School Newspaper

Download our latest school newspapers, created by our Year 12 Enrichment students.

Newspaper Archive

December Edition – School Newspaper

6th February 2026
Related News
Year 7 Reading Out Loud At Rokesly
On Friday 30th January 2026, a group of Year 7 students and the LRC staff headed to Rokesly Junior School to read picture books out loud to Year 2 chi...
5th November 2025
Related News
Year 7 Halloween 2025 Disco
Great fun was had by students and staff at the Year 7 Halloween disco. ...
20th July 2025
Related News
Year 10 Spanish Trip to Granada
Our GCSE students had an unforgettable time on their recent trip to Granada! Highlights included exploring the stunning Alhambra, taking part in a fas...
12th July 2025
Related News
Sports day 2025
A great day of sunshine and fun was had by all at this year’s sports day. Da Vinci won the house cup, while Seacole took home the participation trophy...
9th July 2025
Related News
2025 Crouchella day
Please enjoy these photos of our students and staff sharing a joyful day of learning from one another and celebrating the incredible diversity of cult...
2nd July 2025
Related News
Year 10 Paris Trip
...
1st July 2025
Related News
2026 Year 11 Celebration Evening
Here are some photos from the Year 11 Celebration evening ...
4th June 2025
Related News
Prospective SEND Parent/Carer Evening
Join us for our Prospective SEND Parent Information Evening Highgate Wood School will be hosting a prospective SEND Parent Information Evening on Mond...
14th May 2025
Related News
A-Level Exhibition 2025
A-Level Exhibition 2025 You are warmly invited to celebrate the creativity and hard work of our talented A-Level students at this year’s A-Level Exhib...
13th May 2025
Related News
GCSE Exhibition 2025
GCSE Exhibition 2025 You are warmly invited to celebrate the creativity and hard work of our talented GCSE students at this year’s GCSE Exhibition for...
13th May 2025
Related News
Memorable Farewell for Year 13
A Memorable Farewell for Year 13 On Friday 9th May, we celebrated the end of school for our Year 13 students with a joyful gathering in the Main Hall....
7th May 2025
Related News
HWS at Young Art Exhibition
Highgate Wood School Artists Recognised at Prestigious Young Art Exhibition The staff from the Highgate Wood School Art Department recently attended a...
6th May 2025
Related News
Year 11 Go Out in Style
Year 11 Go Out in Style with Dress-Up Day Celebration As the GCSE exam season approaches, our Year 11 students marked their final day of school with a...
14th April 2025
Related News
Pendarren House Trip 2025
Pendarren House Trip 2025 A huge congratulations to all the students and accompanying staff who took part in the incredible adventures at Pendarren Ho...
8th April 2025
Related News
Year 10 Geography Field Trip to WOTN
Year 10 Geography Field Trip to Walton-on-the-Naze Ms Woolley writes: Over 90 Year 10 Geography students visited Walton-on-the-Naze on 27th/28th March...
1st April 2025
Related News
Year 12 Geography Trip to North Wales
Mr Uyar wtites: The Year 12 Geography students had an enriching experience in Betws-y-Coed, where they explored a range of erosional and depositional ...
19th March 2025
Related News
Beck Forrest Memorial Garden
Beck Forrest Memorial Garden Over the weekend of March 15th/16th, the Beck Forrest Memorial Garden was completed—a special space created to remember a...
18th March 2025
Related News
Middlesex Briggs Cup Champions
Middlesex Briggs Cup Champions Mr Trattou writes: HWS U18s Crowned Middlesex Briggs Cup Champions – The Unbeaten Kings of Middlesex The final whistle ...
18th March 2025
Related News
BiblioBuzz 2025
BiblioBuzz 2025 On Friday 14th March, our Year 7 Book Club had the exciting opportunity to attend Biblio-Buzz, the Alexandra Palace Children’s Book Aw...
4th March 2025
Related News
Berlin Art Trip
A Level Art Trip to Berlin From the 13th to 16th of February, our Year 12 and 13 A-Level Art and Photography students had the opportunity to embark on...
19th February 2025
Related News
Year 9 Ski Trip
Year 9 Ski Trip to Claviere, Italy Between 8th and 15th February, sixty of our Year 9 students embarked on an unforgettable ski trip to Claviere, Ital...
18th February 2025
Related News
KS3 Rewards Trips
KS3 Rewards Trips In the last week before half term, Key Stage 3 students at Highgate Wood School were rewarded for their hard work with a fun-filled ...
