We would like to invite you to our Open Evening on Monday, 20th September 2010. The evening is for parents with children currently in Year 6, who wish to consider joining our Year 7 in September 2011 and any other parents and students who wish to view the school. You and your child are welcome to meet our staff and pupils and see the excellent facilities that we have on offer at Warlingham School.

Warlingham School is hosting a 20 year Reunion Concert for students who attended the schools between 1990 and the present day. The event which will take place on the front lawn (weather permitting) on Friday, 2nd July from 7pm, has been organised by Head of Music, Mrs Hicks to celebrate students past a present and provide them with an opporunity to meet up again whilst enjoying the musical talents of current Warlingham students.

A Year 10 Food Technology lesson was treated to a gastronomic master class on Friday, 14th May 2010, when two chefs from the Craft Guild of Chefs, Matt Owens and Mark Rigby, took part in this year’s Warlingham Masterchef. Warlingham Masterchef is a Business & Enterprise and Food Technology simulation which has been running annually at the School over the last three years. This year saw a twist to the established format of the day which previously comprised a demonstration by the Chefs followed by the students replicating the dishes within a given time frame. This year, Chef Owens and Rigby devised a series of simple recipes (approximately three per group) which they compiled into a ’recipe pack’ one of which was given to each group of students. The format was devised to help the students achieve simple but tasty results using great ingredients and learn a trick or two along the way!

Warlingham School became a hive of activity on Thursday, 11th March, when 28 budding journalists took on the challenge of producing news stories for the BBC School Report project. After a video introduction to the day by former teacher and current BBC News presenter, Huw Edwards, the Warlingham School reporters have been busy researching, interviewing, writing and editing their chosen news stories. In addition, they participated in a World Record attempt along with more than 300 other schools to make the largest interactive weather report. Warlingham School students took time out of the ‘newsroom’ and gathered on the front lawn at approximately 9.15hrs to take a Celsius reading

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’.