Friday 4 March 2016 Dear Parents and Carers,€¦ · Friday 4 March 2016 Dear Parents and Carers, Rosebery has been transformed today by our celebration of all things literary, as

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Friday 4 March 2016

Dear Parents and Carers, Rosebery has been transformed today by our celebration of all things literary, as classroom doors have been transformed into book covers and the characters from those books came alive around the school as staff and students arrived in very creative costumes to mark World Book Day. Equally engaging was our Year 10 Ethics Day, which encouraged students to challenge themselves with some very contemporary ethical dilemmas. Finally, at the end of this very busy week, we were pleased to welcome our latest visitors from abroad; 40 Japanese students will be attending lessons for the next two weeks and, as ever, the Rosebery buddies from across the school have made them feel very welcome indeed. It has been a pleasure to welcome many parents into school this week. We were delighted to work with those of you who joined us for our Year 11 Revision Evening on Tuesday, where we shared some strategies for maintaining emotional well-being, planning revision, accessing technology to support exam study and methods of making effective revision notes. We shall put all the presentations on the website very shortly. On Wednesday, Year 8 and 9 musicians contributed to a fantastic concert and on Thursday many of you, whose daughters are identified as Potential High Achievers, engaged in a carousel of activities which I hope gave a greater understanding of their classroom experience. Finally, we look forward to welcoming many of you to the PSA Quiz Night this evening. Grateful thanks to Mrs Broome and her team for organising such a great event and to all of you for your support of this vital fundraiser. At Rosebery we take the safeguarding of our students in all contexts very seriously. I am a member of the Local Authority Safeguarding Board and this group have asked schools to remind you of some key safeguarding principles related to the employment of private tutors, something I know that many Rosebery parents choose to do. Ideally, you should use an established company to source the tutor but, if you choose someone who is independent, they should have DBS clearance, they should have excellent references from independent sources and ideally you should be able to keep an eye on the 1-1 tutoring session. As ever, in almost all cases, there is absolutely nothing to be concerned about, however it is always best to exercise appropriate caution when determining who to employ. On a similar theme, it is worth reiterating the need to monitor with whom your daughter is communicating over the internet and for her to leave her phone downstairs before she goes to sleep. This will hopefully help them resist the temptation of late-night messaging, which if nothing else, has a really detrimental effect on the quality of sleep achieved. I think we could all benefit from a digital detox now and again! Have a lovely weekend. Ros Allen @RoseberyHT

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IN THIS WEEK’S NEWS

Dates for your Diary (subject to alteration)

Weekend 5-6 March U15, U16, U19 County Finals

Monday 7 Rosebery’s Got Talent - Year 9 Auditions all week

U12 District Netball

AS/A2 Music Recital

Monday 7 & Tuesday 8 Year 10 MFL Controlled Assessments

Tuesday 8 Year 13 English mocks

PSA meeting

7.00-9.00pm

Wednesday 9 Rosebery Alumnae Event 6.00-7.30pm

Wednesday 9 to Friday 11 Year 11 PE Practicals

Thursday 10 Year 11 Vaccinations

Years 8 and 9 Options Evening

5.00-8.00pm

Friday 11 BBC Schools Report

U13 District Hockey

Monday 14 & Tuesday 15 Year 11 Music Performance Exams

Year 12 and 13 PE Practicals

Dates for your Diary Page 2

Headteacher Commendations Pages 3-4

French and Spanish Students’ Work Experience Page 5

World Book Week Page 6

Sports Relief and Rosebery Students Pages 7-8

Students Rugby Club and Important Message to Parents Page 9

Rosebery School Spring Concert Page 10

Adverts Pages 11-12

Rosebery Alumnae Event and Work Experience Page 13

PSA News Page 14




Monday 14 Science Week begins

Year 13 Philosophy and Ethic Revision Conference

Rosebery’s Got Talent – Year 10 Auditions all week

Tuesday 15 Careers Evening 6.00-8.00pm

Wednesday 16 Year 11 History Revision Conference

U19 District Netball

U15 Lady Taverner’s Cricket Final

Thursday 17 Year 7x Parents’ Evening

Year 12 Geography Field Trip (17-20 March)

