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You are invited to Wellacre’s Open Evening on Thursday 26th September. You will have the chance to explore Wellacre, speak to our staff and students, and see all the fantastic opportunities on offer for your child.
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This morning, Year 7 students paid tribute to our Year 11 leavers as we celebrate their five tremendous years at Wellacre!
#RoundofApplause
#TeamWellacre
As part of
#HMD2021
, Mr Gillan's tutor group used zoom form time to remember victims. The
@yadvashem
museum, in Israel, has a virtual remembrance wall, which matches your name to a Holocaust victim and information about them:
#LightTheDarkness
Huge congratulations to Izac, in Year 9, who has just signed a 2 year deal with Stoke City FC. This is fantastic sporting achievement. Well done Izac!
@PEWellacre
Principal, Mrs Sharrock, proudly presented Wellacre's new Head Boy, Adam, and the whole Senior Leadership team with their new ties and badges today. We look forward to sharing news and photos of the full team soon!
#Proud
#Inspire
#Achieve
#TeamWellacre
Tonight would have been the Year 11 Prom. We are so sad that we are unable to celebrate with them. We look forward to a time when we can gather for a well-deserved celebration of all they have experienced and achieved in their time at Wellacre. Thanks for the memories Year 11!
Wellacre students gathered today to collect their GCSE results. This day recognises the significant hard work, resilience and determination of the year group throughout the past few years. We are incredibly proud of them! Read all about it:
Great success in Humanities! Mrs O'Neill, Leader of Humanities, achieved her National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership
#NPQSL
alongside Mrs Doolan, Teacher of Geography, who successfully gained the National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership
#NPQML
Well done to our
#CoCurricular
@Gapminder
students who have achieved their Global Facts certificate for gaining essential global knowledge and new perceptions of the world we live in!
#WellDone
This week we will bid farewell to Miss Wicks
@mel_mwicks
after 11 years at Wellacre!
We want to extend our heartfelt thanks for providing INSPIRATIONAL opportunities for students and staff at Wellacre
#Inspire
#Achieve
#Enjoy
#Proud
Wellacre challenged students with a number of enrichment opportunities over the half term.
Year 8 Harrison impressed us with his amazing
#community
work. He joined his family to help cook up and portion hot dinners for the
@MadDogsHomeless
project
#Proud
It has been an incredible journey for Wellacre students and they have shown outstanding resilience in meeting extraordinary challenges
#GCSEResults2023
We wish them all every success and much happiness as they move onto pastures new!
We would like to take the opportunity to thank Wellacre's fabulous testing team volunteers. They have gone above and beyond for our students and staff during this challenging time, co-ordinating almost 3,000 tests in school! You are truly amazing!
#TeamWellacre
Great news for Year 10 students, Calum and Cullen, as their football team - Trafford Schools Boys - won the Greater Manchester Cup against Salford!
#Champions
@PEWellacre
Congratulations to Mr Whitehead who has recently been accepted onto the prestigious Leadership Legacy Project by
@ssat
This project supports those that demonstrate the potential to become outstanding school leaders.
Read all about it:
Congratulations to Mr Whitehead, who has successfully graduated from the
@SSAT
Leadership Legacy Project with his work on reward and recognition strategies in secondary settings
#ssatllp
A very exciting visit from
@SkyNews
today about Wellacre's
#RSHE
programme!
We'll share more information later in the week. Wellacre students were fantastic ambassadors
#proud
Congratulations to Mr Gillan, who has successfully graduated from the
@SSAT
Leadership Legacy Project with his curriculum work around diversity, identity and belonging for students
#ssatllp
Wellacre's next cohort of
@BrilliantClub
students have embarked on The Scholars Programme this term. The university experience will see the Year 8 and 9 students study Literary Theory with a PhD tutor before completing a final written assignment.
Here is the incredible cast from Wellacre's 'The Jungle Book.'
They have had the best week performing their show; thank you to all those who have shared their positive feedback!
Principal Mrs Sharrock is hosting dedicated year group assemblies this week to meet all students and welcome them back for an exciting summer term!
#WelcometoWellacre
WW1 Battlefields Tour - Mr Gillain said: “We can describe the battlefields in the classroom, but to actually see the landscape, imagine the challenges and follow in the footsteps of soldiers involved in that conflict, was a powerful experience.”
