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22/03/23

Last week MFL teacher, Ms More, attended the Kingston Grammar School Careers Fair where she spoke about her experiences & insights of the teaching profession, & opportunities to with the Waldegrave Training Alliance . 🙏 for hosting such a great event.

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21/03/23

We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who supported us with our Fundraiser event for 🔴 It was great to see so many red outfits from both students and staff! We are thrilled to announce our grand total raised is £1,928.60 🥳🎉 https://t.co/XdBsIL5uId

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21/03/23

Retweetd From Waldegrave Sports

Last week we had exciting 6th form fixtures! Our U18 Netballers played and narrowly missed out on victory with the game finishing 16-18. Our U18 Footballers worked hard to finish 2-2 after going 2 down early on against Kings Maths School. Well done everyone 👏🏼 https://t.co/7CMZawZDYL

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21/03/23

Retweetd From Waldegrave Sports

A great morning at last week for the Richmond Borough Swimming Gala. A huge congratulations to all our swimmers! We took home 8 1st place medals across the year groups including winning both Year 9 freestyle & medley relays! 🥇🏊🏼‍♀️ https://t.co/gnyKillciA

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21/03/23

Retweetd From Waldegrave Sports

Another fantastic game for our Year 7 Netballer’s last night, winning 25-0 😱Well done to Daphne for getting POM! 👏🏼 Thank you for hosting us! https://t.co/SJoeoxlZff

20/03/23

Well done Y7s - you did us proud! 🌟 https://t.co/tcEm0tgZTZ

http://www.twitter.com/waldegravesch/status/1637528771048734723

19/03/23

Retweetd From Richmond Council

Funded by The Richmond Voluntary Fund, The Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation will be hosting a FREE performance of the powerful verbatim play ‘I Love You, Mum – I Promise I Won’t Die’ by Mark Wheeller tomorrow (20 March) 🎭 Read more about it and book ⬇️ https://t.co/oPCSVb0jWU https://t.co/lMt8tPK60O

19/03/23

Retweetd From WizardTheatre

It's tomorrow!! Tickets still available, so please follow the link. Looking forward to seeing so many of our followers there! https://t.co/sXetdiC2yE

http://www.twitter.com/waldegravesch/status/1636762054072893441

17/03/23

Congratulations to Waldegrave alumni Lucy Challis for being named number 5 on E2E’s list of 100 female entrepreneurs for her excellent leadership of Blue Arrow Care. https://t.co/hxa9JK0sZd Well done Lucy! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 https://t.co/niwiVvA5jA

17/03/23

Retweetd From Waldegrave Sports

Thank you for having us the students really enjoyed hearing about all the different areas of research! 💭🧠 https://t.co/839u69tspf

http://www.twitter.com/waldegravesch/status/1636759130101653504

17/03/23

Retweetd From Waldegrave Sports

More great Netball games this week against with our Year 7’s winning 12-5 and Year 8’s 23-1! Well done to POM’s Immy in Y7 and Jasmine in Y8 👏🏼🏅 https://t.co/k29Ewk8Cyr

http://www.twitter.com/waldegravesch/status/1636321723577520133

16/03/23

Retweetd From Hampton School Partnerships

The School corridors are filled with the sounds of strings, percussion, woodwind and brass, with rehearsals in full swing ahead of tonight's concert! https://t.co/IY0PfJqXXk

http://www.twitter.com/waldegravesch/status/1636321666035744771

16/03/23

Retweetd From Hampton School Partnerships

After a productive day of rehearsals and workshops, over 170 young musicians from our eight ISSP independent and state school partners come together for an evening celebration concert. https://t.co/2gRPE1JQ6J

http://www.twitter.com/waldegravesch/status/1636321642371481601

16/03/23

Retweetd From Hampton School Partnerships

The Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore provides the joyful culmination of a wonderful day of music making - with young people from eight schools coming together to showcase their mutual love of music. https://t.co/HIClhjgD7a

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16/03/23

Retweetd From Hampton School Partnerships

Wow! Take a look at what 170+ musicians from ISSP partner schools , , , , , , and can produce together in a day. https://t.co/9bRe8QRaS5

