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Friday 12 June 2015

Dear Parents and Carers, Our theme for the week has been thoughtfulness and our students in Years 7-10 have demonstrated this in great measure with their fantastic work raising funds for the Happy Child charity. Staff and students have been able to buy wonderful cakes all week and I know that a very impressive figure has been raised. The members of our new gardening club, led by Mrs Pingree, have also given a great deal to our community this week, by working hard to make a dramatic improvement to our flower beds at the front of the school. We continue to seek to improve the internal and external environment for our students and welcome any support parents can offer in securing donations of plants or benches, for example, which the students will benefit from enormously. It was a pleasure to welcome parents to our first Information Evening run by our Intervention Team, designed to support parents concerned about their daughter’s well-being and mental health. Mrs Anderson and Mrs Keaveney were supported by representatives from the Samaritans and Relate and the positive feedback from attendees means we will definitely run a similar evening again soon. We wish our Year 7 travellers to France a fantastic trip to Paris and sincerely thank Miss Lowe and the 20 accompanying staff for giving up their weekend to ensure they have a great time. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Miss Lowe for all she has done to help Year 7 settle in so well at Rosebery this year. Her year group have benefited enormously from her care, support and high expectations. She is now working hard with the current Year 6 students and their families on their transition to Rosebery, and therefore Miss Ramsay will now take on responsibility for this year group from this point onwards. She can be reached at [email protected] . ParentMail I am very aware that the upgrade to ParentMail has been disruptive and has complicated our communication with you. The company gave us no indication of these issues when they changed their system and we are now working with them to resolve the problems that have occurred. My sincere apologies for the inconvenience that this has caused you. Open Evening: Early closure 2 July 2015 and late start 3 July 2015 On Thursday 2 July we hold our annual Open Evening for prospective parents and students. We will therefore close early so that we can prepare the school, and give the hundreds of students who support this event so magnificently a break before they return for the evening. We will then open a little later so we can get the

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school back to normal. We will close at 1.10pm on Thursday 2nd and we will reopen at 9.40am on Friday 3rd. Students should go to their tutor rooms as usual at this time and lesson 2 will begin at 9.50m as usual.

Finally, we hope to see many of you next Wednesday at our Creative Arts Evening, and our Rosebery Festival bands are selling well. A reminder that these are on sale every Friday from the dedicated PSA team who look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the fair on the Saturday 4 July. Have a lovely weekend.

Ros Allen

IN THIS WEEK’S NEWS

Dates for your Diary

Date Event

15 June Year 7 PGL French Trip returns

17 June Creative Arts Evening 6pm – 9pm (details on page 13)

18 June Year 12 Law – Trip to London Law Courts

Year 12 Geography – Trip to London Docklands

23 June Year 13 Prom

Year 9 Cala Canyelles Trip - Parent Information Evening

25 June Year 11 Leavers’ Celebration and Prom

26 June PSA MUFTI DAY

Dates for your Diary, School Communication

Headteacher Commendations Page 3

Nepal Raffle Winners and DofE Icing Challenge Page 4

Instrumental Lesson Available Page 5

Musicathon Information Poster Page 6

Letters to Parents (links to website) Page 7

Lost property Page 7

PSA Summer Festival and Second hand Uniform Sale Page 8

PSA Social Page 9

Year 7 FRANKENSTEIN production and Summer Festival HELP! Page 10

Library Volunteers required Page 11

Rosebery Recycle and Creative Arts Evening Pages 12 & 13

Page 12




Headteacher Commendations

I am delighted that there are so many nominations this week! Congratulations to them all! Year 7 - Mrs Baker has nominated Dominique Barcelo, Qanita Fatima, Mia Magraw, Laura Schumacher, Stevie Vassen all of 7DX; Abbie Heaver, Anne Howlett, Sasha Hunt, Sinead Swan all of 7EY; and Ellie Harrold, Rachel Brewin and Emily Fry of 7RY for their fantastic efforts in the Python written quiz. Miss Lowe has nominated Hannah Reeves 7SX for her brilliant efforts with the visiting Year 6s - she was enthusiastic and welcoming and a great ambassador; and Mrs Manley has nominated Kate Michael 7RY. She completed a 1500m race with an excellent time and finishing first place in a race with two Year 7 tutor groups. Miss Radette has nominated Klara Valova 7EX for carrying out extra-curricular French work at home, making a soup from a French recipe studied in class. It looks delicious from the photos she took!