29th January 2025
Related News
Sixth Form Taster Day
Sixth Form Taster Day 2025 On Friday 24th January, our Year 11 students were able to experience a day in the life of a Sixth Form student by attending...
13th January 2025
Related News
School Newspaper - Winter 2024/25 Issue
Sixth Form Newspaper Please find the link here to the new school newspaper, Neck of he Woods, written and edited by the 6th Form newspaper enrichment...
6th January 2025
Related News
Year 9 Options for 2025
Year 9 Options Year 9 students have some important decisions to make about their futures. In September 2025 you move from Key Stage 3 onto th...
1st January 2025
Related News
PPEs January 2025
Below are the Year 11 and Year 13 exams timetables for the January 2025 PPEs: Year 11 PPE Timetable – January 2025 Year 13 PPE Timetable –...
22nd December 2024
Related News
Food Bank Collection 2024
It was heart-warming to see the huge effort that was made by our school community with the annual Hornsey Food Bank Collection this year. In fact, we ...
5th December 2024
Related News
BHM: Dragon's Den
Black Heritage Month: Dragon’s Den Competition We are thrilled to share the incredible success of this year’s Black Heritage Month Dragon’s Den compet...
5th December 2024
Related News
Year 13 History Trip
Year 13 History Trip to Auschwitz Thirty History A Level students went to Poland to visit the Auschwitz memorial and other Holocaust-related sites in ...
15th November 2024
Related News
Changes to Attendance
Changes to Attendance Dear Parents/Carers, At Highgate Wood school, we know that good attendance starts with close and productive relationships with p...
14th November 2024
Related News
6th Form Open Evening 2024
Sixth Form Open Evening 2024 We had a wonderful time hosting prospective students and their families for a Sixth Form Open Evening on Thursday 14th No...
24th October 2024
Related News
UAL: Saturday Clubs
UAL Art Courses For the students aged 13 – 16 that love Art and Design, Film or Fashion, please see the message below from the HWS Art Departmen...
23rd October 2024
Related News
Halloween Disco 2024
Year 7 Halloween Disco To cap off their first few weeks spent at HWS, the Year 7s enjoyed a fantastic evening at their Halloween Disco on Wednesday 2...
21st October 2024
Related News
Post 16 Open Evening
6th Form Open Evening We look forward to welcoming our prospective Year 12 students and their parents/carers to our Open Evening on Thursday 14th Nove...
11th October 2024
Related News
Blazer Donation
Blazer Donation A few weeks ago, Highgate Wood School was approached by Julian Chenery, founder of Wear A Sports Shirt, about the possibility of donat...
10th October 2024
Related News
A Level Biology Field Trip
A Level Biology Field Trip This year’s A Level Biology Field Trip took place on the 4th and 7th of October. We visited the Field Studies Centre at Bec...
3rd October 2024
Related News
Open Events 2024
Primary Transition Open Events We look forward to welcoming prospective students and parents/carers to our open events. These events provide ...
1st October 2024
Related News
Table Tennis Champs
Haringey Table Tennis Borough Champions! Massive congrats to the HWS boys table tennis teams who did the Year 7/8 & Year 9/10 double for the 2nd y...
23rd September 2024
Related News
Year 7 Team Building
Year 7 Team Building Day 2024 On Friday the 20th September, the new Year 7 cohort traded the confines of the classroom walls for a team building day i...
9th September 2024
Related News
Remodelling of Toilets
New Admin Toilets Have Been Completed We are delighted to inform you that the new Admin toilets have been completed. They lookamazing and will be far ...
4th September 2024
Related News
Headteacher's Welcome - Start of Academic Year
Dear Parents/Carers, I am delighted to welcome you all back to the start of a new academic year at HWS. Yesterday, our students returned with a tremen...
22nd August 2024
Related News
GCSE Exam Results 2024
GCSE Results 2024 Following our very strong A Level and Vocational Equivalent results last week (available here) we are delighted to announce an excel...
15th August 2024
Related News
A Level Exam Results 2024
A Level Results 2024 Highgate Wood School Sixth Form is proud to announce another very strong set of A Level Results. There have been successes across...
23rd July 2024
Related News
Year 8 Geography Rewards Trip - Kew Gardens
Mr Uyar writes: This trip was to reward those students who went over and above in Geography in Year 8 this year. Students were given a 45 minute inter...
9th July 2024
Related News
MyAFK Charity - Sponge Throwing Event
Mr Hayman writes: On Friday 28th June the House charity representatives organized a fund raising event for the MyAFK charity. Fortunately, it was a wa...
