What's on at Wallingford
Green Challenge Week – the 8 challenges, Mon 9th Nov
Take part in the ‘Greening Wallingford’ card count on the weekend of 14th and 15th November. You will be helping the people of Wallingford realise how much of a difference they can make together to combat climate change. See Mr Clay to put your name down for this.
SKI / SNOWBOARDING TRIP PRESENTATION EVENING, 18th November 2009 at 7 pm
The ski snowboarding informative presentation evening will take place on Wednesday 18th November 2009 at 7 pm in the main school hall.
Mountain Edge will also be present at the evening with a large sample of their ski and snowboard clothing and accessories that are available to purchase or hire if required.
**************CANCELLED*********************
Year 10 Tetanus Vaccinations - Cancelled on 25th November 2009.
New Date To be Confirmed in New Year.
South Oxfordshire Dance Platform, 21st January 2010 - 7 pm
A dance show from a selection of schools around the South Oxfordshire Area including Wallingford School. Not to be missed!
To obtain tickets please contact the Cornerstone box office on 01235 515144
Wallingford School Association AGM Wednesday, 21st October 2009 - 7.30pm
Wallingford School Association Invite you to their AGM on Wednesday, 21st O ctober 2009 in the SIXTH FORM COMMON ROOM at 7.30pm for coffee.
Please do come along, meet the committee, have a glass of wine and have an opportunity to view the fantastic new facilities in the Sixth Form Block
Girl’s football week 22nd - 28th June 2009
The week long National initiative is all about providing opportunities for girls to come and play football, for some this maybe for the first time. Girl’s football is great fun, helps you keep fit and is a great way to meet new friends. The main message that is being put across is ‘just come along and give it a go’.
All the sessions listed below are open to players of all abilities and will be delivered by qualified FA coaches free of charge. Q & A’s available for Parents and players.
Wallingford Family of Schools – Dance Festival
Once again, Wallingford School hosted the annual Wallingford Family of Schools Dance Festival, organised and directed by Harriet Thomas, Wallingford School Primary Co-ordinator.
Each year the standard of dance gets better and better. The primary schools involved were Benson, Brightwell- Cum- Sotwell, Cholsey, Crowmarsh, St Johns, Fir Tree Junior, St Nicholas CE and of course Wallingford School.
Each school choreographs a unique dance, usually a piece that reflects what they have been learning within the classroom. We feel as well as building pupils self-expression, creativity and self-confidence our dance festival brings people from different schools together and creates a wonderful feeling of community.
Even the Major of Wallingford made an appearance and thoroughly enjoyed the event
Well done to all who participated – here’s to next year!
Tag Rugby Tournament
Sports Leaders from Wallingford School lead a Tag Rugby Tournament for Year’s 5 & 6 - 4 schools and 40 pupils.
This exciting event was a complete success - A very well run event – the leaders had to rearrange the order of play at the last minute. The coaching and refereeing by the sports leaders was effective. The pupils played very well – the standard improves each year.
The result was:
- 1st Benson
- 2nd Fir Tree
- 3rd Crowmarsh
- 4th St John’s
Well done to all who participated and a big Thank you to the Sports Leaders
Wallingford School pupil attends Best 6th form Physicist Event
Louise Axon from Cholsey received an award for the best 6th form Physicist at Wallingford School at a recent event held at the Rutherford Appleton laboratory to celebrate the achievements of sixth form physics students at schools in Oxfordshire. The research organistation hosted winners from 19 schools across the area and awarded them with a certificate and book tokens to reward their outstanding achievements in their A-level studies.
The students were treated to a talk from Dr Chris Davis from the Space Science Department at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory who talked about the effect of the sun on the weather in space and its implications for communications on Earth. This included the opportunity to put on 3D glasses to observe how the Sun rotates in 3 dimensions and information about new satellite missions being developed at the laboratory.
Well done Louise!
Whats on in the Music department
Click here for information about forthcoming event in the Music department
Choko visit to Kodumela ADP, Limpopo, South Africa, with World Vision UK
Choko is a Cholsey-Kodumela community linking project- people in Cholsey helping people in Kodumela to help themselves.
USED UNIFORM SHOP
Please note that the School 2nd hand uniform / PE kit shop will NOT be open the first Thursday of the Month.
Uniform and PE kit is still available by request
If you would like to purchase any garments then please call the main school number on 01491 837115 and either leave a message with your requirements or ask to speak to Helen Grindey, alternatively e-mail Helen
You will be notified if your request can be fulfilled - the garments can then be collected from the school office.
Still wanted used uniform and PE Kit
All proceeds go to charity
4 times Gold Medalist - Karen Pickering visits Wallingford School.
On 29th April 2009 Karen Pickering came to Wallingford School to talk and inspire year 11's before their GCSE Exams. Karen talked about her gruelling daily training schedule of 2000 metres of swimming and an hour and half in the Gym during her school years, how she juggled school life and training and how she prepared for competitions. She talked about her determination, her desire and passions and how that if you work extremely hard and go that extra distance and push yourself, your goals and aims are achievable.
Students at Wallingford School Bridge the Gap
Every week year 9 students visit westgate house in Wallingford and organise activites for the residents. The students and residents enjoy not just the activities but also the interaction between the different age groups.
Munga 2009 - by Callum McClarty
There are few things in life more demoralizing than walking in to a hall dressed as a Korean dictator, only to find no one else has bothered to dress up.
After this slight set-back, the 2009 Model General United Nations assembly got underway, and after a somewhat…lengthy introductory talk by the Chairman the debate got going. To begin with there was a somewhat nerve racking round of speeches regarding Human Rights, with the inevitable shaking hands and nervous stutters that anyone would suffer from, having written their speech 5 minutes previously on the back of the handout.
Wallingford School Staff play in Charity Match.
Staff from Wallingford School played in a 5 aside football tournament in aid of Cancer research. Staff played really well and got to the quarter finals without conceding a goal and then lost by 1 - 0.
They played 5 matches in the group stage and won 2-0 twice, 1-0 and two 0-0 draws to top the group. They then played against the 4th team in the other group in the quarter finals and lost 1-0.
"It was a fun day but old age took its toll" said Rob Lyons - PE teacher.
£800 was raised for the charity.
Well done to all who participated.
Updated 26 April 2009 Download our current time table for PE Clubs 2009 term 5 and 6
Recent News
George Vaisey wins Oxfordshire School Biologist of the Year
Wallingford School Science Conference
Wallingford and Goring Athletics Club Victory
South Oxfordshire District Council Engages Wallingford School Young Students
Eager students vote in exciting new County Book Award
Tim Prendergast Olympic Athlete visits Wallingford School
South Oxfordshire Music School (SOMS)