Year 8 - Mrs Evans has nominated her students in drama who presented ‘The Musicians of Bremen’: Amy Warwick-Jones, Tamzin Godfrey, Bethany Belderson, Molly Powell and Ariane Lee. She would also like to commend the work of students who presented ‘Clever Hans’: Isabel Campbell, Mahek Bhargava, Emelie Cooksey, Emily Belcher and Erin Andrew and Charlotte Middleton, Esme Spencer, Jessica Pascal, Georgia Oldridge, all in 8RX. In 8RY, she would like to nominate Mia Woolger, Zoe Symons, Olivia Letts, Tilly Riley and Rose-Marie Luk for their winning ‘pitch’ for a theatrical contract for Little Red cap and she has also nominated the following in 8RY for their presentation ideas in a specific category: Stage Manager: Kaitlin Crossman. Lighting Effects: Rebecca McGhee. Sound Effects: Lauren Flack. Costume: Abi Wallace. Mr McDonnell has nominated Maria Goubran-Keshta 8RY for achieving 100% in consecutive science tests and Mr Harvey has nominated Ines Farrow 8SX for raising £603 for the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. She did a cake sale at school and also carried out a lot of fundraising outside of school, including taking part in the Marsden March. This is an amazing achievement by one student. Mr Chamberlain has nominated Amy Smith 8EY for taking the initiative to bake fairy cakes and raise £175 for Cancer Research; Emma Luff 8EY for a brilliant form time presentation on her role in the recent Magna Carta play at the Royal Albert Hall; and Charlotte Procter 8EY for an insightful form time presentation on women in engineering. Finally, Rebeca Quintana 8SX has been nominated by Miss Dulko for her outstanding effort week in week out in Geography. She is so eager in lessons and her homework is always of outstanding quality.

Year 9 - Ms Hooper has nominated students who have created amazing artwork for their ‘Life Events’

projects in Art. They have worked for a sustained period of time and maintained their effort and motivation

to create substantial and excellent final pieces. They are: Elisabetta Ciesco and Kaitlin Dailey in 9SY and

Megan Buckwell, Gemma Sutcliffe and Sophie Redmond in 9EX. Mrs Evans has nominated Eleanor Jones,

Claire Simpkins, Molly Haynes, Jordan Potter, Hannah Roles, Sarah Campbell, Anwen Evans and Ellie

Wakefield, all in 9EX, for their outstanding effort with performance of a script.




Nepal Earthquake Raffle

Well done to Sophie Rose (8RX) for

raising £61.47 for the Nepal

Earthquake Victims. The raffle would not have been a success without the help of 8RX. A special mention has to go to Daniela, Chelsea, Varney & Ajay Sesay who helped every lunchtime.

The winners are: Sweet Hamper- Esme Spencer. Chocolate Hamper- Mrs Cook. Mr R Harvey, Head of Year 8

Duke of Edinburgh - Icing on the Cake!

As we head towards the end of the school year, Mrs Jones has just finished teaching the third set of classes Icing Skills for the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze award. (The next course is planned for early in the next academic year!). Two groups worked after school on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, starting in March, and have just completed their course, producing beautifully decorated cake as their final pieces.

The girls learnt about different types of icing, how and why they are used, and then developed the skill of piping, using royal and buttercream icings. They also spent time using fondant icing for modelling and to create decorative designs. The final project of the course was to take a blank white cake and complete a beautiful and unique design using their newly acquired skills.

Girls who attended the groups - and produced amazing cakes – are:

Sasha Gehrmann, Kathryn Dempster, Rachel McArthur, Genevieve Schofield, Julia Wadey, Penny French, Valerie Ho, Kyra Agraan, Bethanie Stafford, Megan Lewis and Lauren Clowser.




Instrumental Lessons

Would you like to start learning a musical instrument?

Or have singing lessons?

We currently have spaces for tuition in the following:

Flute

Clarinet Singing – pop, Classical and Musical theatre

Saxophone

Piano

Violin

Viola

Cello

Trumpet Trombone

French Horn

Guitar – Classical, electric and acoustic

Oboe

Bassoon

Drum kit Music theory to grade 5

To apply for lessons, and for full details, including terms and conditions,

please follow this link:

http://www.roseberyschool.co.uk/music-lessons/




Letters to Parents…

All letters are available to view by clicking the link. This will direct you to the letter via our website. Letters

will remain on our website for the duration of each academic year.

