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So we reach the end of the school year and, as usual, we are reflecting on three terms of hard work but we are also saying goodbye to good friends. Several staff are moving on to new jobs elesewhere but two long-serving members of staff are going to retire. So we say thank you and good luck to Divisional Head, Liz Hindes and Assistant Head Judie Poster. They will be hugely missed.
On other matters, you can see some photos from our very successful Sports Day here.
Our Charity Day last week raised over £1000 for Chain of Hope.
You can download the final edition of the Head's Newsletter for this year here.
Have a great summer. First day for pupils next term is .
Now, if only we could get some sunshine . . . . . |
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The end of the school year approaches and with it comes the traditional end of school year activities. The PE Department ran a hugely successful Sports Day yesterday (with Ranelagh once again crowned champions) - photos to follow. Today sees our annual Charity Day and as we speak Mr Casey is looking to the heavens, praying that the rain holds off. Again, photos to follow soon. |
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The MFL department made their annual trip to Boulogne last Friday. Here is the photographic evidence! |
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Any parent who wishes to join the school's governing body will find the nomination form here and a list of qualifications and disqualifications here. |
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Last week the Music Department took a group of students for an acting and singing workshop based around "The Sound of Music", followed by great seats at the show itself. For a few pictures please click here. |
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The latest edition of the Head's Newsletter went home with pupils today. You can download your own copy by clicking here. |
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"A Midsummer Night's Dream" played its first night to a hugely enthusiastic audience last night. You can see photos from the show in performance here. You can also download a copy of the show programme here. |
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Tickets and now on sale for this year's whole school production of " ". They can be purchased in the foyer every lunchtime and cost £6.50 for adults and £4.00 for children. Please contact the school if you want to book tickets and can't make it along at lunchtimes.
You can download a copy of the show poster here.
You can see some excellent photos from the show in rehearsal here. |
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The latest edition of the Head's Newsletter went home with pupils today. For your own copy please click here. |
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Last Thursday saw an exciting activities day for all our pupils. Highlights included a brilliant new media project completed by the Year 10s which included making a podcast and Year 7 (and their tutors) went on a science-themed trip to London Zoo. There are some Zoo pictures here. |
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You can see photos from last night's A2 Drama production of "Slave Ubu" and our AS Drama production of "Fear and Misery of the Third Reich" by following the links.
You can see copies of the programme here: Slave Ubu. Fear and Misery of the Third Reich. |
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Photo update!
Photos from a cultural visit to Torkington House are available here. The trip saw the performance of our Indian Cultural and Easter assemblies to the residents. It was much appreciated and everyone commented upon how talented, kind and friendly our girls were. Well, we knew that already.
There are also photos from the bi-annual cruise available here. |
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A few photos from the fashion show are now online. Interested parties can choose from the total of over 600 currently displayed in the Technology and order printed copies for the following rates:
4" x 6" = 20p each
5"x 7" = 40p each
8" x 10" = £2 each
See Mrs Doel for details. |
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The latest edition of the Head's Newsletter was sent home with pupils this week. You can download your own copy of this bumper Spring issue by following this link. |
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Tuesday night saw the inaugural EWS Fashion Show and by all accounts it was a stunning success. We will have lots of pictures to show you as soon as the "official" photographer gives me the disk. Many thanks. Well done to all involved but particularly the technology department staff who ran the event with such skill that it is certain now to become a regular event. |
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Last week some of our pupils visited the incredible city of Venice as part of their Performing Arts and Art Department studies. Everyone had a great time indeed and you can see some photographs on our flickr site here. |
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Our school continues its proud history of supporting worthy causes today, with the launch of a week of events to raise money for the BBC's Sport Relief charity.
Also, Year 7 went to Kew Gardens yesterday to complete many activites in support of their Geography studies. You can see some pictures here. |
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The DCFS published updated performance tables today. You can view the table for EWS by clicking here. It shows that our school is achieving excellent results compared to both borough and national averages. |
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The most recent edition of the Head's Newsletter is now (somewhat belatedly) available here. Apologies for the delay. |
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Photo update!
There are photos from inside and outside oure new PE / Performing Arts block available here.
The MFL Department took some girls to Berlin over half term. For a report and some photos click here. |
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There are few more photos of our new PE/ Performing Arts block available on our Flickr site. |
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The latest edition of the Head's Newsletter was sent home with pupils today. You can download your own copy here. |
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Two new additions to the photos on our Flickr site: firstly, some pictures of BBC newsreader George Alagiah's visit yesterday to speak to the Year 8s involved in the School Report Project.
Secondly, photos from the dress rehearsal of our A2 Drama students' play "Forget Me", written by the girls themselves and performed as part of their A Level examination. |
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The Sixth Form Open Evening is upcoming on the 26th of February. Details can be found here on the beginnings of a new SIxth Form Website. |
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Happy New Year! Let's hope 2008 is happy, healthy and successful for all members of our school community.
School restarts today after two weeks of glorious holiday. January can be a bleak month but at EWS there is lots to look forward to. As always. So keep visiting this page for more information .
In the meantime, you can have a look at the new Health and Social Care web pages that are gradually being created by Mrs Dharmasena. They are rather splendid.
