INS IDE THIS ED IT ION:

Geographers explore Naples 1, 3

From the Head 2

Bringing Athletics to

Woodlea

4

Year 7 Maths Club 5

Year 8 Maths Masterclass 6-7

BBC School News Report 7

GCSE Geography in Norfolk 8-9

100% pass First Aid Course 9

Barcelona Football Tour 2014

10-11

From Bordeaux to Warlingham

12-13

Primary Science Fair 14

Year 7 Boccia 15

Sixth Form prefects 15

Food Revolution Day 2014 16-17

In the Hot Seat: Alex Oak-Parsons

18-19

Dates for your diary 19

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in a hot and sunny Naples where

once again a passport was lost,

fortunately to be found on the plane

and returned by the Police before

entering Italy! We boarded a coach

to Solfatara; here we experienced

the delights of an atmosphere filled

with sulphur, on a landscape that

looked like the moon, where some

of the students enjoyed an ancient

Roman Sauna. Next stop, the hotel

in Minori and off for one of Mr

Coombe’s legendary treks to

discover the local village

environment.

Day 1 – We explored the Amalfi

Coastline and discussed the impacts

of tourism on the small local fishing

On the 28th March, 36 Warlingham

Sixth Form students embarked on a

traditional Geography trip to Naples.

In the early hours of Friday morning,

Geography A level students were

filled with excitement at the prospect

of luxurious sunshine and Italian

food, not to mention the work! After

meeting at Gatwick Airport and the

possible loss of a passport in the

baggage area, we boarded an

Easyjet flight to Naples. The flight

was smooth until we were about to

land and then, due to turbulence, we

suddenly went straight back up

again. Some of us found it exciting,

whilst others were rather

apprehensive. Eventually, we arrived

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Geographers explore Naples

P A G E 2

Once again, the time has arrived

for many of our students to sit

public examinations. I’m sure

many of our Year 11, 12 and 13

students have been hoping this

time would not arrive! I have to

say that, as I write this, in the

first full week of examinations, I

have been extremely impressed

by the dedication and hard work

of so many students in recent

weeks. A large number of staff

and students were in school

during the Easter holidays

preparing for the exams. And at

the moment, there are revision

sessions going on every day.

Alongside you the parents, our

teachers are fully involved in

supporting, encouraging and

even cajoling your children at

this pressurised time whilst also

trying to find the right balance

between hard work and

relaxation.

for the project so if we are able

to get the decision reversed then

we will be in a position to

proceed with the project. If our

appeal is unsuccessful, we will

continue to look at ways of

improving this particular part of

the school’s facilities, including

further bids for funding later in

the year. Everyone at the school

is determined to achieve the

best possible learning

environment for our students.

In July, Year 10 students will be

taking part in Work Experience

for eight days; I am sure this will

be an interesting and valuable

insight into the world of work for

them. Students in years 7-9 will

be looking forward to Activities

Week from the 7th to the 11th of

July. This week makes an

important contribution to our

“Widening Horizons” ethos. Mr

Seward has organised an

exciting and varied menu of

activities during the week. I’m

sure the next newsletter will

include extensive coverage of

these activities.

As we break up for half term, I

would like to extend our best

wishes to Ms Hilton who left on

May 9th and Ms Wilkins and Ms

Cooper who are leaving on 26th

May, all on Maternity Leave.

I hope you all manage to enjoy

the half-term break and that the

current sunshine continues.

Immediately after the

half-term break,

students from Years 7

-10 will also be

undertaking exams

during School Exam

Week. This time is

very important for

them as it provides

important experience

of formal exams and

an understanding of

how to revise. I am

sure the results of

these exams will

confirm the excellent

progress made this

year.

I wish all our students the very

best of luck over the next few

weeks and, as the now famous

World War II poster declared,

“KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON”.

In the last newsletter, I

mentioned that we had

submitted a bid to the Education

Funding Agency to replace the

SRW huts with a new extension

to ‘C’ Block. Unfortunately, we

have just been informed that our

bid was unsuccessful, largely

due to the fact that there were

3,300 bids totalling over £1,400

million, almost four times the

£394 million allocated for school

improvement projects. We are

appealing against this decision

as we feel our case for

improving the accommodation

for the SRW department is a

very strong one and our bid has

been treated harshly. We were

successful in gaining planning

permission from the local council

P A G E 3 Naples

Pompeii. Up we climbed to the

summit, where we met a guide who

gave us a tour. We all wondered

whether Vesuvius would erupt today,

or tomorrow? After our intrepid

downhill trek it was on to Pompeii

where we investigated the impacts

that a major volcanic event can have

on a civilisation. Refreshment was

then needed at a small local bar where

they served fresh orange juice and

pizza. This was our last day, the

presents had been bought, and we

looked forward to our last evening.

