WMA Updates
We are pleased to share the WMA Updates with you.
4th July 2024
Dates for your Diary
5th July - All School Sponsored Walk
10th - 11th July - Sports Days and Reward Trips
19th July - Last Day of Term
Whole School Information
Family First
Please follow the below link to read the Family First Magazine
https://familyfirst.co.uk/issue3-24-download
Cost of Living Support
We have a range of sanitary products available in school which are accessible to all students. Should you or your child wish to take any products for the summer break, please contact the Academy on whitcliffe.office@sharemat.co.uk and a pack will be made available to collect from the Main Office.
Community Kindness Fundraising
Contacting School
As we continue to focus on improving our communication with parents/carers, we would like to remind you that school contact details can be found on the Contact Us page on the WMA website.
For general queries - The Head of Year Team are generally the first point of contact for pastoral enquiries, and specific issues can be directed to the staff listed here.
Curriculum Queries – We have recently launched a new way to contact us should you have any questions around your child(ren)s learning and/or the curriculum. You can submit a curriculum query here.
We will endeavour to make contact within 2 school working days as per the school policy.
Arbor Update
As we move towards launching the Arbor Parent App we require parent/carers email addresses to enable each parent/carer to register. To allow the app to work correctly, email addresses cannot be duplicated therefore each parent/carer will need their own personal email address. To allow us to ensure we have the correct information please complete the form below. Please note we will only be able to use the responses from this form to update existing contacts.
Deadline: Friday 28th June
https://forms.office.com/e/CbrP7xUuap
Uniform
As we are approaching the end of the academic year, we wish to ask for your help supporting our future students. Should you have any uniform, in good condition, that you no longer need it can be donated to our uniform office so it can be provided to students whose families may need some financial assistance with purchasing or replacing items of uniform. This could include ties, skirts, trousers, blazers, PE tops and school shoes. Any items you may wish to donate can be handed into our main office. All donations will be gratefully received. Thank you in advance.
Kirklees Keep in mind Free Sessions
Please see below for information regarding the free sessions being held by Kirklees over the summer break.
Arbor – Our New Student Information and Communication Platform
Please see the link below to a letter we sent this week regarding Arbor.
Arbor - Our new Student Information and Communication Platform
Being proud to celebrate students achieving their personal best
If any of our amazing students are achieving personal goals, milestones or awards outside of school we would love to hear all about them and we can share those achievements on the schools X feed (formerly twitter). If you would like to do share those achievements, please email the office with the news with a photo or tag us on X (@Wmount).
Year 7 Information
Sports Day - Wednesday 10th July 2024
Sports Day will take place over two days this year, with Year 7 and 8 participating on Wednesday 10th July. Students should to make their way to Spen Valley Athletics Track on the morning of their sports day, rather than coming to school, and arrive by 8.30am for a 9am start.
Students will be registered with their Personal Development groups as normal and will remain at the track until 2.30pm. Students will then be dismissed from the track at 2.30pm to make their own way home.
Parents and Carers are permitted to attend the track from 1pm, should you choose to do so, in order to watch the event finals. Students will not be permitted to leave the athletics track site at any time during the school day, and normal school rules and behaviour expectations will apply.
The address of the venue is: Princess Mary Stadium, 124 Bradford Rd, Liversedge, WF15 6LW
We intend to run sports day regardless of the weather so care should be taken to ensure that students have the appropriate clothing for the days forecast.
End of Year Reward Events - Thursday 11th July 2024
As a reminder, most of Y7 and Y8 will be enjoying their chosen end of year reward on Thursday 11th July.
Year 8 Information
Sports Day - Wednesday 10th July 2024
Sports Day will take place over two days this year, with Year 7 and 8 participating on Wednesday 10th July. Students should to make their way to Spen Valley Athletics Track on the morning of their sports day, rather than coming to school, and arrive by 8.30am for a 9am start.
Students will be registered with their Personal Development groups as normal and will remain at the track until 2.30pm. Students will then be dismissed from the track at 2.30pm to make their own way home.
Parents and Carers are permitted to attend the track from 1pm, should you choose to do so, in order to watch the event finals. Students will not be permitted to leave the athletics track site at any time during the school day, and normal school rules and behaviour expectations will apply.
The address of the venue is: Princess Mary Stadium, 124 Bradford Rd, Liversedge, WF15 6LW
We intend to run sports day regardless of the weather so care should be taken to ensure that students have the appropriate clothing for the days forecast.
End of Year Reward Events - Thursday 11th July 2024
As a reminder, most of Y7 and Y8 will be enjoying their chosen end of year reward on Thursday 11th July.