Year 12 Media Screening

U12 District Hockey

4.30-7.30pm

Headteacher Commendations

Lots of students to be commended this week. Well done to them all! Year 7 - Mrs Callaghan has nominated Amelia Broomer 7RX and Aina Budok 7RX for consistent effort and progress in History; Miss Glazebrook has nominated Leyah Stone and Sophia Alexiou 7SY for consistent excellent effort in French this year; and Mrs Tommasi Amber Junker, Sacha Nasir, and Hannah Sirkett all in 7EX for their beautiful carnival masks on which they clearly had spent a lot of time. Ms Lowe has nominated Fern Rainger 7RX and Nina Johnson 7DX for their amazing efforts with their Year 7 challenge cards and Mrs Little has nominated Aaliah Rasan for reading and completing “War and Peace” by Tolstoy; it took two months but Aaliah persevered and enjoyed the book. I have nominated Poppy Giles 7RX for her superb presentation of her kick boxing at St Christopher’s School, which was described by their Headteacher as inspirational. Year 8 - Mrs Tyler has nominated Ellie Mannering 8RY. This is for consistent and outstanding effort in English homeworks and assessments across the whole of Year 8 so far. Miss Glazebrook has nominated Charlotte Williams and Sophia Price 8DY for their fantastic achievement in the most recent French assessment; Mrs Fennell has nominated Emma Farquhar 8RY, Lauren Marsberg 8SY and Sophie Turney 8RY for their amazing and creative research over half term into Spanish Cultural Carnivals; and Mrs Tommasi has nominated Alice Lane 8EX for her insightful Culture and Internationalism project on culinary traditions of the Lorraine region of France. Mrs O’Shea has nominated Rana Ralton 8SY and Evie Angus 8SY for showing the class a new mathematical method, competently and confidently and Miss Risby has nominated Aamna Mahmood 8EX for a Culture and Internationalism assignment on the festival of Carnival in Andalucia, which was carefully researched and beautifully presented.




