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18:00 PM - 24 Apr 2025

A fantastic day for our Year 7 and 8 girls at the indoor cricket tournament at Surrey Sports Park on Wednesday. The Year 8 team absolutely smashed it winning all of their matches! 💪👏 Great sportsmanship and lots of team spirit on show. Well done, girls—you made us so proud! pic.twitter.com/LhHgzIb30S

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17:00 PM - 23 Apr 2025

What a fantastic first day back for our Year 7 students! They had the amazing opportunity to dive into the world of Gamelan music, a traditional Indonesian ensemble made up of gongs, xylophones, drums, and metallophones which create a truly unique and mesmerising sound! pic.twitter.com/wWzvinQUCM

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17:00 PM - 20 Apr 2025

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18:00 PM - 7 Apr 2025

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17:00 PM - 6 Apr 2025

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18:00 PM - 3 Apr 2025

Celebrating World Autism Awareness Day! ✨🔵 Our school marked the day with: 💙 Staff wearing blue 💙 ‘Blue’ food at break (yes, even blueberry juice! 💙 KS3 sensory discussions & an Easter survey 💙 Inspiring autistic subject champions 💙 An NAS-themed Easter Egg design! pic.twitter.com/5bwncZdsW8

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09:03 AM - 3 Apr 2025

In Germany, it is traditional to decorate empty eggshells to brighten up homes over the Easter period—so this year, the MFL Department brought a bit of that tradition to Hinchley Wood!#EasterTraditions pic.twitter.com/9uQqci39YD

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18:00 PM - 31 Mar 2025

The incredible 'Back to Broadway' cast and crew wowed the audience at Weston Green Church last Friday. The performers blew us all away with the quality of their work and raw talent- all teched so smoothly by our Backstage Crew! A huge and well-deserved congratulations to all! pic.twitter.com/PQMj13OHow

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18:00 PM - 30 Mar 2025

We will cover effective revision strategies, timetables, wellbeing support, and insights from Year 12 students, along with subject-specific advice from our English, Maths, and Science leaders. pic.twitter.com/Bq2zF1UIDo

Safeguarding

Hinchley Wood School is committed to ensuring the welfare and safety of all our children in school. Students have a right to learn in a supportive, caring and safe environment which includes the right to protection from all types of abuse.  

Hinchley Wood School follows the Surrey Safeguarding guidelines.  The school’s Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy, Safer Recruitment Procedure, Online Safety Policy, Anti-Bullying Policy, Behaviour, Rewards and Sanctions Policy and Volunteers, Visitors, Supply Staff & Contractors – Safeguarding Procedures, are available via the links at the bottom of this page.

We have a dedicated Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Team (EWMH) in school who students can be referred to for extra support and guidance during term time. Please refer to the EWMH section for more information about this team.

 

Child Protection and Safeguarding Leads

The designated Staff for Child Protection are Mrs K Cullen, Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) who works with a team of Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads:  

Mr L Cartlidge-Llewellyn, (Head of Learning Year 7 and DDSL Years 7 and 8)

Ms N Stevenson (Safeguarding Student Support and DDSL Year 9)

Miss R Wiscombe (Assistant Head Teacher and DDSL Years 10 and 11)

Mr R Scammel (Director of Sport and DDSL Years 12 and 13)

Mrs N Wallis (Safeguarding Administrator and EWMH Support Coordinator)

These people can be contacted on dsl@hinchleywoodschool.co.uk  if you or your child ever have a concern about the safety or wellbeing of others in school.

If you have a child protection or safeguarding concern outside of the school term times, please contact the Surrey Children’s Single Point of Access (C-SPA)

Availability: 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday

  • Phone: 0300 470 9100
  • Out of hours phone: 01483 517898 to speak to the emergency duty team.
  • Email: emails are dealt with during normal office hours.
  • For concerns for a child or young person: cspa@surreycc.gov.uk

Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health (EWMH) Support

Hinchley Wood School is committed to supporting the emotional wellbeing and mental health of all our children in school.  As well as the support offered by our Pastoral Care Team – see Pastoral Care pages – our EWMH Team is a group of adults who can offer support for individuals or small groups of students through targeted emotional wellbeing  and mental health support interventions.