Year 9 Information
End of Year Reward Events - Wednesday 10th July 2024
As a reminder, most of Y9 and Y10 will be enjoying their chosen end of year reward on Wednesday 10th July,
Sports Day - Thursday 11th July 2024
Sports Day will take place over two days this year, with Year 9 and 10 participating on Thursday 11th July. Students should to make their way to Spen Valley Athletics Track on the morning of their sports day, rather than coming to school, and arrive by 8.30am for a 9am start.
Students will be registered with their Personal Development groups as normal and will remain at the track until 2.30pm. Students will then be dismissed from the track at 2.30pm to make their own way home.
Parents and Carers are permitted to attend the track from 1pm, should you choose to do so, in order to watch the event finals. Students will not be permitted to leave the athletics track site at any time during the school day, and normal school rules and behaviour expectations will apply.
The address of the venue is: Princess Mary Stadium, 124 Bradford Rd, Liversedge, WF15 6LW
We intend to run sports day regardless of the weather so care should be taken to ensure that students have the appropriate clothing for the days forecast.
Year 10 Information
End of Year Reward Events - Wednesday 10th July 2024
As a reminder, most of Y9 and Y10 will be enjoying their chosen end of year reward on Wednesday 10th July,
Sports Day - Thursday 11th July 2024
Sports Day will take place over two days this year, with Year 9 and 10 participating on Thursday 11th July. Students should to make their way to Spen Valley Athletics Track on the morning of their sports day, rather than coming to school, and arrive by 8.30am for a 9am start.
Students will be registered with their Personal Development groups as normal and will remain at the track until 2.30pm. Students will then be dismissed from the track at 2.30pm to make their own way home.
Parents and Carers are permitted to attend the track from 1pm, should you choose to do so, in order to watch the event finals. Students will not be permitted to leave the athletics track site at any time during the school day, and normal school rules and behaviour expectations will apply.
The address of the venue is: Princess Mary Stadium, 124 Bradford Rd, Liversedge, WF15 6LW
We intend to run sports day regardless of the weather so care should be taken to ensure that students have the appropriate clothing for the days forecast.
Mock Exam Information
All information regarding the Y10 Mock exams can be found by clicking the link below -
Whitcliffe Mount, A SHARE Academy - Year 10 Achieve
Science Revision
Attached is a comprehensive guide to support our students revision for their mock GCSE examinations in science, which begin on Thursday 20th June.
This guide is also found in the Year 10 Achieve page on our website: Whitcliffe Mount, A SHARE Academy - Year 10 Achieve
This guide contains the following:
- outline of the subject content and how it is assessed
- useful revision links for each topic on each paper
- past exam papers with mark schemes and walk-through videos for each paper
- subject specific vocabulary
- revision tips and techniques on how to learn and remember more
- step by step instructions to create a revision timetable
Students should be using the revision tips and techniques outlined in this guide to support their revision, using the information from their exercise books, the useful revision links and exam questions.
The students will be provided with paper copies of the 2019 GCSE exams. The students should be working through the exam questions as part of their revision, checking their answers using the mark schemes and watching the walk-through videos to support them with their understanding . The links to the mark schemes and walk-through videos are available on the go-to revision guide attached.
If you have any questions or require any further support with your revision, please don't hesitate to contact your science teacher.
There are three copies of this guide attached, one for foundation, one for higher, and one for Triple science. Please use the correct one for the exams you are sitting.
This message has also gone out on classcharts.
Best regards,
Science
Careers Information
General Careers Information
For Kirklees Apprenticeships in general please follow this link MyDirections
If you have any questions about careers, please use this link to the school website for further information and top tips Whitcliffe Mount, A SHARE Academy - Careers Information & Guidance
Keep up to date with all the Apprenticeship opportunities in the local area by checking
https://padlet.com/askresources21/ask-resources-2023-bw9tqgz6y2vjas6t
Also see a link to the Yorkshire Apprenticeship Service website.
https://yorkshireapprenticeshipservice.co.uk/
For more information on Careers please go to Whitcliffe Mount, A SHARE Academy - Careers Information & Guidance
For Kirklees Apprenticeships in general please follow this link MyDirections
If you have any questions about careers, please use this link to the school website for further information and top tips Whitcliffe Mount, A SHARE Academy - Careers Information & Guidance
Year 11 Information
GCSE Results Day
GCSE results will be available for collection from Whitcliffe Mount on the morning of 22nd August 2024 from the main hall between 9:00am and 11:00am.
Please see in the link below a letter outlining more information.