Poetry please

Children from across Wolverhampton Grammar School created and shared poems about their experiences during lockdown. We received over 60 amazing entries, but here are just a few of our favourites:

Key workers working hard, Illness is at large, Schools are closed, We are working at home Schedules are rough, It’s really tough, We barely go outside, It’s almost like we have to hide. We are not doing enough, To keep other people safe, People are going out, Without a doubt.

Staying safe is really hard, Remember not to drop your guard.

By Taleah Haughton-Roberts

Virtual tours and open events

We are all getting used to a new normal here at Wolverhampton Grammar School. One of the biggest challenges we’ve had to adjust to is how to showcase our School, campus and facilities to families who want to register for a place at Wolverhampton Grammar School. Similarly, how to enable families to sit our assessment and entrance tests without coming onto the campus!

key staff, a virtual tour, welcome from students and even a 360 degree tour of our facilities. Work is well underway to prepare for our next virtual open day on Saturday 10th October – if you know anyone who might like to register for this event, please ask them to visit the website www.wgs.org.uk/openday

Pre-booked individual tours of School are also available, Monday to Friday between 9.30am and 1pm. Visit the website for further details.

Toilet paper gone, All the shelves wiped clean, We are at home, Thanks to COVID-19

By Sofia Molinari

Home is a place to stay safe and well, On COVID-19 we try not to dwell. By staying at home we’re doing our bit, And with Joe Wicks’ help, we’re keeping fit. Lessons continue, although not the same, I’m working on improving my football game. To our doctors and nurses we say thank you For protecting us all from this killer flu.

By Luke Hemmings

Normally, families would be welcomed to large open events, personal tours and taster days. Children would be in School to sit our assessments and entrance tests and given a taste of what a typical day might be like.

To help, we’ve created a virtual open day experience which live chats with

Anyone interested in joining our School community straight away can also sit an online version of our assessment and entrance tests.

If you would like to learn more about registering for a place in the Junior School, Senior School or Sixth Form, please contact the Admissions Team by telephone 01902 422939 or email jam@wgs-sch.net

WGS Happiness Playlist

As part of our #WGSTogether activities during lockdown, Miss Jones and other Senior School staff put together a range of activity weeks, which were a great success!

Did you send your suggestions to the WGS Happiness playlist challenge? We received some brilliant suggestions and have now put them together, so you can listen to our very own Happiness playlist.

#WGSTogether

Visit our School YouTube channel to discover the playlist!

Graham Lewis Scholarship awarded

Congratulations to Madison Beebee who has been awarded the Graham Lewis Scholarship this year.

Awarded annually, the Scholarship is available to an Upper Sixth student studying either Mathematics or Further Mathematics at A Level who has ambitions to study a related subject at university.

Following an application and interview for the Scholarship, Madison, who joined us in Sixth Form, received a tax free lump sum of £1,000 which will no doubt come in useful for her studies at Durham University.

This award is made possible thanks to the generosity of alumnus Robert Zeps (OW 1988). Mr Zeps dedicated this Scholarship in honour of his Mathematics teacher, the late Mr Graham Lewis, who inspired him to pursue Maths for both his career and intellectual satisfaction.

If you are in Upper Sixth – look out for the invitation to apply for the Scholarship in spring next year.

Where do you love?

For some of us, increasing our exercise and exposure to the outdoors and countryside has become one of the few things that we can now undertake without too many restrictions.

Wolverhampton and the wider West Midlands are surrounded by countryside walks and cycle paths, woodlands and bridleways; being outdoors is

Junior iPads and Tablets

iPads and tablets proved invaluable during lockdown and children from Year 3 are still using digital technology to help support their learning – and reduce the number of books they have to bring to School.

If you are using a home device to support your child’s learning in the Junior School please be aware that we recommend they have the following Apps installed on them:

• Firefly (App for students)

• Times Tables Rock Stars

• LbQ Tasks

• Pic Collage

• Draw and Tell

• Book Creator

• iMovie

• iMindMap Kids

Please do get in touch with Mr Peters if you (or your child) have any difficulties with downloading these apps.

Oliver shares his lockdown experience

Lower Sixth student, Oliver Brookes shared his lockdown experience with a worldwide academic audience this year.

Oliver was recorded and interviewed by a writer for the Lancet edition of Child & Adolescent Health (a vital voice for improving young lives, the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health publishes top quality research and trusted comment and opinion).

Oliver’s podcast included his reflections on the adjustments he had to make, how he's dealt with both parents being on the frontline and his hopes for the future.

Well done Oliver, we are very proud of you.

something that many of us have been grateful for. Lots of staff, students and parents shared pictures of places that they have discovered.

We would really love to hear about a place in the outdoors that you love; it might be a cycle path that you have discovered, or a woodland that you didn't know existed;

#WGSTogether it could be your favourite run route, or a hill you have walked. Ask your family to tag the School in on any social media posts to share where you love.

Some of you have already… here’s a snapshot.

Thank you to all students, parents and staff for working together to make the return to School go as smoothly as possible.

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