#History
@UCL_FWWCBTP
Miss Wicks
@mel_mwicks
... 11 years of memories and photographs, too many to share! We have all ENJOYED our time at Wellacre with you.
We wish you 'goodbye and good luck' from everyone at Wellacre
#Inspire
#Achieve
#Enjoy
#Proud
Congratulations to Miss Quinn, Wellacre's Teacher of Music. who was finally able to attend, and celebrate, her much postponed PGCE graduation recently
#WellacreTL
Wellacre gathered to pay our respects to service heroes today at a special Remembrance Parade.
Our CCF cadets proudly stood in honour of those who have fought and fallen for our freedom.
Thanks to Mr Jackson for his rendition of 'The Last Post.'
#LestWeForget
Pleased to announce that Wellacre's Principal
@mel_mwicks
is now heading up the new Women Leaders in Education Hub alongside
@lisafathersAFL
Read all about it:
@WomenEd
Thanks to
@BrilliantClub
and the University of Manchester for the fantastic
#ScholarsProgrammeGrad
ceremony this afternoon.
We were extremely proud to celebrate Wellacre students' outstanding success and see Nicky act as SpokesScholar for our school
#Congratulations
We were over the moon when Wellacre’s Yr 7 rugby team earned the opportunity to play in the half-time break of the Salford Reds and Leeds Rhinos recently. Even more so when they won!
#Proud
Read all about it:
@SRDFoundation
@SalfordDevils
@PEWellacre
More Teaching and Learning staff development news...
Congratulations to Mr Casey who has achieved the National Award for SENCO (NASENCO) and good luck to Mrs Sharrock as she embarks on a National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH).
#WellacreTL
#WellacreCPD
We said a fond farewell to Mrs Sharrock today, who leaves Wellacre after 20 incredible years with us. I'm sure you will all join us in thanking Mrs Sharrock and wishing her the best of luck in her new teaching post!
This group of Year 7 students raised an incredible £265.19 doing a sponsored silence for Pankhurst's Charity Day in aid of
@YoungMindsUK
Who knew they could stay so quiet for a whole day?!
A massive well done Declan, Oliver, Mackenzie, George H, Alfie, George A and Theo
#Proud
Good luck to Wellacre's Year 7 Rugby team who will be playing in the Salford/Trafford final on the pitch at the AJ Bell stadium tonight!
Students have the opportunity to play at half time of the Salford Reds vs Castleford Tigers. Go
#TeamWellacre
@PEWellacre
@SRDFoundation
If you were one of the four or five Wellacre students who helped a visually impaired man to cross the road safely last Wednesday in Urmston, please come forward and let us know. A community member called in to say how kind and considerate you all were. Well done boys!
#Proud
Year 11 Design in the Built Environment students have been inspired by the Regeneration Brainery programme, an opportunity to work alongside, and hear from, industry experts!
Read all about it:
@RegenBrainery
@CapitalCentric
@wipnorthwest
@MrTimHeatley
Our Student Wellbeing Ambassadors have undertaken training to provide support and promote LGBT and mental health awareness
#TheProudTrust
#AllDifferentAllEqual
Look at Year 8 James fly! With his incredible swimming talent he has been recently selected for the Swim England National Development Programme for 2021/22.
What an amazing achievement
#Proud
. Read all about James here:
@PEWellacre
We could not let Mrs Sharrock leave without a very special celebration gift - here is a short snippet of Wellacre performing their own version of 'Let It Go' especially for her
#ThankYou
#Goodbye
#GoodLuck
Thanks to
#WellacreAlumni
Matthew for his amazing production skills!
Wellacre students have been busy outside of school pursuing sporting dreams and success in a wide variety of disciplines. We are looking forward to sharing their achievements with you soon!
@PEWellacre
We're proud to share the news about Adam, Yr 7, who has signed his first two year contract with Crewe Alexandra Football Club. An amazing sporting achievement - well done Adam!
@PEWellacre
The boys absolutely 'rocked it' at opening night of "We Will Rock You" - they were incredible! Tickets still available for tonight and tomorrow
#MissItMissOut
Team Wellacre were jumping for joy after completing their superb Garden of Resilience at the
@RHSSchools
Flower Show at Tatton Park, which is on show this week!