4th July 2024
Related News
MADFest 2024
MADfest – Crouch End’s BEST festival. Join us for Highgate Wood School’s sell-out festival of Music, Art and Drama on Friday 19th Ju...
25th June 2024
Related News
Trip to the Yoto Carnegie Medal Ceremony
Ms Ereira writes: The Carnegie Medal is the oldest and most prestigious award for children’s literature. Over the decades the winners, selected by a p...
17th June 2024
Related News
Refugee Week with Michael Rosen
This morning students from Year 7 and Year 8 gathered in the LRC to join a live online event with Michael Rosen as part of the National Literacy Trust...
10th June 2024
Related News
National Reading Quiz Grand Final
Ms. Ereira writes: On Wednesday 5th June our team of Year 7 book quizzers travelled to the Victory Services Club in Marble Arch for the Grand Final of...
24th May 2024
Related News
GCSE Art Exhibition - 7th June 2024
GCSE Art Exhibition 2024 Please join us for the GCSE art exhibition on Friday 7th June. Your support of our students’ work will be greatly appreciated...
15th May 2024
Related News
Year 11 Dress Up Day
Dress Up Day 2024 On their last day of school, before the start of GCSE exams, the Year 11 cohort enjoyed a day of fun and creativity for the Year 11 ...
14th May 2024
Related News
Year 10 Granada Trip
Year 10 Trip to Granada – 7th to 10th May 2024 Ms Vazquez writes: Our Year 10 students embarked on an exciting school trip to Granada, which pro...
7th May 2024
Related News
Pendarren Adventure 2024
Trip to Pendarren House Well done to all the students and staff who were involved in the brilliant adventures at Pendarren Activity Centre from 23rd t...
2nd May 2024
Related News
Updated: Royal College of Art Young Art Competition
UPDATE: The recent RCA Young Art Exhibition was abuzz with excitement as hordes of family and friends – a large contingent of which were HWS families ...
3rd April 2024
Related News
Alexandra Palace Children's Book Award Ceremony
Ms Ereira writes: Our Year 7 Book Club have been reading the six books shortlisted for the 2024 Alexandra Palace Children’s Book Award. It’s a book aw...
2nd April 2024
Related News
National Reading Champions Quiz - Regional Winners!
Ms Ereira writes: Every year, the National Literacy Trust run a national quiz competition for school students aged 10-14. In February, we invited stud...
11th March 2024
Related News
Royal Academy Young Artists' Competition
Letter from Ms Shepherd : Dear young artists and designers, For the 6th year running, Highgate Wood School Art Department is taking part in the Royal ...
4th March 2024
Related News
World Book Day 2024
World Book Day was created by UNESCO on 23rd April 1995 as a worldwide celebration of books and reading. The first World Book Day in the UK and Irelan...
17th January 2024
Related News
Winter Concert 2023
At the end of the Autumn Term we were fortunate to be able to enjoy yet another annual Winter Concert. The event was extremely well attended and, alon...
11th January 2024
Related News
Hornsey Food Bank Donation
Mr Hayman writes: A huge well done and extended thank you to all those who helped out and donated food for the Hornsey Food Bank charity! Highgate Woo...
20th November 2023
Related News
Black Heritage Month at HWS - 2023
**Celebrating Diversity and Identity: The Significance of Black Heritage Month at Highgate Wood School** Ms Coley writes: Dear Highgate Wood School Pa...
31st October 2023
Related News
Year 7 Halloween Disco
Year 7 Halloween Disco at Highgate Wood School Ms Issitt Writes: On Thursday 19th October, our new cohort of Year 7 students came together for a memor...
31st October 2023
Related News
Community Languages
At Highgate Wood School we are very supportive of students, who are fluent in speaking, listening, reading and writing in a foreign language, to take ...
5th October 2023
Related News
Parent and Carer Online Information Evenings and Webinars
Post 16 Information Events 2023 We have held a number of information events between September-November this year (2023). These were aimed at ...
28th September 2023
Related News
Year 7 Team Building Day 2023
On Friday 22nd October we had a fantastic Team Building Day at Highgate Wood School with our wonderful new cohort of Year 7 students. Students worked ...
12th August 2023
Related News
Insight, Exam Results and School Return
NOTICE ABOUT DELAY TO SCHOOL START We are so sorry about the delay to the start of the Autumn term. We will be updating families with progres...
25th July 2023
Related News
Windrush Day
Windrush Commemoration 75 years ago, on 22nd June 1948, the HMT Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, Essex. It carried passengers from the Cari...
