The Wavell School

What is Art? ..and what careers can it lead to? Some fantastic pieces of work by our creative Year 7 students showing there's more to Art than just painting!

On Saturday Alex Cookson Y11 competed in the Diving Competition representing the School in the Seniors Age Group. He will now be going on to the London Aquatic Centre in December to compete against the other regions in the National Competition. We wish him the best of luck!

The face you pull when you battle to a 1-0 win- in extra time- in the Year 8 County Cup!😄 Well done boys, on to the next round!

Year 11 had a fantastic time at Thorpe Park Fright Night on Friday. It was wonderful to finally get together as a Year Group for some well earned fun...and frights!👻🎃💀

Congratulations to these Year 7 students who volunteered themselves to represent the school in a District X-Country friendly at Farnborough Hill. Some very speedy performances amongst them.🏃🏽‍♂️💨

14 students spent the day in London yesterday watching England Netball beat Uganda to seal a 3-0 series victory. With England Women's Rugby & England Men's & Women's Football on the agenda for 2023, stay tuned for more exciting trip opportunities! 🎟️

Our wonderful Student Ambassadors helped Year 6 children and their families gain a real feel for the School during yesterday's Open Evening. We wish everyone well with their applications and look forward to meeting you again next year at our Induction Days. Admission details can be found on our website https://www.wavellschool.org.uk/About/Admissions/

Congratulations to Ms Mitchell's Y10 French Class for coming 2nd in the thisislanguage.com Global Rankings last week and to Oscar and Alex for appearing on the individual leaderboard in 1st and 8th places! 🎉🇫🇷

Many congratulations to Keenan for completing the HEON (Higher Education Outreach Network) survey and then being drawn as the lucky winner of a £50 Amazon voucher. He's planning on buying some new headphones!

Continuing a tremendous fortnight of results the Yr8 boys had a 7-0 win at Frogmore last night whilst the U16 Girls won 10-4 v Ash Manor. A fantastic evening of football. Follow our PE Twitter Feed for all details and updates https://twitter.com/Wavell_PE

Cornflake and Jam Tarts were on the menu for week 2 of Cookery Club. They look great! 🥧😋

Year 7 have made some wonderfully creative 3D cells for their Science homework, made from all sorts of materials including wool, Lego and even chocolate! We are very impressed, a lot of thought has obviously gone into them!🤩

The girls were on top form last night with the U13 footballers scoring an incredible number of goals to win their match ⚽️whilst the Year 10s came 3rd in the District Netball Tournament🏀. Well done all 🤩

Year 9 students have been learning about and practising life-saving CPR skills during their PSHE lesson today.

A group of Year 8 keen readers have been selected for possible literacy leadership roles as they progress through school. The 'Reading Champions' meet regularly in the library at break time and will be ‘championing reading’ to reluctant readers in Year 7 through displays, talking to them in tutor time and assemblies.

Every week our fantastic Year 10 Literacy Leaders teach Year 7 aspects of SPaG during one Tutor registration time. This week they focussed on ‘There, Their and They’re'. https://www.wavellschool.org.uk/English/Literacy-Leaders/

This week we welcomed local colleges and training providers into school to 'kick- start' the Year 11's research on their post-16 options.
Students had the opportunity to speak to representatives from the Army, Pulse Training Academy, ASK Apprenticeship Providers, Farnborough Sixth Form College, FCoT, BCoT and Activate Learning.
We were also joined by Kelly Wales from RFEA who can offer support to our military families.

Information on Open Days, Apprenticeship opportunities and college deadlines can be found on our website https://www.wavellschool.org.uk/Student-Zone/Careers/

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A busy sporting evening yesterday with great results. The U13 Girls Football hit 9 v Alderwood and the Year 9 boys also ran out 7-2 winners against a spirited Alderwood side. ⚽️⚽️ Meanwhile we had over 60 girls and boys at Netball Club!🏀

We invite prospective students and their parents/carers to our Open Evening which is being held on Thursday 6th October 2022 from 4.30pm. For more details visit our website https://bit.ly/WavellOpenEvening22

We were very excited to start up a new club for Year 9 students this week. The Special FX Club enables students to practise and learn creative theatrical make-up skills. Well done all, this looks great fun!

