Writhlington School

CREATING OPPORTUNITY. INSPIRING ACHIEVEMENT.

Visit our Sixth Form open evening to explore the many opportunities that Writhlington Sixth has to offer.

We commence a new term of Word of the Week with a Writhlington School value: Ambition

Attempt to be ambitious in your lessons this week and use the word creatively for a Go the Extra Mile award.

Students and staff were welcomed by blissful scenes on the field this morning. What a way to start the new term!

Our Sixth Formers are prepped and ready for adventure as they set off on their Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Trip to the Brecon Beacons! We're sure they'll have a fantastic time.

Year 7 were visited by a group of instrumentalists for the first of four workshops about the musical instrument families.

The woodwind musicians shared information about their instruments and played a number of pieces. The session finished with a Q&A during which the students posed some great questions!

The final Word of the Week for this term is 'cogitation'.

Our Writhlington Year 12 scientists have been examining red blood cells in A Level Biology this week.

A Level English Literature reading Tennessee Williams' classic play A Streetcar Named Desire.

Word of the Week: Placate

We invite you to read Mr Howard’s letter regarding our recent Ofsted visit.

04.10.23 Ofsted Feedback to parents KHA.pdf

A reminder that today is a non-uniform day.

Only two more days before the School of Rock auditions! 🎸🎤🥁

Auditions will be taking place on Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th October in the theatre after school.

Come and see Mr Cooper if you can't make those times to arrange an audition during the school day.

Audition songs:
Lead male roles: When I climb to the top of mount rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HClKUBTlUWo
Lead female roles: Where did the rock go?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpbKPo8AmIY
Ensemble roles: Stick it to the man!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5JAQGUyIPE

Word of the Week: Accomplish

Creative use of the word in lessons will earn you additional GEMs!

Year 9 had their first taste of life as a Writhlington cadet at induction camp. The cadets engaged in an array of activities, learning valuable skills and working as a team. Their conduct was excellent and the enthusiasm with which they approached new tasks was commendable.

Word of the Week: Myriad

Students in 10 D on the yellow pathway have made an excellent start to their ASDAN short Gardening course and have been busy this week tidying up the SEN garden.

In order to enhance the delivery of this course we are kindly asking for donations for the following items:

Old pillows/ cushions - to kneel on
Old brushes - to sweep with
Garden tools
Old wellies
Top soil/ compost
Bulbs
Seeds
Seed trays
Flower pots
Watering cans
baskets or buckets to collect our produce.

Donations can be handed to CO24 or reception and will be gratefully received.

Thank you,
Miss B and 10 D

The Word of the Week is 'ebullient'

As always, Go the Extra Mile awards will be given for creative use of the word in lessons and will most definitely put your teacher in an ebullient mood!

For those that may have missed it, here is this term's Sports Club Timetable.

There is plenty going on, with something for everyone, so be sure to get involved!

If you have any secondhand school uniform at home that is no longer required please consider donating it to our Bring/Buy/Swap shop.

Any and all uniform is gladly received and can be handed to main reception.

Details on how to use the service will follow once a selection of uniform is available.

Year 9 have been learning how to prepare Japanese cuisine with these delicious looking sushi rolls!

It has been a terrific first week to the new academic year. Our new cohort of year 7s have hit the ground running and have begun their first phase of secondary school life with positivity and drive.

Equally, it has been wonderful to see all other year groups return after summer fresh faced and focused, ready for all that the coming year brings.

Writhlington sixth formers are straight back into the swing of study and working hard in the sixth form centre.

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Writhlington School is delighted to be celebrating a fantastic set of results by its students in their GCSE exams this summer. We are incredibly proud of all our students who have put in so much hard work. The students have achieved 77% at grade 9 - 4 in English and 71% at grade 9 - 4 in Maths. We can also see that our students have made great progress since joining the school with many students achieving top grades in the 9 - 7 range across all subjects in the school.

As always there were many exceptional performances from individual students, among those with impressive performances achieving all top end grades in the range 9 to 7 are: Anna B, Illia B, Jeremy B, Eden C, Jack M and Florence M.

As well as achieving top grades this year many of our Year 11 students have made significant progress from their starting point and exceeded their target grades as a result of hard work. There are too many to mention but to name a few of our top performers in terms of progress: Evie L, Barnaby T, Iris S, Lauren B, Shannon B, Tilly A, Molly B and Sam M. We want to congratulate all of our students on a brilliant set of results that shows excellent progress .

Keith Howard, the Headteacher said: “We are immensely proud of all the work and achievements of our students, especially after such a difficult and disrupted period during their secondary education. Exams this year have been graded differently to previous years and I am delighted to see so many students excelling. Our teachers have worked tirelessly in school to ensure our students are all able to progress onto further education and study, and we look forward to seeing what they will achieve in the future.

They have been an excellent year group who have done all that we have asked of them and done themselves, their parents and Writhlington School proud with their achievements. We’re grateful for all the parental support we’ve had in supporting them. On behalf of all the staff, we wish them every success on the next stage of their journey.

We look forward to welcoming many of our Year 11 students into our Sixth Form in September and wish those that are continuing their journey at college or onto an apprenticeship the very best of luck.

Congratulations to all of our sixth form students. This year’s exam results are a testament to your commitment and dedication to your studies.

We wish you every success on the next step of your journey, at university or in employment.

Final day of the France trip and a trip to Parc de Prince - the home of PSG!

Lovely week for a donkey ride in Weston-super-Mare.

A fun filled trip to Park Astérix and a climb of Montparnasse for the Paris group on day three.

Year 9 students have been exploring the Great War battlefields in Ypres and the Somme this week.

A special thanks to Jacq and Dave from Avon Fire & Rescue Service for coming in to deliver a water safety demonstration ready for the summer holidays with our Year 9 students as part of our PSHE curriculum.

Year 8 students and their parents/guardians are invited to attend the Combined Cadet Force Open Evening on Monday 17th July. Each student has the opportunity to join CCF in year 9, opening up the possibility of partaking in year-round activities and trips.

The CCF has been recognised as a first class, extra curricular activity for the development of young people and particularly to provide exciting opportunities for teenaged cadets to exercise responsibly and learn leadership skills in a disciplined environment.

A huge thank you to those that came to our summer concert.

The students gave incredible performances and we are immensely proud of them for their hard work and dedication.

Rehearsals are in full swing for tonight’s concert.

Tickets are still available at www.ticketsource.co.uk/dragonflytheatre

Thank you to those that came to our open event. It was a pleasure welcoming new faces and showing you around our school.

On Wednesday 27th September we will be holding a formal open evening where there will be a formal headteacher speech, guided tours of the school and more detailed information available.

It was wonderful welcoming our new year 7s for moving up day.

They conducted themselves superbly, approaching new activities with enthusiasm and meeting the high standards that we expect.

We wish you a fantastic summer and look forward to seeing you in September for the start of the new academic year.

It is a week of great importance and excitement for the Orchid Project as they welcome staff and students from their partner school in Sarawak, Borneo.

A visit to their friends at the Bristol Botanic Garden took place yesterday and today the group have travelled to Oxford University to help with orchid research.

If you’d like to visit our school to view the orchids and meet our Bornean friends, the greenhouses will be open to the public alongside our open event on Thursday 6th between 4:30 - 7:00pm.