Year 7 in Geography - Trip to introduce the students to enquiry based study and fieldwork techniques.

http://www.roseberyschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Geography-field-trip-letter.docx

Year 7 - Frankenstein comes to Rosebery School!

http://www.roseberyschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Frankenstein-letter.docx

Year 8 - Activities Week, 13 to 15 July 2015 V&A Museum.

http://www.roseberyschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Y8-Trip-to-VA-Activities-Week.docx

Years 12 & 13 - Educational Visit to New York and Washington, DC (October half term 2016).

http://www.roseberyschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/NYC-Washigton-DC-October-2016.docx

All Students /Whole School - Musicathon 10th July 2015 – Hall.

http://www.roseberyschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Musicathon-2015-letter-to-parents.docx


http://www.roseberyschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Geography-field-trip-letter.docx

http://www.roseberyschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Frankenstein-letter.docx

http://www.roseberyschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Y8-Trip-to-VA-Activities-Week.docx

http://www.roseberyschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/NYC-Washigton-DC-October-2016.docx

http://www.roseberyschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Musicathon-2015-letter-to-parents.docx



The PSA are delighted to be launching a new Second Hand Uniform service. We will be collecting and reselling good quality uniform and also Revision Guides. We aim to have a sale at the Summer Festival on 4 July but parents will also be able to contact us via the PSA page on the website to find out about available stock. If you have any clean uniform and/or revision guides that your daughter no longer uses, please donate to the PSA. All monies raised through the sale of these donations will be used to provide funding for extra resources at Rosebery School. Please hand your donations into Reception, marked for the attention of the PSA. Many thanks for your continued support.

Second hand Uniform /

Revision Guides




PSA/Parents Social at the Cricketers Pub – Tuesday 7 July from 7pm

Would you like to meet other Rosebery parents, guardians and carers and make a positive difference to

the school at the same time?

The PSA not only organises fundraising events and activities but also provides an opportunity to get to

know other people from the school community socially. This is something that is more difficult in

secondary schools as there is not the opportunity to chat at the school gate!

Please come and join us for a chat and a glass of wine at our next social evening on Tuesday 7 July from

7pm at The Cricketers Stamford Green. We would love to see you!

Disco Coordinator

Due to our current disco coordinator’s daughter leaving the school, we need a parent/carer to take on

this exciting and important role. Our Year 7 and 8 students really look forward to attending the discos

and the coordinator is key to ensuring they all run smoothly. If you would like more information, please

contact the PSA on [email protected].

Co-Chair

We are also looking for a Co-Chair of the PSA to work in partnership with the PSA and the School. Again,

for more details, please contact the PSA on [email protected].

This summer the Royal Institution has an action-packed programme of fun,

hands-on educational activities for everyone aged seven and older, from half day and

full day workshops to week long courses running for five weeks from 27 July to 28 August.

The innovative and interactive Summer Schools are designed to bring to life all areas of

science, mathematics, computing and engineering. With over 70 sessions to choose

from, covering topics from climate change to acoustics, earthquakes to rocket science,

forensics, crash-testing and ancient history, there is something for everyone.

Booking is now open and places can be booked online via the RI’s What’s On calendar

at: http://www.rigb.org/whats-on




http://rigb.org/whats-on

http://www.rigb.org/whats-on



Rosebery Summer

Festival

Saturday 4 July 2015

12-3pm

This exciting event is fast approaching

and, as always, we cannot make this

event a success without the help of

parents/carers and grandparents.

Here’s how you can help:

Mufti Day - Friday 26 June, £1 to wear

own clothes

Donate cakes for the Refreshments Stall

(sell by date for after 4/7/15)

Help setup on the day from 9am

Help on the following stalls:

Tattoos, Pick a Lolly, Splat a Rat, Roll a

Coin, Hoopla, Entrance, BBQ, Pimms

and Beer Tent, Refreshments, Back

Stage, Parking Marshals, help tidy up at

3pm

If you can help in anyway, even if only

for one hour, please contact:

Susan Blake [email protected]

You can share with a friend, relative or

grandparent.

Come and join in this fantastic, fun

event and raise funds to help fund

valuable resources for your daughters.

Tickets Available NOW

FRANKENSTEIN

Year 7 School Production

via ParentPay

£2.50 each!



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