Badminton Club has continued to go from strength to strength, becoming a very popular session. The Club is held on Mondays after school in the Sports Hall. We look forward to welcoming as many Year 7-11 students as possible in the coming weeks.🏸

Our students took part in fun quizzes to celebrate yesterday's European Day of Languages. Test your knowledge on languages and customs here...https://www.wavellschool.org.uk/docs/Temp/Languages_Quiz22.pdf

Year 7 & 8 students produced some delicious Chocolate Cracknell during their first week of Cookery Club yesterday. We look forward to seeing what else you create during the coming weeks! 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳

Proudly sporting their medals and certificates, the Year 11 Netball team were winners of their Pool yesterday at the District Tournament! Brilliant effort, wonderful attitudes & happy smiles; a successful day! Well done ladies. 👏🏐

We would like to invite you to join us for a Service of Commemoration for her late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II to be held at the Royal Garrison Church of All Saints, Aldershot from 4pm to 5pm on Sunday 18 September.
The special civic service, organised by the council and the Aldershot Garrison, will celebrate the life and remarkable service given by The Queen to the country with readings and music.
The service will be attended by the Mayor of Rushmoor, military representatives, representatives from Rushmoor Borough Council and the Member of Parliament for Aldershot.
Everyone is very welcome to attend, but please be aware that numbers will be limited to 1200 inside the church.
If you would like to attend, we would recommend walking up to the church. There will also be security checks at the entrance. Please don’t bring any large bags, and if you do bring a bag, be prepared for it to be searched.
Full details are available on our website: www.rushmoor.gov.uk/serviceofcommemoration

We're on a roll! ...After a first half to forget, the Yr9 boys stepped it up in the final 20mins to claw themselves back from 0-1 down to win 2-1 & progress in the Hants Schools FA Cup at Thornden on Wednesday.
Our U13 girls also had a fantastic start to the season yesterday, scoring 7 goals to be comfortable winners in their first match against Fernhill. Great team efforts, well done all!⚽️⚽️

We invite prospective students and their parents/carers to our Open Evening which is being held on Thursday 6th October 2022 from 4.30pm. For more details visit our website https://bit.ly/WavellOpenEvening22

Another victory, this time for the Year 8 boys! After trailing 2-1 at one point, they turned it all around to claim a 2-4 victory at Courtmoor yesterday. Well done yellows!

A good start for the Year 9 boys away at Kings last night registering a 5-0 win in their opening league game whilst the Year 7 boys put up a real fight against Salesian in their debut match losing 3-2. Well done all ⚽️⚽️

Queen Elizabeth II

Remembering the Queen:
The whole school held a 2 minute silence this morning following an extended tutor time during which we shared a presentation on the life of Queen Elizabeth II in order to begin a period of mourning and commemoration of her life. We will be marking her death in various ways over the coming weeks as guided by DfE and the Government.

Queen Elizabeth II 21st April 1926 - 8th September 2022

On behalf of all Wavell students, staff and governors we offer deepest sympathies to the Royal Family on the death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, our much loved and longest reigning Monarch.

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Congratulations to all our students!
A fantastic set of results!
We are very proud of you all!
Well done!

A group of lucky Wavell students witnessed history in the making this evening! European Champions! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🎉🏆🦁

Pioneers of Tomorrow

On the first day of the Summer holidays last week a group of 40 Wavell students and staff attended an inspirational 'Pioneers of Tomorrow' Day at Farnborough Airshow 2022. Read more...

Pioneers of Tomorrow Pioneers of Tomorrow at Farnborough Airshow 2022

Congratulations to Ignis, this year's House Cup Winners!🔥 Housepoint totals can be found on the website https://wavellschool.org.uk/Student-Zone/Houses/

This term's newsletter, The Wave, which includes a letter from the Headteacher along with a round-up of news and information is now online https://wavellschool.org.uk/NewsandEvents/The-Wave/ We wish you all a wonderful Summer!

Prize Giving 2022

Congratulations to all of our our students who received prizes for their outstanding achievements at last week's Prize Giving. We were also delighted to have former Wavell Student, Heather Selley, as our virtual Guest Speaker. Read more on our website...

Prize Giving 2022 We were delighted last week, on 14th July 2022, to at last be able to celebrate a face-to-face Prize Giving.