WLD Update Sunday 3rd February 2019
Thanks to everyone for your support in getting your young people into school despite the ice and snow this week. I hope that the coming week is less disrupted by the weather! We are a school which makes no excuses for the fact that we consider that...
WLD Update Sunday 27th January 2019
On Friday, as our staff training (INSET) day, all the teachers from Walton-le-Dale joined with other schools from the Preston Teaching School Alliance (www.prestontsa.org.uk/), both secondary and primary, to consider how to improve teaching and...
WLD Update Sunday 20th January 2019
Each week, in staff briefing, a member of staff shares a good idea related to teaching and learning - sometimes just a tip to help others, sometimes a major new idea. On Friday this week Miss Mayor, Head of Opening Minds, was sharing how that team encourage students to take risks in...
WLD Update Sunday 13th January 2019
It has been a good, if busy, start to the term... The attitude of Year 8 and 9 to their examinations has been outstanding, particularly as they were straight after the Christmas break - we now wait and see what their results look like! Year 11 have had their...
WLD Update Sunday 6th January 2019
Happy New Year! I hope that you, your family, and those that you care for have had a good Christmas. I wish you every success and happiness in the New Year. Thank you for all that you do, alongside ourselves, to help to develop our young people into mature,...
WLD Update Sunday 16th December 2018
Christmas! I love this time of year... The Community Christmas Party is one of the highlights of the year at WLD and, once again, it was a lovely event. Many thanks to the organisers, performers, presenters and helpers who made the day so...
WLD Update Sunday 9th December 2018
Enrichment Day 2 Despite the weather, Enrichment Day 2 was very successful, if very tiring! Some of the pictures are on the website
WLD Update Sunday 2nd December 2018
Year 11 Mock examinations These start tomorrow (Monday 3rd December). The purpose of mock examinations is to enable students to tackle recent past papers under conditions close to those of the real exams. It is very important for parents and carers,...
WLD Update Sunday 25th November 2018
Uganda Charity Projects - Project25Zero and Chilli Children We had the pleasure and privilege of listening to Ian Richardson speak to our Year 7 about his involvement in two charity projects (Project25Zero and Chilli Children) in Uganda and how we can get...
WLD Update Sunday 18th November 2018
Staff changes It has been wonderful to see the interest in the Deputy Headteacher post that has arisen due to the retirement of Mrs Laverty at the end of the year. She will be much missed, but a lot of people want to replace her! I have shown nearly 30...
WLD Update Sunday 11th November 2018
Walton-le-Dale remembers... As the whole country (and the wider world) stops to remember those who have died in war, it is appropriate and moving that the main reception area of school has been taken over by a cascade of hand-made poppies. Thank you to all those who...
WLD Update Sunday 4th November 2018
Support for each other One of the main reasons why I choose to work at Walton-le-Dale is the support that students and staff show for each other. I see it in countless ways each day, sometimes in the tragedies such as the ways in which everyone supported the...
