Are you looking for a family friendly, fun event to be more active and meet new friends in 2024? Do you know about the weekly, free junior parkrun at Stevens Park, Wollescote? Every Sunday morning at 9am children aged 4-14 years and their families can complete a 2 kilometre course by walking, running or even skipping! To register and find out more about taking part or volunteering at the event, visit the Stevens Park, junior parkrun website.
Before we broke up for Christmas, we had our forms create Christmas food hampers to be donated to the Black Country Foodbank. Together we donated 239kgs of food which is enough to provide 478 meals. Alongside this, we also donated £400 to the charity. A truly amazing feat, thank you to all those who took part and donated!
Year 9 have settled in very well this year, and we recognise that students are now ready to take their next steps in personalising their own curriculum as they move into Key Stage 4. To support and guide this process, we would like to invite you to our Options Evening on Thursday 8th February 2024.
Options Evening will run from 6.00pm until 8.00pm. The first part of the evening (6.00pm-6.30pm) will be a presentation for parents and students in the school hall, delivered by Mr Cannon. Following the presentation, you will then be invited to tour H Block where you can speak to staff and students about the different subjects we offer.
If you could kindly confirm your attendance by completing the form on EduLink, we would be most grateful!
To ensure families in Dudley can access emergency support when needed, Dudley Council have set up additional out of hours provision. Practitioners working with families experiencing financial hardship can direct them to the following emergency support.
School is out for Christmas! Thank you to everyone for all the help through this long term! Students are now not back in school until the 9th January, enjoy some well deserved rest over the holiday. We hope you all have a lovely break, Christmas and new year!
The last Sway newsletter for 2023 is now up. To view it, go to our sway newsletter page on the website or use this link. https://sway.office.com/2hUb6OYSbQc0LGEB?ref=Link
The booking window for instrument/voice lessons at Ridgewood High School, has reopened for bookings in the New Year. From today, Thursday 21st December until midnight on Sunday 7th January 2024. Lessons will commence from the first week back after the holidays. If your child is in Year 7, or a student wishing to start music lessons, we urge you to book as soon as possible.
For students in Year 10 and 11 studying GCSE Music, performance is a compulsory requirement of the course, and as such your child must be having weekly music lessons.
Students can start for as little as £8 a session for a group lesson, or £12.25 for 1:1 tuition. Please follow the link below to book. Select the “music lessons in school” option.
https://www.dudley.gov.uk/things-to-do/dudley-performing-arts/information-for-parents-and-young-people/music-lessons-in-schools/
Calling all parents and students! Do you have a member of staff you feel went above to help you? Why not send them a thank you message, you can do this by following the link below.
https://thankateacher.co.uk/
Vaccinations UK are offering free flu vaccines for school aged children in Dudley areas in January 2024. For dates or to find out more information, please consult the leaflet.
Discounted Spring Term Train Tickets are now available to buy! With this offer students can save up to 50% off their travel.
Detailed information is available online: Termly Student Discount Train Tickets | Train Ticket Types (westmidlandsrailway.co.uk)
For any questions, feel free to contact Sophie.Gardner@wmtrains.co.uk
Thirty Year 7 & 8 students attended the Matt Lucas author event, held at the Earls High School , Halesowen on Wednesday 15th November. Matt was incredibly funny, sharing many anecdotes from his childhood and his glittering career in TV shows such as The Great British Bake Off, Films such as Paddington and Gnomeo & Juliet, musical theatre where he played an integral role in Les Miserables, and now as an accomplished children's writer.
His latest book called 'The Boy who slept through Christmas' is a musical novel and includes twenty original songs written by Matt. Readers can sing along using the QR Codes scattered throughout the book. The story is about a boy called Leo who loves Christmas! But this year is a little different, as his family have suffered a tragedy... 'This year would be the first Christmas without someone rather special. Leo's lovely mum had been ill for a while and, a few months ago, she had died. In his sadness, Leo had briefly pondered if Christmas might be virtually impossible this year (or indeed, any year) without Mum, but then he remembered how she had made him promise to have the best time possible, always, even if she wasn't there. So, Christmas would be going ahead and - more than that - Leo resolved that, in tribute to his Mum, this would quite simply be the best Christmas ever.'
As always, RHS students were exemplary whilst there. They were involved in asking questions during the Q&A session, sang along with the Earls choir to 'There is no day quite like Christmas Day' and made-up lyrics to 'Jingle Bells' with Matt, using rhyming words such as neigh, cafe, ballet, hairspray. RHS wish Matt Lucas every success with his Christmas story and look forward to other author events in the future.
