Dear Parents and Carers
I am delighted to announce that the School Parliament has chosen Hardenhuish50 as their Charity for the year. This means that all money raised will go back in to enhancing our pupils/students’ school experience through the Hardenhuish Education Trust. It is the Trust’s first meeting of the year next week and if you have any ideas for fundraising or would like to get involved in the work of the Trust please let me know – our next major fundraiser is the Christmas Fayre (12 December 2025) and we would be grateful for any Raffle Prizes or offers of help for the event. Please email events@hardenhuish.wilts.sch.uk if you are able to help in any way.
It sounds as though Year 7 had a great day at Go Ape yesterday and I look forward to hearing all about it over the coming days!
Thank you to those parents who have attended our Parent Information Advice and Guidance sessions over the last couple of weeks. These are our way of ensuring that you have the important information that you need to support your young people at specific points in their education. If there are any topics or areas where you would like further guidance or information, please do not hesitate to let us know.
Please see below in our Focus On… item details of the trips and visits we are planning for the year. This was created a couple of years ago in response to a parental request and I hope helps identify the wide range of opportunities available for our young people.
Have a good weekend – stay safe and dry from storm Amy.
Lisa Percy
Headteacher
News Items
Focus on… Trips and Visits
We continue to work hard to ensure that young people have as many opportunities for trips and visits to enhance their school experience as possible. We aim to launch trips and visits with as much notice as possible and to ensure that for the higher value trips, payment plans are provided to make them as affordable as possible to all pupils.
We continue to do our best to adapt to demand and have added extra places to trips where demand has significantly exceeded the originally available places. We may also however not run trips if there is not sufficient interest or voluntary contributions to make them viable.
We are grateful to staff across the school who plan, manage, administrate, and accompany these trips and visits and thank you for your support as parents for your support of these amazing enrichment opportunities for our young people.
Details of this year’s scheduled below:
Multi-Lingual “Bring and Share” Lunch
On Tuesday, we held a lunch time “bring and share” event for our KS3 students who speak languages other than English at home. The event was planned to coincide with the annual European Day of Languages that takes place every September.
This celebration of culture and language was led by two of our bi-lingual Year 12s, who encouraged our KS3 students to share their experiences of having a different home language.
The home languages include:
- Portuguese
- French
- Spanish
- Greek
- Italian
- Ukrainian
- Polish
- Slovakian
- Albanian
- Hungarian
- Cantonese
- Shona (a South African language)
We would like to host more events like this to celebrate our multi-lingual students here at Hardenhuish. So, whether you were born in a different country or whether you were born in the UK but speak another language at home, we would love to see our students at our next event.
Vacancies – Hardenhuish School