On Thursday, 11th March 2010, a group of Year 7 and 8 students will be taking part in the BBC School Report, a BBC project to engage 11-14 year olds in the news. Video reports will be published on the school website from 16.00hrs on Thursday and will also be linked the BBC website. Ex-teacher and BBC News presenter, Huw Edwards, is also lending his support to the project. He said: “I’m involved because I want to give young people the chance to make the news themselves, and I want to share the principals of good journalism.” Check the website again on Thursday to view the full and final Warlingham School news reports...
David Blackman, the current headteacher at Hamsey Green Junior School, is retiring at the end of term and the Local Authority is consulting on an amalgamation of Hamsey Green Infant and Junior Schools. Until this is resolved, interim arrangements are being made regarding the leadership and management of Hamsey Green Junior School and Alison Woodhosue, Headteacher of Warlingham School has been asked to support this. This means that, during the summer term only, Miss Woodhouse will be based at Hamsey Green Junior School (on Warlingham School campus site) for one day each week....
Warlingham School hosted their first Business & Economics conference on Wednesday, 20th January 2010, ‘Survival of the Fittest’, for A Level students at Warlingham and other local schools and colleges. Guest speakers from retail giants, Sainsbury’s and Ann Summers and smaller businesses, Domino’s Pizza and The Designplan Group supported this inaugural event by talking to the delegates about topics related to their courses: ‘Big Is Better’, ‘...But Small Is Beautiful’, ‘You Can Grow When Times Are Hard’ and ‘...But You Must Manage Your Way Through Change’....