This year, nine girls from year 9 have travelled to Caterham school on a Wednesday evening in order to become cadets in the Caterham School CCF- one in the army section and eight in the RAF. During their recruit training they have learnt about patrolling, camouflage, weapon handling, drill and navigation. Natalie Light attended the weekend recruits camp and seemed to thoroughly enjoy herself despite the very early morning PT sessions during which she had to wish a "good morning" to various buildings around the camp in between performing  physical exercises.

Academic achievement is a priority at Woldingham, but, as any of the girls can confirm, there is a lot more than only their studies to keep them busy and engaged. 

We believe the wide range of extra-curricular activities available at Woldingham enhances their studies and produces well-rounded individuals. 

The girls are always ready for a challenge and we believe the gallery showcases their many talents and provides you with a glimpse of the exciting things the girls get up to outside the classroom.

Please click here to view the Saturday Active Gallery 1

Please click here to view the Saturday Active Gallery 2

Please click here to view the Saturday Active Gallery 3

Please click here to view the World Challenge Africa 2007

Please click here to view the Geography Trip to Dorset 2007

Please click here to view A Level Results Day 2007

Please click here to view the Trip to Spain 2007  

Please click here to view the Inter-House Cross Country

Please click here to view the Hockey Trip to Blackpool 2007 

Please click here to view Art at Woldingham  Gallery 1

Please click here to view Art at Woldingham Gallery 2

Please click here to view the Alice in Wonderland

Please click here to view the Year 9 Activity Day

Please click here to view the Sixth Form Ball 2007

Please click here to view the Dance Display

Please click here to view the Air Cadets

Please click here to view the Russia Trip

Please click here to view World Challenge Preparation

Please click here to view the Fundraising Fashion Show

Please click here to view some Sporting achievements at Woldingham

Please click here to view the Joint London Mozart Players Concert

Please click here to view the Icelandic Expedition

Well done Stuart House

Stuart House Charity events over the last year raised a massive £1656 pounds. They were delighted to handover the giant cheque to the representative of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust for the South East. Well done to everyone who took part in raising money for this very worthy cause.

Twenty two enthusiastic Art Historians attended a conference at the Tate Britain on Friday 2nd November jointly organised by the Association of Art Historians and the Tate Gallery

On 14th September 2007, the Year 11 artists made the annual journey down to St Ives, accompanied by the 6th formers who persuaded Mrs. Benton to take them again. Read the acount of their Cornish adventure

 

Remember 5-A-Day!

Click here to read about the Nutrition talk given to the Year 7's on Tuesday 6th November and see some photos from the day.

Woldingham is delighted to welcome the acclaimed travel writer Will Randall who will talk to our Sixth Form on Wednesday 28 November 2007 6.45pm the Auditorium.

Woldingham show Team Spirit

On Sunday 9^th September, two teams of Woldingham staff competed in the London Duathlon in Richmond Park (A duathlon is like a triathlon but instead of the swimming leg there is another run.) This is the third year we have entered, and have improved our times each year.

 

Year 8 display their design talents

Schools Competition Act Settlement Trust - Bursary Programme
The Trustees of the Schools Competition Act Settlement Trust announced the launch of their bursary programme on 1 June 07. The Trust will be offering up to 250 bursaries of up to £1,500 and up to 200 grants for up to £500. These awards will support students attending full time or part time courses or undertaking other educational projects during 2007/08. The Trust will be open for applications for 2007/08 until 3 September 2007. Full details of the awards, the application criteria and how to apply are on the Trust's website at www.scast.org.uk

Fund Raising Made Easy - Make any Amazon purchase via our link below and you will help raise funds for Woldingham projects.

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The school will receive commission for each purchase you make, but only if you use the link directly from our website. This income will be directed to school projects such as our new library facilities. As there is no cost to you, it is a very easy way for you to help raise funds for the school.

 

Sugar and Spice and all things nice!