The final day in Italy was sunny and

hot, work had to be done and then it

was down to the beach for a game of

Volleyball and we gathered together

for a final pizza at a sea front

villages of Amalfi, Positano and

Ravello. It was a lovely day; we

worked, we sunbathed, and Mr

Coombes took us on yet another long

walk back down to Minori, where the

views of the coast line and the

traditional ways of life were evident.

Day 2 - This was probably the hardest

day for walking; the sun went in and

the party stuck together in the rather

busy European town of Naples. We

travelled on an Italian train, visited

markets, walked around the Spanish

quarter and browsed the shops in an

expensive shopping street.

Day 3 – We awoke to sunshine and

left in anticipation for the day ahead

and the visits to Vesuvius and

C O N T I N U E D

restaurant. We were then off to the

Airport, with the last of our visits, to

Herculaneum, another ancient Roman

town destroyed by the eruption of

Vesuvius.

It was a fantastic trip, with over a

thousand photographs to remember it

by! Geography is best learnt out in the

field and we were all fortunate that the

weather was great and the location

was superb.

Thanks to Coombsie and Greeny (Mr

Coombes and Mrs Green), Mr Gardner

and Mr Fraser.

P A G E 4

On Wednesday afternoons the

sixth form CSLA students

continue to go out into primary

schools working with young

children. This is a two way

process; our students gain

important coaching and

leadership experience and the

primary children gain intense

support in sporting activities that

would not normally be available

to them.

This term on Wednesday 30th

April and Wednesday 7th May

we visited Woodlea School to

introduce and develop athletics

skills to Year 3 on the 30th

April and Year 2 on the 7th

May.

On the 30th April the

weather was gorgeous and

our sixth formers and Year

3 Woodlea pupils were able

to enjoy the space of The

Glebe – an open expanse

of space near to Woodlea

School. The children thrived

in throwing, running and

jumping activities.

On the 7th May, we were not so

fortunate with the weather and

were confined to the dimensions

of a small school

hall.

Nevertheless

this was a test

to our sixth

formers who

had to adapt to

a much smaller

environment

and alter their

delivery of the

skills

accordingly.

On both occasions the Year 3

and Year 2 had a wonderful time

and made significant progress in

their fundamental skills. We

hope this input will inspire them

to continue in their sporting

interests. My thanks to Liam

Harrower, Sophie Haymes,

James Jenden, Stevie Lawrence

-Wrist, Rebecca Moore, Becky

Moore, Dan Pogson, Harry

Spall, Sandra Tetteh and Harry

Ward from Year 12 who have

blossomed into energetic, keen

and inspiring sports leaders.

Bringing Athletics to Woodlea

P A G E 5 Year 7 Maths Club

number problems! We had five

minutes to complete this round and

believe me, it was hard to complete it

in such a short amount of time. Not

only did we have little time, the

questions were also strenuous. Sadly,

my team didn’t complete them all, but

we still came second.

My team and I found Round Three the

most fun. We had a booklet full of

dingbats and pictures, and we had to

figure out what they were. For

example: one of the pictures was of

some question marks in the sky; my

team figured out that it was a picture

of a “questionnaire” because another

word for the sky is air and there were

question marks in the air. My team

was on a roll by then, because we

won this round as well.

Round Four was “Maths Quickfire”, my

least favourite activity of all! We had

ten minutes to complete ten

questions. The questions were easy

compared to the others in terms of

common-sense; but difficult on the

maths side of it. We won that round as

well!

Round Five - the easiest and last

round - consisted of looking at flags

and identifying the country they belong

to and also the lines of symmetry.

My team, the ‘Whyteleafe Team’ was

the winning team overall and our prize

was a bag of Haribos each.

It was great to get nibbles and sweets

and I also enjoyed spending time with

my friends… and even learning a bit of

maths! I am looking forward to next

week’s club and I hope that I have

inspired some other people to come

along when it is run again in the

future.”

