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We had an enormous amount entries for this competition which will be done every half term. The students are encouraged to solve problem solving questions. This competition is only open to WHS students.
I just want to congratulate all of our students who entered this competition.
Thank you
Mrs Oz
We had a brilliant start to our fundraising at Worthing High raising £246.34 with some incredibly creative cakes!
The fundraising doesn’t just happen at school. We want our students to host their own bake sales for friends, family and the community. Last year this external effort doubled our total for the event. Worthing High would like to celebrate your monumental efforts so please take photos of your cakes and events and email them to sdecourcy@worthinghigh.net so we can share your work to our twitter feed.
Please can all fundraising be sent in though wisepay or donated to the finance office in school.
Thank you
Cake sales and competitions:
Worthing High School’s charity events kick off this year, as usual, with the Macmillan Coffee Morning. As a school we would also like to support those who have been impacted by the destruction caused by the recent earthquakes in Morocco and the devastating floods in Libya. We will be raising money for both causes through our annual bake sale and competition.
We will be hosting a cake sale and competition. Please drop your cakes off at student services on the morning of Thursday 28 September. Please can all pre-packaged and home cooked cakes be brought to student services on the 28 September. These will then be sliced or separated and sold to raise money on Thursday lunch. Prices will vary between 20p and £1 per item.
Star Baker Awards
We want to encourage our young bakers. Therefore we will also be running a best cake competition for each year group (and staff) Students will need to drop their entries to student services on the 28 September. Happy Baking!
West Sussex Youth Choir are looking for the talented young singers to join this group of talented singers from across the county in Years 9 to 13. Musical Director, Mark Bradbury, leads energetic and fast-paced sessions to equip young people with all the skills they need to become outstanding choral singers whilst also developing good vocal technique, exploring musical expression, communication and creativity.
West Sussex Youth Choir have announced that there is a tour to Normandy for the in May half term 2024!
The tour will include performances at some of Normandy’s beautiful historic venues with time thrown in for cultural activities and team building adventures which will create memories for life. There will be opportunity to collaborate musically in some repertoire with the conservatoire in the French town of Lisieux and also showcase the Youth Choir on their own. The price of the tour will be around £520 per person with financial assistance available to ensure its accessible to all. https://www.westsussexmusic.co.uk/choir/tour2024/
West Sussex Youth Choir rehearses on Saturdays 10:30am-12pm at Horsham Music Centre, based at The College of Richard Collyer, Horsham.
We are proud to announce, following a rigorous and very competitive process, our new Senior Student Leadership team for 2023-2024. Head Boy-Charlie Fisher, Head Girl-Millie Harper-Bailey and their Deputies Symone Samuel, Teegan Hyde, Sam Ludlow and Isaac Hewitt. Congratulations to you all! We're looking forward to working with you over the next year.
Please see the information below of the service for 14–25-year-olds with a learning difficulty or disability within the West Sussex area. These are all offered for FREE.
Barnardo's still have spaces on all these activities, but they do expect to be managing a waiting list as the weeks go on.
If you would like to book a place, ask a question or register interest for an upcoming event you need to email moving.forward@barnardos.org.uk
As you know we work with the team at Action Your Potential to support mental health, well-being and helping unleash the learning of all of our wonderful students. At AYP everything is understood in terms of what our brains are doing.
Moments of transition and change are tricky for brains - all brains, children, young people, teachers and parents and carers. Here, Andrew from AYP, walks us through why the brain finds change so hard and what we can do about it. Please click here for further useful information
How to Manage the Back to School Wobbles (1)
How to Manage the Back to School Wobbles (2)
Don't forget you're all about to join and access the support from AYP via their #NeuroNinja Learning Hub, just sign up here.
For more information about supporting mental health and mind management, see our videos here about building mental flexibility and managing your brain's worry system.
How to Manage My Brain's Worry System - 14:27s
Introducing Your Mind's Garen - 7:39s
Also Exam #NeuroNinja continues - we also ran two webinars over the Easter holidays and carried out over 100 coaching sessions with students we are supporting at your school. To sign up to Exam #NeuroNinja weekly webinars at 8pm every Thursday through to the 15 June click here.
Bedrock Learning
Since the beginning of this academic year, Worthing High School has placed vocabulary at the forefront of its focus for literacy in Key Stage 3; one of the ways we have done this is to engage our students in a literacy improvement tool called ‘Bedrock Learning’. This interactive online platform introduces students to new vocabulary and concepts via a range of fiction and non-fiction texts, helps them to apply these in different contexts, and quizzes them to develop their retention of new words.
Congratulations to all of the talented Year 7 artists who entered the Worthing High School
Design a Christmas card Competition. We had 40 fantastic cards to choose from Mrs Hunt and all of the Art department were so impressed by how many imaginative and detailed entries there were.
Ms Hunt, Mr Whitaker and Mr Panayiotou
had great fun judging the winner.
Thanks to all those who took part.
Merry Christmas to you all.
Congratulations - Alfie White 7B2
You were the winner, so many imaginative details, you will see your card printed.
We all really liked the WHS blazer on the snowman.
