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  • 24/05/17

    Year 10 Cricket

    Our Year 10 boys cricket team played their first match of the new season this week against Langley Academy at our newly adopted home, Slough Cricket Club. Wexham won the toss and elected to bowl. We were very economical with the ball and some excellent fielding ensured that the visitors were...
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  • 23/05/17

    Active Slough Timetables

    Active Slough are running activities for children and the whole family to participate in this summer from 22nd May to 30 July 2017.  Please view the timetable for further details. 
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  • 12/05/17

    African Studies Centre Visit

    On 9th May the A Level History students visited the African Studies Centre at Oxford University.  The students are studying South African history and went to meet Professor William Beinart who wrote the textbook for their course.  This was an amazing opportunity for the students to ask Pro...
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  • 12/05/17

    Lawyers In School Programme

    On May 10th a group of Year 10 students successfully completed the 'Lawyers In School' programme. The students ended the course with a trip to the Centrica offices in Windsor. They had a tour of the building and completed a series of workshops which helped build team-working and problem solv...
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  • 05/05/17

    Brooklands Museum Trip

    Most of the KS3 ARB pupils went on a trip to Brooklands museum, in Surrey. They had a 4D experience of the red arrows, went on a Concorde experience and saw the wide range of vehicles.  A couple of them brought their peer buddies with them.  Mrs Tidey, Mr Stocker and Mrs Pope accompanied t...
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  • 05/05/17

    Year 9 Netball Tournament

    The below students represented the school at the Year 9 Netball Tournament where they competed against all local Slough Schools. They demonstrated excellent sportsmanship throughout the afternoon: Iqra Ayubi Kemi Carty Neha Tariq Eilish Tweedle Joanna Zak Taci Mugridge Kirsha...
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  • 05/05/17

    Year 9 Passport Day - Bucks New University

    The purpose of the trip was to raise the pupils’ aspirations about further education and University. The students had a great day exploring the university site, discovering what university life is about and the pathways to get there. The ambassadors commented on how smart, polite and friend...
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  • 04/05/17

    Young Shakespeare Company

    On Thursday 27th April Year 10 enjoyed an innovative production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by the Young Shakespeare Company.  Transporting the famous love story into a modern school setting, the Company showed our students how characters can be interpreted in very different ways by...
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  • 31/03/17

    Year 7 Shakespeare Workshop

    On Monday 27th March, Year 7 were treated to a Shakespeare workshop as a reward for their excellent term of work in English.  The Box Clever Theatre Company took the students on a journey through a range of scenes from Shakespeare’s most famous plays and introduced them to some Elizabetha...
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  • 30/03/17

    'Beyond the Baseline' Tennis Project

    Our Year 8 students successfully completed their 'Beyond the Baseline' tennis project this week, leading and managing a two-hour tennis coaching session for a group of 18 Year 4 children from Wexham Court Primary School. Led by athlete mentor Alex Slabinsky, this project has sought to pro...
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  • 30/03/17

    Careers in Chemistry

    On Wednesday 22nd March Susan Mayes from Reading University visited the school and presented an assembly for Year 9 students regarding "careers in chemistry" Whilst the presentation included information regarding the facilities that Reading University has to offer, the focus was more ab...
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  • 24/03/17

    'Beyond the Baseline' Tennis Programme

    This Monday our Year 8 students participating in the 'Beyond the Baseline' programme had their second session with athlete mentor Alex Slabinsky, planning and preparing for their big event next Monday 27th March. Next Monday our students will be leading and managing a two-hour i...
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  • 24/03/17

    Sky Sports Living For Sport

    On Thursday afternoon this week a group of our Year 8 students completed their 'Sky Sports Living for Sport' project with athlete mentor and GB Olympian Toby Garbett. This programme has focussed on developing the students' communication, teamwork and leadership skills, plus a focus...
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  • 17/03/17

    Year 8 'Beyond the Baseline' Project

    For the second consecutive year we have a group of our Year 8 students participating in a project called 'Beyond the Baseline', this year working with athlete mentor Alex Slabinsky, former British men's number four tennis player. The first session of three was a mixture of classr...
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  • 17/03/17

    Year 9 Media Students Become BBC News Reporters for the Day

    A massive congratulations to our Year 9 Media pupils who became real news reporters working for the BBC!
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  • 13/03/17

    Year 11 Theatre Trip to the Sand Pit Theatre St Albans to see ‘Frankenstein’

    As part of their GCSE course Year 11 pupils are required to review a play so off we went to see a brand new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic horror masterpiece Frankenstein. The production fused ensemble storytelling, live music, puppetry and stunning theatricality.  The pupils thoroug...
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  • 10/03/17

    Inter-Form Dodgeball Competitions

    This week we ran our first ever inter-form dodgeball competitions after school with large numbers of children participating each day. The winners from each year group are listed below and the children from the winning teams will be presented with medals and certificates in year group...
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  • 10/03/17

    Year 7 & 8 Girls Football Tournament

    On Thursday 9th March Wexham School hosted and competed in a Year 7 & 8 girls football tournament. On a lovely sunny afternoon this Slough School Sport Network event was well attended with nine secondary schools participating.   Our girls played four matches, beating Westgate and...
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  • 06/03/17

    Year 11 Media Trip

    On Wednesday 22nd February, the Year 11 Media class visited the British Film Institution (BFI) in London. The BFI is essential in helping to develop and promote British cinema, as well as to help educate a new generation about the history and future of the film industry. The BFI was the venue for Ye...
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  • 02/03/17

    10 Loveless

    Well done 10 Loveless for planning and delivering an outstanding and interactive assembly on the importance of diversity. It was brilliantly resourced and the students were confident and eloquent speakers throughout.  Year 10 thoroughly enjoyed it!
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  • 02/03/17

    Year 8 Football

    Unfortunately it wasn't to be two wins within a week for our Year 8 boys football team who lost 4-1 away against Burnham Grammar School on Monday. With four boys unavailable for this match the squad was a little depleted and we lacked pace and power but nonetheless the team battled to the end...
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  • 24/02/17

    Year 8 Football

    This week our Year 8 boys football team returned to action for the second half of the season with a great win 7-3 at home against Trevelyan School. With more matches to follow this half-term this was a fantastic start to the final six weeks of the season. The next Year 8 football fixture i...
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  • 24/02/17

    Sky Sports Living for Sport

    This week a group of our Year 8 students participated in a 'Sky Sports Living for Sport' project working with two elite athlete mentors, Toby Garbett and Heather Fell. Toby Garbett is a GB Olympian, World Champion rower, and currently a triathlete, while Heather  Fell is a GB Ol...
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  • 21/02/17

    Chemistry for All: Forensics club

    ‘Chemistry for All’ is a five-year £1 million research project sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The University of Reading, in partnership with the University of Southampton, is one of four university teams selected to explore how best to inspire students to study chemis...
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