“Once a week on Wednesday, some

students go to a club where you get

challenged to stretch your abilities. We

did maths and looked at codes and

our teacher gave a list of codes to

crack which would give us clues to

who had committed a murder, what

weapon was used and where it

happened. For example, if we

cracked a code it might have revealed

the clue that the number of the room

is a square number.

We worked in pairs so we could get

through the codes more quickly.

There were about six clues and we

were in three groups. Questions One

and Two were about where the

murder took place, Questions Three

and Four were about what the weapon

was; and Questions Five and Six

covered whom the murderer might be.

We found out that the “murderer” was

Mrs Scott, using an oversized text

book in Room Seven.”

In term one the more able year 7s

were invited to attend a maths club for

a series of after-school sessions. Here

are two students’ accounts of their

time at their club

“On Wednesday the more able Year

7s attended a maths club run by Miss

Owens and attended it for the next

seven weeks. It was like a quiz night;

we went around the room to each

table doing the activities that were set

out for us. First of all, we got into four

teams of four and gave ourselves a

team name.

Once we had done that we started

Round One, memorising Pi, one

member of each of the teams was

sent outside with Miss Owens and she

told them Pi and they had to try to

memorise it. One by one they were

sent in and had to recite the digits of

Pi in front of the whole class. Miss

Owens told them how many digits

they got right and at the end, when

everyone had had their go, she

collected in the scores and the highest

scoring person gained three points for

their team and the lowest got one.

Team Whyteleafe (my team) won that

round; the people in Team Whyteleafe

included: Lucie Scott (7H), Sam Coole

(7A), Aidan Kavanagh (7N) and me.

Round Two was maths number

problems. This round involved solving

- as you may have guessed - maths

P A G E 6

lecture was a challenging

subject to grasp but after you

got it you could answer

anything. Firstly, we started on

modulo arithmetic addition. For

example, if we use the 24 hour

clock what time would it be 15

hours after 16:00? (16+15) mod

24 = 7, because the remainder

when 31 (15+16) is divided by

24 (amount of hours on the

clock) is 7.

Then, we studied modulo

multiplication, so instead of

using “x” to multiply they use a

dot “● ” so 11 x 19 = 11 ● 19.

Digital roots was the easiest part

of that lecture. The digital root is

the eventual answer which

results when the digits are

repeatedly added until a single

one remains. For example,

16636 is 4, because

1+6+6+3+6 = 22 then 2+2 = 4.

Lecture 3 and 4

Lecture 3 and 4 we learnt about

programming and how

computers are created. We also

learnt about the creators of

modern technology by studying

various codes used in WW2

including cracking the Enigma

Code! We also decoded a letter

made entirely of random

symbols.

Lecture 5 and 6

For the next two weeks we had

a speaker from the Royal

Institution in London, who funds

these master classes. She

taught us about the effects of

population and disease and how

to write that as an equation. We

looked at how a fire could

Our first week was on

permutations. At first, this

meant absolutely nothing to me,

but it was made a lot simpler

when the lecturer related it to the

Simpsons running on to their

sofa and how many ways there

were to arrange them. Thank

you to Miss Owens for getting

the six of us (Lucy Gutteridge,

James Williams, Rhianna Patel,

William Brown, Harun Ghani,

and me, Daisy Millington) to do a

demonstration in front of the 100

students there!

Keeping it in the theme of

‘keeping it in the family’ (the

Simpsons) we learnt how the

Simpsons should count in base

8, seeing as they only have 8

fingers and how we would count

if we had less fingers.

It was a great way to start what

turned out to be a very helpful

course of lectures.

Lecture 2

Lecture 2 was based on modulo

arithmetic and digital roots. This

Over the course of January to

March, six Year 8 Maths

students attended the University

of Surrey in Guildford each

Saturday morning to participate

in a series of lectures held by

The Royal Institution. Here are

the students’ accounts of their

experiences:

Lecture 1

Lecture theatres, getting lost

and folding seats with mini

tables that your books always

fall off; all part of our first maths

session at the University of

Surrey.

Selected gifted and talented

students in Maths were put

forward, by Miss Owens, to

participate in advanced lessons

at the University of Surrey in

Guildford. The information we

learned would normally be

taught at GCSE, A level, or even

at the university itself. The

course consisted of eight

sessions every week on a

Saturday morning (and, yes, it

was worth the early start).

