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Friday 25 November 2016

Dear Parents and Carers

This week we have been celebrating the power of teamwork. Record numbers of students have participated in House Sports, which have followed the amazing House Bake Off last Friday which was simply delicious! Students in all year groups have participated in basketball, netball, hockey and football, competitions which have been organised and refereed by our team of Year 11 Junior Sports Leaders. Mrs Abbes’ tutor group have collectively organised a brilliant Lunchbowl Week. 33p buys a child living in the Kibera slums in Kenya a hot meal, and this group has really taken this charity to its heart, working incredibly hard to beat the total they raised last year. Our team of Sixth Form prefects have been speaking to each Year 11 tutor group about life in the Sixth Form at Rosebery and are ready to support the Christmas Fair this evening. Finally our team of musicians will join many other groups at The Royal Albert Hall on Sunday to perform a Scratch Messiah. It has been my pleasure to visit many lessons over the last few weeks and to see how hard the vast majority of our students are working and to see the pride they take in their work. This week excellent collaborative learning was in evidence in Mrs Carnegie’s fantastic Year 9 lesson on the validity of the teleological argument with groups of students challenging each other intelligently and sensitively on this complex topic, whilst Year 13 PE students worked together to identify factors which support team cohesion and were then taken to a lower school lesson by Mrs Garrod to analyse these dynamics in real time. Year 11 have begun their mocks in earnest this week, with Drama, PE and MFL practical and oral exams already completed. We are keeping a close eye on the well-being of these students as they enter this pressured time, but please do not hesitate to get in touch if you feel we can provide additional support to your daughter. Christmas always comes to Rosebery early, with our very successful Christmas Fair on the last Friday of November. As I write, the tree is going up, and the PSA have once again planned a great event. Many thanks to everyone who can support this, and I look forward to seeing many of you there later on.

Have a lovely weekend.

Ros Allen@RoseberyHT Blog: headteacherroseberyschool

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IN THIS WEEK’S NEWS

Dates for your Diary (subject to alteration)

Mon 28 November Week 1

Mon 28 November Y11 Music Exam Performances Y13 Drama Unit 3 Tech Exam

Tues 29 November Y12 & Y13 Physics in Action Institute of Education

Tues 29 November – Wed 30 November

Y11 Art GCSE Mock Exam

Wed 30 November 19.00 – 21.00 PSA Meeting Sixth Form Coffee Bar

Thurs 1 December Performances at 14.00 and 19.00

Christmas Concert Epsom Playhouse

Fri 2 December 19.30 – 21.00 Glyn/Rosebery Disco Y7 & Y8 Glyn School

Mon 5 December Week 2

Mon 5 December – Fri 9 December

Y11 Mock Exams Y13 Art, Textiles & Photography Mock Exam

Wed 7 December 15.30 – 17.30 18.00 – 19.30

Y12 & Y13 Science & Pseudoscience Conference PHA Social Action Afternoon Tea Y10, Y11, Y12 & Y13 Ski Information Evening

Euston Road, London Canteen Hall

Dates for your Diary Page 2

Headteacher Commendations Pages 3 & 4

House News Page 4

PE News Page 5

Strategies for effective proofreading Page 6

Rosebery School Vacancies Pages 7

Get into Teaching and PSA Second Hand Uniform Price List Page 8

Rosebery School Christmas Concert Page 9

PSA Glyn and Rosebery Disco Page 10

PSA Easy Fundraising Page 11

Rosebery School Alumnae Page 12

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Headteacher Commendations

Many congratulations to everyone nominated this week! Year 7 - Miss Glazebrook has nominated Katya Ganevitch and Esme Lacey 7EY for their incredible enthusiasm for Spanish and demonstrating linguistic flair and Ms Wright has nominated Emma Ritchie 7MY for her fantastic Culture and Internationalism project on Antoni Gaudi. Year 8 - Mr Chamberlain has nominated Dayna Clarke 8PY, Jaz Read and Aimee Morrison 8CX for some fantastic

independent work in History and Mrs Barlow has nominated Lauren Williams 8MX, for her informative booklet work

in Food and Nutrition that includes Nutritional Food labels and pictures for all her recipes she has cooked so far.

