We are delighted to announce that Mr Atherton has been Highly Commended in the
@TeachingAwards
after being nominated for Headteacher of the Year. Incredible achievement and throughly deserved!
The Waterside Team
@BucksCouncil
@educationgovuk
We are GOLD (gold), always believe in outdoor learning, we’ve got the power to know, that trees are so vital...
@WoodlandTrust
Are we the fastest school to get to get the Green Tree Gold Award!?
A standing ovation for our cleaner Penny today who completed her last clean after 46 years working at Waterside! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 A true Waterside Legend!!
So hard to say goodbye to
@Chess_WPA
this evening. A few observations I have made:
Chess Class are incredible - it has been a joy to spend the weekend with them!
Our staff are brilliant - to get 9 members of staff over the weekend is incredible! Altogether, I 💚
#TeamWaterside
5,450 tweets and out - last tweet before I officially hand over the social media.
Thanks for all of the support, love and laughs along the way.
Mr Atherton
#TeamWatersideForever
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It’s not just another day... it’s another day to EXCEL!! It looks like the three staff in school this week are having fun and entertaining the children.
#twinkletoes
Another incredibly proud moment for our school…
Credit to all of our super children, staff, parents, carers and the Waterside community for making this possible.
#HappyChildrenLearn
#TeamWaterside
A year ago today I started at Waterside. Every day I feel lucky and privileged to be the head of such a wonderful school and I am proud of what we have all achieved in one year. Thank you for your ongoing support and here’s to many more years of fun and memories.
#WatersideWay
A special thank you to end the year from all of our staff to our school and local community for supporting us through one of the craziest years in schools. We have got through it together and made so many great and fun memories along the way!!
#TeamWaterside
#BetterTogether
All at Waterside would like to congratulate Miss Duggan and her husband on her marriage over the half term holiday. 🍾 🥂
#NewMrsDuggan
#WatersideWedding
Happy
#WorldTeachersDay
to these legends and my heroes. It is an honour and privilege to see what you do on a daily basis! From repainting the whole school, dressing up at every opportunity and for all being great teachers - you are all incredible!! THANK YOU!
#TeamWaterside
A BIG THANKYOU to our incredible staff team who managed to navigate through the most challenging week of the year so far on a reduced number of staff. Not everyone gets to see the passion, love, care and commitment you put into our school like I witness everyday. You are stars ⭐️
THANK YOU to our Halloween cast for being absolute legends!! Thank to all of ours families who came and we hope the children enjoyed the experience as much as we did!!
#WatersideHalloween
#TeamWaterside
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Proud and delighted to share with you the achievements of our super year 6 children in their SATs this summer compared to national averages and also to what Waterside achieved on 2019 to show the evolution of the school over the last three years.
#Superstars
#proud
#TeamWaterside
A massive well done to everyone in our school community - every child’s work from our Art Day was displayed today as we won ‘Best in Show!’. A special thanks to the Waterside Float Directors (our awesome PTA) for putting in such dedication and time for our school.
#TeamWaterside
I was informed today that our school has been shortlisted for a National award for our work supporting our community during lockdown… 💚 Speechless. Grateful. Proud.
#Thankyou
#TeamWaterside
A bright and early start for our year 6 children who are off on their end of primary school trip to The Isle of Wight! Have fun, make memories and make sure you keep all the teachers awake as long as possible!!
@Chess_WPA
#WatersideOnTour
A very convincing 16-0 win for our girls’ football team against Thomas Harding in their first match of the
@ChilternsLeague
. They were cheered on by some funny-looking book characters who will now become their team mascots for for the rest of the season! 💚👏🏼🥳
#TeamWaterside
Waking up to a notification on Facebook that The Masked Watersider has been viewed 20,000 times. A remarkable feat for a bunch of toneless teachers in blow up costumes 🥴🌟
#TeamWaterside
Well done to every child in
@Chess_WPA
who participated in the 11+test. It was a pleasure to call you all yesterday and tell your scores and how proud we were with every score you achieved. Also, remember that intelligence has many different forms! We think you are all stars. 💚
Staff Member of the Month - Miss Bell who has being working non-stop since lockdown to keep our school clean, sparkling and safe for all the children and staff.
