonky. But that could be fixed.

After all the plaits had been cut the hair dresser washed Charlie’s hair and as it was drying cut it straight. Then she dried it and styled it so all the hair came into a bob that curled inwards.

She also had a fringe cut.

The final measurements left Charlie with 9 inches of hair at the back and 12 inches at the front.

Madeline Lincoln (8H)

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Ylenia Priest - Outstanding Sportswoman!

Back Row, L-R: Caterham Rotary Judges David Barrett, Sarah Berke, Marianne Woods and Geraint Jenkins Front Row, L-R: Amy Davies (3rd Place) and Ylenia Priest.

Ylenia Priest, in Year 10 at Warlingham School, won first prize in the Caterham Rotary 2017 Sporting Excellence Awards for young people. Ylenia has had a passion for ladies’ football and first started playing at age 6 in Croydon. In 2014, she joined Millwall Lionesses as a centre back and was soon spotted and invited to join England Talent pathway. Then, last summer Ylenia was approached

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what was a dream come true for this outstanding young player.

Her P.E. Teacher and coach, Miss Hurst describes her as “one of the most dedicated and hardworking students I have ever had the pleasure of teaching in my career.”

In addition to football, Ylenia has also represented the school at netball and athletics and has reached Level 1 as a referee - she also coaches a local young boy’s football team!

She is using her cash award to fund

the next stage of her refereeing badges and at a recent Rotary Sporting Awards lunch she said, “Football is a huge part of my life.

I hope to continue my career on the England Talent Pathway at Arsenal Ladies and hope to inspire more young females to take part in this sport.

It is a privilege to win this award so I would like to say thank

you to the Caterham Rotary Club for choosing me as the winner and for the prize. I would also like to thank my teachers at Warlingham School for nominating me and supporting me.�

Second place in the Awards was Sophie Foster from Woldingham School and in third place was Amy Davies from Caterham school.

Ylenia Priest at the Awards lunch, pictured with her mother, Luisa Priest

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We caught up with ex-students Richard Sackey-Addo and Harriet Crome and asked if they could share what they’ve got up to since leaving Warlingham Sixth Form.

I am currently working as the Research Officer in the Tennis Development Department of the International Tennis Federation – the world governing body of tennis - and am based in Valencia, Spain.

I specifically work within coach education on a day-to-day basis, assisting with the general coordination of the ITF Coach Education programme. Some of my typical responsibilities in coach education include; assisting with the coordination of our research grants programme, whereby we fund research proposals from postgraduate students and academics conducting tennis specific research from institutions around the world. In addition, I am part of the team that is responsible for the production and updating of coaching publications and course resources.

Furthermore, I am the assistant editor and a contributor in the ITF Coaching and Sport Science Review – our quarterly coaching and sport science based journal. I also help with the Page 36

organisation of the bi-annual ITF Regional Coaches Conferences and ITF Worldwide Coaches Conference – the ITF’s flagship coach development event.

Another important element of my role is that I am responsible for coordinating all aspects of the ITF’s official online coaching and sport science education platform, Tennis iCoach, which is an online library of thousands of exclusive tennis specific presentations, drills, exercises,

interviews and articles from experts in the game around the world.

This platform has a worldwide membership base of thousands of tennis stakeholders and many national associations who use this content for developing coaches in their own respective nations.

Sixth Form undoubtedly prepare you for uni well where it is mostly down to you as an individual to motivate yourself and be self-disciplined with getting your work done.

My current role with the ITF has been a great start to my career and has allowed me to be involved with how sport works behind the scenes Attending Warlingham Sixth Form on the International stage and also prepared me for life during my BSc helping to develop a sport that I am in Sport and Exercise Science and passionate about. I’ve had many MSc in Sports Performance at the great experiences to travel, network University of Bedfordshire as much and work with; top and aspiring of the content that I learned during professional players, some of the most my PE, Psychology and English prominent coaching and sport science Literature A-Levels gave me a good experts in the tennis world such as foundation knowledge of topics that Judy Murray, national and continental I encountered at uni whether it was tennis associations and other physiology, anatomy, sport psychology International Federations including or having sound academic writing and FIFA and travel to places such as critical analysis skills, which can take Spain, Turkey, Belgium and Bulgaria time to master at university. I feel that later this year. I look forward to the these skills definitely gave me more next challenges that I will encounter confidence during my courses and in my career and hope to continue helped to give me an advantage over contributing to the development of my peers who had never learnt these tennis/sport around the world. skills before uni. Also, the independent Richard Sackey-Addo studying skills that we learnt in Page 37

on Film, TV and Theatre shows, including costumes for The Huntsman and Dr Who, as well as for West End musicals such as The Lion King, Kinky Boots, Aladdin, Dream Girls and 42nd Street.

After leaving Warlingham School having studied both GCSE and A Level Art Design and Art Textiles I went on to a year’s Art Foundation Course (UAL Camberwell) which allowed me to explore new areas of art and design ranging from fashion, theatre, photography, graphics, to print making and fine art etc.

This experience allowed me to identify the area of the arts that I wanted to pursue, which led on to the Wimbledon Collage of Art UAL, where I studied a degree in Costume Interpretation. This course introduces students to professional costume making for theatre, film, television and live performance. On this course, I learnt skills such as wig making, corsetry, tailoring, dressmaking, and pattern drafting as well as print, dye and costume breakdown.

Since having graduated from Wimbledon in July 2016 I have been working as a freelance costumier, Page 38

In addition to my freelance costume work, I am also working at The BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology as the Textiles / Costume Technician.

Being dyslexic and having struggled with most academic subjects throughout my schooling I found that both Art and Textiles at Warlingham gave me the option to develop my creative skills …the reason I originally enrolled at the school was because of the facilities art and textiles had to offer! And thank goodness I did, as I believe otherwise I wouldn’t have ended up pursuing a career that I absolutely love in the creative industry!

Harriet Crome

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Wide Horizons High Aspirations

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