Mrs Callaghan has commended all of 8PX and 8MY for their fantastic History presentations on Plantation Life in the

Americas. In particular she would like to nominate Sophie Wade, Martha Hicks, Fern Rainger, Ella Staves,

Thea Attfield, Florrie Petit and Alex Thorpe from 8PX for their excellent work as group leaders and Jessica Murray,

Caitlin Tedore, Anna Champness, Steph Gunton, Natalia Quintanta Baker and Safa Hamid all in 8MY for their

excellent work as group leaders. Miss Watson has nominated Venus Kolahi 8MY for her exceptional Maths homework,

including using Pythagoras' theorem (which year 8 haven't learnt in class) to find a side she had accidentally left off the

sheet to complete a question and Miss Hill has nominated the girls who participated in the Year 8 Sports Hall Athletics

last week who came first against 9 other schools in Epsom and Ewell. They are: Alicia Christie 8PX, Sophie Cox and

Charlotte Reynolds 8PY, Charlotte Tame 8EX and Evie Willox 8CX.

Year 9 - Mrs Barlow has nominated Abbie Hart 9MY who won the Rotary Young Chef Competition and Amy Church 9PX who was runner up. Mr Seth has nominated Monika Kitchen, Amaya Lawson-Fernandez and Izzy Berry 9CY, Rachel Brewin and Ellie Mannering 9PY, Lucy Hagley 9EY, and Alexandra Michael 9MY for their fantastic results in a recent Maths assessment. Miss Bailey has nominated Jasmina Pariagh 9PY for fantastic work and resilience with a problem solving task in Maths and Miss Atkins has nominated Evie Angus 9CY, Lucy Horton, Sophie Turney, Aine Hunt and Amar Tehfe 9PY for voluntarily completing additional enrichment tasks at home in Maths. Year 10 - Mr Harvey has nominated Gemma Pullen 10MY; since the start of the year she has consistently produced a high standard of work, exceptional homework and she is always willing to contribute to class discussions. Mrs Cook has nominated Paradis Shababi 10CY and Anna Casey 10MY for writing exemplary timed essays. Mrs Blake has nominated the following Year 10's for their outstanding effort with their English homework; they were asked to produce a comparative chart comparing all of the poems in the anthology and these girls took their notes to another level: Celestine Malins 10EX, Jessica Skinner 10MX, Isabel Campbell, Amaani Rana and Alice Marjot 10PX. Year 11 - Mrs Royall has nominated Sophie Andersen 11PX for always contributing in lessons and showing excellent effort in both classwork and homework in Maths and Mrunal Gadre 11PX, for her outstanding work on algebraic fractions and Mr Celine has nominated Sophie Lodge 11PX for her excellent homework and fantastic independent learning, Evie Searle 11MX for her excellent progress in her homework and for really making a concerted effort and Armani Miyan 11EX and Ruth Gnaniah 11CX for excellently researched homework. Miss Glazebrook has nominated Molly Openshaw 11PX for her outstanding commitment to the Spanish GCSE course, Mr Styles has nominated Riya George 11PY for her consistently insightful contributions to class discussion and Ali Hopkins 11CY, Natalie Oxlade 11PY and Lauren Coll 11EY have all been nominated by Miss Reilly for excellent work during and outside of their Maths lessons; these girls have shown a fantastic work ethic from the beginning of the school year. Ellie Sloan 11PY and Emily Dicey 11EY have been nominated by Mrs Cook for writing exemplary timed essays.

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Sixth Form - Mrs Barlow has nominated Holly Dear 12F for her help and support during the Rotary Young Chef competition and Mrs Wiggins-Thirkill has nominated Anna Luk 13A and Emily Johnson 13D in Year 13 Photography. Their recent research study was an enormous leap of progress for both students and reflected some serious effort, especially in contextual reading.

