Contents
Student News 3
Duke of Edinburgh
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Sixth Form 10
Youth & Community
Dear Parents and Carers...
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Staff News 14
We hope you enjoy reading our final
‘Woodrush Star’ for this academic year.
With so many highlights of the last year
and so many fantastic achievements from
our students it’s impossible to single any
out.
Modern Foreign Languages
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English & Library
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This year we averaged over one extracurricular trip a day and
have sent over a thousand students on visits and enrichment
activities. Students have been to New York, Spain, Italy and
Poland and literally hundreds of locations within our country and
locality. Students have experienced a huge variety of in school
activities ranging from visiting authors to setting up our very
own chicken coop to taking part and succeeding in many sports
and teams. We launched our new virtual learning environment
‘Frog’ and now have hundreds of students regularly accessing
materials and resources in the evenings and weekends to
extend their learning and parents have recently been given
access to this to help support their child and monitor the
progress they make.
But above all we continue to be very proud of our students
for their effort and work this year and for the progress they
have made. This year we again expect an excellent set of
examination results from our students with 100% of students
in Year 11 predicted to leave with top grades A*-C in at least
5 GCSE’s and over 80% of students also gaining top grades
A*-C in GCSE English and Mathematics. Students in our sixth
form are also looking forward to starting degree courses at
universities across the country in a range of subjects.
We have successfully secured funding direct from the
Department of Education to help us improve our site and
facilities further and we are set to spend over half a million
pounds this summer on refurbishments to windows, our
internal and external decoration and our ICT facilities including
making our entire site Wi-Fi. On that note we look forward to
welcoming our students back to enjoy our improvements in
September. Our first day back for all students is
Wednesday 4th September with our new
Year 7 on site ready for the first bell at 8.35
and Years 8 to 12 in for the start of the
second period at 9.55 and finally Year 13
ready to start back on 9th September.
I must finish by thanking all of you for
you support and hard work towards making
our school the great place it is.
From us all at Woodrush we wish you a
safe and enjoyable summer holiday.
Wythall Police Station
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-My Home
Mr C King
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Humanities 21
Mr King: Marathon Man!
STEM
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Sports 32
Activity Days 2013
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Creative Learning &
Teaching Week
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Creative Arts 38
Primary News 39
Woodrush High School
An Academy for Students Aged 11-18
Free School Meals - are you eligible?
You are able to claim Free School Meals for your child if
you, or your partner, receive one or more of the following:? Income Support
? Job Seekers Allowance - Income Based
? Employment & Support Allowance – Income
Related
? Support under Part VI of the Immigration &
Asylum Act 199I
? Child Tax Credit – providing you are not entitled
to Working Tax Credit, and have an annual
income as assessed by HM Revenue &
Customs that does not exceed £16,190
? Guarantee element of State Pension Credit
Did you know that: ? By claiming your eligibility, you and your child can benefit even if they don’t always take up the
meal.
? You may also qualify for school transport, help with school uniforms and the cost of school
trips.
? By claiming your eligibility, you can help your child’s school as they can get extra funding
based on the number of pupils eligible for a free school meal.
Applying for Free School Meals is easy. You can: ? Collect an application from Reception or telephone the school on 01564 823777
and we will post one out to you.
? Download the application form which is available on our website.
www.woodrushhigh.worcs.sch.uk or www.worcestershire.gov.uk
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In receipt of the Guarantee element of State