Year 9 - Mrs Barlow has nominated Izzy Eddison 9EX for her approach and focus in her Cooking and Nutrition rotation and for the booklet she produced about Mexican Food and Ingredients, showing a high standard of presentation and written informatively. Miss Nejad has nominated Tilly Riley 9RY for demonstrating a resilient attitude to reading and which has led her to read 50 books in two and half years; and Mrs Tommasi has nominated Maria Goubran-Keshta 9RY, Lois Hill 9EY, Lili Mills 9RY, Olivia Letts 9RY, Megan Bloomfield 9DY, Hannah Palmer 9SY, Laura Emerton 9DY and Evie Samman 9EX for their wonderful Culture and Internationalism projects on Argentina in the 1960s. Mrs Abbes has nominated Jessica Bird 9SY for her outstanding work on creating an INT tracking grid. Mr Harvey has nominated Jessica Pascal and Esme Spencer 9RX for their fantastic work raising funds and awareness for the ‘Beat’ charity. Year 10 - Mrs Callaghan has nominated Imogen Watts 10RX for super effort and Dhruvi Patel 10DX for excellent and consistent organisation, effort and participation in Health and Social Care and Ms Rundle has nominated Zoe Toulson 10RY for her excellently planned and finished Surrealism opening page; Ellie Sharp 10EY for her personal use of materials and effective layout of her Surrealism opening pages; and Georgia Grous 10EX for her innovative typography and brilliantly observed drawings in her Surrealism opening pages. Mr Chamberlain has nominated Nia Thomas 10EY, Leana Greenstein 10DY and Natalia Chemaitelli 10DY for being so willing and enthusiastic in helping out for the forthcoming Big Bang STEM conference. Mrs Barlow has nominated the following students for focused practical work and excellent outcomes with making choux pastry and filling and decorating - higher level skills: Sarah Atherton 10SY, Anna Elphick 10EY, Daisy Reid 10RY, Hannah Roberts 10EY, Katie Rowden 10RX and Leilah Vieira 10EX. Miss Kent has nominated Melanie Dias 10SX, Lauren Gammans 10RX and Camille Barnett 10EX for their excellent preparation for the Biology mock exam and Mrs Medhurst has nominated Ewa Kedzierawska 10RX, who always works to the best of her ability. She is good at Maths but doesn’t rest on her laurels - she is willing to push herself and try something harder; and Alice Lavender 10EX, who works consistently hard and always tries her best. She is making inroads and significant improvement. Year 11 - Miss Allen has nominated Rebekah Wakefield and Amelia Hoad in 11DY for working on the form's book cover door, including giving up time after school; and Miss Bailey has nominated Laura Bell 11SX for a significant improvement in Maths. Her hard work and dedication have really paid off. Mrs Boddy has nominated Louise Chappell 11SY for the massive improvement she has made in Maths, which has been generated by really hard work, including working with her before school. Mrs Evans and Miss Browne have nominated the following students for their fantastic Social Action Project presentations: Maia Bradley, Christine Williams, Lottie Coley, Dayna Gibson, Ellie Webb, Georgia Hasell all in 11DX; Amelia Evans, Charlotte Clark and Robyn Pullen in 11EX; Hayley Lewis, Faye Rainger, Shelley Chuicharoen, Demi Clarke, Bethany Chapman, Gloria Marchant in 11RX; Emily Minhinnick, Ella McRobb, Alice Connor, Lindsay Allen in 11SX, Niamh Sullivan, Josie North, Imogen Burns, Sophie Dalmer, Zoe Glasspool in 11DY; Lauren Cocker, Eliya Keane, Kirsty Calverley, Kerri Clarke, Tessa Boswell, Rachel McArthur in 11EY; Isobel Cobbett, Scarlett Hilson-Wheeler and Stephanie Earnshaw in 11RY; and Emilie Browning, Rochelle Palin and Bethany Winter in 11SY. Finally, Mrs Oke and I have nominated Gloria Marchant 11RX who acted swiftly and courageously to intervene when she found an elderly neighbour in a critical condition. Her intervention made all the difference. Sixth Form - Mrs Callaghan has nominated Rianna Patel 13B for excellent and consistent organisation, effort and progress in Health and Social Care and Miss Gatt has nominated Melissa Lodge 12E and Sammy Baker 12D for their excellent assembly for World Book Day and their outstanding commitment as English prefects. Mrs Royall has nominated Abigail Muller 12B for achieving 100% (A*), and Ellen Michael for achieving 94% (A*) in their C3 mocks. She has also nominated Sahiba Ailwadhi 13B for her unbelievable effort and hard work, which resulted in her achieving 96% in her recent C3 mock, showing enormous progress from January.




Students’ French and Spanish Work Experience “This half term, I went on a Halsbury Work Experience Trip to Metz in France. I worked in a restaurant in town called the Brasserie L'Eden. It was scary to arrive there and be expected to speak in French to people I had never met but everyone was so nice - including the people who worked in the restaurant and the other students on the trip. In the morning, we had to get ourselves to our different placements and we would meet up afterwards in the evenings. The week was very good for my French: I was surrounded by hearing it all day and really had to use it to talk to the customers and waiters (except for sometimes when they wanted to practise their English!). Not only that, but it was also a really fun way to spend half term, with new people somewhere I had never been before. I would definitely recommend the Halsbury trip to anyone studying a language - it's a really good challenge and you will enjoy it!” Juliet Martin

