Rosebery School Whitehorse Drive Epsom KT18 7NQ T.01372 720439 www.roseberyschool.co.uk Follow us at RoseberySchool1 1 Friday 26 February 2016 Dear Parents and Carers, We were very happy to welcome back our skiers from the Italian mountains this week, who were all, thankfully, in one piece and were all able to say that they had a brilliant time. The accompanying staff and ski instructors, to whom I am very grateful for their hard work, have made clear what a pleasure it was to spend time with our students, who were polite, courteous and determined to give everything a go; they were great ambassadors for Rosebery. Before half term I wrote in this newsletter how successful Rag Week had been. After the final count, we have now been able to send a donation of £5570 to the Meningitis Research Trust in memory of Natalie. I am very proud of our Sixth Form Leadership Team of Freya Selman, Kelly Owusu, Samaiyah Sultana, Izzy Murphy, Em Anderson and Mary Prescott who, ably supported by the Prefect Team, organised such a great week of fundraising and to everyone who contributed to help them achieve such an impressive sum. We also held our elections for the Junior Leadership Team before half term. All candidates had presented so impressively; it was therefore no surprise then that it was a very close contest. The new Year 7 leaders for this year are: Amber Elbishlawi, Sophie Benson, Megan Cole and Arren Al Hyssat. In Year 8 joining Holly Payne and Holly Coulson are Daisy Hawken and Phoebe Hogg and in Year 9 joining Esme Spencer and Sophie Rose are Emma Knezevic and Victoria Jetten. Finally in Year 10, Anna Elphick, Holly Fennell, Hannah Lee and Mutsa Dhliwayo join Freya Hawken and Ciara Sirkett. The team will meet shortly to determine how they would like to begin working towards their community, inclusion and student well-being priorities. A reminder to parents of Year 11 students to let us know whether you intend to attend our Revision Information Evening which will be held on 1 March 2016 at 6.30. Please email [email protected]if you are coming along so that we can ensure that we plan the right venue for the event. We also hope to see many of you at the PSA Quiz Night on 4 March; huge thanks to the team behind this very important fundraiser. Finally, I can confirm, for the fourth year in a row, that we have received notification from the Department of Education that we are one of the top 100 performing non selective state schools in the country for our GCSE results. I hope that everyone in the Rosebery community will feel great pride in this achievement, which is a testament to the relentless efforts of students, staff and parents. I include the letter from Nick Gibb, Minister of State for Schools, in this newsletter on page 5. He also highlights how we are in the top 100 schools for the percentage of students achieving the English Baccalaureate, demonstrating again the Government’s emphasis on this range of subjects which they believe ‘provides a strong basis for (students’) further education and employment’. Have a lovely weekend. Ros Allen@RoseberyHT
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Rosebery School Whitehorse Drive Epsom KT18 7NQ T.01372 720439 www.roseberyschool.co.uk
Follow us at RoseberySchool1 1
Friday 26 February 2016
Dear Parents and Carers, We were very happy to welcome back our skiers from the Italian mountains this week, who were all, thankfully, in one piece and were all able to say that they had a brilliant time. The accompanying staff and ski instructors, to whom I am very grateful for their hard work, have made clear what a pleasure it was to spend time with our students, who were polite, courteous and determined to give everything a go; they were great ambassadors for Rosebery. Before half term I wrote in this newsletter how successful Rag Week had been. After the final count, we have now been able to send a donation of £5570 to the Meningitis Research Trust in memory of Natalie. I am very proud of our Sixth Form Leadership Team of Freya Selman, Kelly Owusu, Samaiyah Sultana, Izzy Murphy, Em Anderson and Mary Prescott who, ably supported by the Prefect Team, organised such a great week of fundraising and to everyone who contributed to help them achieve such an impressive sum. We also held our elections for the Junior Leadership Team before half term. All candidates had presented so impressively; it was therefore no surprise then that it was a very close contest. The new Year 7 leaders for this year are: Amber Elbishlawi, Sophie Benson, Megan Cole and Arren Al Hyssat. In Year 8 joining Holly Payne and Holly Coulson are Daisy Hawken and Phoebe Hogg and in Year 9 joining Esme Spencer and Sophie Rose are Emma Knezevic
and Victoria Jetten. Finally in Year 10, Anna Elphick, Holly Fennell, Hannah Lee and Mutsa Dhliwayo join Freya Hawken and Ciara Sirkett. The team will meet shortly to determine how they would like to begin working towards their community, inclusion and student well-being priorities. A reminder to parents of Year 11 students to let us know whether you intend to attend our Revision Information Evening which will be held on 1 March 2016 at 6.30. Please email [email protected] if you are coming along so that we can ensure that we plan the right venue for the event. We also hope to see many of you at the PSA Quiz Night on 4 March; huge thanks to the team behind this very important fundraiser. Finally, I can confirm, for the fourth year in a row, that we have received notification from the Department of Education that we are one of the top 100 performing non selective state schools in the country for our GCSE results. I hope that everyone in the Rosebery community will feel great pride in this achievement, which is a testament to the relentless efforts of students, staff and parents. I include the letter from Nick Gibb, Minister of State for Schools, in this newsletter on page 5. He also highlights how we are in the top 100 schools for the percentage of students achieving the English Baccalaureate, demonstrating again the Government’s emphasis on this range of subjects which they believe ‘provides a strong basis for (students’) further education and employment’. Have a lovely weekend. Ros Allen@RoseberyHT
