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19/05/25

Forty of our Year 10 French students have had a bon voyage a Paris since Friday. They have enjoyed baguettes 🥖, visited the sites (Champs Elysée, Musée d’Orsay, Tour Eiffel etc…) & even done some shopping 🛍️ all to strengthen their language skills! ❤️🇫🇷❤️ pic.twitter.com/ft4OPYzm8a— Waldegrave School () May 19, 2025

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16/05/25

Judith & Poppy, Yr 9, are national finalists of the competition. This is a huge achievement for them & for Waldegrave - over 3,500 pupils from across the country entered & only 10 finalists were selected to perform on stage at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on 7 July pic.twitter.com/9BOAOU4Wg2— Waldegrave School () May 16, 2025

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16/05/25

Yesterday our Year 7s were learning about grilling food - they did a fun experiment looking at the impact of painting some water onto their bread before grilling it to make toast. There we some great designs painted and they even got to eat their toast afterwards 😋🔥 pic.twitter.com/yVb5L0X9bd— Waldegrave School () May 16, 2025

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13/05/25

More great news from Sam L’s beautiful painting ‘The vase and the plant’ was chosen for the Young Artist’s Summer Exhibition. We’re so proud! Sam aimed to layer multiple viewpoints in her artwork, a technique used in cubism & in traditional Asian paintings. pic.twitter.com/hxWc8ZnBwc— Waldegrave School () May 13, 2025

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12/05/25

Our Year 12s had a great time at Thorpe Park on Friday after a week of enrichment activities focused on post-18 options. Looks like our teachers had a blast too! pic.twitter.com/93eQFLBo0K— Waldegrave School () May 12, 2025

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12/05/25

We said goodbye and good luck to our Year 13’s as it was their last teaching day on Friday. We wish them all the best with their A Level exams, a fantastic summer and the greatest journey with wherever life takes them next! pic.twitter.com/Mh23kouAsA— Waldegrave School () May 12, 2025

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12/05/25

Standing in solidarity with every young person struggling with their mental health this . pic.twitter.com/gtQNimu1oG— YoungMinds () May 12, 2025

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07/05/25

This morning we looked back on 5 years with Year 11, now they’re moving onto exams, summer holidays & journeys beyond school. Our school emblem is the 🦢: may Year 11 trust the strength of their own wings & though they soar onward, know they will always have support at Waldegrave pic.twitter.com/gZjtQmDT4C— Waldegrave School () May 7, 2025

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06/05/25

Today our Year 11 Leavers took part in the annual Dress Up Day with characters from books, tv, films and even cuddly toys pacing the corridors! Check out our insta stories for more photos from todays activities… 🐭🦁🐯 pic.twitter.com/B7cZEDPmF0— Waldegrave School () May 6, 2025

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02/05/25

High five to Clemence P in Year 11 for receiving a silver medal & ‘A Prime Puzzle’ book by Martin Griffiths for a smashing performance in the Maclaurin Mathematical Olympiad 2025. She joins four other Waldegrave pupils continuing to the next round of the Olympiad. pic.twitter.com/vUfUXuhe2J— Waldegrave School () May 2, 2025

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01/05/25

Good luck to all our students who have started their exams this week. We have had GCSE Art as well as MFL Speaking exams taking place and in addition today we have 108 students currently taking part in the Junior Maths Challenge pic.twitter.com/ZQ6IUreBla— Waldegrave School () May 1, 2025

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29/04/25

Our Year 8 students are lucky enough to be visiting the Buddhapadipa Temple in Wimbledon this week. Students are getting a firsthand experience to help them learn about the Buddhist religion, viewing the ordination hall & touring the gardens. pic.twitter.com/SHERytZCDl— Waldegrave School () April 29, 2025

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24/04/25

Welcome back to a new term at Waldegrave where we have some sizzling Summer specials coming up on the canteen menus. Don’t forget to top up your canteen balance via ParentPay so you can sample these flavours! pic.twitter.com/hLb1RvHG4Y— Waldegrave School () April 24, 2025

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04/04/25

We’ve had an eggscelent morning 🐣 with Year 7&8 at Waldegrave with a spegtactular 🥚Easter Bonnet 👒Parade. The judges scrambled to select winners with so many eggspert bonnets on display but we are sure the winners were eggstatic with their chocolate prizes! pic.twitter.com/LbqTTAatvv— Waldegrave School () April 4, 2025

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03/04/25

Thanks so much to Tim Marshall for taking the time to speak to our Geographers about ‘The Future of Geography’ today at Another of his excellent additions for our Sixth Form Reading List pic.twitter.com/25SEhYiffH— Miss Flanigan () April 3, 2025

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25/03/25

Yesterday our Year 7s worked up a sweat with an inter-house Benchball tournament. Great team work & lots of fun! 🤩🏐🎽🙌 pic.twitter.com/bERLABzvOs— Waldegrave Sports () March 25, 2025