To celebrate British Food Fortnight, Matt Owens, School and College Liaison Officer for the Craft Guild of Chefs and employee of Zuidam UK and Bob Brown, Senior Lecturer at Westminster College came to Woldingham School to demonstrate the art of cookery. 
British Food Fortnight is a government initiate that aims to make the public – and in particular children – aware of the diverse and delicious food and drink that Britain produces and the many food experiences available.

On Thursday 7th June 2007, Year 7 went on a Geography and Maths trip to Kew Gardens.

On Friday 21st June, the Lower Sixth politics groups enjoyed an informative tour of the Houses of Parliament. After a customary visit to Pret a Manger for lunch, we walked to Westminster and our first stop was Number 10 Downing Street. With only one week to go as Prime Minster, we were disappointed that Tony Blair was not at home. Apparently, the European Union summit was a more important call on his time.

Dr Phil Dineen, Headmistress, Woldingham School 1985-1997 pays tribute to Dr Edward Berwick, member of the Parents’ Association, and Chairman of the Governing Body of Woldingham School 1989 - 1994, who died recently.

Girls at Woldingham have once again achieved excellent results in GCSE exams this year with a 98% pass rate and 65% of all entries at A and A* grades.

Afer our summer Fashion show we were able to send a cheque for £3746. to the Sacred Heart schools in Uganda and Kenya. Click below to read the full text of a letter of appreciation sent to us by Gillie Collyer, Secretary of AMASC and to see photos from the schools. 

Students and staff at Woldingham School are celebrating another year’s excellent crop of A level results, with a 100% pass rate across all subjects. These latest impressive figures continue the school’s excellent record and reveal that students achieved 100% passes at A and B grades in 16 subjects, and there was a 1% overall improvement in the numbers of A and B grades. To view our 2007 A level results please click here

After the tremendous success of our 2005 trip to Peru in 2005, July of this year saw 22 sixth form girls and 4 staff members embark on the second World Challenge expedition to Kenya and Uganda. 

31 days of acclimatisation, trekking, community work and rest & relaxation lay in store for the girls who had spent the last two years preparing for the trip, which included February in Buxton (not warm!) and raising the majority of the money through various projects such as concerts, parties, cake sales, sponsored runs and even bag packing! To view the photo gallery of this exciting trip please click here

 Our Open Day held on Saturday 29 September was a huge success a large number of visitors joined us for a tour of our facilities, to watch and join in many of the activities and to hear talks given by our girls, our headmistress, and parents.  We hope all of our visitors enjoyed the day as much as we did. To view some photographs of the event please click below.

The Woldingham Team

On Sunday 24th June, a fencing team from Woldingham represented Tandridge in the Surrey Youth Games last Sunday in Guildford.   All the team members fenced alternatively in some long matches and eventually came second in the final to Mole Valley.  The team was Laura Endicott, Isabel Esteve, Catherine Leatherbarrow and Isobel Walsh.  Ella Gardiner also received two medals for helping out two other area�s teams. Please read the full report

Weekends at Woldingham are action packed with a variety of activities on offer. One of the most popular recent additions to the weekend programme is Saturday Active. This term has again been successful with girls regularly taking part in the numerous activities available.  On the early evening of 15th June we are to hold another clay pigeon shoot against Tonbridge School and very much hope that the girls will be on form and show Tonbridge how skilled they have become at the sport.  Trampolining has proved to be a great success with all of the girls passing Trampolining Awards, some achieving up to grade 7. The final session on 16th June will involve a friendly lacrosse competition involving boys from Wallington lacrosse Club, a fencing competition and an archery competition as well as final sessions in all the other activities. The programme for next year is already in preparation and it is hoped that with some completely new activities introduced there will be something for everyone once again.    

Planning the Route

This term?s House event was the sponsored walk, which all girls from year seven to eleven participated in. We set off bright and early, supporting our Houses; Barat, Digby, Duchesne and Stuart with colours blazing. As we began our walk through Woldingham?s grounds there was a great sense of enthusiasm and House spirit, which remained through out the day.