8th June 2023
Related News
MADFest 2023
MADFest 2023 – IT HAPPENED! The weather was not as hot as it has been, there was even a spot of rain in the air, but that didn’t stop MADF...
5th April 2023
Related News
Insight (Spring 2023)
Click here for the spring issue of the school magazine, Insight. This has lots of information of what has been happening at Highgate Wood Sc...
30th December 2022
Related News
New Term!
Happy New Year! Spring Term begins on Tuesday 3rd January 2023. School starts for students at 11:00am (for registration). It is Week One (but not a ...
11th December 2022
Related News
Winter Concert
Please click here for a gallery of pictures from our Winter Concert Highgate Wood School Music Department, led by Mr Ekstrom, are delighted to present...
30th August 2022
Related News
Welcome back to school
Welcome to 2022-23! We are so looking forward to the return of our students for the new academic year. Thursday 1st September and Friday 2nd September...
17th June 2022
Related News
MADFest - the 2022 comeback!
MADfest At last, Highgate Wood School’s renowned festival of Music, Art and Drama made it’s comeback on June 24th 2022. MADFest is the ...
16th May 2022
Related News
Class of 2022 Dress Up Day
Congratulations to Year 11 Well done to all those who took part in the spectacular Dress Up Day on Friday 13th. Wishing you all the very best for your...
16th May 2022
Related News
Royal Academy: Young Artists' Summer Show
Young Artist’s Summer Show at the Royal Academy Well done to both Lottie Allison, Year 9 and Daisy Dennis, Year 12, who have both had their work...
25th April 2022
Related News
YA
Young Art Exhibition at the Royal College of Art We are delighted the Young Art Exhibition is finally back this week at the Royal College of ...
16th July 2021
Related News
Covid-19 updates (2021-22)
CHANGING RULES AROUND FACE COVERINGS 19th January 2022 The government has today announced that face coverings in classrooms will no longer be...
15th July 2021
Related News
Trust Elevate - Online Age Verification
Many thanks to those parents and carers who joined the webinare with TrustElevate on Thursday 12th July. This was connected to government fun...
15th July 2021
Related News
RA Young Artists' Summer Show
A massive thank you and huge well done to our amazing art students who have participated in the Royal Academy Young Artists’ Competitio...
21st May 2021
Related News
Class of 2021 - Dress Up Day!
...
29th April 2021
Related News
Relationships and Sex Education
Introduction This consultation continues the process begun before Covid-19, inviting parents and carers of our students to give their views o...
28th April 2021
Related News
Assessments for exam groups in Summer 2021
Arrangements for Assessments and Awarding Grades On 25th February 2021, Gavin Williamson, the Education Secretary, announced “students will rece...
21st March 2021
Related News
Reclaim these Streets
On Friday, 19th March, Highgate Wood School sixth form rallied together to raise awareness about the sexual harassment that is being experien...
6th March 2021
Related News
Back to School
10th March 2021 Testing in schools: Government update As the programme develops, we are getting greater clarity on the details. Please see th...
31st January 2021
Related News
Enrichment and Personal Development Resources
Broadening Horizons Mental Health and Well Being Learning Links
10th January 2021
Related News
Covid-19 Testing in schools
Government information on the testing programme. Understanding lateral flow antigen testing for people without symptomsPlease follow the link...
12th October 2020
Related News
Primary Transition
Highgate Wood School Prospectus for 2020 Entry (click to open) Virtual Open Evening This year, our year...
21st September 2020
Related News
Current News
REMOTE LEARNING PLANS – THE SIX WEEK REMOTE LEARNING PLANS FOR ALL YEAR GROUPS Remote Learning Overview for Year 7 (Spring 1 2021) Rem...
31st August 2020
Related News
Welcome back to school
Click here for the Headteacher’s letter about school return – 6th September 2020 Welcome back!Through the summer we have been busy prepar...
14th August 2020
Related News
Important information on this year's examination results
JCQ Regulations – Important Information to Candidates JCQ-Social-Media-Information-for-Candidates IFC-Coursework_Assessments IFC-NE_Assessments IFC-O...
13th August 2020
Related News
2020 A Level and GCSE Results
GCSE RESULTS 2020 Well done to all of our wonderful year 11 for their fantastic grades. Whilst this year is very different from previous yea...
17th July 2020
Related News
Well Done HWS
Well done to all Highgate Wood School students. You have been amazing! Have a great summer. See you in September! ...
3rd June 2020
Related News
Progress Tutorials and wider opening of schools
Bubble Group Schedules for the Year 10 provision from 29th June Year 10 Groups will attend three Progress Tutorials. The “bubble groups” ...