Year 8 Maths Masterclasses

P A G E 7 Year 8 Maths Masterclasses

This is finding an efficient way of

storing things. There were three

algorithms for this: use the order

given; put biggest in first followed by

the decreasing numbers in the spaces

where they can fit; and lastly match

them up first then put all the left overs

together at the end. Lastly, we talked

about how algorithms - more

specifically “bin packing” - can save

our life from zombies. We had

fourteen vehicles and had to “bin

pack” them onto a ship so that we

could get away from the zombies. If

we wanted to, we could sacrifice our

Maths teacher, yay! Then he let us

go with the words "don't forget to

check if your parents are zombies.”

Lecture 8

During the course of Lecture 8, we

mostly carried on what we did in

Lecture 7. At the end, we had a

special lecture by a famous

mathematician and a presentation

spread in a forest because of certain

conditions such as the forest being

dry, wet etc.

Lecture 7

This week we had a new speaker,

Dan. He was going to be teaching us

about algorithms. Firstly, he showed

us how the algorithms could be

presented in a flow diagram - it was

really simple. However he told us that

we could become really famous if we

could create an algorithm that had

something to do with prime numbers;

we were told that because they follow

no pattern, the computer has to go

through every prime number, which

takes a long time. Secondly, he told

us about Lancton's Ant which followed

an algorithm. Initially, it seemed to

follow no pattern, however when it

was computerised and it reached

around 10,000 steps it suddenly

followed a pattern; it was really cool.

Next we talked about “Bin Packing”.

where we all received a certificate. In

addition, we had a raffle draw and our

very own Daisy Millington won a book

with the number 1.

Overall, the University of Surrey was a

beautiful location for studying the

subject of Mathematics. The lessons

weren’t boring and were easy to

grasp. The lecture theatres were grand

and the lectures have benefited us

immensely.

C O N T I N U E D

‘I loved today! We had so much fun

filming, editing and writing scripts for

the news. It was a very exciting and

(strangely) organised day. By period 3

we had finished the interviews, which

led us on to filming the transitions

during period 4. Period 5 was when

we edited the footage and wrote these

posts. The day overall was packed full

of laughs and learning experiences. If

this happens again (when this

happens again) I'd love to participate

and would say yes within seconds of

being asked.’ Charlotte Faulkes (9H)

The students met their deadline with

time to spare and hopefully they can

mentor next year’s crop of budding

Year 9 journalists.

A selected group of year 9 students

took part in BBC School News Report

on Thursday the 27th of March. They

had spent the Spring term preparing

and then they were given the task of

scripting and recording a news

broadcast in the space of three

lessons only. The students worked

superbly as a team on the day,

following their

deadlines closely.

They had to assign

jobs such as

scripting the

introductions,

filming the

interviews and

updating the

website. Here are

a couple of the

blog posts, summing up the

experience of making the news:

‘We had a great team and worked

together to get through the task before

us efficiently. It was great fun and

helped me develop my communication

skills which will be very much useful in

the future.’ Sonya Gholami (9A)

BBC School News Report

P A G E 8

Shortly after the Easter holidays,

all of Year 10 GCSE Geography

students boarded coaches and

set off for the Norfolk coast for

three days of fieldwork,

Controlled Assessment write-up

and activities. The reason we

went to this particular stretch of

coastline was due to the fact

that it has towns with differing

amounts of protection from

coastal erosion. In the storms of

Autumn 2013, one of the

beaches we visited lost around

20m of cliffs!

In total, there were 113 of us on

the coaches and, after a quick

stop at a service station and a

long sleep on the coach, we

finally arrived at Overstrand Hall,

our “home” for the next two

nights. After a tour of the

centre, we set to work: a

session on the fieldwork

techniques that we would be

using the next day when visiting

the beaches of Norfolk.

The next day we went to four

beaches around Norfolk. The

places we visited were:

Sea Palling – a lovely sandy

beach.

Happisburgh –

which is being

eroded by the

sea at a fast

rate.

Cromer – a

tourist town,

which is being

defended

strongly.

Salthouse – an

SSSI (site of

specific

scientific

interest).

We took

measurements

using all the

techniques we

learnt, and

recorded our results

for coursework. At about 5pm

we returned to Overstrand Hall,

had dinner and got ready for

group activities. My group took

part in abseiling, along with Mrs

GCSE Geographers in Norfolk

P A G E 9 GCSE Geographers in Norfolk

On behalf of the Geography

Department, I’d like to thank all of the

students for their conduct, good

nature and enthusiasm during the trip.

They represented Warlingham School

very well, and this should all lead to

some great coursework results next

year!

