WILSON’S SCHOOL WEEKLY UPDATE Issue 234 September 14 2012 WILSON’S STUDENTS CONQUER KILIMANJARO Dates for your Diary 17 September U6 Parents’ Information Evening (7 p.m.) 18 September 7B trip to Wales 19 September LATE START FOR STUDENTS (9.40 a.m.) 21 September Y7 Parents’ Social Evening (7 p.m.) 24 September SCHOOL CLOSED TO STUDENTS (ENTRANCE EXAMINATION) OLD BOY TAKES WORLD RECORD If you happened to be in Heathrow’s Terminal 4 on Thursday 10 August, you would have witnessed the arrival of 36 tired but triumphant students from Wilson’s School. They were returning from a 23 day expedition which involved a summit attempt of the roof of Africa – Mount Kilimanjaro – as well as a 5 day community project and 1 day safari. The highlight of the trip was the eventual summit- ing of Kilimanjaro – after 8 days trekking and a final 7 ½ hours of gruelling overnight ascent. However, there were many other highlights throughout the trip Old Wilsonian, Mark Bayliss, successfully completed the including cultural visits with the Maasai in Longido, Enduroman Arch to Arc Triathlon on Saturday, setting a being honoured with a goat sacrifice, participating new world record of 73 hours and 39 minutes. This com- in local building projects, as well as playing with the petition is not for the faint hearted. It involves running friendly children and a fiercely competed football 87 miles from Marble Arch to Dover, swimming from match against the Longido secondary school team Dover to Calais and then cycling from Calais 181 miles where Wilson’s came away with a deserved 2-1 win. to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Mark is only the 11th Finally a visit to Tarangire National Park for a safari, individual to have completed this course and is the only where the team luckily saw the elusive cheetah, person to have done so without a wetsuit while swim- meant that the boys were able to enjoy a day of ming the channel. much needed rest. While at school Mark represented England at Water Polo and Great Britain at youth level in Triathlon and Duathlon. In 2007 he swam the English Channel solo OLYMPIC FEVER HITS WILSON’S and he competed in the Sri Chinmoy Lake Zurich Swim Marathon three times as well as many other endurance Jacob Paul, current- competitions. ly a student in the Upper Sixth had the He is hoping to raise as much money as possible for honour of carrying SportsAid, a charity which supports young athletes in the Olympic Torch the crucial early stages of their careers. 47 of Britain’s through Bromley. medal winners at the Olympics have been supported by He was nominated Sports Aid. You can still sponsor Mark at www.justgiving. after competing com/Mark-Bayliss0 or by texting CFWC59 to 70070. We in the Youth Great congratulate him on this outstanding achievement. Britain team in Tur- key at the European Youth Olympic Festival. Issue 234 September 14, 2012 WILSON’S WEEKLY UPDATE NOTICES NEW LEADERSHIP TEAM Following the retirement of Mrs Mitchelmore and the promotion to Headship of Miss Smith, the school has a new SCHOOL PARKING senior leadership team. Mr Charnock (Head) and Mr Cole A reminder to all parents that stu- (Deputy Head) will be joined by our new Assistant Head, Mr dents should not be dropped off or Lissimore, whom many will already know well as our former picked up in the school car park. Advanced Skills Teacher in Music. Our wider leadership team is joined by Mr Fletcher who will take over manage- We would also ask that all parents ment of all our data, assessment and reporting systems and consider local residents and park by Mrs Lowe who will be our Director of School Administra- considerately when dropping their tion. children off or picking them up from school. NEW HEADS OF DEPARTMENT Mr Alderson takes over from Ms Chase as Director of Math- Please ensure that you are not ob- ematics. structing the flow of traffic along Mr Phillips takes over from Mr Hunnam as Head of Biology. Mollison Drive as this creates a Mr Fletcher wil act as Head of Business and Economics for real hazard for pedestrians and this academic year. drivers alike. Mrs Gill takes over as Head of ICT. SECOND HAND UNIFORM SALE Please note that the next sale of second hand uniform will take NEW PASTORAL TEAMS place on Monday 15 October, 2012. We have restructured our pastoral teams into three new This will be in the school dining Key Stage Teams, each overseen by a member of the Senior room from 3.