West London Free School Secondary

Year 9 visiting the Ceramics and Glass section of the Victoria and Albert Museum to get inspiration for their current Clay project.

Six students from Years 11 and 12 took part in a Chess Tournament at Hammersmith Academy earlier this month. Unfortunately, despite a very solid performance, including a win against Hammersmith Academy, we did not qualify for the regional tournament.

We are so grateful to parent Alison who has combined a very demanding job with running an extremely efficient second-hand uniform operation for the school. Alison has streamlined, sewn on buttons, made everything beautiful and sustainable and helped out so many parents and pupils with uniform.

Here’s Alison with PTA Treasurer Fiona organising another uniform sale.

The Annual (pre-recorded) Autumn Concert featuring performances from choirs in Years 7-13, including all of Year 7, will be streamed on YouTube and sent to members of WLFS community via private link on Thursday 19 October at 6pm. The performances promise to be exciting, poignant, and very well sung by our students.

The WLFS Diploma winners from last year went to Thorpe Park for their day of enrichment. We enjoyed hearing about the thrills and spills of the day’s events.

Thank you to all of those involved in the Language Poetry event for Languages' Day on the 26th September. It was fantastic to hear poems from all over the world!

The winner was Heeyab who read an Eritrean poem in Tigrinya!!! Prize to follow very soon

Well Done to everyone! What a brilliant way to celebrate literacy from around the world!

Lovely vivid multi media art from Year 8 with personal responses to Frieda Kahlo sketches. Well done Freya, Lana and Defne!

We invite pupils to join us at lunchtime tomorrow to perform a poem or lyrics to a song in another language. It can be a language they study at school or a home language.

Members of Year 7 got to enjoy a lunchtime concert given by the London Symphony Orchestra on Friday.

We have a number of exciting positions available at West London Free School including:
- Head of Modern Foreign Languages
- SENDCo

To find out more and to apply, please visit: https://www.wlfs.org/Vacancies/

Don't miss the opportunity to apply!

West London Free School

Congratulations to everyone who received their GCSE results today! We are pleased so many of our pupils will be going to West London Free School Sixth Form

Pupils score top grades again at the West London Free School bucking the national trend.

For more information about our results please visit: https://www.wlfs.org/About/GCSE-Results-2023/

Don’t miss the opportunity to apply for this unique position!

Our Music Department is seeking a Curriculum Resource Developer to work as part of our team for the academic year 2023-24. The main focus of the role will be supporting the department in the developing of our curriculum to be published on the Oak National Academy platform from 2024.

For more information and to apply please visit: https://www.wlfs.org/Vacancies

Application deadline is Sunday 20th August.

Teaching Staff Vacancies Vacancies

House tug of war...
🟢 Athenians
🔵 Corinthians
🟡 Olympians
🔴 Spartans
Which house do you think won?

Activities Week 2023 was a roaring success. The pupils actively engaged with the tasks in front of them, the staff running the trips and their peers. Whether they were swinging from a harness on a bridge at ‘Go-Ape’ or back or admiring sculptures in a park, the pupils were perfect ambassadors of WLFS!

Exciting opportunities at the Trust! ⬇️

Vacancies Please see our school websites for otherjob opportunities within the Trust.

A group of Year 8 pupils got to visit the Royal Institution of Great Britain where they extracted DNA from their cheek cells and then made ‘gene jewellery’. Another group had a go at building and crashing vehicles, with the aim of keeping their egg passenger alive.

Thank you to everyone who came and supported the WLFS Art Exhibition 2023! We had a wonderful time seeing all the amazing work from this last year being showcased. Well done to everyone! 👏

Join our Knowledge Schools Trust team! ⬇️

Vacancies Please see our school websites for otherjob opportunities within the Trust.

Our Carnegie Shadowers were delighted that won the Shadowers Choice Medal for Writing at the The Yoto Carnegies ceremony! streamed ‘live’ in the library.

Pupils awaited eagerly as author, Ravena Guron, signed their copies of .

Year 10 Geographers field sketching at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

WLFS Presents The Sound of Music! Shows are at Latymer Upper School's Theatre on Tuesday 11 July at 1:30pm and 6pm, and Wednesday 12 July at 6pm. Tickets are £10 and can be purchased with the link below. Get your tickets now so you don't miss out!
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/westlondonfreeschool

We invite all families to join us for the WLFS Summer Fair on Friday!

You are all cordially invited to the Art Show on Friday 23rd June 5-7pm - it would be great to see you there. There will be a selection of work from all year groups, plus refreshments.

WLFS pupils on their Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award Expedition.

During May half-term Noah (Y9) completed the Volunteering Activity required for his Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) Bronze Award by walking some 33,000 steps up (and down) Ben Nevis (Britain's highest mountain). It even involved another night camping on-site! His aim to raise £540 to provide one month's accommodation for a vulnerable young person with the charity Centre Point has now raised over £1000, so he will donate enough for two months. Good job Noah!

Noah was one of many WLFS Year 9 students who decided to participate in getting their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award this year and the DofE website have recorded their highest number of young people starting their DofE with over 323,000 (29.9% of 14 year olds).

Thanks to the PTA, Ravena Guron, author of YA thriller THIS BOOK KILLS and is visiting WLFS on Friday 23rd June!

Parents can pre-order Ravena’s books on ParentPay (deadline 13th June), to be collected by pupils and signed by the author, on the day.

Thank you so much to Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands for hosting us. The visit illustrated what a multi-faceted industry architecture is and provided an excellent opportunity for the pupils to see what goes on in an architecture firm and the variety of projects going on.

Our very own Year 7 music scholars are featured in a new song 'Flying Swimming Dredging' by August Cooke. Thank you to Mrs Smith, who led the singers, and to Mr Higginbottom, who used to teach drums at WLFS, for getting our scholars involved.

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You may hear some familiar voices!

Premiere: August Cooke – Flying Swimming Dredging Under the moniker of August Cooke, listen to the debut single from London-based cellist, singer and composer George Cooke.

Year 9 drawing in Ravenscourt Park for The Urban Landscape project.

Year 11 Geographers collecting data on infiltration rates as part of the their physical Geography fieldwork!

Well done to the six teams who represented us at the QPR Schools League Finals and to everyone who competed at the Hammersmith and Fulham Borough athletics competitions! We had a fantastic day at both events and took home some trophies! 🏆

Some work from Year 11 concluding their projects. Well done to all Year 11!

Last Friday evening the WLFS orchestra joined forces with Mr Watkins’s Inner Voices, a London based youth choir that includes several WLFS pupils. The result was a spectacular performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria at St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge.