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Year 11 Leavers’ Ball
A wonderful evening was enjoyed by over 100 girls, partners, staff, parents and Trustees at Queen’s Hotel in Southsea. The glorious weather made the celebrations truly memorable.

Outstanding GCSE Success for Wykeham House School
Girls at Wykeham House School have achieved outstanding results in the GCSE examinations, this year. All the girls have passed at least five examinations at grades A* to C and nearly 60% of the results were at A and A*. Lynn Clarke, Headmistress at Wykeham House School said ‘We are thrilled with the GCSE results, which are once again excellent. The girls and staff have worked very hard and this is reflected in their grades. At Wykeham House we work hard to help each girl achieve her full potential and we are very proud of our value added scores, which show that the majority of girls achieve at least one grade higher than they were predicted at the start of their career in the Senior School. We also trust that they leave the School as self confident young women ready to go on to further education and future careers. We keep them busy both inside the classroom and outside and it is this breadth of experience that enables them to develop their own skills whether they are in leadership, creativity, sportsmanship, etc. We know all of the families at the School very well and wish them all the very best for their future careers.’ Parents and girls at Wykeham House are delighted with the results and spoke very highly of the School. Dr and Mrs Sadler, parents of Abigail a year eleven student were very pleased with her results, ‘She has worked so hard, the School has been brilliant, a supportive and fun place to be.’ said Mrs Sadler. ‘The girls all feel valued, taken care of and supported’ added Dr Sadler.
Dr and Mrs Sadler with daughter Abigail	Emma Turner and Katie Gwyther
Mrs Gwyther is very happy with her daughter Katie’s results, ‘I am really proud of her’ she said ‘Katie has been here since Nursery and she has loved Wykeham House, we will really miss it’. Katie also competes very successfully in dressage and has managed to continue this alongside her studies, ‘The School has been very supportive of Katie’.
Mrs Heaysman whose daughter Rebecca achieved 11 A and A* grades is delighted with the School. ‘They have all worked so hard’ she said ‘Rebecca has had a fantastic time, and has enjoyed every minute of it.’
Fern Barker with Mrs Barker	Sophie and Mrs Drew
Wykeham House Girls Celebrate Success.

End of Summer Term Activities
You will see from the pictures below that we have enjoyed the excellent weather to the full this year with a range of activities throughout the School. The girls excelled at Sports Day with some very close results across the School, from Foundation Stage to Seniors. The new addition to our calendar, The Summer Fayre, was very well attended and much fun was had by all.



Our end of term performance of ‘Alice’ in the Junior School was outstanding and very much appreciated by all who saw it. The Speech and Drama staff presented two very entertaining evenings of plays and sketches with a vast range of topics.

Girls get behind their World Cup Teams
Each Tutor Group in the Senior School has been given four teams to support for the World Cup. As part of their support they were invited to decorate the classroom door. Mrs Clarke and Miss Wilson judged the displays on Friday and have selected 9SC as the winning Tutor Group. The girls must now continue to follow their teams and will be awarded a prize if one of their teams makes it to the Semi-Final.


		Left, the stunning door display from 9SC who were judged to be the best by Mrs Clarke and Miss Wilson. Well done 9SC.

Wykeham House Head Girl and her Deputies
Congratulations to Katie Wilson who has been selected to be Wykeham House Head Girl. Katie will be supported in this role by two Deputy Head Girls, Jessica Rush and Olivia Morris-Soper.
Help for Heroes
We were delighted that Mr Rogers came to assembly to accept a cheque for Ł3618.21 from Jessica Rush and Penny Bielckus. Mr Rogers told all the girls where the money be spent.

Wykeham’s Got Talent!
Congratulations to Alice and Ella in Year 4. They won both the semi-final and the final of Wykeham’s Got Talent which was presented by the Business Studies Enterprise “7th Heaven”. They danced to their own interpretation of the hit “Everybody in Love” by JLS.

Well done to Alice and Ella!
Speech and Drama Festival
The girls so enjoyed what was sadly to be the last Fareham Drama Festival after 42 years of competition. They did exceedingly well winning a total of 27 cups in a variety of disciplines from solo verse, mime, duologues and prose reading.

The festival has provided an opportunity for the girls to perform, often as a solo entry, to an audience with helpful comments from the adjudicator at the end of each session. It is to be hoped an alternative can be found to keep alive the spirit of the festival.
Barcelona Trip
On the 7th April 38 pupils and 5 members of staff set off for five days in sunny Barcelona. The trip was packed with sightseeing, shopping, singing and a flavour of Spanish life was evident throughout our time there. This was especially true of the artistic life of Barcelona as we visited the Picasso museum and both the Sagrada Familia and Parc Guell which were designed by Gaudi. The choir also sang at Poble Espanyol on the second day of the trip. This is a fascinating place which is essentially a museum of Spanish architecture, style and culture of various location all in one place. The choir beautifully sang in the Central Plaza enhanced by some wonderful accoustics and were very much a credit to the school.

For many the highlight of our five days may have been our visit to Port Aventura. This is a huge rollercoaster park approximately 60 miles south of Barcelona with some of the rides achieving speeds of over 80mph and one ride in particular, dropping 330 feet in less than 3 seconds!



The girls had a fantastic time and arrived home happy, if a little footsore!
Please click here to view/download a short video of the visit. The file size is 170mb and download time will depend on the speed of your internet connection.
Help for Heroes Charity Evening
Everyone at Wykeham House is very proud of the achievements of two of our Year 10 pupils, Penelope Bielckus and Jessica Rush. They have organised, co-ordinated and prepared a fund raising event for the ‘Help for Heroes’ Charity. Inspired by family members currently serving in Afghanistan the whole school took the event to heart and helped the girls make it a great success. A wonderful concert, fabulous raffle and many individual and company donations have meant that the girls initial target of Ł1,000 has been well and truly broken. The total raised is now more than Ł2,000. A huge thank you goes to everyone involved and to Malcolm Rogers for coming to speak about the charity during the evening.

Careers Conference
Wykeham House hosted our first Careers Conference on the 10th March 2010. We had a vibrant and inspiring afternoon thanks to a variety of presenters, drawn from the School community, who talked about their daily careers. The afternoon was launched by Mrs Heaysman, a Director from IBM, who spoke to all the girls about the huge range of opportunties now available to them. The girls then moved between presentations of their choice selected from Medical, Legal, Business, Sport and Media. It was lovely to welcome over 60 girls from Lavant House School to the event. I thank everyone who gave of their time to make the afternoon a success for the girls. Mrs L Clarke








Art Exhibition by Mr Robertson
Just in case you haven’t seen the posters in school I do recommend a visit to Bedales Gallery between now and 24th March to view the exhibition of Mr Robertson’s work. ‘The Net Mender’ is an exhibition of box constructions and drawings; opening times are Monday – Friday 2.00-5.00pm and Saturday 10.00am-1.00pm. I know many of you will be familiar with the nature of Mr Robertson’s work, inspired by Scotland’s landscapes, writing and history. We are very proud to have such an eminent artist working on our staff to inspire the girls in the field of creative art. Douglas Robertson is an artist who divides his time between living and working with us in Hampshire and collecting and researching in his native Scotland. More details will be found on his website; www.douglasrobertson.co.uk


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