Dear Parents/Carers,
Congratulations to all students who participated in the Rotary Swimathon on Sunday 14th October (see below) and Year 10s smashed the event record swimming 220 lengths.
Year 7 Year 7
1 Gemma Allen Abu Attou
2 Olivia Mills Rhys Lloyd
3 Bella Hornzee Elliot Newsam
4 Sophie Nunwa Peter Heaney
5 Jayaram Anandam
6 Stephen Chappidi
Lengths 176 Lengths 112
Year 8 Year 9
1 Joseph Robertson Chithru Tennakoon
2 Daniel Baldwin Zak Whitting
3 Lucille Trojonovich Rachel Golding
4 Hrishikesh Urankar
5 Eloise Thompson
6 Alfie Perry
Lengths 153 Lengths 197
Year 10 Year 11
1 Alexj Baldwin Jess Robertson
2 Issy Jakubait Hamza Ben Malik
3 Joshua Thompson Hussain Ben Malik
4 Michael Young Joe McHugh
5 Georgia Grant Alex Scott
6 Danel Jansen
7 Lucas Salman
Lengths 220 Lengths 134
Thank you also to members of the Friends of Woking High School and student supporters who helped co-ordinate the school swim teams. If you have already sponsored our teams, thank you, if not, you can still do so by following this link. Thank you in advance to the Woking Rotary Club for their support of Woking High School.
Many congratulations to Year 10 student Hannagh Mohan and her pony Willow who won both their classes at the RDA South East Regional Dressage Qualifier at Hickstead Showground on 24th May 2018 and qualified for the RDA National Championships. In addition to winning both her classes, Hannagh was also awarded a cup for the junior highest score of 71.6%. Hannagh was also recognised as best newcomer and Willow her pony got an excellent turnout award.
This wonderful partnership then went on to the RDA National Championships on 14th July at Hartbury College. Hannagh did incredibly well with an 8th in the Championship test and an amazing 2nd in her Freestyle test, with a fantastic score of 72.5%! Hannagh is an independent rider affiliated to Quest RDA as a member of Quest. Hannagh also participates in Unaffiliated British Dressage events, recently coming 2nd at the Oldencraig Dressage Championship, 1st at Epsom RDA and 1st at Merrist Wood College, where Hannagh competes alongside her sighted competitors.
Following torrential rain last weekend, we owe a huge thank you to our site team who stemmed the floods and dried out wet areas so, thankfully, we are back to our best.
On Tuesday, we held the last of our 2018 Open mornings for prospective September 2019 students. As always, our students were praised for their polite, knowledgeable and welcoming tours. Please can I remind parents of any Year 6 students reading this review, that the deadline for applications for September 2019 entry is 31st October 2018.
Later that evening, almost all parents of our Year 11 students (96%) attended consultation evening. Year 11s have just received their current GCSE forecast performance grades, so discussions between students, teachers and parents at the evening were extremely valuable and helped identify the actions that need to be put in place prior to indicative exams in December (3rd-19th).
Mr Goodwin, with the support of ex Woking High School students, Chris Pearce and Shannon Matthews, launched the 2019 Music Tour to Paris to a packed audience of students and parents, on Wednesday evening. The tour will take place from Thursday 18th – Tuesday 23rd July 2019. Information letters were distributed at the meeting and places must be reserved by 5th November.
Full School Council met on Thursday and had a full agenda. Amongst other issues they discussed ways to achieve a litter free site. They also discussed raising the profile of Student Voice at Woking High School, fundraising, charities and Year Council feedback. A lot of useful suggestions were made by the students and we hope that it will be a very exciting year ahead. In addition, it was delightful to welcome our new Year 7 members to the Council, as well as Mrs Wavish (our School Link Governor). Well done to all involved.
As we approach half term (we break at 3.30 p.m. today) we are looking ahead to next half term. The early weeks will focus on Remembrance events. Please may I draw to your attention our annual Remembrance concert to be held on Wednesday 7th November at 6.30 p.m. in St Mary’s Church. In addition to our whole school Remembrance commemoration on Friday 9th November, we have a number of special activities planned to mark the centenary of the end of WWI. These include – WWI Thank You cards, our own British Legion Silent Soldier and most excitingly, the creation of a Poppy river. The DT department have designed poppies which can be personalized by requesting a name to be engraved on the centre of each poppy. The intention is to sell individual poppies at £2 each which can then be engraved to include individual students, families, in memory of a family member, in memory of local soldiers. Each poppy will then be affixed to a wire installation which will be placed in the school grounds as a permanent reminder of the sacrifices made during WWI. If you are interested in purchasing one or more poppies, please see the following details click here. All proceeds will be donated to the British Legion.
May I wish all in the Woking High School family a relaxing half term break and I look forward to seeing Woking High School staff return on Monday 29th October for Inset Day 3 and Woking High School students return on Tuesday 30th October for the second half of the Autumn term.
Best wishes,
Jane Abbott
Headteacher
Reminder regarding roadworks on the Ridgeway starting 5th November
Ridgeway will be a NO THROUGH ROAD from 5th November. This may be for a few weeks depending on the concrete cure time needed. The section between Ridgeway Close and Ridgeway Gardens will be RESIDENT ACCESS ONLY WITH NO PARKING whilst road works are in progress. This is for safety reasons as contractor vehicles will be moving and parking in the area.
For 5th/6th/7th November, pedestrian access to St Andrew’s School will be via Footpath 19 (from Church Road to Ridgeway/ Morton Road) ONLY whilst contractors are working. Children will not be allowed in the road near moving vehicles. Vehicular access to St Andrew’s School and North Lodge may be restricted when that section of road is being resurfaced.
Woking Borough Council, the Emergency Services and Royal Mail have been informed.
The Directors RRAL