Green! It was such fun! Other groups

played Aeroball, Nightline or rope

activities. We were allowed free time

before returning to our rooms and

getting ready to leave the next day.

After breakfast, we finished off with

another activity and left at around

11am. It was an enjoyable trip and I’d

love to go again!”

Now that we’ve all returned back to

normal(?!) lessons, pupils are

completing their Unit 1 content ready

for their End of Year exam after half

term. Once back after this break,

students will be in computer rooms

working on their Controlled

Assessments before they go for Work

Experience.

100% pass First Aid course!

Surrey Training) and regulated by

Ofqual.

The nature of the course was a

combination of theory and practical

which instructed us all on such

important life saving skills as

resuscitation, how to deal with broken

bones, bleeding, choking, heart

attacks, stroke, and asthma.

After a full day’s training, I’m delighted

that not only did all our students pass,

but we now have an even safer

Warlingham community with sixth

formers who are able to administer

Emergency First Aid should the

occasion arise.

On Friday 28th March, the CSLA group

consisting of Liam Harrower, Sophie

Haymes, James Jenden, Stevie

Lawrence-Wrist, Rebecca Moore,

Becky Moore, Dan Pogson, Harry

Spall, Sandra Tetteh, Harry Ward and

Francesca Gregori (non CSLA student)

all took part in a Level 2 Emergency

First Aid at Work Course run by Tina

Marley run by NEST (North East

C O N T I N U E D

P A G E 1 0

Day 1

When we arrived in Barcelona

we took a coach to our first

training session of the five days,

with our trainers, Jordi and Eric.

Our first training session was

tough after our flight to Spain.

Following the training session,

we walked up to our hotel which

was spacious and modern.

After checking in and being

allocated rooms, we went down

to dinner and had a delicious

buffet meal. After a relaxed meal

we all went to bed as we were

all very tired after such a long

day.

Day 2

On the second day we didn't

play any football; however, we

did go to the park in the morning

and got lost in the confusing

maze. Whilst in the park we had

a game of Frisbee and the

champion of both games was

Max Caddell (9N). Then we

went to the Espanyol Stadium

for an interesting tour, where we

learnt about the history of the

club. To complete the day we

went to the historical Nou Camp,

to watch Barcelona convincingly

beat Real Betis 3-1, with Messi

scoring twice. We made our way

back to the coach singing the

“Yaya Toure” song. We then

rushed down to the canteen and

ate lots of scrumptious food

again. After eating, we made our

way to bed with a big day in

store for us on the following day.

Day 3

We got up and made our way to

breakfast, with some early risers

and some very late. We made

sure we had a big breakfast as it

was match day.

Unfortunately a spirited U13’s

side lost 10-1 to a quality local

Spanish team, with Luke Morris

(8N) scoring the only goal.

Then it was the turn of the U14’s

showing class with a brilliant first

half performance winning 5-0

and doing Warlingham proud.

Saint Fost made a determined

second half performance with

Warlingham shading the match

7-5 ,but nevertheless

Warlingham was triumphant .

The goal scorers for the match

were Max Caddell (9N) scoring

an amazing four goals, Nick

Wilson (9N) came in with two

goals and Jacob Spencer (8H)

scored one at the last minute.

Training after the match was

hard because everyone was

tired after the match . It was fun

though, as one of the exercises

was to jump on each other’s

backs and hug each other. After

that we played a match just in

our groups.

Barcelona Football Tour 2014

P A G E 1 1

Robins both converted their penalties.

We were then all awarded our medals.

We then checked out of our hotel

rooms, cramming all of our suitcases

into Mrs Dearden’s room for storage.

Then we made our way to the beach

via the Metro. The beach was great,

the weather was lovely, however the

water was freezing.

Then we changed our focus to going

home - a place we all

missed.

When we eventually

got to the airport,

we walked around

the terminal killing

time until our flight

departure.

We arrived back

safe, everyone was

extremely pleased

to be back with

their families after a

brilliant Barcelona

football tour.

Thank you very much to Mr Ashdown

for organising the tour, to Mr Cole for

stepping in at the last minute, to Mr

Robins for all the team organisation

and to Mrs Dearden for taking all the

pictures and organising the money

whilst we were in Spain.

Day 4

We had an early start at the Espanyol

training ground, with the first of two

training sessions, being very enjoyable

as we were doing lots of shooting

exercises. After the morning session,

we were able to watch some of the

1st team training. They then had a

training match against the reserve

team which was fun to watch! After

they had showered and changed, we

had an opportunity to get autographs.

