Longbenton High School
Bi-Weekly Waffle Issue 1 - 18/02/2025
A Welcome Message from Ms Doucet To our Longbenton Community, We’re so proud to introduce you to the Sixth Form’s newest project: a bi-weekly culture newsletter, where our Sixth Formers (and the occasional Year 11) tell us about their most recent passions and pursuits. It’s not a newspaper, it’s a twice-a-month round up of what has caught our attention: games, books, films and sport, for example. You’ll also find art, puzzles, a weather report, and some little bits of silliness to brighten your week. When I put out the call for participants for this newsletter, I certainly didn’t expect what happened: a group of enthusiastic Sixth Formers who showed up in a meeting room in the back corner of the school with a fully realised vision–the vision you see here, organised with nods to the corridors of the building some have inhabited since they were 11. As the most embedded members of the school community, they are very familiar with its lingo–students don’t just go to Maths, they go to ‘Green’.
‘I’m in Purple next’ is an incomprehensible phrase to an outsider, perhaps, but one that efficiently gets the message across to any of us! What better way to organise our newsletter than with these categories: Communicate, Explore, Evaluate, Perform, Create. It’s what we all do here everyday, and it’s what this newsletter hopes to capture. As for the name? As an English teacher, I’m used to hearing the word; students use it to express their frustration with having to just go on and on in writing. To give opinions endlessly, to say things that aren’t important or direct. To say 8 things when 2 would do. To this I say: that sounds fun to me! When the name was suggested, it seemed immediately to capture our intentions: what you’ll read here isn’t definitive, it’s just a conversation between friends and we’d love you to join in. Come waffle with us!
Art by Alma Finnegan, Y12