Town Mill Art Exhibition – July 2019
This exhibition combines working artists with students work to raise awareness of the injustices that occur when terminology like ‘enhanced interrogation’ is accepted without question and when …[Read More]
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Rough Notes – April/May 2019
What can you say about Richard apart from that he was a brilliant and inspirational Head Teacher. I first came to the school 12 years ago as Assistant Headteacher and one of the reasons I wanted to work …[Read More]
Ten Tors 2019
Congratulations to the two Woodroffe Ten Tors teams. Both teams successfully completed the 45 mile (silver award) challenge over the weekend. All students involved have worked incredibly hard …[Read More]
Rough Notes – March 2019
At the end of this term we are two thirds of the way through the 2018-19 academic year and, as always, time seems to have gone very quickly. After the Easter break there are only a few weeks before …[Read More]
Rough Notes – February 2019
With over a 1000 students in the school we sometimes forget all the trials and tribulations they face each day just to arrive at school prepared and ready to learn. I fear sometimes the same could be said …[Read More]
Rough Notes – January 2019
The past few weeks have certainly been interesting. It never occurred to me that the announcement of my plan to take early retirement at the end of this academic year would end up in The Daily Mail …[Read More]
‘Lyme Rocks’ – Student Artwork
Just before the October half term, a group of six Year 12 Woodroffe students created the artwork that now adorns the walls of the sweet shop ‘Lyme Rocks’ in the heart of …[Read More]
Rough Notes – December 2018
The weeks running up to Christmas are often the busiest times of the year in schools and, of course, Woodroffe is no different. The last few weeks of term have seen a whole host of seasonal activities …[Read More]
Rough Notes – November 2018
Woodroffe has, for many years now, been oversubscribed and every year there seems to be increasing competition for places in Year 7. This year, for example, there were over thirty …[Read More]
Armistice Day Poppies 2018
In preparation for the Armistice day celebrations on November the 11th, the Symondsbury Estate asked a number of schools throughout Dorset to create a river of poppies that would run down the …[Read More]