Lucas got his arms signed and many

of us got our football boots signed as

well as having photos taken with the

players. When it came round to

having our afternoon training session

we did more shooting and a match at

the end, which was a good way to

finish the training session.

Day 5

On the final day, we went to the

Espanyol training ground and had a

fantastic last training session which

included a big penalty shoot-out which

was a lot of fun. Mr Cole and Mr

Barcelona Football Tour 2014 C O N T I N U E D

P A G E 1 2

On the 27th of April, my mum,

my brother and I went to

Gatwick airport to pick up my

two French exchange students,

Killian and Yohan, from

Bordeaux in West France. They

arrived at around midday and we

then drove them back to our

house and showed them their

room and what was where etc.

We then ate and went out for a

walk in the countryside for the

afternoon. After we had returned

from our walk we ate again and

played a board game with them

before they went to bed.

On Monday they came to school

for the first lesson and then went

off to London for the day. When

they returned they said they had

a great day and really enjoyed it.

We then played “Mariokart” and

some more board games.

Then on Tuesday they did not

go to school but went to London

to see some different tourist

areas and The Houses of

Parliament. I went with them that

day with a few others from my

year. It was a fantastic day and I

found it really interesting. We

also saw Trafalgar square,

Buckingham palace, the

changing of the guards and

Leicester square where we did

some shopping. We also rode

on one of London’s double

decker buses, which was

probably one of the highlights for

the French students as in France

there are no double-decker

buses except for a few in Paris.

We then returned at about 6 in

the evening and went home to

eat. Also that evening, Yohan

watched the football match in

which his team (Real Madrid)

destroyed Barcelona, 4-0. And

Killian and I made some French

delicacies from Bordeaux called

Canneles (which were then put

in the fridge overnight).

The next day was unfortunately

my last day with them as I

needed to go on my Silver Duke

of Edinburgh final expedition

from Thursday morning until

Saturday evening. But as usual I

took them to school in the

morning and they came into my

SRW lesson where my class

were very excited to meet them

and talk to them. After that I

took them to a year 12 French

class where they stayed before

going to see the Tower of

London with their group for the

day. At 5 o’clock I went down to

Whyteleafe train station to pick

them up and take them home on

From Bordeaux to Warlingham

P A G E 1 3 From Bordeaux to Warlingham

to assist us. We sat opposite one of

the students for 3 minutes and

attempted to answer the questions

from each topic, and somehow, they

managed to understand our answers!

The following lesson, those of us with

a free decided to stay and continue

practicing our French ‘skills’. It was

great to meet such a lovely group of

people and we were extremely grateful

for their help. Merci beaucoup!

Thank you very much!!

Hi! Our week was fantastic, we really

enjoyed it.

We want to thank all the French and

English teachers for organising this

amazing trip and the families for their

hospitality and their kindness. We also

want to thank the teachers and

students of Warlingham School for

their welcome. We loved your school

and especially your swimming pool!

We enjoyed the trips to London so

much. It is a beautiful and exciting

city. We would have loved the trip to

last longer because it was just so

great. We would love to come back to

be able to discover more of London

and your school. The English

experience was great for us!

Your school has helped us to speak

English very well. Every student was

very nice to us.

The English school system is very

different from the French school

system:

You have more subjects (cooking,

drama, SRW, DT...)

You have uniforms

Your school is bigger and more

beautiful than our school.

We have had a good time.

London is very different from

Bordeaux.

We have seen a lot of monuments

(British Museum, The Globe Theater,

Big Ben...)

Thank you very much to all students

who looked after us during the week,

you are the best! See you soon!

the bus. When at home we played on

the Wii and finished of backing the

Canneles which were delicious! I also

played the Cube board game with

them and packed for my expedition

before saying goodbye to them.

Throughout the few days I was with

them I had a great time and really

enjoyed having them stay. Their

English was outstanding and they

were extremely polite and helpful. I

would love to have them come and

stay again and I have an open

invitation to go and stay with them in

France whenever I like, which I think I

will do at some point in the summer. I

would recommend doing a French

exchange trip to anyone doing French

as it is great fun and a good

opportunity to improve your language

skills.