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24/03/25

Paris, je t'aime ! 💓 The Waldegrave French A-Level cohort enjoyed four days in the French capital over a long-weekend ✨️ They visited Notre Dame, The Louvre, the Dior museum & watched a live debate on narcotrafficking at the French Parliament! pic.twitter.com/XtSQ0frWk9— Waldegrave School () March 24, 2025

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21/03/25

At Waldegrave we are wearing something red to celebrate 40 years of - take a look at our insta story to see the jokes we have been sharing in our Joke Competition. Winners to be announced later today… pic.twitter.com/2cTRqohWmc— Waldegrave School () March 21, 2025

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18/03/25

Our Year 7 choir joined the Kew Wind Orchestra on Saturday for their To The Stars concert, along side choirs from Halliford School and Kew House School, they sang the key piece for the concert, ‘To the Stars’ by Nigel Hess. 🚀🪐👽💫 We look forward to working with again! pic.twitter.com/hiCP0mmXlG— Waldegrave School () March 18, 2025

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17/03/25

Year 7 are studying Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Here is some of their spectacular art work completed as creative homework for Drama 🎭 pic.twitter.com/p9X0bOMYeM— Waldegrave School () March 17, 2025

Women's Cricket World Cup 2022

Women's Cricket World Cup 2022

 

Are Women and Men Treated Equally In Sports? Do Sports Have a Gender? By Dila K

 

Women are unfortunately excluded from sports and still face prejudice. Even though they are really successful, they are discriminated against. Sexism in sports is still a problem today and there isn't much being done to fix this. As it is the women's international day week, it also overlaps the Women's cricket world cup, we wanted to raise awareness on this topic.

 

The 2022 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup will be held in New Zealand in March to April this year. The tournament is going to be the twelfth edition of the Women’s Cricket World Cup. Last year it was scheduled from 6 February to 7 March 2021 but due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, it got postponed and now is scheduled to 4 March to 3 April 2022.3,560 Cricket World Cup Trophy Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty  Images

New Zealand, Australia, England, South Africa, India, Bangladesh, West Indies and Pakistan are the eight teams competing for the Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.

 

The Women’s Cricket World cup has been around since June 1973. Their first tournament was held in England, and The World Cup is currently organised by the International Cricket Council. Australia has been the most              successful team throughout the years,data shows. 

 

Sexism and prejudice in Sports

The data also shows that women are really successful in cricket for more than 50 years, although cricket is considered a “manly” sport. Women's participation in sports increased throughout the years but unfortunately, there is still prejudice and sexism against women. 

 

  In your daily lives you can come across sentences such as “Football is for boys”,or “Girls can't play rugby”, and “Basketball is only for boys.” These are wrong statements because sports have no gender.13,610,308 Athletics Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images

 

  Every gender is allowed to play and be interested in every sport. When we seperate sports as men and women we disrespect each gender because we underestimate their abilities. Social standards are a big factor in women being underestimated too. If a woman is different from what the media expects them to be, they get excluded and disrespected.



Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay, Britain's Eilish McColgan, Japan's Nozomi Tanaka and Australia's Jenny Blundell compete in the women's 5000m heats during...

       There are lots of examples about how women are disrespected in sports. For example champion tennis player Serena Williams has been verbally attacked and was a victim of racism. Wrestler Ronda Rousey has been questioned about her sexuality constantly. Distance runner Caster Semenya has been forced to take a gender test and was the victim of numerous sexist remarks regarding her looks. These are just a few examples and they are only the side that the media shows us. 

           Interview

We also have interviewed some students from Waldegrave School For Girls Sixth Form and some teachers from Waldegrave School PE Department. 

Tia B said that “A struggle women face when being involved in sports is that there’s lots of stereotyping and people think you won't be as good as men in sports.”

 

 A response we got from Megan P was “Women get fewer opportunities and it is more difficult if you want to be involved.”

 Their responses show us that they are aware that men and women aren't equal in sports,so we asked their opinions on why gender equality is important.

 

Emily H has responded “women and girls should have the same opportunities as men,especially competition-wise. Men and women get different titles.”

  

They all said that when women and men do the same sport,they have to get the same salary and same prize. 

 

We wanted a professional to answer our questions so we interviewed a PE teacher. She said “women struggle in equality of opportunity. For example airtime. The majority of the tv sport programmes are male and women do not get promoted in programmes. Some women also need to have a job besides being a sports woman to represent their country whilst some men earn millions of dollars just by doing the same sport.” 

 

We asked their opinions on how gender affects the ethics of sports.Their answer was really interesting.

“I suppose in terms of ethics of sports it's about being transparent, and there's no transparency between gender in sports. Unfortunately the governing bodies generally tend to be heavy with men. Women are not featured in the organisation.”

 

Lastly,we asked her how we can achieve gender equality in sports. She said “I think  they should raise the profile of women in sports. People need more access to women's sport on streaming channels like netflix or iplayer. Mainstream tv like BBC or Sky News. I think more exposure will narrow the gap. Equality of sponsorship and equality of pay too, of course.”

 

  

        As the Cricket Tournament is also overlapping the International Women’s Day,we should once again celebrate women and remember to include every gender in sports. This is because as mentioned before,sports have no gender.