'Science & Citizenship in the 21st Century' on 27 June 2006


Professor Sir Harry Kroto FRS, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, and Professor Jonathan Osborne, Department of Education and Professional Studies, Kings College London and co-author of Beyond 2000 are just two of our key note speakers.

On a recent music trip to Italy Woldingham?s talented choir and musicians brought the Tuscan Hills alive to the sound of music.  Miss Vernon subsequently received the following e-mail from two businessmen who happened to be in Pistoia at the time the girls were performing: ?My colleague and I were walking the streets, looking for a place to have dinner when we heard some wonderful singing coming from the Basilica della Madonna dell?Umiltà ­ we investigated and found that it was your school choir warming up for their concert.  We were both uplifted and very impressed by the girls? efforts.  We wanted to express our gratitude to the girls and the masters and mistresses with them for making our brief business trip so enjoyable.  We thought that Lizzie Karani's voice was absolutely beautiful and it just filled the space.?

Digby win the 2006 Guy Competition with their version of the Incredible Hulk. Read the report on the night from Mandy Pearce (WPSA).

Sister Mimi Goddard rscj, Sister April O’Leary rscj, The Right Reverend Kieran Conry, together with Woldingham pupils.

Bishop of Arundel and Brighton celebrates Foundation Day at Woldingham School. The Right Reverend Kieran Conry, Bishop of Arundel and Brighton made a special trip to Woldingham School, on Thursday 14th December 2006 to celebrate the School?s Foundation Mass and Bless the House Banners. 

Enjoying the hot waters

36 of our intrepid geographers from Years 8 to Lower 6 headed north towards the Arctic Circle this summer for a fantastic experience in Iceland. To view the full gallery of photographs please click here

To view the complete diary of school events including times and venues please click on the calendar icon which is located next to the 'Contact us' button at the top of the page. We hope this calendar will prove invaluable to parents as it is in 'real time' and any changes to events, dates and times are reflected immediately.

Woldingham is again celebrating excellent GCSE Results in all subjects. Two Woldingham students, Marianne Parkinson and Katherine Burr were amongst the top 5 for AQA French across whole country from a total of 115,000 candidates. In addition to this we have 100% A-C grades  in Mathematics, Physics, Design Technology, ICT, Chinese, Latin, Spanish, English, Art, Drama, Music, History, PE, Religious Studies

Unlike trends across the rest of the country, science, mathematics and languages are strong subjects at Woldingham School where students and staff are celebrating their best A level results across all subjects with students achieving a 100% pass rate, 98% of girls with A to C grades and 40% of girls with three or more A grades. Here we see Dr Mike Shipton, Head of our Science Faculty and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry examining the A Level results with Emma St Joseph, who is going on to study Medicine at Kings College London, Eddie Surtees who will be studying Economics at Christ College Cambridge, and Gabby Holloway who is going on to Loughborough to study Spanish and Politics

Lizzie on stage with the London Mozart Players

Lizzie Karani has a busy summer ahead of her as she has the lead in the Youth Music Theatre production of Frankenstein at The Drum Theatre in Plymouth 24th July - 5th August. Well done to Lizzie on winning  the lead role in such a prestigious production.

Our Summer Newsletter is now available in electronic format

Clarissa presents the awards on prize day

Clarissa Dickson Wright is an Old Girl of the  Convent of the Sacred Heart, Hove who spent her final years at Woldingham School and came back as the Guest of Honour for our 2006 Prize Day. Clarissa presented the girls with their prizes for academic excellence and for progress as well as a number of other cups and awards reflecting the girls’ achievements in a range of fields. She also proudly accepted a prefect’s blue Ribbon presented to her by the Head Girl, Kitty Owen- a distinction which had escaped her during her time at the school!

Olivia in action

The World Championships will be held in Port Elizabeth, on the Eastern Cape, South Africa and will see the top Mirror sailors from around the world compete. The team from the UK truly represents the diverse nature of the Mirror class, with young and older sailors represented; amongst them will be our own Olivia Peacock who recently qualified as one of the highest placed juniors. Well done Olivia on this superb achievement. Read Olivia's report on how she qualified below.

Hannah is the highest placed girl in the South East

Hannah Stevens was the Runner Up in the Semi final of the Audi Innovation Awards out of 4,000 entrants. Hannah, who was one of the youngest competitors in the 11 to 14 year group and the highest placed girl, has been working hard on her project which was to develop the idea of a robotic pool cleaner into one which could be put to a practical household use as a shower cleaner. Her ingeniously designed starfish shaped cleaner caught the judges imagination as they could see the practical application for this labour saving device. Huge congratulations to Hannah, all your hard work paid off   

Congratulations to our catering team who under did so well at the SODEXHO Annual Culinary Competition for Schools and Colleges which was held recently at the NEC in Birmingham.

Woldingham have been awarded the Good Schools Guide award for the best results at A  level achieved by girls taking Information Technology at an Independent School. Well done to all concerned.

Many congratulations to Lizzie who has been selected by the Youth Music Theatre UK to take part in West End Live on Saturday 17th June 2006. West End Live is a showcase for live theatre and is held in conjunction with the tourist board. A large stage is erected in Leicester Square and there will be performances from Chicago, Mamma Mia!,Lion King, Guys & Dolls, Stomp, Footloose, The Producers etc etc. YMT:UK members will be performing alongside the very best West End performers. In addition they will be showcasing up and coming young performers and Lizzie is one of those selected. Well done Lizzie on yet another huge achievement, we know you will excel and we look forward to hearing all about it.

