This September, our school is taking part in Recycling Week 2026, giving students and staff the opportunity to think about how everyday choices can help reduce waste and protect our environment. We have been looking at the importance of recycling in our Geography lessons.

Throughout the week, students will be encouraged to make recycling objects like paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and other suitable materials a priority. Classes will also take part in activities in lesson to identify which products, that we use daily, can be reused or recycled.

One of the key messages of Recycling Week is that small actions can make a big difference. Putting a bottle in the correct recycling bin, using both sides of a sheet of paper or choosing a reusable water bottle may seem like tiny changes, but when hundreds of people do them every day, the impact can add up. Overall improving the environment that we live in.

Recycling also encourages us to think beyond simply throwing things away. Before putting something in the bin, we can ask ourselves: Can this be reused? Can it be repaired? Can it be recycled? Therefore, pupils have the opportunity to be involved in a competition to design a product made of recycled materials. The winners will receive a prize for their outstanding efforts and creativity.

Recycling Week isn't just about one week of action. It is a chance to develop habits that can continue throughout the school year.

Year 11 had a fantastic time in Science lesson this week making double helix sweetie DNA models. A great way to support revision by making real life models and examples that provide a strong basis to build on concepts in the mind. Give it a try with other structures needed - Then when you're done you can eat them - What better method is there?

On Friday 18th September we are holding our annual fundraiser for Jeans for Genes! As the first opportunity to raise fund for this academic year rocks around, we are inviting pupils to wear non uniform in return for a donation of £1.

If you would like to join in please bring your donation to school on the day, where our Community Champions will be collecting them in sealed buckets.

Please remember:
- Appropriate clothing must be worn, other-whilst you may be turned away and will risk future non-uniform days
- If you have PE you should bring your PE kit with you to change into
- All usual makeup and jewellery expectations remain

Please do support us in helping those with genetic disorders this September!

On Tuesday night we had a record tune in for our annual Help Your Child Revise Parent Session. Each year this event kicks off the start of the Parent Support Series and as always was a wonderful success.

Across the event it gave the opportunity for parents to consider some of the best strategies and how to make use of these for their children as they embark, continue or prepare for the end of their exam cycle journey.

The session was also able to explore how Etone supports our pupils with the considered approach to both exam revision and pupil wellbeing, provided a blended focus of both within these areas. If you were unable to attend but would like to find out more please check out our Revision site HERE

On Monday 14^th September we welcomed parents of our new Year 7 intake into school for a coffee morning to share how we support their children with SEND. 

This is the first of our calendar of events this year.  Sign up for future events using the link on Weduc. 

During this event we explored how to use the website to explore aspects of the curriculum, homework and wider opportunities to help you support your child with their learning and involvement in school activities.  We also looked at the differences between ‘Universal Provision’ and ‘Targeted Support’ and strategies that might be the most beneficial for your child.  We explored the graduated response and what this means for the support of your child.  

As always, we welcome communication from parents and carers in relation to your child and any additional needs they may have.  If you missed this coffee morning, please keep an eye out on Weduc for notifications about our future events.  

During our first meeting this year, our Diversity Champions for Inclusion were full of great ideas to help keep our calendar of inclusion up to date and interesting. 

We explored a couple of new events for this year including ‘Disability History Month’ coming up in November and ‘Autistic Pride Day’ in June. 

Our Champions had some great ideas for competition events that can be run to help raise awareness as well as pop-up stands and assembly topics. 

This year, our champions are planning to develop their leadership role even further by contributing more actively to assemblies and the publicity of inclusion issues within our school community. 

We are incredibly proud of Prisha and Vinish for their completion of Year 1 of the Academic Attainment Programme with Lucy Cavendish College in the University of Cambridge. The college have congratulated them on this fantastic achievement, and stated "It’s been a genuine privilege to work with such a talented, dedicated and hard-working group of students and we hope they have enjoyed participating in this year of the AAP as much as we have enjoyed running it. They’ve all been a real credit to their schools.

We have been particularly impressed by the work the students have put into their Supracurricular Exploration Project posters, which they have recently completed. These posters were of excellent quality, and it was abundantly clear that students had researched and crafted them in detail. The posters were presented with great confidence and maturity in the Presentation Sessions we held over the past weeks. The sessions were attended by members of both the Lucy Cavendish College and wider University of Cambridge academic community, all of whom commented on how inspiring and insightful they found the students’ projects."  

Well done - in particular - to Vinish whose poster was chosen as a 'featured poster' in the online gallery.

15^th September marks International Day of Democracy. Pupils will be learning about the importance of democracy and their democratic rights through assembly and form time during this week. They will also be practising democracy in action by voting for their School Council representatives.  Students will have lots of opportunities throughout the year to take part in democratic actions through visits from our local MP, voting for student leaders as well as contributing to school life through regular pupil voice.

We will be holding open events this year to give all prospective Year 7 parents and pupils the chance to come and visit us. These events will give you a little insight into what is means to be a pupil at Etone College and give you the chance to ask any questions you may have.

Open Evening will take place on Thursday 24th September  5:00pm – 7:30pm. No Booking Required. 

Open Mornings can be arranged on enquiry, please contact us if you wish to book an open morning.