Cadets continue to prove popular

Five girls form year 9 are still regularly attending the Caterham School CCF unit and have taken part in some fun activities over this last term. In a recent competition they were greatly appreciated by boys in their groups for their button sewing skills ? in the five minutes allowed some boys didn?t even manage to thread a needle!!

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Music Award Winners

The Grand Final of the House Music Competition 2007 on 27th March was a huge success. After four weeks of heats and semi-finals, all finalists performed to a tremendously high standard. This made for a wonderful concert that was enjoyed by all who attended.

Relaxing after the hard work

Congratulations are in order for the 52 Bronze DoE participants have now successfully completed their practice expedition and are about to embark on the assessed one which will involve them walking from Haslemere Station across to the Devil�s Punchbowl. Everyone seemed to enjoy the practice in which they had to plan their route to the campsite at Biggin Hill and then return to school via a different route on the Sunday. They were very lucky with the weather and some of them created some unusual menus to cook on their trangia stoves! The majority of girls have already completed the other sections of the award so having created a project on their final expedition will have completed the entire award.

A Level Art

To view the gallery of our AS and A Level art work, please click here.

Year s7, 8 and 9 take to the stage in Alice

The cast of girls from years 7, 8 & 9 surpassed themselves with such confident and assured performances. Special congratulations must go to Francesca Maule from Yr 8  who was the most enchanting Alice.  It was remarkable performance, particularly considering that she was on stage for the entire two hour production. Please click here to view the photographic gallery of the production.

Scaling the Heights

It is very easy for us to stay within our comfort zone � stick to the things we know we can do.  Well, our present year 9 students had a chance to see how it feels to come out of their comfort zone during their Activity trip to Hindleap Warren Activity Centre in Ashdown Forest. As always with Woldingham Girls they were certainly up for the challenge. To view photographs of the day please click here 

Dynamic Woldingham Staff

On Sunday 9th September, visitors to Richmond Park will be greeted by an unusual sight�the 20 mile per hour speed limit will be ignored as cyclists and runners whiz around the perimeter road in the third London Duathlon.  Perhaps an equally �unusual� sight will be a glimpse of 6 members of Woldingham staff pushing themselves to the limits in this event!

The new academic year in September will see a new look the Woldingham School library thanks to the hard work this term of the librarian, Mrs Ruffle and her assistant, Mrs Adamson.

The old arrangement of the library over four rooms and with a junior library at Marden has always been problematic.  The advent of the Sixth Form Coffee Bar in the Nicholson room coincided with a review of our library collections and as a result a lot of work has been taking place to reorder and refocus the library.

No mountain is too high for a Woldingham girl

It is very easy for us to stay within our comfort zone and stick to the things we know we can do.  Well, our present year 9 students had little chance of doing that during their Activity trip to Hindleap Warren Activity Centre in Ashdown Forest.

On Wednesday 20 June the Year 9 timetable was suspended and the pupils spent the day learning about China�s increasing importance in the Global village.

The aims of the day included the pupils making connections between the content of different subjects and having an experience of Economic and Politics, subjects which some of them might study in the Sixth Form.  A teacher of Mandarin, Anne Martin, who teaches at Whitgift School, ran a session on the basics of Mandarin and its increasing importance as a world language.

The KS2 German Fun Day is aimed at Y 5 pupils (boys and girls) who would enjoy and appreciate experiencing a major European language in its context. The event combines fun language learning with a rich programme of activities (sporting, Arsenal FC will be involved, musical, artistic, even culinary). The pupils will encounter the language in its context in a relaxed way without performance pressures. We hope to broaden their horizon and help them make informed language choices later on in their education.

