At Ridgewood, we know how well our Year 11 students are preparing for their upcoming exams. To support this further, we will be running Easter School during the Easter holidays. This will take place on Tuesday 26 March, Wednesday 27 March and Thursday 28 March 2024. Sessions will run from 09.30-11.30 in the morning, and 12.30-14.30 in the afternoon. Students do not have to wear their uniform and can leave site during the break to get some lunch if they would like to. A full timetable of sessions will be released shortly, and students will be able to sign up to these sessions via Clubs on EduLink. Easter School has historically been very well attended by students who have found this additional, focused tuition beneficial, and complimentary to studies already taking place at home. We will share the full timetable soon!

Do you want to work for the NHS? Black Country Healthcare are running a two day work experience opportunity. To apply, please press here to get an application back. Deadline for applications is the 29th of January 2024.

Five Rivers are a local fostering agency, based in Bromsgrove, and are currently looking for new carers within the Stourbridge area. If you are interested in helping out, please contact them using the information in the image!

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/