Oh, by the way, I'm sure our readers will not need reminding that 2008 is the International Year of the Potato. Here is a very infomative website on everything Solanus Tuberosum-related. Enjoy.
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The lastest edition of the Head's Newsletter was sent home with pupils today. You can download a copy of your very own by clicking here.
Tonight is held our annual "Evening to Celebrate Achievement". More details to follow but remember that tomorrow school will start later than usual at |
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The Performing Arts Department staged their winter concert at school last night. It was a wonderful evening with a huge variety of excellent music performed by our talented pupils. You can see some photos of the evening here.
Talking of Perfoming Arts, the latest photos from our rapidly growing new Sports and Performing Arts are available here. |
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As mentioned in the recent edition of the Head's Newsletter, the school's is available by following this link. |
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The November edition of the Head's Newsletter was sent home with pupils this week. For your very own electronic copy you can follow this link here.
Also, a reminder (if you already knew) or an advert (if you didn't) that the School is hosting a this coming Saturday - 1st of December. There will be lots of stalls, information, free health checks and lots more besides. It runs from 10.00 - 4.00 and should be well worth a visit. |
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Earlier this week, all years took part in a day of PSHE activities. These ranged from UCAS application workshops for the Year 13s, a visit to Tate Modern for Year 12, a Science and Maths day for Year 10 and Year 7 studied European history at the V and A Museum. Here are some pictures of 7RBg at work!
A belated report and pictures from the relatively recent trip to Italy available here. |
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More success for the gardening club! |
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Autumn continues to delight with its parade of gorgeous colours. Here are some photos showing three particularly stunning trees in our grounds. |
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The latest edition of the Head's Newsletter was sent home with pupils today. You can download a copy by clicking here.
Photos from the recent School Cruise are now on our Flickr site. |
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Okay, so the weekend was better for our South African friends than for supporters of English rugby! Not to worry, we had all had a half term to get over the disappointment.
This first week back is a busy one and we hope to bring you news of an exciting day of science tomorrow.
But in the meantime, here are some photos from the MFL Department's recent trip to Boulogne avec ses etudiants de Francais. |
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What a weekend! Especially if you like rugby and support England or South Africa. The final is a mouth-watering prospect but until it arrives, let's return to school matters:
Last week the Geography Department made a series of successful field visits to Hastings with Year 9. Thankfully, the weather was pretty kind to them all week.
A reminder that next week is half term and school will resume a week on Monday, the 29th. Also there will be a training day for staff on and so pupils will not be required to attend on that day.
The somewhat inacurately named "Website of the Week" page currently features a site that has held the interest of the EWS web team for the past few weeks. It also has a relevance to an exciting project that will be launching in school very soon. |
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The school took part in Jeans for Genes day on Friday. Everyone came to school wearing denim and lots of money was raised, continuing our fine tradition of charity work. We also collected unwanted clothes for the Clothes Aid charity. There are some photos from the day here. |
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A reminder that it is our evening for prospective parents of Year 6 pupils on Thursday (4th Oct) from. School will close at 1.15pm on this day and will reopen late after break on the morning of Friday 5th. |
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There are some new photographs of the progress on our new PE/Performing Arts block on our Flickr site and can be viewed by simply clicking here.
And take a look at the rapidly expanding Sociology pages here. They are excellent indeed. |
Various trips are currently running and we hope to have pictures available very soon from the Year 13 Biology field trip to Wales and the Latin trip to Sorrento, Italy.
The first edition of the Head's Newsletter in this new school year was published today. It is a big one! Lots of useful information, lots of colour pictures and, as always, an excellent insight into the life of our school. You can download your own copy here.
There is currently a vacancy for a parent governer and, if you are interested, you can download a copy of the nomination form here.
More news to follow soon.
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Hello? Hello? Is anyone there?
And we're back! After a few technical issues the fabulous EWS News Page returns for the new academic year. So what if the summer finally arrived when we were all back at work? We're not complaining. Much.
Anway, lots to catch up on (and loads has already happened since returning two weeks ago) so to bring a little order to the chaos, here goes:
Our exam results were excellent. Expressed simply the school achived 74% A*-C and 99% A*-G at GCSE (AS and A2 results to follow). however, these figures do not reflect the "value" the school added to the pupils sitting exams; in other words the amount pupils improved in their time with us, but we will publish this data in the near future.
There is a really handy guide to all the important dates for the year available here. This contains all term dates, all parents' evenings, plus a host of other useful dates. We will place it permanently on the site (i.e. not just on the news page) in the near future.
We are starting this year as a Training School. More about our exciting new role to follow soon.
Remember that our brilliant Flickr site is available here. This was a great success in the second half of last year and, to date, the photos have had 7000, yes 7000 views. Lots of our pupils have been able to use the site to download their own copies of pictures from shows, sports events, trips etc.
Last year's news is archived in our predictably named News Archive section here.
Our new PE and Performing Arts Block is looking more and more like a building. We will get out with our camera in the next few days to update the photos.
Is there more? Of course there is. We will attempt to provide more exciting EWS news in the next few days. But for the moment, it is good to be back. It really is.
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