Sixth Form off to the Enchanted Ball

To view the gallery of photographs from our Sixth Form Ball please click here

In December 2003 Michele Bowman of The Robert Bowman Gallery, Duke Street, St. James�s, created the S4K (Sculpture 4 Kids) with a vision�that sculpture should play a greater role in the school curriculum by encouraging school art departments to participate in a nationwide school sculpture competition. The theme this year was �The Environment � Coral Reefs� and many girls in year 7 and 8 enjoyed designing and planning their sculptures and four entries received �Highly Commended� awards. Four of our Year 8 Girls were awarded Highly Commended, watch this space as their work will be displayed soon.

Please download the latest information on the Sevenoaks run

Just one of our many trips

Please download details and information on all our forthcoming overseas trips.

It's official! The Good Schools Guide announced Woldingham School in 2006 has the best A level results for Art History for any English school. Woldingham received an award as the best Independent School in the subject and another which covers both state and Independent schools. A huge well done to all those girls and teachers concerned.

Rising Star

On Friday 23rd of March, members of Dance 49 from all different year groups took part in the 2007 Dance Display, Once Upon a Time� The performance was presented by Sian and Paul (our Dance 49 teachers), as a result of seven months of rehearsal, leading up to the much anticipated annual display. To to the gallery of photos please click here

Clay Pigeon Shooting is popular

Our Saturday morning activity programme continues to prove  popular for both boarders and day girls alike. In the Fencing and Clay Pigeon Shooting disciplines our girls are now competing in public schools championships - from small acorns! To view the gallery please click here

Enjoying the moment at St James Palace

Of the 22 girls who completed their Gold last year 7 were recently invited to St James� Palace to receive their award from HRH Prince Phillip. It was a beautiful day and we were fortunate enough to be seated in the Throne Room which was an extremely grand setting. HRH presented the awards personally and took time to speak to the girls about their experiences and congratulate them on their achievement. 

The Schimmel 256 Concert Grand Piano

The wonderful Schimmel 256 concert grand piano has taken pride of place in the auditorium, we must say a huge thank you to WSHA and WPSA who have jointly funded the purchase of  this magnificent instrument. With its richness of tone it offers our aspiring pianists the opportunity to experience playing a concert class instrument, we hope it will inspire generations of Woldingham musicians to come.

 

Day Girls Transport from September

From September 2007 we will be running school transport for our Day Girls. Routes under consideration are: Route 1. Tadworth, Kingswood, Lower Kingswood, Redhill, Nutfield, Bletchingley. Route 2. Tatsfield, Biggin Hill, Keston, Hayes, Selsdon Sanderstead, Purley, Whyteleafe South. Route 3. Sevenoaks, Bessels Green, Sundridge, Brasted, Westerham, Limpsfield, Oxted, Godstone. Services will be provided to arrive at the school at 8.15 each morning Monday to Friday and departing from the school at 18.40 each evening. Further details will be made available shortly.

Russian Nights

Our Sixth Formers travel east to sample life in Russia. On a recent trip  they were able to view first hand the culture, history and landscape of this remarkable country. The visited the famous Hermitage Museum where if you spend 30 seconds looking at each exhibit it would take 9 years to view the entire collection - thankfully they did not feel to need to see everything and are safely back at Woldingham!! To view the complete photo gallery please click here

Olivia & Limber

Olivia Dobson from Year 9 is riding high, she recently came 6 out of 86 riders on the Ladies Tour where she is the youngest competitor at just 13 years old. She and her beautiful grey horse Limber regularly complete at the highest level. She has also just rescued her old pony Zaila. 

'Entente cordial' is in safe hands

Our Politics students take a break in Paris
It's 5pm on the 26th January � we�ve just stepped off the Eurostar and we are now standing in the busy Parisien Gare du Nord station. We find ourselves sandwiched between Le Francais and Eiffel Tower souvenirs, trying to manoeuvre our oversized cases through the crowd. With the help of maps and the sharp mind of �Madame� Mayhew we finally arrive with excitement at our �luxury� hotel � the Parisiana

Downhill racer

Woldingham Girls set the ski slopes alight. Well done to Aude, Olivia and Georgia who competed so successfully in the recent British Schoolgirls' Ski Races in Flaine.