Pastoral
Key Dates 2024-25
Year 11 College Information
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Student Bulletin
Our weekly student bulletin can be found here.
22 November 2024
15 November 2024
8 November 2024
Contact Information
Dear Parents/Carers
Please ensure that we hold your most up-to-date contact information in case of an emergency. Details can be updated via the SIMS Parent App. Please contact the front office if you require any help accessing the app.
If you need to contact a staff member, please use our main switchboard number on 0208 509 9446, which is open between 8am and 4.15pm.
Emails can also be sent to info@wsfg.waltham.sch.uk and the message will be passed on to the relevant staff member.
Thank you
Front Office
Mobile Phones
All Years
Mobile phones MUST be handed into the school office during the school day for safe keeping.
If you are caught with your mobile phone during the school day, it will be confiscated from you for 48 hours and your parent / carer will be asked to collect it from school.
Phones must NOT be used on the school premises either before or after school hours, or again they will be confiscated for 48 hours.
If you wish to use your mobile phone after school you must leave the premises to do so, but ensure that you use it safely.
Ms Pratt
Assistant Headteacher
Valuables in Tutor Rooms
Please do NOT leave PE kits, bags or any valuable possessions in your Tutor Room at break or lunchtime, as they will be unsupervised.
Please take responsibility for your own possessions and use your lockers for storage of PE kits, bags and other valuables during non-lesson time.
Thank you
Ms Pratt
Assistant Headteacher
National Online Safety - TikTok
TikTok is a video-sharing social media app which lets people create, view and download looping 15-second clips. Typically, these are videos of users lip-syncing and dancing to popular songs or soundbites (often for comic purposes), enhanced with filters, effects and text.
Please find below a poster of tips and advice from National Online Safety regarding Tik Tok, an increasingly popular app used by children. The age limit for this is 13, but as with many social media apps we find children below this age use them. This guide might answer any questions you may have about the app.
The Red Box Project
WSfG is pleased to restart the Redbox project for all tutor groups across the school. As you may know, the Redbox project provides a much-needed service giving all students access to sanitary products in a discrete manner.
The Redbox project has proved a very popular service in the past, and students have highlighted how important it is to have access to sanitary products when needed.
Unfortunately, the charitable funding for this project is no longer available.
Therefore, we would like to ask anyone in our school community who is able to donate any of the following products to the school’s Redbox Project:
• Sanitary pads (new, closed packs)
• Tampons (new, closed packs)
If you would like to donate any of the above products, please send them in with your child to school. Your child should bring them to Student Services, where the products will be distributed across tutor groups to ensure every student has access to sanitary products when needed.
In addition, a supply of sanitary products will be available via Student Services for any student who needs them.
We hope you feel able to donate to this important project to ensure all students have access to these essential products whenever needed.
Ms R Schaber
LBWF Domestic Abuse Drop In
Using the School LRC Computer System from Home
Our LRC system, Microlibrarian.net, is available for you to use at home. All students have their own
log-in and the system is accessible via the school website and via this link.
There are links to external websites which can support homework and are suitable for the age group of all students across the school.
We hope you enjoy using the system and encourage you to add reviews about the books you are reading.
Recommended websites for readers
www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books - Select ‘Children' & click on ‘Authors' for titles, author information and live interviews – including favourites like J K Rowling & J Wilson
www.cool-reads.co.uk - Lots of new titles for 10-15 year olds and you can send in your own reviews
www.mrsmad.com - Great books for children, young adults, parents, teachers and librarians, with reviews and ratings, games, stories and jokes.
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/ - The National Literacy Trust
4uReaders.net www.4ureaders.net
The Bookbag www.thebookbag.co.uk
Bookbox www.channel4.com/bookbox
Bookheads www.bookheads.org.uk
Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk
Children’s Authors TV www.childrensauthors.tv
Children’s Book Sequels www.childrensbooksequels.co.uk
Children’s Poetry Bookshelf www.childrenspoetrybookshelf.co.uk
Comic Book Resources www.comicbookresources.com
Cool Reads (now archived) www.cool-reads.co.uk
EnCompass Culture (British Council) www.encompassculture.com
Great Books to Read Aloud www.greatbookstoreadaloud.co.uk
International Children’s Digital Library www.icdlbooks.org
Kids’ Review www.kidsreview.org.uk
Love Reading 4 Kids wwwlovereading4kids.co.uk
Mrs Mad’s Book-a-Rama www.mrsmad.com
Reading Matters www.readingmatters.co.uk
Stories from the Web www.storiesfromtheweb.org
Teen Reads www.teenreads.com
Teen Ink http://teenink.com/Books
Turn to Page 1 www.turn2page1.com
Chicklish http://keris.typepad.com/chicklet
The B Word http://www.the-b-word.co.uk
Spinebreakers http://www.spinebreakers.co.uk
Groupthing http://groupthing.org
Teen Today http://www.teentoday.co.uk/articles/category/books
Inside a Dog http://www.insideadog.com.au
Reading Rants http://www.readingrants.org
Advice for Parents/Carers from National Online Safety
Violence Against Women and Girls Project (VAWG)
Dear Parents and Carers
WSFG is working in partnership with various organisations in the Borough to raise awareness of violence against women and girls in Waltham Forest.
As a girl's school, we are a hub for young women to learn about this external challenge that can affect the well being of all. This project is aimed at Years 8-10 in particular.
The main focus of the project is building support in preventing and offering early help in relation to VAWG.
WSFG is one of a few secondary schools in Waltham Forest to embrace this whole school approach to this issue.
Ms Pratt
Assistant Headteacher