On the 2nd May, the A-level French

students were joined by a group of

French exchange students for a lesson

of ‘speak dating’. With a speaking

exam the following Friday, we needed

all the help we could get, and the

French students were patient enough

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On Thursday 20th March, Miss

Owens gave us the opportunity

to help out at a Maths / Science

fair at The Hayes Primary

School. This included working

and leading the students of the

primary school (from years 1 to

6) in some activities during which

they would have to use logic and

test their knowledge on

some subjects. Our aim

was to give them a basic

introduction to new topics

e.g. measuring angles,

whilst developing our

leadership skills, all in a fun

environment.

Due to varying audiences

throughout the day, we had

to think on our feet and

make sure that our

activities evolved to suit

and engage the appropriate

age group. Some ages

needed extra motivation so

we awarded

stickers as

a stronger

incentive; this

provided the

students with a

sense of

achievement.

The need to

adapt the

activities

gradually

became more challenging as,

later in the day; the event was

opened up to the parents.

Whilst initial nerves slowed us

down with this dramatic change

in audience, we soon got the

hang of things. It was a very

gratifying way to end the day.

We would like to thank Miss

Cumming, Science Coordinator

at The Hayes, for providing us

with the opportunity to be

involved with the event.

Primary Science Fair

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Raghaven in

the other.

In our first

game

against

Broadwater

we lost 1:5,

however we

knew we

could do

better. In the

following

game we

played The

Park and we

won

amazingly

11:0! Next we

played Sunbury Manor B, we won 5:3

this was an exciting close game.

Next round was against Sunbury

Manor A when we won again 7:3. The

final “Round Robin” game was against

Rodborough with another win to us

8:0.

During lunch we managed to get in

some extra practice as well as trying

our hand at some refereeing. Mrs

Sayers and Mrs Dearden need more

practice, they could definitely learn

some more skills from us!!

In the semi-final we sadly lost against

The Park 6:4, however in the 3rd/4th

play-off game we enjoyed an exciting

game against Rodborough where we

won 12:5 to win Bronze Medals.

We were excited and happy to win 3rd

place and we all enjoyed the day,

especially the Jaffa Cakes we had on

the way home!

Thank you Mrs Dearden and Mrs

Sayers for taking us to the

competition.

We represented Warlingham School at

Leatherhead Leisure Centre in the

Boccia tournament. We had two

teams of three, James Ouch, Jake

Facey and Arslan Ali in one and Grace

Pike, Jacob Gee-Harbury and Ajay

Year 7 Boccia

Head Boy:

Sam Berke

Head Girl:

Sian Smith

Senior Prefects / Deputies:

Lydia Morgan

Chloe Parrett

Stevie Lawrence-Wrist

Daniel German

Daniel Pogson

The team will now set about running

the sixth form committees, organising

whole school events and helping out

at open evenings and other events.

The team will work closely with Mr

Bradwell and Mr Scott (Head of Sixth

Form) to help the smooth running of

the school

Warlingham School is proud to

announce the new student leadership

team. After a process involving letters

of application, interviews and

presentation to the school council, the

following team was elected.

Sixth Form prefects

L-R: Lydia Morgan, Chloe Parrett, Stevie Lawrence-Wrist, Daniel German, Sian Smith, Daniel Pogson and Sam Berke

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Some of our Year 10 students

participated in Food Revolution

Day on Friday May 16th 2014.

Food Revolution Day is a global

day of action to keep cooking

skills alive. It’s about celebrating

the importance of cooking good

food from scratch and raising

awareness of how it impacts our

health and happiness – the

organisers believe that everyone

should know about food and it

starts with getting kids food

smart, making cooking fun and

inspiring a love of food that will

last a lifetime.

Food Revolution Day is a

campaign by the Jamie Oliver

Food Foundation in the UK and

USA, and The Good Foundation

in Australia. At the time of

writing, there were 231,000

participants in 117 countries.

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White cabbage

Natural yoghurt

English mustard

Mint

Vinegar

Parsley

Extra virgin olive oil

The students were also part of a

Guinness World Records™ record

attempt by the Jamie Oliver Food

Foundation to set a new world record:

‘Most participants in a cookery lesson

in 24 hours (multiple venues)’.