Our annual Sixth Form Ball was held at the Copthorne Effingham Park Hotel on Saturday 29th April. As usual the Woldingham sense of style was evident and a great time was had by all. See the evidence yourself. 

The Rolls Royce Enthusiasts' Club's '2006 South of England' held their annual rally at Woldingham School on Sunday 14 May 2006. The event was a huge success with over 350 cars on show, dating back to the 1920's.  The Spirit of Ecstasy seemed to be quite at home at Woldingham where the cars were provided with a fantasic backdrop in the school grounds

Year 6 Girls visit the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery based in St John's Wood as part of their Bronze DoE Award.

The girls have just returned from their Ski Trip to Tignes, read what they have to say.

About 35 girls recently took part in the Reigate and Redhill Music Festival. Ismay Brayne, Alice Innes and Kate Millet achieved  ‘Outstanding’ in the Singing Trio Class for 15 years and under and were subsequently invited to take part in the prize winners concert at the Harlequin Theatre in Redhill. Well done on this super achievement.

We are just about to launch our own Woldingham Reunited addition to the School website. WSHA & Woldingham School are introducing an exciting new Internet Based Old Girls Network. We have named this new facility the WoldWideWeb.

This new and exciting facility is in the process of being populated with the information from the WHSA database of over 4000 names. As it will take time to populate the site, please revisit frequently as your classmates may not be listed immediately.

Please also encourage any Old Girls you know to visit the site and register their details. As soon as you are registered, you can start to build your on-line profile, find and make contact with lost friends or teachers, organise reunions or get togethers.

The vogue for co-ed schools does girls few favours. They flourish in a single-sex environment. Read the full Daily Telegraph article by Brenda Despontin.

We are delighted to announce that our Shakespeare Festival held on 18th and 19th May in the Millennium Centre was a huge success. Congratulations to all concerned, particularly the performers who really shone and Judith Brown and her team in the drama department for all the hard work and effort they put into making the event such a triumph. As usual the standard was exceptional, a full report and photos will be available shortly.

Emma St Joseph (Upper 6th) has made history by becoming the first person in the school to achieve the full ECDL. She has regularly attended the ECDL club and, in addition to her A level work, has independently studied and passed all 7 modules – gaining 100% in 3 modules and over 90% in all the other modules. Emma can now add this impressive qualification to her C.V. Well done Emma

Girls from single sex independent schools achieve 16% more top grades at A level than those educated alongside boys. The recently published survey of examination results has officially confirmed what has been a long held belief at Woldingham which is, girls perform better and achieve high examination results in single sex education.

A recent national poll of all Year 10 pupils at Woldingham conducted by Yellis, show that our girls love their school and have proven to be some of the happiest pupils in the country.

We are delighted to welcome Mr Crispin Blunt, MP for Reigate to the school on Thursday 26th January to give a politics talk to our 6th Form students. We are looking forward to Mr Blunt providing an interesting insight into the job of an MP and life in Parliament!

Katy is to have a sonnet she wrote in the style of Keats published in an anthology called Shattered Illusions by Dogma publications which is due for release in April. Congratulations Katy we look forward to seeing your work in print.

Our warmest congratulations go to the new Head Girl, Deputy Head Girls and team of Ribbons. Ribbons hold very prestigious roles of responsbility and are integral to the fabric of Woldingham. Indeed, they are embedded in the history of the school and the distinctive blue sash has been worn by Woldingham girls for over a hundred years. The standard of applicants this year was exceptionally high and we look forward to their leadership over the coming year. The full list of Ribbons is available below.

Congratulations to our Ski Team who have just returned from competing at the British Schoolgirls Ski Competition 2006 in Flaine. Overall our girls came a pleasing place of 33rd out of 50 teams. Team members were Aude Pereire (L6), Lauren Morton (Year 9) Lucy Lintott (Year 9)

Congratulations to Dr Mike Shipton Head of our Science Faculty who has recently accepted a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

The House Music Competition was an extremely successful event, involving over one hundred and fifty performances and showcasing girls’ talents on a range of instruments, including woodwind, strings, piano, brass and voice.  An extensive programme of heats and semi-finals was adjudicated by Mr Padley, Mr Dyer, Miss Andrews and Miss Robertshaw, leading to the Grand Final which took place on Tuesday 7 March.

Read all about it

On Sunday 5th March, the Woldingham Amaris were invited to the wonderful setting of Worth School to take part in the Mozart Requiem concert. The others Schools taking part, were Burgess Hill, Notting Hill & Ealing High school, Worth School and the Worth Abbey choir.

Following the success of Fencing as part of Saturday Active, we are delighted to say that after Easter Chris Howser, National Champion and British Fencing County Coach, will be starting a fencing club at the school.

 
 

Following the success of Fencing as part of Saturday Active, we are delighted to say that after Easter Chris Howser, National Champion and British Fencing County Coach, will be starting a fencing club at the school.

 
 

A very successful careers convention was held in the Millennium Centre at Woldingham on Wednesday 1st March.

Tuesday 28th February 2006
The traditional Woldingham Pancake Race is an eagerly anticipated annual event it always proves to be a competitive crowd pleaser and this year was no exception. As the day drew near training began in earnest, competition was fierce, teachers were added to the mix, a great deal of pride was at stake and no one wanted to be left with egg on their faces! Stuart had their honour to upold, Barat had the right tactics and raced up the inside, Digby unveiled their secret weapon, and Duchesne had an Ace up their sleeves. Read the race review and see which team tactics triumphed in this hotly contested event.

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