27th April 2020
Related News
Shut Down Showcase
Some of the work completed by our students during the period of school closure.
27th March 2020
Related News
On Line Learning (Blog)
Online learning resources
14th March 2020
Related News
Information on Coronavirus
Support for families during Covid-19 Please visit the following links for support and information Click here for general links and resources f...
29th February 2020
Related News
HWS Model UN Conference 2020
We were delighted to welcome over 200 student delegates to our Model UN Conference on the Climate Emergency on Saturday 29th February 2020. Students f...
4th February 2020
Related News
Thanks for your feedback, see our survey results
Thank you for your feedback, have a look at what we found… During the Autumn term in 2019, we sent out a survey to staff, students, and parents ...
29th January 2020
Related News
Facing History
Congratulations to all Year 9 for the hard work and thoughtful contributions during our Facing History enrichment day. Students explored the ideas of ...
20th December 2019
Related News
Artist Residency
Amazing work crafted by our amazing students! Twelve of our Year 9 Art students took part in an ambitious artist residency funded by charity ...
19th December 2019
Related News
Winter Concert
A massive well done to the talented students who performed in the Winter Concert We were delighted to show-off our talented students over three wonder...
30th November 2019
Related News
GCSE Poetry Live
Award-winning poets spent Friday afternoon unravelling their stanza’s to our Year 10 students. Today our Year 10 students attended GCSE Poetry L...
27th November 2019
Related News
Chai Day
Gender-based violence. Our students say, “it’s not okay” and proved it! Chai Day is a movement created by The Circle and an approach...
22nd November 2019
Related News
Year 7 Well Being Day
Year 7s were delighted by their fun-filled day of activities for Well Being Day, what a wonderful way to end the week!
4th November 2019
Related News
Laurie Cunningham Event
Based upon on our ex-student and England’s first black football player Laurie Cunningham, Kick It Out came to Highgate Wood School and took to s...
1st November 2019
Related News
Diana Trust Anti-Bullying Training Day
Many thanks to the Anti-Bullying Pro and Diana Trust for their help in launching us on a new journey for anti-bullying and well being. On Wednesday, H...
21st October 2019
Related News
What's on at Highgate Wood School?
Lots of fun and interesting upcoming events at Highgate Wood School, see what’s on. Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th October is “Our Histor...
14th October 2019
Related News
Autumn Dig
Nearly 3000 spring bulbs were planted around the school grounds on our first ever PSA sponsored Autumn Dig. The event was incredibly successful and we...
11th October 2019
Related News
Open Evening
Thank you to the hundreds of families and prospective Year 7s who attended our Primary Transition Open Evening on Tuesday 8th October. Some great fee...
10th October 2019
Related News
World Mental Health Day
A big well done to everyone involved in the global campaign of '40 seconds of action', it was a brilliant success that truly captured the initiative f...
4th October 2019
Related News
Black History Month
There are lots going on for this years Black History Month at Highgate Wood School, including the drama production of 'Our History Through the Words o...
4th October 2019
Related News
DfE Provisional Progress 8 results for HWS
We are delighted that this summer’s GCSE results has given the school a provision Progress 8 score of 0.59. This places Highgate Wood School in ...
20th September 2019
Related News
Team Building Day
A fun-filled day for the Year 7s as they battled their way through the many challenges that was given to them. Congratulations Seacole House for your ...
22nd August 2019
Related News
GCSE Results Day
Coming Soon...
15th August 2019
Related News
A Level Results Day 2019
What an incredible day at Highgate Wood School on A Level results day! Students and staff were jumping up and down with joy on the 15th August at High...
29th June 2019
Related News
MADfest 2019
What a success MADfest 2019 turned out to be! Amazing music, dance and drama entertainment, a remarkable art exhibition, fun stalls, and to top it all...
15th June 2019
Related News
A Level Art Show
A fantastic evening and display of superb art produced by our Year 13 students.
15th May 2019
Related News
#Kwibuka25
Remembering the genocide that happened 25 years ago in Rwanda, Highgate Wood School held a moving student conference and workshop over the weekend for...
7th May 2019
Related News
Book Launch in the LRC
Our Patron of Reading, Keren David, visited our LRC on Friday 3rd May to talk about her new book, The Disconnect. Students enjoyed the events during t...
6th May 2019
Related News
Grim Tales School Production
Highgate Wood School’s production of Philip Pullman’s GRIMM TALES featured a host of talented students and two wonderful nights of entertainment.

School Newspaper

Newspaper Archive

Get in touch