Dear Parents/Carers,
There is masses to
celebrate this week as our students have been in sparkling form.
Over the last two
months, the Computing Department at Woking High School has joined other schools
in taking part of the Digital Schoolhouse E-Sport Tournament playing the Overwatch
computer game. Over 60 students have competed to date. A team of Year 10 boys (has
won the school title, and will be competing at the regional qualifiers, which
will be taking place on 26th March in Stratford – London. If they
are successful, then they will be competing in the UK national final on 10th
April.
During last weekend our
Year 10 Girls Basketball team became County champions beating Harris Academy
Crystal Palace 42 – 23. The game was much closer than the score line suggested
with all girls contributing to the success.
On Sunday at the British
Schools Biathlon Championships at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre our
Under 15 boys’ team were in outstanding form, winning the British Schools
Biathlon for the second consecutive year. All four Under 15 boys recorded
considerable personal bests in both runs and swims. The team consisted of Josh
Thompson, Michael Young and Alexej Baldwin but were well supported by Steven
Wood. Please see results below:
British Schools Biathlon
Under 15 Boys Team
Results:
1st
Woking High
6746
2nd
Strathallan
School
5201
3rd
Campion
School
5082
Individual Results (Top
20 only):
Under 15
Boys Joshua
Thompson 5th
Under 15
Boys Michael
Young 8th
Under 15
Boys Alexej
Baldwin 11th
Under 15
Boys Steven
Wood
14th
Under 12
Girls Bella
Hornzee
17th
On Tuesday Our Year 7
Girls competed at the County Finals at Guildford Spectrum all of the team
performed superbly. There were eleven schools competing our girls finished
agonisingly in second place. Please see top three team results below :
1st
Howard of Effingham
468
2nd
Woking
High
457
3rd
Rodborough
455
Also over the weekend,
brothers Chris (Year 11) and Marin Somlev (Year 7) represented the school at
the British Schools Judo championships in Sheffield at the English Institute of
Sport. Both performed extremely well with Martin winning Bronze in the Under 15
55kg category and Chris in ninth place in the Under 16 66kg category.
On Thursday our Year 7
Girls Basketball team became County Champions winning all three games in the
process.
Please see scores below:
Won 7 - 4 v George
Abbott
Won 19 - 4 v Teddington
Won 20 - 0 v Howard of
Effingham
This caps an outstanding
season where the girls remain unbeaten.
Following the success of
our Vocal, Instrumental, Solo and Ensemble competition last week, several of
our outstanding musicians performed for all 270 children and staff at The Horsell
Village School on Tuesday morning. A request for live music had been made some
weeks ago by Miss Newman, their Music Coordinator, and we were happy to oblige
by sending recent participants of the school’s annual music competition to
inspire and entertain the enthusiastic infants. Instrumental performances
included Nona Lawrence on violin, Meghan Amin on the flute, Leanne Seet on the
piano and a particularly notable piano solo by Kia Westaway, whose mum works at
The Village School and was able to hear Kia play this technically challenging
piece. Two very engaging theatrical vocal solos were given by Phoebe Osborne
and Lois Miller, but Karl Sonoy and Madeleine McClements reduced some staff to
tears with a hauntingly beautiful rendition of ‘Never Enough’ from The Greatest
Showman. This was a lovely opportunity to showcase musical talent and also to
provide our own students with additional experience in live performance. Thank
you to Fiona Godden from Surrey Arts for joining us to accompany the students
on the piano.
Later that afternoon we had 30 very
keen bakers take part in the Year 9 round of the “Bake Off” and the standard
was extremely high! However, just like last week Curie were the winning
House gaining 500 housepoints for their amazing bakes!!!
House Team Results:
1st
Curie (500)
2nd
Faraday(200)
3rd
Stephenson(100)
4th
Brunel (50)
Individual winners:
Callum Bright and Dylan Gubb (8W) (50)
Lily Hallam
and Amy Rolfe (8Y) (50)
Our Year 7 cohort had
the opportunity to meet with author Julie Sykes on Thursday 21st March.
Julie enthused the Year 7 students during her interactive talk about her books.
Our students had so many questions to ask her that Julie was overwhelmed by
their passion. Julie was impressed by our students’ behaviour and their
enthusiasm for reading and writing, and stressed that this enthusiasm went
above and beyond in her experience of visiting secondary schools.
Thursday evening was a
buzz of activity as Year 8 parents and students attended the Year 8
Consultation Evening. Consultation evenings are an important part of our
communication with parents, so it was particularly pleasing to see that 86% of
parents attended to speak to teachers about the students’ progress. Parents who
were unable to attend will be contacted by the pastoral team to arrange another
time to discuss progress of their son or daughter.
Congratulations to
Stephanie Maties who passed her Grade 6 clarinet exam with a merit.
Please see attached a
flyer announcing the forthcoming Woking Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert on
March 23rd. Of particular interest there will also be a
pre-concert talk about the music by our Conductor, Roy Stratford, at 6.45 p.m.
before the concert begins, which is available to all ticket-holders.
Best wishes,
Jane Abbott
Headteacher