“Over half term, I was lucky enough to spend a week in Segovia, doing work experience in a local primary school to

improve my Spanish. It was an incredible experience to be able to help out in lessons taught in Spanish and see how

things are run in a typical Spanish school, and I met some amazing people as well. On one day, I was able to accompany

the children on a school trip around the city of Segovia, a beautiful place located in the Castilla y León region of Spain,

not far from Madrid – it was lovely to be able to see the monuments of the city and I learned a lot. The whole week

was very enjoyable and I’d definitely recommend the trip to anyone wanting to have an authentic experience of

Spanish culture and improve their language skills.” Spanish Student




World Book Week It’s been busy week! Students have been decorating doors with their favourite book covers and have dressed up as their favourite book characters (anyone wanting pictures of staff and students' dress-ups should look at the @RoseberyEng_Med twitter feed). Please find below a link to the Carnegie video used in this week’s World Book Day assemblies: https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/cQUEEMdkeQ1/carnegie/

Examples of

decorated doors;

more to follow

next week!


https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/cQUEEMdkeQ1/carnegie/



Rosebery Students took part in Sports Relief A number of Rosebery girls who belong to Focus Netball Club were involved in the England Netball Sports Relief World Record attempt on Sunday 14 February. England Netball did break the world record and the event raised in excess of £20,000 for Sport Relief, so it was great for the girls to be part of it. Comic Relief Chief Executive Officer, Kevin Cahill, added: “We’re very proud to be working with England Netball for Sport Relief and it’s been great to see so many netball players and fans from around the UK get involved in this record breaking event. This is exactly what Sport Relief is all about, bringing the entire nation together to get active, raise cash and change lives.” Further details of this amazing challenge can be found by following this link to England Netball webpage: http://www.englandnetball.co.uk/news-and-media/latest-news/netballers-smash-world-record-for-sport-relief-id70d48264-a321-42d5-9c4f-063465b4f642 The Rosebery PE Department are very proud of all the girls who took part in this challenge and wish to congratulate them all.


http://www.englandnetball.co.uk/news-and-media/latest-news/netballers-smash-world-record-for-sport-relief-_id70d48264-a321-42d5-9c4f-063465b4f642

http://www.englandnetball.co.uk/news-and-media/latest-news/netballers-smash-world-record-for-sport-relief-_id70d48264-a321-42d5-9c4f-063465b4f642






Rosebery Students’ Rugby

Mondays at Lunch Time

Are you free at lunchtime on Mondays and would you like to meet new people?

Bring along your friends, have fun and get fit; Rugby is the answer!

Every Monday we meet up on the AstroTurf at lunch. All you need to bring is yourself,

trainers and maybe your PE kit. Everyone is welcome.

If you would like more information, please don’t hesitate to come and see me

(Form Room M2) otherwise, I hope to see you on Monday.

Shania Thompson (11RX)

IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO PARENTS It has come to my attention that a small number of students have been partaking in a new internet craze known as the ‘fainting game’. (Please research this for further information). I have spoken with the whole Year 9 group about the serious dangers of this craze and do not foresee any further problems with these students trying this at school. Kindly speak with your daughter and, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you,

Mr R Harvey

Head of Year 9 & Head of Business

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Rosebery Alumnae Event

We look forward to welcoming back our Rosebery Alumnae on Wednesday 9 March. The response has been fantastic

for this event, which is testament to the values of Rosebery not forgotten by our ex-students. The evening will be a

wonderful opportunity for past students to reminisce, visit their old classrooms and share their valuable experiences

with our current students in Years 11 and 13. This is also an opportunity for our current students to seek work

experience and students’ advice on universities and courses.

Do you know any ex-students who left Rosebery in Years 11 or 13 within the last 10 years? Please inform them of

our forthcoming Alumnae Event, the full details are on our website: http://www.roseberyschool.co.uk/our-

school/rosebery-alumnae/

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 that would put their curriculum learning into practice, I would love to hear from you. Please email me on [email protected], Mrs F Keaveney.


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