WGS Parent Mail

Key Words

Parents of students in lower school may be interested to see the attached list of key words, which all students should be able to write and spell correctly. Students can check their own ability by testing themselves and recording their result under the R and Sp columns (read and spell), for example with a tick for okay and a dot for ‘I need to work on it’.

To learn spellings, it is suggested that students use the ‘look, say, cover, write, check’ method that they already know from primary school.

These words apparently make up 65% of all the words we read and use, so they are worth knowing!

Download Key Words List

Mrs R E Blewitt
Head of Special Educational Needs

Year 8 Subject Evening

Diary date: Thursday 8 March 2012

After School Dance Clubs

For students in years 7,8 & 9
 
Mondays starting 20th Sept 3-4pm Boys Breakdance in the GYM with Keir Cawley.
Tuesday starting 21st Sept 3-4pm in P5 (Drama room) Dance club (girls and boys) with Helen Wadge
 
Letters are available from the Drama Department, places must be booked and paid for in advance.
Both classes will be making a dance to perform at the WOSSP Youth Dance Platform which Wood Green School is hosting again on Wednesday 10th November.
 
For more information about the classes and the Dance platform contact Jenny Parrott, Visual & Performing Arts Administrator on 01993 899 544 or email arts@woodgreen.oxon.sch.uk
 

Lower School Valentines Disco

Lower school students enjoyed an exciting evening on February 10th with lots of dancing, good music, glow sticks and meeting friends. An evening to remember!

Year 8 Parents' Evening Reminder

Diary date: Year 8 Parents' Evening Thursday 11 March

Year 8

A reminder to Year 8 parents, that 19 May is 'Working with Parents' day.

Support & Skills for Parents of Older Children & Teenagers

Oxfordshire County Council will be running Parent Talk workshops at Wood Green from Wednesday 22 April for the remainder of the academic year. Each workshop lasts for 2 hours and will cover a range of issues, with the aim of supporting parents in coping with behavioural problems, conflict situations, and helping to create better relationships with young people.

Enquiries to Rosie Hill on 01865 559 386

Year 8 Dance Day

Professional instructors from the worldwide dance organisation ‘Re:bourne’ visited Wood Green School at the end of March to give Year 8’s the chance to learn about interpretive dance and the way body movements can convey ideas. The organisation, founded by famous choreographer Mathew Bourne, is known across the globe, and its slogan ‘Adventures in Dance’ certainly applied last week, as students entered an exciting new world of creativity.

Instead of talking, the instructors showed students other ways in which they can communicate thoughts and feelings, such as using gestures, movements and signals. After taking all the ideas in, students were given the opportunity to put together their own routines to express certain ideas, using actions of their choice.

The students became so fluent in using body movements like this, that by the end of the day, they could describe someone’s character or tell a story without saying a word. For learning these new skills, a big thanks must go to the staff who organised the day and to the instructors who came to Wood Green and shared all their fascinating knowledge on body movements with Year 8.

Sam D, Year 11