Whitmore House
Hello and Welcome to Whitmore House at William Edwards
The Pastoral System at William Edwards School is traditionally based on a House System. When a student joins the school, he or she is allocated to one of the four Houses. Whitmore House consists of 10, mixed-year tutor groups, where students are seated in family groups and the older students support the younger ones. There are approximately 300 student members of Whitmore House and 16 members of teaching staff.
Whitmore House is the youngest House in William Edwards School and I am proud to be its leader. Our aim is to support each member of the House to become the best that he or she can be. We endeavour to achieve this by working with students and their parents/carers, being like an extended family for our students, providing stability and care and nurturing a sense of belonging and pride.
We extend learning and awareness of current affairs through tutor activities and assemblies, we nurture a caring outlook through promoting charity events, we organise extra-curricular activities to allow students to socialise outside the school environment and we liaise with the Pastoral Managers to ensure our students are well supported if they are going through a personal crisis. We support our students with their educational achievements by having one-to-one sessions with each student about their grades and progress every term and put interventions in place if the student is struggling.
One way in which we can shine as a House is through inter-house events. Our coat of arms portrays a lion figurehead and so we like to think that we have the strength and ferocity of our lion when it comes to sporting events. We are a competitive House and aim to win all our inter-house sporting events. We have some very talented sportspeople in Whitmore but without the support of everyone we cannot succeed – it is the taking part that is important and we encourage all our students to play a role in inter-house events and support their House.
Whitmore House has an active House Council, with students meeting every fortnight to discuss issues, suggest changes and drive improvements. This helps invoke a feeling of ownership for our students as well as giving them a real voice in how the school functions. The work of the council is invaluable in keeping the House relevant to the needs of the student body.
I strive for excellence for Whitmore House and I am always looking for ways to improve. If you have any suggestions about how we can achieve even greater success please do not hesitate to contact me.
Callum Adam | Year 11 (SWH) |
Jake Almond | Year 11 (MIJ) |
Jessie Brown | Year 11 (JMW) |
Maisie Ferguson | Year 11 (CRH) |
Jack Goyette | Year 11 (JAD) |
Lucy Grover | Year 11 (MIJ) |
Agam Sidhu | Year 11 (SWH) |
Student Executive 2017-18
Brandon Bennett | AEP |
Chloe Boulton | KHE |
Tamika Coman | AMC |
Ellie-Mae Howroyd | AMC |
Ellise Milan-Vega | JDK |
Olivia Mynett | JDK |
Jamie O’Donnell | JMW |
Charlie Parker-Griffiths | AEP |
Megan Smith | AEP |
Edward Suddell | GEN |
Rowan Thomas | JDK |
Whitmore House Leader for PALS
James Beackon
Whitmore House News
Contact Us
William Edwards School
Stifford Clays Road
Stifford Clays
Grays
Essex
RM16 3NJ
T: 01375 486000
F: 01375 486009
Mrs B Thompson on thompsonb@wes.swecet.org
Whitmore Newsletter 5th February
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Whitmore House Newsletter 21/01/19
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Half-Term Rewards Review – Whitmore Autumn
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We would like to take this opportunity at the end of the Autumn Term to talk to you about Whitmore’s achievements since September.
To celebrate the end of this term, a variety of different achievements and rewards were given out in House Assembly as congratulations to individuals and tutor groups showing high levels of effort and hard work…
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Whitmore House Newsletter 10/12/18
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Whitmore Newsletter 30th November 2018
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House Assemblies week of 10th January 2018
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/in General News, Whitmore News /by Static Author Display NameWhat a busy term it has been! September seems a long time ago now, but we started off by welcoming our bright, nervous Year 7 cohort as well as four new members of staff to Whitmore: Mrs Hingston, i/c Food Technology; Mr Naylor, member of the Science department; Miss Pooley, member of the PE department and Mr Suave, member of the English department…
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Whitmore House Bake Off
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