Michel Sider, David Walden and The Mayor attended the launch of the Colour a Memory project, a bilateral project ( French / English), celebrating the publishing of a colouring and word prompt book aimed at stimulating memories for those with memory loss. Images for the book were created by students and staff from Wildern.
Congratulations to Eliot who has been elected to the Hampshire police youth commission. He is now the official police youth representative for Eastleigh and will meet with the police and crime commissioner to help decide priorities in policing from a young person's perspective.
A massive well done again to the tremendous amount of shoe boxes that were donated on Thursday. Wildern managed to nearly double last year's total of 150 boxes to 295 boxes. The overall amount was 669 including our feeder schools and local charities that were taken from the D@rt on Saturday. Absolutely brilliant!!
I am writing to inform you that sadly our colleague Kerry Raucci passed away yesterday following a short but serious illness. Kerry worked originally with us as a Teaching Assistant and most recently worked as a Core Progress Support Assistant within the Maths department helping a range of students across all year groups.
Last week we took four Y8 students to the first round of the National Young Mathematicians' Awards at Explore Learning Whiteley. It's a group competition designed to stretch high-ability maths students and get them working outside their comfort zones. They were selected from about fifteen students who were put forward by teachers and they have trained for the event over the last month. They put in a great account of themselves today and we will find out whether or not they qualified for round 2 at the end of next week.
By way of marking the centenary of the end of the 1914-1918 world war, the art department worked in collaboration with the Technology department to create an installation for Remembrance day 2018. Year 9 art and photography students bought in photographs from home of family members who served either during WW1 or in a conflict since. For many families, this opened up poignant conversations about loved ones and the sacrifices that were made. Some of our students' photographs can be seen here. Inspired by contemporary artist Christian Boltanski who creates art about war, courage, loss and suffering, students used a photographic emulsion transfer process to create individual memorials. The installation is also lit by candlelight.
On the 2nd November, Wildern’s Year 8s exited the Hampshire Cup with an extremely disappointing defeat. After two goals put us up, Priory School came back and went level at the end of the first half. Wildern went 3-2 up then went into a 4-2 lead after a fantastic header from Bailey Rowe. Again, Priory came back and it was four a piece. The referee blew the final whistle and the game went straight to a penalty shootout which Wildern lost 2-3. There’s still the league lads!!
After the recent election for the Local Governing Board Parent Election 2018, both Nicola Addis and Naomi Payne have been elected. Our thanks to all the candidates for volunteering.
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