#NiceMask
The most AWESOME World Book Day that I have ever been part of… THANK YOU to everyone who contributed so much to make this happen!! 💚🥳🤗👏🏼
#TeamWaterside
#WatersideReading
It’s always sad when a child has to move to a school closer to home. However, when they come back a week later because they are missing Team Waterside, I can’t contain my joy…
#AlwaysTeamWaterside
#Superstar
#WelcomeBack
#Legend
Thank you to everyone who attended our Christmas Fayre! 🎅🏼 THANK YOU to our INCREDIBLE PTA who have again gone over and above for our school and children with another super event - we have raised lots of money but, more importantly for me, everyone had a great day out!
#TeamPTA
On behalf of all of the staff, THANK YOU for all of your wonderful gifts today - they mean so much to all of us!! On a personal note, this is one of the most unique, imaginative and special gifts I’ve ever received - they’ve really nailed it! 🔨 Do I use it or frame it!? 🤔
I am so incredibly proud of this group of young women who finished first in the
@ChilternsLeague
table but lost out on the trophy 4-3 on penalties against Chartridge. I am inspired by their attitudes, work ethic and the way they were gracious in defeat.
#TeamWaterside
After we all got caught in the monsoon rain earlier, I was ordered to turn the heating on to warm everyone up… sadly, this did not go to plan!!
For those asking why we do ‘wonderful walking’, here is the reason!
#StaySafe
@YouveBeenFramed
#karma
HELLLLOOOOOO!!! 👋🏼 We are BACK!! See you all tomorrow at 8.45-9am. Years 1-3 to enter via the Children’s Centre and years 4-6 to dropped at the Box Tree entrance. We are very excited to see you all 🥳🎉
We’ve made lots of changes to our learning environment for the children over the last couple of years… Therefore, thanks to our move to
@KingsEdTrust
, we decided that the next project should be for our wonderful staff. Introducing our new staffroom…! 😍
#WatersideWellbeing
Forest School Update - Work has officially started today on our Forest School Area and community allotment. I can’t wait to continue to develop this area over the summer holiday ready for more Forest School sessions in September!
#TheWatersideWay
Many people ask me what my favourite part of being a headteacher is... I could say ‘trying to inspire children’ or ‘making a difference’. Instead, I go with ‘de-skinning jacket potatoes for children at lunchtime!’
#TheHighLife
#LoveIt
We’re full of that ELGIVA MORNIN’ FEELIN’…
Is there a morning more appealing…?
We are super proud of EVERY member of our super school community for producing this video with EVERY CHILD involved and on stage.
“We’re Team Waterside, so jump on our ride…
Into our musical
A HT award for EVERY child in
@Chess_WPA
for absolutely smashing their SATs as a team and achieving phenomenal results individually and as a class! 💚🥳🤯
I LOVE how whenever someone asks about our school on OurChesham or YourAmersham, Team Waterside get to work and share such wonderful comments about the school. I’m so lucky to lead this school community. You motivate us to do more!!
#TeamWaterside
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Thank you to our marvellous PTA for putting on a GREAT fayre! In true Waterside spirit, they overcame rain and a double booked field to put on a great day. Most importantly, THANK YOU for creating this moment that will live on in Waterside History…
#TeamWaterside
A pleasure to spend time this morning with MP Sarah Green, Mayor Emily Culverhouse and our wonderful Waterside community planting fruit trees in our community allotment. I am very excited about what we are building for our school and local community.
@SarahGreenLD
@CheshamMayor
Following the news that Waterside Road will be closed next week, I am taking flying lessons so we can offer a rapid school collection service. If this does not work, we will be holding a FREE 7 days residential trip on school site for the duration of the work!! 🚁
👰🏼 BRIDE NEWS 💒 - We are delighted that Miss Goddard’s wedding will go ahead this summer!! We wish her and Gary (who looks very similar to this gnome version of him) a very happy future together and can’t wait to celebrate the day with them both.
#WatersideWeddings
To finish off our haunted takeover, I want to thank Miss Higgins and Mrs Kravchenko for their outstanding work organising the fright night. They spent hours drawing maps, prepping and organising us all. THANK YOU for going over and above for our school!!
@Ver_WPA
#SuperStaff
Well done to Mrs Read who won the Unison ‘Star in our Schools’ award for the whole of Buckinghamshire! Her contributions to Waterside over the years make her a worthy winner and we are lucky to have her in our school. If you see her, please congratulate her!
#legend
How do you make an awesome team even more awesome…? BUY THEM STRIPEY SOCKS!! Another great win today for our netball team who beat Chartridge in a high quality match 15-9.
#TeamStripeyWaterside
#NoStripeyNoLikey