We are over the moon that
@AntiBullyingPro
have named Wellacre the 'Anti-Bullying Ambassador School of the Month.' We are so proud of their incredible teamwork and everything they have achieved this year
#hardworkpaysoff
Read all about it:
Drum-roll please.... we are thrilled to announce the grand total raised by students and staff from our amazing charity drive for
@RMCHcharity
#proud
#community
GCSE Results Day 2023! We are incredibly proud of all our Wellacre students and all of their wider achievements; many of those can never be graded
#Proud
Well done to our first group of Year 7 students who have been supporting the Great British September Clean community project!
@TraffordCouncil
Don't forget the House competition to create a recycling poster - deadline Mon 28th September
#Clean
#Recycle
#BeResponsible
#Community
As promised, here is Mr Whitehead
@PEWellacre
demonstrating our half term toilet roll challenge - great skills!
Don't forget to share your attempts with us to earn points for your house!
#GoodLuck
Signing shirts, laughter, (some) tears and many, many thanks ... a great way to send our Year 11s off on the next stage of their journey!
Be bold, be brave, be tolerant, be true. Be you.
We wish you all the best Year 11!
Wellacre's
@CCFcadets
made us all incredibly proud yesterday at the flag raising ceremony for the official opening of our Royal Navy Combined Cadet Force.
We are grateful to parents, carers, staff, governors and officiant, Lt. Green, for joining us to mark the occasion.
It is a pleasure to see community members taking the time to post complimentary comments on social media. We are so proud of students who display Wellacre values so beautifully both in and outside of school.
Mrs Sharrock will be sharing this with Year 7 in assemblies!
#Proud
Drum roll please... the winner of the Yr 6 Virtual PE House Challenge is LOWRY!
Frank and Lenny took Lowry over the finishing line to victory with a last minute 27km entry!
Thanks to all who took part, we had over 80 entries and an incredible 724.65km travelled!
@PEWellacre
Our KS3 students excelled in the
@BrilliantClub
Scholar's Programme, showing great commitment, collaboration and learning.
Commendations to George, Nicky, Harrison and Alex who achieved a 1st in their final assessment on literary theory, alongside Jacob's 2:2 award!
#Proud
Another glimpse of student talent and Christmas spirit from Wellacre's Carol Concert last night! Thanks to the congregration and 3rd Davyhulme Scout and Guide Band for joining in with our Year 7 choir!
Students are writing Christmas cards to all the elderly residents supported by
@CyrilFlint
and creating wonderful gift bags.
A huge thanks to everyone supporting Wellacre's reverse advent, tomorrow (Fri 10th Dec) is the last day for donations
#Community
We are so proud of all our Wellacre volunteers and ambassadors for our school tonight. They have been inspiring visitors in every department!
#WelcometoWellacre
We're proud to announce the launch of
@OakNational
online RSHE lessons by Wellacre. You'll recognise Mr Duffy and Mr Whitehead in the remote learning resources on a range of topics from mental wellbeing to healthy lifestyles. Read all about it:
Over 400 more Home Learning Hero certificates delivered this week to students, both in school and at home.
These certificates recognise resilience and effort made by students both in their school work and other endeavours.
Wellacre - you make us so proud!
Great Personal Project from Year 7, Archie, who researched Old Trafford, one of the world’s most iconic football stadiums. He completed the project by building a model of the
#TheatreofDreams
Wellacre students created personalised farewell cards to present to Miss Wicks
@mel_mwicks
from Year 11 and the Houses
#Lowry
#Pankhurst
#Turing
Great designs and messages from Yr 11 James, Yr 10 Santino, Yr 7 Johnathan and Yr 7 Jacob.
We could not be prouder of this incredible Year 7 team!
They are working together on a special Transition project to welcome our new starters in September and help them make the move from primary to secondary.
#Transition
#Ambassadors
#WelcometoWellacre
We are proud to report that Wellacre has achieved a Gold Award for effective staff professional development from
@TeacherDevTrust
#Proud
Read all about it:
Proud to see so many wonderful memories in one fantastic display, which showcases the highlights of the 2018-19 academic year!
#Inspire
#Achieve
#Enjoy
This year, Wellacre students achieved the best Brilliant Club results we have ever seen!
It was wonderful to participate in a virtual graduation ceremony for over 1,000 students. Read all about it:
@BrilliantClub
@UoMSchools
#ScholarsProgrammeGrad
In our Co-Curricular Mindfulness and Philosophy session, Year 7 students experienced guided meditation to calm themselves and saw the impact by measuring their pulses before and after. They then enjoyed the rest of the session colouring in a calm, restful state!
#CoCurricular