13/12/2024The Art department have been working on a wonderful community project in collaboration with the residents of the Chestnut View Care Home.
At the heart of the project was the desire to bring together generations and to enable the students to learn about a life they haven't known; a life before disposables and convenience.
The care home residents were asked to write stories about what life was like before plastic; stories of childhood, the second world war, making, mending and cooking. An afternoon was spent at the care home hearing the residents recount these tales to the students whilst they created illustrations to accompany them.
These illustrations were then turned into ceramic relief tiles; ‘relief’ being sculpture on a flat surface. The Pottery Club then welcomed the residents in to school, to help with glazing the illustrated tiles that reflected their memories. It was a wonderfully creative afternoon of collaborative work and it was a joy to see these generations forming such a creative relationship.
So far the residents and WH students have created a beautiful story board, using the relief tiles, of the memories of what life was like before plastic. We are very proud of our community connections and in due course, we will be adding the written stories to the tiles and this fantastic piece of living history will be displayed in Haslemere for the whole community to appreciate and enjoy.
#ProudToBelong#communityproject#CommunityCollaboration#creatingapieceofhistory
12/12/2024Next Friday, 20th December and the last day of term, we will be supporting the charity ‘Save the Children’ by inviting students and staff to come to school in mufti with a touch of Christmas! So dig out the festive knitwear, the Santa hats or the Christmas hair ribbons ready to wear next week.
In exchange for wearing home clothes, we are asking for a donation to this worthy cause of £2, to be collected on the school gate on Friday morning…please bring cash!
🎄🎅🏻🎄
#ChristmasJumperDay#SaveTheChildren#endofterm
12/12/2024Our work in the community continues this week, with our house captains collecting donations every morning for our Christmas Shoebox Appeal.
If you haven’t already please drop in a small gift - toiletries, stationary, small items of clothing, small toys or games, choccies, etc - and we will be building shoes boxes for distribution via the Haslemere Food Bank, Home Start and Haslemere Youth Hub ready for Christmas.
Thank you for your support! 🎅🏻
#ChristmasShoeboxAppeal#ProudToBelong#communityspirit#pleasedonate
10/12/2024Thank you to the Friends of Woolmer Hill and Beacon Hill and all the sponsors of The Hills Fireworks 2024. What a fantastic event!
Thank you to Seymours Estate Agents Grayshott for this film of the event ....
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1078474920591142
9/12/2024We have a few remaining vouchers for Christmas Food Bank boxes. If you’d like one please contact Miss Fry. You must be available to collect your box on Friday morning from the Haslemere Food Bank.
🎄
6/12/2024NUMBER ONE IN SURREY! DfE 2024 GCSE data released ...
- Progress 8 score = +0.88
- Woolmer Hill is the No. 1 11-16 school in Surrey for progress
- Top 3% of schools in the whole country for progress
- Top 5 of all schools in Surrey for progress
You can view any school's Progress 8 score by going to the DfE's Compare School Performance website https://www.gov.uk/school-performance-tables
18/11/2024Our ‘Proud to Belong; Community’ value was at the heart of a co-curricular trip last week when the Music Department took a small group of Year 7 students to the Chestnut View Care Home in Haslemere.
The group, accompanied by Mrs Young, performed an afternoon concert for the care home residents with songs focused on ‘growing up’. The students gave rousing renditions of ‘When I Grow Up’ from the musical Matilda and ‘A Million Dreams’ from The Greatest Showman, amongst others.
The students then enjoyed refreshments with the residents and had an opportunity to hear their stories and experiences about growing up.
#ProudToBelong#community
17/11/2024A reminder that the WMAT Wellbeing Weekend is this week and the school will be closed to all students on Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd November.
We hope you enjoy the long weekend and get a chance to recharge ahead of the final few busy weeks of term!
#wellbeingweekend#timetorecharge
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13/12/2024The Art department have been working on a wonderful community project in collaboration with the residents of the Chestnut View Care Home.
At the heart of the project was the desire to bring together generations and to enable the students to learn about a life they haven't known; a life before disposables and convenience.
The care home residents were asked to write stories about what life was like before plastic; stories of childhood, the second world war, making, mending and cooking. An afternoon was spent at the care home hearing the residents recount these tales to the students whilst they created illustrations to accompany them.
These illustrations were then turned into ceramic relief tiles; ‘relief’ being sculpture on a flat surface. The Pottery Club then welcomed the residents in to school, to help with glazing the illustrated tiles that reflected their memories. It was a wonderfully creative afternoon of collaborative work and it was a joy to see these generations forming such a creative relationship.
So far the residents and WH students have created a beautiful story board, using the relief tiles, of the memories of what life was like before plastic. We are very proud of our community connections and in due course, we will be adding the written stories to the tiles and this fantastic piece of living history will be displayed in Haslemere for the whole community to appreciate and enjoy.
#ProudToBelong #communityproject #CommunityCollaboration #creatingapieceofhistory
12/12/2024Next Friday, 20th December and the last day of term, we will be supporting the charity ‘Save the Children’ by inviting students and staff to come to school in mufti with a touch of Christmas! So dig out the festive knitwear, the Santa hats or the Christmas hair ribbons ready to wear next week.
In exchange for wearing home clothes, we are asking for a donation to this worthy cause of £2, to be collected on the school gate on Friday morning…please bring cash!
🎄🎅🏻🎄
#ChristmasJumperDay #SaveTheChildren #endofterm
12/12/2024Our work in the community continues this week, with our house captains collecting donations every morning for our Christmas Shoebox Appeal.
If you haven’t already please drop in a small gift - toiletries, stationary, small items of clothing, small toys or games, choccies, etc - and we will be building shoes boxes for distribution via the Haslemere Food Bank, Home Start and Haslemere Youth Hub ready for Christmas.
Thank you for your support! 🎅🏻
#ChristmasShoeboxAppeal #ProudToBelong #communityspirit #pleasedonate
10/12/2024Thank you to the Friends of Woolmer Hill and Beacon Hill and all the sponsors of The Hills Fireworks 2024. What a fantastic event!
Thank you to Seymours Estate Agents Grayshott for this film of the event ....
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1078474920591142
6/12/2024NUMBER ONE IN SURREY! DfE 2024 GCSE data released ...
- Progress 8 score = +0.88
- Woolmer Hill is the No. 1 11-16 school in Surrey for progress
- Top 3% of schools in the whole country for progress
- Top 5 of all schools in Surrey for progress
You can view any school's Progress 8 score by going to the DfE's Compare School Performance website https://www.gov.uk/school-performance-tables
18/11/2024Our ‘Proud to Belong; Community’ value was at the heart of a co-curricular trip last week when the Music Department took a small group of Year 7 students to the Chestnut View Care Home in Haslemere.
The group, accompanied by Mrs Young, performed an afternoon concert for the care home residents with songs focused on ‘growing up’. The students gave rousing renditions of ‘When I Grow Up’ from the musical Matilda and ‘A Million Dreams’ from The Greatest Showman, amongst others.
The students then enjoyed refreshments with the residents and had an opportunity to hear their stories and experiences about growing up.
#ProudToBelong #community
17/11/2024A reminder that the WMAT Wellbeing Weekend is this week and the school will be closed to all students on Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd November.
We hope you enjoy the long weekend and get a chance to recharge ahead of the final few busy weeks of term!
#wellbeingweekend #timetorecharge
