The Full School Assembly: It’s nearly time! You may remember our bulletin on the 29 th June going into some detail about the Full School Assembly, and our highly valued traditions that are celebrated on this occasion. (Remember, you can access previous family bulletins by using the link below.) The Full School Assembly to close the year will take place on Friday, 17 th July at 11am. The link will be emailed to all families beforehand, and will also be available on Twitter, so please do join us! Please note, the link will not work until 11am on Friday, when the assembly starts. Family WHS Bulletins A Celebration of Reading There is nothing like a fresh coat of paint to celebrate a fresh start! At Wales, we wanted to make sure the school is as welcoming and bright as possible when all students return. You might remember that, a few weeks ago, we invited all our families, staff, and students to be involved in a community vote for our best-loved and most influential books. We are delighted to now be able to share with you our final artwork, which students may well have seen as they visited school over the past few weeks. Please see the next page for the full list of winning books and a close-up of the fabulous artwork! Congratulations to our New Head Prefects! After an impressive and hard-fought campaign, where all candidates demonstrated their exemplary maturity, foresight and talent, our democratic process led to the appointment of Wales’s new Head Prefects. Congratulations to Eve and Alex and well done to all involved. With such fantastic students representing our school, the future looks bright indeed. See them receiving the news here: Head Prefects Hearing the News!
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The Full School Assembly: It’s nearly time!
You may remember our bulletin on the 29th June going into some detail about the Full
School Assembly, and our highly valued traditions that are celebrated on this occasion.
(Remember, you can access previous family bulletins by using the link below.) The Full
School Assembly to close the year will take place on Friday, 17th July at 11am. The link
will be emailed to all families beforehand, and will also be available on Twitter, so
please do join us! Please note, the link will not work until 11am on Friday, when the
assembly starts.
Family WHS Bulletins
A Celebration of Reading
There is nothing like a fresh coat of paint to celebrate a fresh start! At
Wales, we wanted to make sure the school is as welcoming and
bright as possible when all students return. You might remember
that, a few weeks ago, we invited all our families, staff, and students
to be involved in a community vote for our best-loved and most
influential books. We are delighted to now be able to share with you
our final artwork, which students may well have seen as they visited
school over the past few weeks. Please see the next page for the full
list of winning books and a close-up of the fabulous artwork!
Not got a printer? Don’t worry! Just make a note of what you have read over the summer, with your name on,
and hand it to your tutor on the first day back. You can keep the record on your phone if you like.
The Y9 Book Club
recommends
Undeterred by lockdown interrupting our Y9 Book Club meeting, we have been sharing recommendations and reviews on our Teams Book Club. Here are some recommendations that students have shared:
Wales High School
BIG QUIZ!
Although this has, to say the
least, been a very unusual school
year, we have successfully delivered a programme of online schooling to our students and we would like to
celebrate the wonderful learning that has taken place. We would therefore like to make you aware of the
Wales High School BIG QUIZ, which will be taking place in the final week of term.
What is it?
• The Big Quiz will be a quiz that covers all subjects, allowing you to challenge
yourself to see what you can remember from across the year!
• There will be a separate quiz for Year 7, Year 8, Year 9 and Year 10.
How will it work?
• On Wednesday, 15th July, your Head of Year will
send an email with a link to the quiz and instructions on
how to join. The deadline to complete it will be 5pm on
Thursday, 16th July.
• When you do the quiz, you will see your place on
the score board, but the results will not be final until
the closing time.
• Winners will receive a prize from the school in the
post. A great way to start the summer holidays!
Year Group Notices
Returning to School in September
To ensure a safe return of all students in September, we will operate a slightly different staggered start to the
year. Please see below for the return date for each year group:
• Wednesday 2nd September: Y7, Y12 and Y13
• Thursday 3rd September: Y7, Y10, Y11, Y12 and Y13
• Friday 4th September: Full school return
School will start at 8.30am for all year groups apart from Y12 and Y13, who will be contacted by the Sixth Form
Team.
Year 9
• In English, our Y10 students will be studying the play ‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare when they return in September. This play is a key exam text for GCSE English Literature and will be studied throughout KS4.
• In order to help your child learn effectively, we would like every student to purchase their own copy of this play. Doing this will enable them to annotate their copy during lessons, which will in turn facilitate more personalised and focused revision at KS4.
• Our recommended version is the Oxford School Shakespeare ‘Macbeth’, ISBN-10: 0198324006.
• Student copies can be bought from a good bookshop, or by ordering online. Please have your copy by September. If families are unable to purchase a copy for financial reasons, please contact Mrs. Ellin, Head of English, on [email protected].
Year 11
• Further information regarding Results Day will be emailed to you during this week. Please check your emails for important updates.
• At least one week prior to Results Day, if you are wishing to continue at Wales High School in our Sixth Form and you have registered your interest, then you will receive an appointment date and time via email. Please confirm with your interviewer that you can attend. We are hoping to cover these on Results Day and the few days following this.
• Please could all prospective Sixth Formers reply to the email sent regarding options?
Year 12
• Progression Interviews: All students should have received a date and time for a progression interview. These should take place during this week and it is essential that students attend to secure discuss their progression into Y13. Alternative arrangements can be made for those not wishing to travel into school. If you have not received an email with your date and time, please contact Mrs. Hemming on [email protected].
The Annual Sports Ball took place on the scheduled date of Friday 3rd July 2020 but in a very different format to what we were expecting. The P.E department were expecting to be under the spotlight at Magna, announcing the winners for 2020, whilst students and families enjoyed a three-course meal and an evening of entertainment. However, we went
ahead this year with a twist! Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we decided to record our students’ efforts on the first ever virtual Sports Ball. We thoroughly enjoyed putting this together as a team over phone calls and Teams meetings, particularly because it allowed us to talk about so many great memories and students this year. To say we had a shortened year makes our successes even more fulfilling. A massive well done and thank you to all of our students across Key Stages 3, 4 and 5 who participated in extra-curricular sport this academic year. Across over 10 different sports, our students participated in over 120 extra-curricular fixtures, with approximately
300 students participating. We genuinely hope this is the last virtual Sports Ball we ever have to do, and we cannot wait to get back playing sport as soon as it is safe to do so. See the video links below for some live footage of students receiving trophies, as well as a link to the full recorded event. A list of the main award winners: