Wonderful day yesterday
@cymru_ed
I took
@MrWiseCHS
advice and went to things completely new to me, as well as some talks I already know a bit about. Some stuff challenged my thinking, some consolidated my ideas, and some opened my eyes to new concepts.
#rEDCymru
👍
@willowshigh
Funny email from a couple of young ladies in my Yr11 reg. The positivity, optimism and community spirit of youth, just wanting to cheer people up
@willowshigh
@WillowsWellbei3
Smashing!
Belting game of football this afternoon
@willowshigh
Yr7s won a thriller against
@CathaysHigh
the scenes at the end absolutely priceless! And Mr Gill had a smile like he’d caught a 20 pounder 🎣 this is why we do it, amazing!
@PEWillows
Blown away by this absolute mountain of food donated by staff and pupils
@willowshigh
and this is only collecting from classrooms on the first floor!!!
@splottcommvols
hope you have a big enough van 😂😂😂 1 more week of our ‘bring a tin to school’ foodbank donation,
#BeKind
Best game of the year so far
@willowshigh
Highly competitive and very wet 🌧 Yr10
@PEWillows
very unlucky to lose 4:2. Amazing positivity afterwards, absolutely loved it! Congrats to
@PencoedtreHS
and good luck in the next round ⚽️⚽️👍👍
All done,
@willowshigh
annual Xmas Food Bank Donation has been collected, bigger and better than ever. Huge thanks to all who contributed, the Yr10 ‘Muscle’ that helped me load and
@splottcommvols
for doing so much within the community! Merry Xmas 🎄
A cracking football match today
@willowshigh
Vs
@CathaysHigh
definitely need a rematch! After struggling to get a team at the start of term,
@PEWillows
had 17 boys to choose from today! Big thanks to Mr Gill for building a fantastic squad! The boys absolutely loved it! 👍👍⚽️⚽️
What a night of football
@willowshigh
Yr7 Vs Y8 annual first game for both teams. We have some real talent in Y7, who battled to a 6:6 draw! 50+pupils attended and plenty staff came to cheer and support + parents! We are building something special, no doubt!
@PEWillows
Wonderful Y11 Prom Friday night
@willowshigh
Gorgeous venue and set up, a jam packed full dance floor all night, and a little snapshot of our leavers video, yes that is our staff in the barn dance! 🤠 🤠 🤠 😂 😂 👏 👏 Great effort!
@WillowsWO09
Tea time
@StoreyArmsOEC
for our
@willowshigh
Yr7s after an amazing afternoon in the caves. Laying the tables, serving the food, cleaning and washing up all part of the duties!
Food donations all packed
@willowshigh
and picked up by
@splottcommvols
this afternoon. Wonderful to help out the local community 👍 and thanks for the treats, I will share I promise 😋
Always blown away by the generosity and kindness from pupils and staff
@willowshigh
2 weeks of collecting food donations for
@splottcommvols
and already a humongous mound has accumulated on my desk! Diolch
#BeKind
2 more weeks keep them coming in if you can 🙏 🙏
#TheWillowsWay
Winners are grinners! Brilliant win for
@willowshigh
@PEWillows
in the cup against
@EHS_Footba11
2-4 both teams were excellent, and a credit to their schools! On to the next round 🤙🤙🤙 ⚽️ ⚽️
Big part of the experience
@StoreyArmsOEC
is taking responsibility for jobs around the centre. Cleaning rooms is a big 1. Every room, immaculate 🙌🙌 Girls running a tight ship with the tuck shop also, no freebies for Mr Smith though, big problem 😂😂
@willowshigh
Yr7s
@willowshigh
enjoyed a great game of football today Vs
@StIlltydsPEDept
Despite the score line they stuck at it, and gave everything right until the final whistle. Can’t ask for any more than that! Resilience and determination personified 👍 look at those faces 😃 Love It
@willowshigh
Virtual Sports Day Challenge 1/3. Will take some beating that, glad I remembered the order of the days in the week 🙈 🙈🙈
@KellyBubbins
What you got?? 🤪🤪
Really going to miss this
@willowshigh
Yr11 group when they leave!! Some great memories over the last 5 years.
@StoreyArmsOEC
X3 for some of them. Rosslyn Park London trip, and France to name a standout few!
You haven’t seen tension until you’ve seen 3
@willowshigh
PE teachers competing at Jenga with early morning duties on the line
@StoreyArmsOEC
😂😂 Oh and Miss Williams obligatory hair dresser appointments ongoing!
Big up’ to every primary school teacher out there 🙌🙌 5 hours back to back with Y6 pupils for transition
@willowshigh
today in a hot and sweaty gym, and I am wiped! My amazing Y7s help me deliver a ‘Mini Olympics’, they seemed to love it!
And it starts! Always lovely and very humbling to receive cards from Yr 11 leavers
@willowshigh
And I am unashamedly sharing!! Teaching, best job in the world they say! In it for the outcome, not the income 😉 🙌 🙌
Always learning
@StoreyArmsOEC
for
@willowshigh
Yr8s. First up, how to make your bed! Then teaching them a real lesson @ Chase the Ace! 🃏 🃏 ❤️ ♠️ ♦️♣️ PokerFace 😉
@WillowsWo7
Absolute thriller
@willowshigh
this evening ⚽️⚽️Delighted to celebrate a hard fought win for Yr8
@PEWillows
Vs
@CathaysHigh
final score 5:3. Special mention for Riley who scored a belter, and the amazing Isla who was fantastic in goal! I see they all look as thrilled as I do 😂😂
The EcoGreenhouse is underway
@willowshigh
Rome wasn’t built in a day! Yr9 Community Challenge hours, also preparing for our Global-raising awareness for plastic pollution next year
@Keep_Wales_Tidy
@WillowsWelshBac
150 bottles so far, please keep them coming
Proud of our Y10s
@willowshigh
completing Day1 of their
@DofEWales
expedition 6hours of walking with a heavy backpack, blustery wind+rain. Not anticipated in July! But camaraderie, perseverance, sarcasm and tough love pushed them on! Now for camping, campfire + a singalong ⛺️ 🔥
1st round of ‘Dragons Den’ presentations running this week
@willowshigh
for Yr10s Enterprise & Employability Challenge. Thank you to Miss Moore for joining me on the judging panel this aft. More presentations Wed/Thurs, feel free to pop in!
@WillowsWelshBac
Big up Yr11, (and one Yr10) for suppporting
@KeepSplottTidy
this morning. 34 pupils and 3 staff on a very, very wet morning. Be the change you want to make! Diolch yn fawr iawn. Mwynhewch eich penwythnos! 😉
@willowshigh
Great turnout and fantastic internal Football match tonight
@willowshigh
@PEWillows
Yr7 Vs Yr8. Really proud of the Yr7s who stuck at it despite coming up against a talented Yr8 team who ran out 9-3 winners. No losers today, everyone who took part are winners!
@willowshigh
staff after working out with
@thebodycoach
today. Over 600 pupils will be taking part tomorrow as part of a whole school effort with Schools Fitness Week. Can’t wait! 💪
Amazing to bring 30 pupils over to our local
@STARCOMMHUB
as part of our brand new
#WillowsEnrichment
@willowshigh
Gym Inductions and Swimming lessons completed this afternoon. They absolutely LOVED IT!!! Roll on 2 weeks so we can come back 👌
#TheWillowsWay
Tea/Coffee & Cake morning for 11DW
@willowshigh
this morning, as well as personalised cards and DIY class photos. Important to give them the best send off possible, under strange circumstances/restrictions. Looking forward to our leavers assembly/afternoon on Friday
@WillowsWo11
Apologies, Yr 11 leaving spam! I wouldn’t normally share, but they were a cracking group, a real pleasure to get to know!
#Plato
@willowshigh
#MrBoombastic
😎
Terrific football match for our Y7s
@willowshigh
away at Stanwell this afternoon. Both teams were excellent. Our boys
@PEWillows
continue their unbeaten run so far this season, and progress to the next round of the
@CVSFA
cup with a 5:2 victory. Da Iawn boys 👍👍
9 big bags filled with plastic bottles collected over the summer and delivered
@willowshigh
Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and
@learnloungewhs
for storing. Please keep them coming, we might actually build an Eco-Greenhouse in the end!
#plasticpollution
@WillowsWelshBac
Helluva haul of food items collected today from tutor groups
@willowshigh
Thank you to these two helpful gents for assisting the collection. Might just be the biggest pile yet!
#BeKind
#TheWillowsWay
final collection Mon/Tues next week 🙌🙌🙌
@splottcommvols
Our very own
@willowshigh
Dragons Den panel have been briefed and are ready to go for our Enterprise pitches today! We’ve got right to left, Gary Barlow, Sharon Osborne, Tulisa and Deborah Meaden😂😂😂😂😂😂
@WillowsWO09
Lets see what you’ve got Yr10 🐉
Nice bit of furniture up-cycling this weekend in the sunshine. Thanks to the ‘magician’ Mr Batchelor
@SecWillows
for some expert tips👍 He is useful for something, not all smoke and mirrors😂😂
A couple of funny, (and sweet) gratitude cards received today
@willowshigh
from the dynamic duo ‘Ant n Dec’ in my reg class.
Batman and Superman!?!??! Hell of an ego boost, and I’ll take it 😂😂
@HeyMissSmith
Great thread 🙌 I was having a convo with a PGCE student yesterday - just relax,no pressure, ENJOY interacting professionally and purposely with children, get comfortable connecting with them. Expert teaching will come in time,enjoy the journey,otherwise it will never be worth it
Absolutely unashamedly delirious to announce, I am drowning in gratitude cards from our pupils here
@willowshigh
AGAIN!!! 😂😂😂 to be fair we all are. Thanks
@WillowsWellbei3
Always provides a little boost ☺️☺️
Yr7 boys loved their wet n’ wild Xmas World Cup Final this morning
@willowshigh
And just like Messi et al after a 12:12 draw!!!! It had to be decided by penalty shout-out drama! Check out the scenes!?!!????!!! Absolutely loved teaching these lot this year 🙌🙌
@PEWillows
Thanks to
@Ysgol_Glantaf
for the Yr7 football game earlier
@willowshigh
both teams were great! Congratulations and good luck in the next round.
@PEWillows
boys were fantastic throughout! Thanks to Mr Gill and all staff for the support 🙌🙌
Suprise trip to Las Vegas 🇺🇸 this week for half term
@jane_hcee
Plenty of early nights🎉👎 Won loads of money🃏👎 Ate really healthily🍔👎 Just the relaxing trip I needed 👍🤩🤩☀️☀️
Here they are, our
@willowshigh
staff running this weekend at the Bristol Half/10K supporting 2 wonderful causes,
@BarnardosCymru
and our Y11 Prom. Please sponsor if you can 🙏 🙏 🙏
Wonderful morning
@willowshigh
@PEWillows
presenting Y7 football awards. These lot have been on a wonderful journey this year, Mr Gill and I have loved and lived every single minute ⚽️ ⚽️ 🎉🎉🎊🎊💥💥 Roll on next year for another cracker
Sending the canary down the mine! “Mr Smith go and find out how deep and how fast that water is running, if he survives we’ll send the rest” 😂😂😂 Yeh nice 1 no problem👍
@StoreyArmsOEC
@willowshigh
@lowri_123
We are officially on a winning streak! Yr7
@PEWillows
were magnificent winning 5-2!! Thank you to
@WhitchurchPE
for hosting and fielding a suitably competitive team! Rematch
@willowshigh
after half term 👍👍👍👍⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
Overall total for our Y11 fundraising campaign
@willowshigh
stands at a fabulous £1,458! Superb from all involved, we’ve had bake sales, staff curry nights and of course, Bristol 10K/Half Marathon. Huge thank you for the donations 🙏 And again well done everyone!
@BarnardosCymru
The saddest of circumstances, from which grew an incredible story. A band of brothers displaying outrageous courage and determination to leave a legacy of fortitude and friendship in the face of the cruellest of illnesses. Always against the odds, like his whole career. RIP Rob♥️
Thank you to Miss Wrennall for taking our fabulous
@DofEWales
@willowshigh
pupils for their Near Peer
@youthcoaching1
training in the posh offices in town, great experience. And of course thank you to Kantz for his expertise in delivering the programme 🙌🙌
This crazy 1st halfterm has seen the launch of our new ‘Incremental Coaching - The Willows Way’
@willowshigh
guided by
@WALKTHRUs_5
Small steps, but 2 Coaches, 7 Coachees, 14 Incremental Action Steps, + 49ish drop ins/meetings/sessions later, we are very chuffed with our start!😀
Funtastic’ afternoon with Y11
@willowshigh
as part of their ‘Making Memories’ programme. We work hard, but we remember to play hard too in what is a big, big year for these wonderful young people!
@WillowsWO09
Unashamedly sharing some gratitude cards received today. Great things happening
@willowshigh
surrounding our extracurricular programme no doubt about it. But really it’s all about the character they develop on the field, and take away with them. Showing gratitude a big part of it
Humdinger of a match
@CantonianPe
this afternoon.
@willowshigh
managed to sneak a win right at the end. Both teams were fantastic, credit to their schools!
Last training ride done! Just a weekend of
@GuinnessIreland
in Dublin 🇮🇪 between me and the
@Carten100
on my birthday weekend in a couple of weeks. If you’d like to support
@Go_Moxie
riding for a good friend of mine
Not tensing honest 🤥🤥🤥😰😰😰
Check these out! Some incredible Individual Projects submitted this week from Yr11
@willowshigh
Big focus on creativity+innovation regarding topics and Qs this year. Hoping for a wider range, (for my own sanity when marking 😂😂) seems to be paying off! Bendigedig 👍
Diolch Mr Sage, great team effort 👍 And thank you to everyone who contributed
@willowshigh
All donations will go to
@splottcommvols
next week to support their Xmas Hamper Parcels being delivered around the local community! Wonderful cause, thrilled to be able to help out😀
A great last haul for 11DA’s ‘Bring a Tin to School’ day
@willowshigh
. Student council members gathered the last donations from staff and pupils for a local foodbank. Well done to
@MrJackLiamSmith
for organising such a lovely gesture for the local community.
#seasonofgoodwill
2nd time round reading this book, better than I remember. People from all walks of life can take plenty from it. I’ve included a great extract, and the ‘takeaways’ to entice anyone that’s interested. Highly recommend 🙌🙌 Whakatauki 😉
@willowshigh
So much work put in from staff
@willowshigh
past 2yrs. Y7/8 Boys ⚽️ mixing it with the best, our 8-9 Girls⚽️off to a flyer, 🏀growing, Athletics/Baseball on the up. Annual Storey Arms Res popular as ever+our inaugural DofE group about to embark on their Expedition 🙌 Why? This👇
What a match!! Scoreline rocked back and forth, but delighted to say we managed to nick it at the end 7:5. Excellent game, thank you to everyone involved and all the willows ultras who came to support
@willowshigh
@PEWillows
Lovely to come back to my desk to this, after a windy cold morning outside! We explicitly teach character here
@willowshigh
Gratitude cards form a small but valuable part of this, and it is always a mood booster and an energiser 👍👍 ❤️ ❤️
#BeKindAlways
#TheWillowsWay