Message from the Headteacher, Mr Richards
Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrated this week. The Year of the Snake has started, and the theme is all about renewal and regeneration. Lunar New Year, which includes Chinese New Year, Seollal in Korea, Tet in Vietnam and more, begins on January 29th. The holiday, also known as the Spring Festival, celebrates the arrival of spring and the start of a fresh year based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar.
This week, we also remembered that it has been 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp and students took part in an assembly by Mr Bassett last week explaining the context around this. Until the liberation of some 7000 prisoners remaining at the site of the camp by soldiers of the Red Army, the German Nazis murdered approximately 1.1 million people in Auschwitz, mostly Jews, but also Poles, the Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and people of other nationalities.
Some of our KS4 students have taken part in the Intermediate Mathematical Challenge this week and we look forward to hearing how they have got on and we have started our sustainability awareness work in assemblies led by Mr Martins to highlight how your children can become more ecologically aware and active.
You’ll notice a new look to our family bulletin this week as we aim to streamline and coordinate messages to make them easier to read. Should we include other information? Do you see too much of the same old things? What are your favourite bits? How could this bulletin work better with our school website? How could it be/Should it be more interactive? All constructive feedback is welcome and can be sent to gvas@villiers.ealing.sch.uk
Fast Fashion
Year 7 pupils and Eco-Warriors have done a wonderful job presenting daily assemblies on the topic of fast fashion this week. They also wrote about their experiences:
~Kithushiya: “In our assembly we added comedy and explained what fast fashion is, the consequences and how to stop it.”
~Gurbaani: “We made posters and put them up around the school to catch people’s attention. We told people how we could stop fast fashion. We showed videos and we did quizzes. We got laughs and applause. Everyone laughed and learned a lot from it.”
~Rooppreet & Hashmita: “We have encouraged lots of students to donate lots of clothes and raise awareness about sustainability.”
~Zephyr & Emerlly: “Acting in the assembly gives us confidence”
Well done to everyone involved and a special thank you to Mr Martins for organising it.
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