14/03/23

Thank you for this fantastic opportunity! https://t.co/l3xSBqs7V2

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14/03/23

Did you know today is International Mathematics Day? Also known as Pi Day: 14 March =3/14=3.14= mathematical constant Pi. KS3 students are challenged to visualise Pi in a variety of ways & recite as many Pi digits as possible- how many do you know?! https://t.co/KwfaejhZus

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13/03/23

Retweetd From WizardTheatre

Hosted by for a play written by “I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won’t Die” Next Monday! Book your tickets now! https://t.co/Oci2radZtL https://t.co/cDj5rm9Cnq

13/03/23

Retweetd From twickenham tweets

Can you help support Off The Record, a local charity doing important work with young people. https://t.co/KZZzIV0rEy

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13/03/23

Assistant Head Clare Lane attended the 'Get Into Teaching' event & spoke to prospective teachers. If you think you've got what it takes to & want to join the Waldegrave Training Alliance then we want to hear from you! Email us: wta.org https://t.co/R3u9zHaaBe

Are students more engaged in learning using technology?

 

   Are students more engaged in learning using technology? 

Written by Yasemin A




 

  Almost all educational institutions are now using forms of technology and the internet to support learning, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic. There have been many mixed opinions on the topic of virtual learning but what are the real benefits and harms of using plenty of technology in young people’s standard lives? 

 

  According to a recent UK study, 56% of students were noticeably more interested in learning when the internet or technology was used. 98% of all schools have access to computers. 58% of schools provided a personal laptop to students. Although this may seem like a huge advance in education, there are many dangers to excessive computer/laptop use in schools. 

 

  The average UK school provides access to a computer or laptop for students, typically in a library or a computing room. A single computer radiates at least 400 THz of electromagnetic radiation. Considering there would be at least 30 in one IT classroom, 12,000 THz would be emitted into one classroom. This is a great amount of radiation that young people are subjected to and the future effects are still unknown. 

 

  Medical board certified paediatrician, Jennifer Cross, MD, who is also a professor at Cornell Medical School has studied screen time and radiation effects on the paediatric brain and has found that children who were over exposed to radiation and mobile devices performed worse on reading tests in school compared to ones with limited screen time and spent more time having verbal conversations with their friends and family. She advised parents of 2-5 year old children to limit their child’s screen time to only one hour of educational, quality content and for 6-12 year olds she advised to keep them off of social media and make sure they still have balanced and healthy offline lives along with online. Overall, she advised to generally make sure that developing children spend lesser and lesser amounts of time surrounded by radiation from mobile devices since it could potentially be a threat to development. Although it is only potentially, the fact that we do not know any of the future side effects is the most terrifying realisation. 

 

  Leora Lawton from University of California, Berkeley believes excessive exposure to radiation emitted from technological devices as a developing child or teen could increase the risk of depression, shorter attention spans and addiction - substance addictions and mobile device addictions. Both of these addictions, though very different, lead to serious mental illness that could last a lifetime. 

 

  But perhaps the various benefits outweigh the negatives - at least the negatives of using technology for educational purposes in schools. Mrs Green, Head of ICT at Waldegrave School, believes that it is worth the risk to use technology in schools because of its various benefits and contributions. For example, it is extremely important to have experience using ICT because every single job young people will do in the future, that job will involve technology and “the more you’re exposed to it, the more confident and comfortable you will become”. She also thinks it is fair and important that every pupil has access to the same material through the virtual learning environment at Waldegrave. 


 

  Furthermore, Mr Isted, Deputy Head of Waldegrave School who introduced Google suite to the school, has seen a very positive change in learning engagement and confidence since introducing the tool to the staff and students. He believes it has solved many issues in the school such as communication with teachers and access to learning being completely cut off when a student was not present in school but after the introduction of Google, students can learn independently from home and get support from teachers and faculty. Especially for Y11s and Y13s on study leave, the virtual learning environment Waldegrave has created would benefit them tremendously and improve the outcomes of their exams. 



  A Year 9 student who stayed off  school for a week due to COVID thinks that the virtual education resources saved them from falling behind. They felt more organised with all their work together on their Google Drive and easy to access/find. However, they also think education should never fully be converted to online because having an equal balance of virtual and in person education is the best for success in learning and mental health of students. 

 

    Ultimately, there are clear reasons to limit and monitor screen time but the benefits are hard to live without so we should make sure our health is not majorly affected by technology but continue to make the most of the convenient benefits they create, especially in a school/learning environment.