Dear parents and carers

Despite having to reschedule our Year 6 open evening, we maintained the bookings for school tours this week and these have gone exceptionally well with many positive comments on how calm and purposeful our learning environment is. I have been very proud of our community who have welcomed the Year 6s and their families into their lessons and of course I take great pride in our ambassadors’ confidence when touring families- they received many positive comments, and I thank them for their time.

We also had our first Year 11 Path to Glory trip with a PE focused trip to the Cobblers to watch their game against Bolton Wanderers – despite the weather and a poor overall result – it was an exciting game!

We seemed to have missed our usual fair September weather and have plunged straight into autumnal temperatures. Therefore, it’s probably a decent time to issue a reminder about coats and additional layers when the temperature drop and that we do not accept non Wollaston hoodies or sports tops to be worn around school and if students wish to wear additional layers that are not coats or jackets then these should be plain in nature and not branded sportswear.

Notices

Head of English Miss Engler writes ‘There’s a poetry competition for KS3 launching next week. It’s organised by  Young Writers and the theme is ‘The beautiful truth’. The deadline for entries is the 25^th of October. Students can receive a £50 voucher and a trophy, and they could also get their work published!  All entries will receive a bookmark! For more information, please click here.’

Mr Towers writes ‘Thursday 10 October 2024 will be World Mental Health Day. We will be acknowledging this through assemblies next week.

We would like to invite students to bring a donation for Young Minds. Donation buckets will be available on the day of your child’s assembly for those that wise to donate. More information about the Young Minds can be found here.

Key Dates

Monday 7^th October Year 12 Meet the Tutor Evening

Thursday 10^th October Year 7 Meet the Tutor Evening

Thursday 17^th October Year 6 Open Evening

Thursday 24^th October Year 11 Parents’ Evening

Friday 25^th October End of half term

Best wishes for the week ahead.

Simon Anderson