All requests for additional EWMH support must have the support of the child and parent/carer and are triaged by our Intervention Assessment Team.  This is made up of inclusion, safeguarding and pastoral staff and allows us to ensure that the support we offer is the most appropriate for the student.  Should you have any concerns about your child’s mental health or wellbeing please contact their Form Tutor or Head of Learning in the first instance.

 

Some of the people in the EWMH Team include:

  • Mrs K Cullen, Senior Mental Health Lead
  • Mrs H Trafford-Dear, Mental Health and Wellbeing Lead (Currently on Maternity Leave)
  • Ms N Stevenson, Safeguarding Student Support
  • Miss L Rebai and Mrs C Misto, ELSAs  - offer a 6 week programme of targeted Emotional Literacy support
  • Ms S Bates, Body and Identity Coach – supports with self-esteem, body confidence and identity
  • Education Mental Health Practitioners and Senior Clinicians, Elmbridge Mental Health Support Team  - work on behalf of Mindworks Surrey to offer CBT based early interventions for mild to moderate anxiety based difficulties or low mood.  They also offer group interventions.

 

Safeguarding and Wellbeing Resources and Support

We all need some support from time-to-time to keep us safe and to help us manage our mental health and wellbeing.  As well as the support we can offer in school – please refer to the EWMH section - there is wealth of information and support available from a range of local and national organisations.

Here are a selection of resources available to young people, their parents and carers that we hope you will find helpful.

Please do also have a look at The Parent Handbook  produced by Surrey Family Information Service. This online reference book for parents and carers of 11 to 19 year olds in Surrey includes information and contacts on topics, ranging from alcohol, drugs and substance misuse, to support for young carers.

In addition, click here to access a resources library from our Safeguarding training provider, SSS Learning.  You will find articles, top tips and short videos for parents/carers on a range of issues from How to Keep your Child Safe Online to Tackling Sleep Problems in Children and Teens.  

Please contact your child’s Head of Learning if you would like further signposting for a specific issue.

Please note, in an emergency you must call 999/111 or visit A&E. 

For free Emotional and Mental Health Crisis support and advice for children, young people and parents, open 24/7, please call the Surrey Mental Health Crisis Line on 0800 915 4644

Online Safety Resources and Support

As well as the work we do in school to educate our students about online safety and potential risks online, there is a lot of information available for young people, parents and carers to help us navigate the ever-evolving digital landscape, and help keep our young people safe. 

We would like to signpost you to a selection of resources that we hope you will find helpful.

Also, please take a look at our monthly Online Safety Newsletters for parents and carers with useful information, tips and advice about the latest developments in online, mobile, gaming, apps and social media and how to help children stay safe online.

Safeguarding Workshops and Events for Parents and Carers

We were delighted to welcome a number of parents and carers to Hinchley Wood School on 18th November 2024 for a wellbeing workshop on Self-Harm and Online Safety.  Our Senior Assistant Head and Designated Safeguarding Lead, Mrs Cullen, has recorded a video of the Online Safety workshop presentation. If you were not able to attend the workshop, please do take a look.  We hope it will give you some useful information and advice to help you support your child with this important issue.

Surrey Family Learning offer free online parenting workshops and courses on a wide range of topics to support local families.  Courses available to book via the QR code are featured in the attached flyer - please click here.

 

 

 

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Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy 18th Oct 2024 Download
Safer Recruitment Procedure Download
Volunteers, Visitors, Supply Staff & Con... Download
Online Safety Policy 10th Jan 2025 Download
Anti-Bullying Policy - Summer 2024 11th Nov 2024 Download