"Cooking is, without a doubt, one of

the most important skills a person can

ever learn and share. Once someone

has that knowledge, that's it - they're

set for life." - Jamie Oliver

Our Year 10 Food Technology

students were part of a ‘live’ cooking

lesson, led by Jamie Oliver in their

Food Technology lesson. Following

Jamie’s recipe instructions and live

demonstration on a big screen display

and with support from their teacher,

Miss Powell, they made rainbow salad

wraps using the following ingredients:

Beetroots

Wholemeal tortilla wraps

Carrots

Feta cheese

Food Revolution Day 2014 C O N T I N U E D

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I am delighted to have joined

Warlingham School as the

School Business Manager at the

start of 2014. My husband,

daughter and I relocated from

Buckinghamshire at Christmas

so I could start this job. We

arrived in Surrey just as the wind

and winter storms arrived - it

was something of a shock to us

when every week for a month a

different part of our garden fence

blew down and flew right across

the lawn! Our dog wasn’t that

impressed with her new

neighbourhood either, as she

wasn’t allowed to play in our

muddy, puddled garden or the

waterlogged local park for

weeks and weeks. But now my

family and I can see this was an

unusual weather occurrence, not

just normal life in Surrey! Phew.

Before coming here I worked in

business and in the public

sector. The jobs that I liked most

were as a trainer and project

manager at Deloitte Consulting

and the PCS trade union, as a

strategic manager at the London

Borough of Havering Children’s

Services Directorate and most

recently as a School Business

Manager in Ealing. I particularly

enjoyed working on project

management, change

management and developing

teams.

My job here is to be part of the

school’s Senior Leadership

team, helping us use our funding

to ensure Warlingham is a great

school in which to learn, teach

and work. I do this by planning

how we buy what we need to be

an excellent learning

environment, how we employ

and manage our staff and how

we make best use of the school

site, keeping it safe for everyone.

This term and next term I will be

bringing a new focus to how we

manage and improve our school

buildings and grounds, how we

structure our school budget and

keep our spending on track,

how we interact with the

suppliers who provide us with

goods and services and how we

choose and manage the

organisations that are under

contract to work with us. I also

want to develop how we make

best use of the staff who

support the running of the

school. If you imagine the school

as a living creature, our teachers

are the backbone of the school

but our support staff make up

the rest of the skeleton! They are

vital to the functioning of the

school. On this note I would like

to say that I feel very lucky to

work with my team, who are

highly effective, and I am

thankful for their support while I

settle into my role.

As an analytical person I find

myself here every day watching

and listening, reading and

counting… which helps me learn

from the best of what we already

do. And as I study other schools

across England I find examples

of good practice that we can

Alex Oak-Parsons

School Business Manager

P A G E 1 9 In the hot seat...

place positive changes; changes that

will help us continue to do a great job

of educating Warlingham School’s

students. “Widening Horizons Raising

Aspirations” is a wonderful purpose for

a school community to embrace. I am

proud to be on board. adapt to our school’s needs. I think

the skills I have equip me to spot

opportunities for improvement in

Monday 2nd June 2014 Years 7-10 Exam Week

Wednesday 11th June 2014 Year 12 timetable resumes

Thursday 12th June 2014 Parents’ Workshop (7pm)

Friday 20th June 2014 INSET (In-Service Training) Day 5 Year 11 Leavers’ Ball

Thursday 26th - Friday 27th June 2014 Year 11 into Year 12 Induction Days

Tuesday 1st - Wednesday 2nd July 2014 Year 6 into Year 7 Induction Days

Wednesday 2nd July 2014 Year 6 into Year 7 Parents’ Evening

Saturday 5th July 2014 Uniform Sale (10.30am - 12.30pm)

Monday 7th - Tuesday 8th July 2014 Year 12 Work Shadowing

Monday 7th - Friday 11th July 2014 Years 7-9 Activities Week

Monday 7th - Wednesday 16th July 2014 Year 10 Work Experience

Wednesday 9th - Friday 11th July 2014 Year 12 UCAS / Preparing for Work

Monday 14th - Friday 18th July 2014 Year 7 and Year 8 Progress Review Week

Tuesday 15th July 2014 Sports’ Day

Wednesday 16th July 2014 Reserve Sports’ Day

Thursday 17th - Sunday 20th July 2014 School Show

Friday 18th July 2014 Year 7 and Year 8 Reports Home House Achievement Assemblies

Monday 21st July 2014 Mallory & Sharman Prizegiving ceremonies

Tuesday 22nd July 2014 Chichester & Johnson Prizegiving ceremonies

Wednesday 23rd July 2014 Last day of Summer Term Early closure at 1.30pm

running our school and will help me

work with the rest of the Senior

Leadership team to plan and put into

Dates for your diary

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