Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare Schools' Festival

Monday 6th November at G Live, Guildford

The Senior Leadership Team enjoyed a great evening of Shakespeare at G Live.  The programme consisted of four productions from four local schools. Each one presented a unique perspective on the chosen play and the students from the schools were focussed and delivered great performances.  Congratulations to all of the schools involved.

Our students performed a 30 minute version of Romeo and Juliet and rose to the challenge.  Mrs Remnant had promised a 'gritty' performance and the students delivered.  Their enjoyment and commitment to the play shone through.  Well done to the cast and the technical team for representing the school in such a positive way.



Progress

Our Library

I had the opportunity to visit the library on Friday, so wearing a hard hat and a high visibility vest  I went with Mr Phillips and Peter, the Site Manager, inside the structure. The images below highlight the progress being made:

 This is part of the ground floor.  The reception desk will be built around the pillars.

 The cradles for the cabling is being fitted.

 The window seats are visible.

 Looking through the length of the building.

 First floor; the dome of the planetarium will be built here.

 A glass wall looking out over the school.

 The first floor window seats.

 The new roof line.

The curve of the first floor, where eventually the staircase will be built.

Next week the windows will be delivered and installed and then the floors can be completed. Following the this the dome will be built and moved into position.

The aim is to complete the project by March 2018.

Sporting Recognition

Sports Awards Evening

I was delighted to be able to attend Sports Awards Evening, hosted by our PE department, to celebrate the success of Winston students in sixteen teams and a significant number of individual elite athletes and leaders. We were very fortunate to welcome Shona McCallin, who won a gold medal at the Rio Olympics, as part of the GB Hockey team, as our guest speaker and to award the prizes.

Shona spoke about her journey to Olympic success and the commitment that she had made to achieving at the highest level in her chosen sport.  Her love of the sport of hockey has ensured that she found the determination to succeed and Shona emphasised how important it is to enjoy what you do.  That you have to make sacrifices to be the best but that by managing your time and making the most of every opportunity you enhance your life.  The message to our students was very clearly do not give up if things get tough, find the resilience to drive forward.

Students, parents and staff enjoyed the presentation of the awards and I would like to thank Mr Weale for organising the event and the PE Department for ensuring that students have such opportunities to participate and lead everyday at Winston.

Well done, it was a great evening celebrating a great year of sport at Winston. 

Good News!

University Success

Congratulations to the following Winston students for gaining places at the following universities.  The hard work and determination demonstrated by these students, on a daily basis, together with the aspiration to achieve at the highest level is rewarded.  Well done to these students and everyone else from Winston who is following their dream.

Ruby Clare                    History of Art                                Christ's College, Cambridge
Thomas Hammond    Natural Sciences (Biological)       Robinson College, Cambridge
Harry Orrin                  Biochemistry                                  St. Hugh's College, Oxford
Robert Penman           Physics                                            Pembroke College, Oxford
 Rushil Gholkar         Mathematics                University of Warwick
Henry Silk                 Drama with Theatre Studies           University of Birmingham
Sam Cross                 Multimedia Sports Journalism       UCFB Wembley
Naomi Ehigie            Medicine                                            St. George's, University of London
Kamila Wisniewska  Economics with Management      Durham University
Charlotte Brown       Drama                                               Oxford School of Drama
Ciaran Quigley          Physics with Astrophysics              University of Bath
Joanna Rotherham   Creative Advertising                       Falmouth University

Collaborating in Lessons

7cf were being competitive and collaborative in their RE lesson – working in pairs to research key facts about the world’s major religions. The worked so well together trying out different research strategies; near the end of the timed task the students pulled out all the stops and two groups managed to complete the whole grid of facts.

Year 8 Grammar Stream

A Year 8 Grammar Stream student leading the class with solving algebraic expressions.

Assembly this Week

Mrs Ballam and her GCSE Food and Nutrition Group prepared an assembly on the issue of food and the impact of famine across the world. The facts were shocking and encouraged our students to think about how they could make a difference.

 Mr Burrows thanks Miss Chapman for her work as Year Leader with Year 9.  Miss Chapman is moving to Year 7 for the rest of the academic year.

Mr Burrows introduces Mrs Davis to Year 9 as their Year Leader for this academic year.

Careers Day

Our Careers Fair

Well done to everyone for ensuing that our Careers Fair was a great success, providing an invaluable experience for all of our students. 


With over fifty exhibitors, from across a range of industry sectors and colleges, students had an opportunity to talk through their options.  Each exhibitor discussed the range of roles within each business and they were impressed with the quality of questions that the students asked.  We appreciated the time given by businesses and colleges to support our students; it makes such a difference for young people to have the opportunity to talk to people actually working in each sector.


I would like to thank the Winston Team for ensuring the success of the event, with a special mention for Mrs Merryweather for all of her hard work and organisational skills.

Two of the many compliments received from the exhibitors:

Dear Marie,

On behalf of Steve and myself, I would like to thank you once again for inviting us along to represent the veterinary profession.

The day was wonderfully organised, from the initial greeting when we arrived to being escorted to our table.

The students we spoke to were a joy and we enjoyed educating them on the different roles there are within a veterinary surgery.

A thoroughly enjoyable day and we look forward to next year!!

Kind regards, Helen & Steve

Vets4Pets Byfleet

Luke and I just wanted to say thank you for inviting us to the Careers Fair today.

 

We very much enjoyed the day and loved meeting all the students.

 

We thought that the event was very well managed, from the first email, until we left the event this afternoon. 

 

We hope that you will also pass our thanks to the students who looked after us so well.  We were provided with an endless stream of tea and coffee, which makes us very happy 😊

 

We look forward to meeting you all again soon, and welcoming lots of your students to our training sessions and open evenings over the coming months.

 

With Thanks,

 

Claire Funnell & Luke Tuffs

Pulse Chertsey Football Academy.