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During the Somerset County Tennis Championships held in August 2023, Marcus in Year 10 won the U14 and U16 Singles. He also came Runner-up in the U18 doubles with his brother. Well done Marcus!

The students were an absolute credit to Wadham - well behaved, respectful and engaged with everything we did.
They took part in a tour of the theatre, a drama workshop focused on Macbeth and watching the play.
It was one of the hottest days of the year and they were standing in the full glare of the sun, yet they all managed to view the majority of the play.
I think they all had a great day - the English teachers definitely did!!!

It was an absolutely fantastic production.

U13 County Cricket Runners Up! Beating Wellsway and losing narrowly to Holyrood. Well done team! 

Some fantastic skills shown by Wadham's Year 7 & 8 Hockey teams.

A fantastic win for our Year 11 Girls who won against Preston 5-1

Our triumphant Year 8 Rugby team after their recent fixture! 

Fantastic game and well played.

Our Year 7's played so well in a recent rugby tournament. They played 4, won 3, drew 1.........an unbelievable effort from our new Year 7's.

Well played everyone! 

Our new Head Student Team are :

Rebekah P-President, Nancy P-Vice President,

 Rosemary H, Aimee D, Katie B and Thomas D.

We are very pleased to share with you that we have appointed the following students as our Year 11 Prefects.

   Poppy R, Zoe N, Charlton B, Ella F, Toby S, Chloe G, Phoebe B, Ellie S, Kelsey N, Ruby C, Oliver W, AJ P, William F, Connie M, Sienna T, Lottie H, Ellie-May T, Jack W, Kayla W, Jayden K, Noah d, Sydney L, Emre T and Elliotte W.                

 

This year we had the pleasure of Guest speaker Miss Isobel Rowe (Wadham Alumni 2017) inspiring our high-achieving and hard-working students with a motivating speech and awarding a sparkling array of cups, trophies and certificates at our annual celebration of achievement, watched and supported by families, staff, Governors and the Mayor of Crewkerne, Cllr Kathy Head at St Bartholomew’s Church in Crewkerne on Thursday 21^st September.

We warmly celebrated the achievement of our top KS3 and KS4 students, who were proud recipients of awards in Design and Creative Arts, Design and Technology, English, Modern Foreign languages, Humanities, Mathematics and Science.

Our Sixth Form and Special Achievement awards were enthusiastically awarded to KS5 students, many who are now taking their next steps to university and will hopefully return in the not too distant future, with encouraging stories of their own journeys into the world of work that will help to inspire the next generations of Wadham students.

We celebrated the GCSE attainment of seven high achievers this year and were delighted that Casey Young was a totally deserving recipient of the prestigious Head Teachers Award at the end of the evening.

 

Please remember that all cups and trophies should be returned to Wadham by Friday 3^rd November to be placed in our trophy cupboard for our students and visitors to view.

GCSE Award for Attainment - Amy Frost

GCSE Awards for Progress- Lilia Jeffrey, Jasmin Lawrence, Harvey Mock, Alex Neacsu and Tyler Padfield

Progress and Attainment Award- Milly Pattermore and Tess Bryant

The Maureen Hindle Cup for Progress in Art- Lottie Dawkins

The Senior Award for Photography - Emma Stocks 

Junior Music Cup- Oliver Smith

Senior Dawes Music Cup- Lucy Frackiewicz

The Sally Culmstock Award for Achievement in Singing- Rhianna Fifield

Extra Curricular Performing Arts Senior Award- Jessica Cummins

Kirsty Hughes Drama and Performing Arts Award- Josie Bulmer

Product Design Junior Award for Food and Nutrition- George Finch

The Clyde Anderson Award for Engineering- Lara Deakin

3D Design Senior Award Engineering/ Material Technology-  Elvie Layfield

Food Preparation and Nutrition Senior Award- Elliotte White

The Stella French Award- Ryan Broome

The Jaqui Taylor Award- Elijah Brown

The Vanessa Salter Senior Linguist of the Year Award- Elliotte White

Crewkerne and District Twinning Association Award for Excellence in French- Erin Welsh

Geography Junior Award - Millie Webster

Geography Senior Award-Charlton Bowery

History Junior Award- Amber Stoodley

History Senior Award- Patrick Cummings

The Vickery Cup- Faith Parsons

The Spurway Family Sports Award- Lachlan Rice

The David Carter Cup- Casey Young

Health and Fitness Senior Award- Ruby Trebble

Child Development Senior Award- Keria Gould

Sixth Form Awards

The Cathy Tremaine Awards for Business Studies - Imogen Allen

The Jill Hutchings Award for Progress in Design and Creative Arts- Emma Wheeler

The Richard D'Rozario Award for English - Rebekah Partridge

The Branston Cup for Sociology - Madelaine Howarth

The Chalmers Award for Mathematics- Milly Pattermore

The Bennett Cup for Geography- Thomas Dunn

History Award for Academic Achievement- Nyah O'Nions

Religion and Philosophy Award for Academic Achievement- Rachel White

Special Achievement Awards

The Old Ilminsterian Cup for Academic Achievement- Milly Pattemore

Governors' Award for Above and Beyond- Toby Swan

The Rotary 'Service above Self' Award- William Ford

The Romans 12 Award- Zoe Killick

The Matthew Gardner Hope Award- Imogen Allen

Headteacher's Award- Casey Young

 

We are really pleased to be offering all students the use of a new library system, known as Accessit. This is a forward facing system allowing them to connect with the library online. Students will be able to view the library books virtually, read peer reviews and reserve any books that appeal. Accessit will provide alternative reading suggestions and send notifications of new books for any areas of interest the students select. This is just a small list of what Accessit has to offer and moving forward students will be able to view links to resources relating to their subject areas along with trialling access to eBooks.

Accessit will be a great asset for the Key Stage 3 reading lessons, giving the students a greater facility to view and choose the perfect book.

We will look at how students can access and utilise the system both in tutor time and during reading lessons. Accessit will also be available to students outside of school through their school Microsoft login.