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. Leadership Team. Y7 MEDICATION Key Stage 5 Team (Sixth Form) If your son requires medication SLT: Mr Cole (e.g. epipens) that should be kept Director of Key Stage: Mr Doyle with the First Aid Officer for Deputy Director: Mr Coop emergency use, please can you en- Higher Education Coordinator: Dr Hemp sure that these have been brought Secretary: Mrs Pauline Kitchin in to school. Key Stage 4 Team (Years 9-11) SCHOOL CALENDAR SLT: Mr Charnock Parents may find it useful to check Director of Key Stage: Mr Cady (Year 11) our school calendar on a regular Deputy Director: Mr Chappell (Year 10) basis in order to keep up-to-date Assistant Director: Mr J Parkinson (Year 9) with events at school. This can Secretary: Mrs Wood. be found at the following link: http://www.wilsonsschool.sutton. Key Stage 3 Team (Year 7-8) sch.uk/calendar/calendar.html SLT: Mr Lissimore Director of Key Stage: Mr Walters (Year 7) LOST PROPERTY Deputy Director: Mr Hudson (Year 8) Please do ensure that all of your Secretary: Mrs Wood son’s kit is marked with his name. This should include his PE kit, Mr Burton will work will all three teams as Director of House pencil case and trainers. Lost and Co-Curricular Activity. property is easily returned if it is named. Cricket Bags - A number of bags with cricket kit have been left in the sports store, could these please be collected as soon as BADMINTON possible. Congratulations to Mr Camera - An expensive camera was Molyneux on his place left in the sports hall at the end in the England team of last term. Please see Mr Moly- playing in the Europe- neux if you have lost one. an Masters Champion- ships in Bulgaria next week. Issue 234 September 14, 2012 WILSON’S WEEKLY UPDATE PUBLIC EXAMINATION RESULTS THE YOUNG HISTORIAN Once again our Upper Sixth and Year 11 students AWARDS achieved excellent results in the summer public exami- nations with levels of achievement which were among As in previous years the history department the best the school has had. For the first time ever, every entered a number of student’s essays into the single member of the sixth form met the matriculation various categories that comprise the Young standard for the Sixth Form and the great majority of the Historian Awards. Sixth Formers gained the grades they needed for their University places. In the newspaper league tables we Robert Cochrane (11G) has been awarded were placed securely among the strongest performing the GCSE World War One prize. The judges schools. There were just two all boys schools ahead of were very impressed with his coherence and us in the GCSE tables and four ahead of us in the A level enthusiasm. He was presented with his prize, tables. The boys have done themselves, their school a book token for £100.00, in assembly. For de- and their teachers much credit and we feel very proud tails of the 2013 competitions see the depart- of them. The AS results were exceptionally good - the ment page on the school website. best we have ever achieved - and this augurs very well indeed for next year - but these are just half -time scores and a lot of hard work will need to go in between now and next summer to make sure they convert into equally brilliant grades then. A special word of thanks to all the teachers who spent hour upon hour of their own time helping, supporting and sometimes cajoling students to ensure that they did their best. We are very fortunate to have such a dedi- cated team of teachers. We will publish a list of University destinations in the next edition of the Weekly Update. Full details of the summer results are available on the website. - note how- ever that re-marks and upgrades are still coming in - in the case of History GCSE, flooding in - so these remain A fantastic opportunity for students in the provisional. Lower 6th! Get involved in a national com- petition for young entrepreneurs. Working alongside your mentor you’ll create and run a business, develop and sell products just like real businesses do. Your aim is to make MODERN FOREIGN profit and beat the competition. Previous entrants have found the Young Enterprise LANGUAGES COMPETITION highly challenging but highly rewarding. See Congratula- Mr Ormonde in the Business Department for tions to Stephen details. Hurry places are limited. Earls of the Lower Sixth, who submitted a recording of a conversation in Portuguese. YOUNG WRITERS’ EXPRESS YOURSELF We look forward to hearing about COMPETITION his planned trip to Brazil when he Congratulations to the nineteen Year 10 stu- has the money! dents who have had their poetry published in an Anthology following their success in The recording the Young Writers’ Express Yourself compe- can be found on tition. The poems were composed during the Modern Lan- the course of creative writing Enrichment guages depart- lessons and independently.