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Headteacher Commendations
Congratulations to all nominees this week. Year 7 - Mr Chamberlain has nominated Nina Johnson from 7DX for doing a lovely piece of independent research over half term on Mary Queen of Scots. Year 8 - Mrs O’Shea has nominated Rachel Brewin 8RY and Izzy Berry 8SY for a great reasoned explanation to the class of a mathematical problem and Mrs Tommasi has nominated Tess Widdup 8DX for the hard work she put into her Culture and Internationalism project on French cuisine. Mr Musser has nominated Niamh FitzGerald and Sophie Turney 8RY for the polished performance of their composition based on a given chord progression which used two performers with four hands and two voices. Year 9 - Mrs O’Shea has nominated Aysha Dodhy 9SY and Jessica Bird 9SY for voluntarily producing a successful revision activity using online voting software and Mrs Tommasi has nominated Diksha Patel 9DX, Rebeca Quintana 9SX, Catherine Meech 9EX, Elise Elger 9EX, Amaani Rana 9RX, Isabel Campbell 9RX, Alia Mirza 9DX, and Nabihah Ahmed 9SX for their wonderful and insightful Culture and Internationalism projects on Argentina in the 1960s. Mrs Boundy has nominated Phoebe Arrowsmith, Caitlin Daniels 9DX, Isabel Campbell, Ariane Lee 9RX and Lauren Flack, Maria Goubran-Keshta and Rose-Marie Luk 9RY for outstanding achievement in their recent Geography assessment, achieving mastery in all the strands. Year 10 - Miss Gatt has nominated Katie Kilpatrick 10SX for making a really focused and positive start to the half term in English and Mrs Abbes has nominated Elisabetta Ciesco 10SY, Miral Pankhania 10SY, Riya George 10RY, Ellie Sloan 10RY, Maddie Saunders 10DY, Natasha Claus 10EY, Tia Hamin 10EX, Megan Smith 10EX, Isabel Anderson 10EX, Parissa Shababi 10SX and Becky Reeves 10SX for their outstanding work in Spanish. These students have achieved an effort level 1 (excellent) in every single paragraph they had to write for their coursework. Mrs Barlow has nominated the following students who have all worked with focus to complete some excellent outcomes in the making of choux pastry profiteroles, patisserie cream and decoration. They are: Shifa Barkat 10RY, Emily Colley 10DX, Nia French-Johnson 10EY, Holly Harding 10DX, Ewa Kedzierawska 10RX, Alisha Lumley 10DY, Lola Panteli 10SY, Lucy Radcliffe 10EX, Hannah Roles 10EX, Ellie Sharp 10EY Lydia Turpie 10SY and Imogen Watts 10RX. Year 11 - Tessa Boswell 11EY, Mia Harrold 11RY, and Alice Connor 11SX have been nominated by Mrs Tommasi for finishing their achievement grids and for a consistently high standard of homework and other independent work. She has also nominated Faye Rainger 11RX and Talisa Yorke 11SY for their wonderful vocab revision booklets. Miss Lowe has nominated Maddie Wardell 11RX and Milly Middleton 11EX for their incredible efforts in English - they have gone above and beyond in their studies over half term. Mr McDonnell has nominated Lottie McDermott 11SY for her excellent efforts in Physics.
Sixth Form - Mr Carter has nominated the girls that won an advertising challenge at M&C Saatchi's before half term. They presented a pitch to Senior Executives and their creative team (highlighting their campaign for relaunching the school shop). They are: Holly Stockham 12A, Jessica Rose 12B, Parita Mamtora 12B, Anu Joseph 12B and Molly Walker 12B. Their prize is to return to Saatchi's HQ and work with their creative team to bring their campaign to life.
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World Book Week
Next week is World Book Week and the English Department have organised various competitions and activities for students to take part in, including:
Book selfies - for this, students and teachers alike will quite simply take a selfie of them reading a book in an unusual place; the most extravagant entry will win a prize.
We will also be running the renowned ‘decorate a door’ competition! For this, students are expected to decorate their Form Room door- this will run from 29 February until 4 March.
On Friday 4 March students and teachers are allowed to attend school in fancy dress! We ask that you bring a small donation of a pound if you wish to participate (to go towards the Library).
*NOTE FOR THE FANCY DRESS DAY! * It is important that students note this is NOT a mufti day! Hoodies and other casual clothing will not be permitted; you must make it very obvious that you have come dressed as someone from a book otherwise there will be consequences. The fancy dress day is a privilege and not mandatory so, if you do not wish to take part, you do not have to.
CAN YOU HELP?
Are you an employer or employee who may be able to offer one of our students a work
placement within your company?
With many employers now looking for experience, as well as academic achievements, work
placements have an increasing importance for students progressing into their chosen career.
Work experience gives students the opportunity to learn about the world of work, gain
employability skills, increase confidence and make them stand out on their personal statement
and CV.
Our Year 12 students are going out on work experience from 11 – 15 July 2016. If you feel that
you can offer some meaningful work experience to some of our students for them to put their
curriculum learning into practice, I would love to hear from you.
