Today we donated all our safety goggles, gloves and aprons to a local
#NHS
hospital. We cannot thank all our healthcare professionals enough, we know this is only a drop in the ocean, but we hope it helps.
If you son is making the move from primary and is joining us in September, here is a sneak peak of our Year 7 Transition & First Day Guide! Just working on a virtual tour of the school to show our new boys around. All will soon be published on our website and emailed to parents.
It's back! From Monday our free breakfast club will start again! Students can grab a bagel in the canteen from 8:15am until 8:40am. Available to all students!
@magic_breakfast
Why not take the day off, enjoy the sunshine 🌞🌞, go for a walk, run or bikeride 🚶♂️🏃♂️🚴♂️ have a BBQ 🍗🌭, or just take 5 minutes to yourself 🧘♂️. Remember your mental health is as important as your physical health!
#MentalHealthAwareness
WDS will remain operating for ALL students until 2:55pm on Friday 20th March. If your child is healthy, please ensure that he attends school. Information on home learning will be provided over the next 2 days. Thank you for your understanding and support at this difficult time.
We have reset countless passwords today in preparation for our
@MicrosoftTeams
tester lessons for Years 7 to 10 but it was worth it! Great to see our boys and catch up! Looking forward to moving to live lessons soon!
After 22 years we are saying goodbye to Mr Stowers, the photocopying king!! The work never stops, even on the last day! Miss you already and thank you for all your dedication to the school over the past 2 decades. 👨🦲👩🦲👩🦲👩🦲👩🦲👩🦲👩🦲👩🦲👩🦲👩🦲
It has been a tough week back with ups and downs. As ever our students, staff and families adapted quickly. Year 12 took part in virtual lessons in school so as not to fall behind. A fantastic effort by all involved!
#wedeliversuccess
@WDS6thForm
This will be our last full week of online lessons (hopefully) before our phased return on the 8th. Enjoy the sunny day today away from a screen! Go for a walk🚶♂️ or bike ride 🚴♀️ and keep safe!
Our staff have been working hard over the past week and have prepared home learning packs for all students. Further details to follow. Parents, please keep an eye out for text messages, emails and visit our website. We will do everything we can to keep you updated.
Fabulous Day out at Knowsley Safari Park!
Massive well done to Year 7, it was a huge success and the boys were ALL fabulous!
Thank you to the wonderful staff who all helped run the school trip.
We are really looking forward to our return to school in September. We have put together a reopening guide for parents and students. This will be available on our website from Monday and will also be emailed to all parents/carers.
Plans are underway for our reopening w/c 8th March!! We will update parents early next week with reopening times, safety procedures and testing arrangements...... can't wait to get back!
#wedeliversuccess
What a wonderful poem written by one of our Year 8 students! Change can be scary but everyone at West Derby will always look out for you!
#wedeliversuccess
Our sports hall has been turned into a makeshift socially distant assembly hall ready for back to school assemblies. Again, a huge thank you to our site staff!
Extremely proud of our fantastic History and Politics students achieving incredible results and, our wonderful Mr Sharpe who is beaming with pride for his students. Well done boys.
#WDS
#WDS6thform
Day one is done and dusted for all year groups. Kick off those new shoes and rest those weary feet! Guess what teacher walked around in just socks for most of the afternoon! We start all over again tomorrow at 8:45am
#newshoes
#sorefeet
#wedeliversuccess
#FirstDayOfSchool2019
Again, thank you to all our families who donated to our food bank appeal at today's Year 7 Christmas Market. We have never collected so much to donate!
It might not be much but it's a start! Put the laptop, ipad or whatever away for the day and have some fun!
📴SatchelOne
📴Teams
📴Moodle
Get outside and get some fresh air and throw a few snow/slush balls! 🌨❄
Our Head of Departments and SLT met yesterday to discuss our plans for September. Great to get everyones opinion and plan a way forward for September. Also nice to see everyone, albeit virtually!! 💻
We cannot wait to welcome our students back!
#wedeliversuccess
A huge thank you to our school community who very kindly donated to our Christmas Hamper Appeal! The generosity of our community knows no bounds! Thank you!!
Congratulations to our amazing Y13 who have achieved absolutely fantastic results, including the top A* grades. We couldn't be more proud!
#WDS
#WDS6thform
Year 7 science assessment today.... student asks “what is osmosis”?...... another student shouts out “them triangle things you get when you have a curry”!!...... sometimes you just have to laugh!
Nearly 300 students tested today as part of the city wide testing programme. The mature attitudes from Years 7, 8, 12 and 13 was great to see. Year 9, 10 and 11 up tomorrow.
@WDS6thForm
@lpoolcouncil
#LetsGetTested
It's 7:45 on a Thursday morning, our
@magic_breakfast
club is open and Callum is keeping everyone's spirits up during these uncertain times
#wedeliversuccess
There is no denying that Christmas 2020 will be very different compared to previous years, but is important to remember the good times and look forward to the future!
This morning we held our first virtual assembly with Year 7. Every student received a 100% badge to remind them to always give 100% in and out of lessons. We hope they wear it with pride!
#wedeliversuccess
Welcome back to 2018!! What a way to start the year, our whole school are listening to motivational speaker
@AndyGbootneck
, brilliant start to the year!
Fabulous Day out at Knowsley Safari Park!
Massive well done to Year 7, it was a huge success and the boys were ALL fabulous!
We even met the lovely 'Roger and Arthur' Sealions.
Thank you to the wonderful staff who all helped run the school trip
At the end of last week, Year 7 had a blast taking part in this year's
#LiverpoolMathsParty
! Working in teams, students tried their luck at a carousel of challenges, testing their mathematical reasoning and problem solving skills! We can't wait until next year!
@llpartnership
It's officially the first day of the summer holidays! 🌧🌧🌧 Well done to all our students who engaged so well with online learning over the past 4 months and a thank you to staff for delivering lessons from home to year 10 and 12!
It will be important to maintain a routine over the coming weeks. We have put together a home learning timetable for students to follow. This can be downloaded from our website, feel free to edit to meet the needs of your family!
Congratulations to the Year 10 Football team on reaching the Merseyside Cup Final. They beat Rainhill High School 3-0 (away). The final will be held at the Heron Eccles Football Hub (L187HZ) on Thursday 9th May, 2pm kick-off.
#wds
Right, done for the day! No more pins/passwords/email resets! We will start all over again tomorrow. Remember to use our dedicated email address for all queries concerning online learning. Thank you for your patience today! 😴😴😴😴
Some of our wonderful Y13 students who have been accepted onto their chosen university course! We are so proud and excited for what the future holds for you all.
#WDS
#WDS6thform
Online lessons start again tomorrow after the half term break. Please check you Teams calendar and school email for invites! Any problems please email: hwsupport
@westderbyschool
.co.uk
As ever, we are adapting how we teach our students to meet the changing circumstances. Students have adapted admirably to this new way of learning!
#wedeliversuccess
Along with our praise postcards that get posted home, we have started to email students a little certificate just to say well done! Sometimes its the simple things that matter!
We have just heard fantastic news from Liverpool Schoolboys’ manager:
Sam Bradley (Y9)U14 Merseyside team.
National Cup Winners!
Fantastic achievement, please congratulate him when you see him next!
We have sent our School Reopenong Guide to all parents via email. It is also available on our website. We understand that parents and students may be nervous about our return, we have followed all the guidelines given to us and hope that this document will help reassure you.
It’s a record breaker!!!! Thanks to you all who brought in cakes, baked, bought raffle tickets or generously donated money: you raised a huge £700.46!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Special thanks to the Sixth Form Cake Crew!!!