House News

Bake Off and Swimathon

Last week’s Bake Off was a great success! Lots of girls brought

in delicious and beautifully decorated cakes with the theme of

‘achievements of women’. Well done to the winners:

Amalie Osborne for Key Stage 3 and Kate Derwent-Smith for

Key Stage 4 from Elizabeth house, as well as Holly Dear for Key

Stage 5 in Curie house. Also, a special ‘well done’ to Mr Reid

who won the teachers’ competition! Thank you to everyone

who made a cake, we loved trying them all!

The Swimathon is this Saturday at Epsom College – anyone can

get involved and it’s not too late to start getting some

sponsors.

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Next Week's Fixtures

Hockey

• 29 NOVEMBER U15 v St Teresa's (A)

Cricket

• 29 NOVEMBER U13 Indoor Cricket

PE News

Netball Results

Year Group Team Date School Against Result of Match Player of the Match

Year 9 A 18/11/2016 Ashcombe Won 15-9 Niamh Fitzgerald

Year 8 A 18/11/2016 Ashcombe Won 14-7 Estelle Tracey

Hockey Results

Year Group Team Date School Against Result of Match Player of the Match

Year 8 A 15/11/2016 St Teresa’s Lost 3-1 Evie Willox

Year 10 A 16/11/2016 Nonsuch Won 2-0 N/A

Year 10 County 21/11/2016

Epsom College CLFS Tiffin Wimbledon

Came 3rd in our Pool Georgia Oldridge

U16 A 22/11/2106 Nonsuch Lost 2-1 Molly Purvis

Athletic Results

Year Group Team Date School Against Result of Match Player of the Match

Year 8 A 16/11/2016 Blenheim Tournament

Came 1st out of 9 N/A

13 A and B V St T's (A)

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Strategies for effective proofreading

Begin with a smaller piece of text to find and practice the right strategies for you

Slow down and read carefully: set time aside for this during the writing process

Read out loud (or `out loud in your head’ in exam conditions). This will help you hear errors such as

words left out

Use a dictionary and thesaurus, including app or online versions

Use any checklists available such as key terms

Focus on frequent errors first: which errors tend to come up more often?

Find a way of marking errors out, such as circling words that don’t look right and boxing off parts of the

text that don’t make sense

Use different coloured highlighters eg. yellow for spellings, green for punctuation etc.

Be methodical! Check for capital letters and full stops first, then go back and check for other

punctuation etc.

Read backwards: doing this allows you to look carefully at each word separately

Isolate each line with a straight edge eg. a piece of paper

Read a line at a time to listen for pauses and where sentences end

Be on the lookout for errors in spellchecking software such as American spellings or typing errors

Find a buddy to read your work out loud to you or peer assess your work

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Vacancies

Customer Service Assistant – Rosebery School Canteen

We are currently seeking an outgoing, friendly Customer Service Assistant to join our team here at Compass

Group. The ideal candidate will be a team player who will help to assist the Manager or the Supervisor on the

daily tasks needed in the main canteen.

Hours: 8am – 3pm (slightly flexible) 30 hours per week / 43 weeks per year.

Competitive Salary. (Salary for 52 weeks is pro rata for 43 weeks).

Interviews arranged immediately, please contact the Catering Manager

Tel. 01372 845481 Mob. 07935 243 016 email: 86643@compass-group.co.uk

Closing date: Wednesday 30 November 2016

http://www.roseberyschool.co.uk/vacancies/

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PSA Second hand Uniform Price List

Blazers £5 to £10

Rosebery Kilts £5

Rosebery Jumpers £3

PE Skirts £4

PE Tops £2

Joggers (non branded) £3

Sweat tops (non branded) £3

Hockey socks £1

White blouses 50p

Shin pads £2

We are running low on blazers, new style jumpers and PE tops so if you have any spare, please

donate to the PSA. Donations for these items and any other uniform is appreciated and should be

sent into school for the attention of Mrs Broome.

If you wish to purchase uniform, please contact Mrs Broome at lbroome@rosebery.surrey.sch.uk

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