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Friday 4 November 2016

Dear Parents and Carers, It has been lovely to speak with many of the Sixth Formers who enjoyed a wonderful week in New York and Washington over half term. I am very grateful to Mr Waight, Mr Harvey, Miss Nejad, Miss Lowe and Mr Styles for giving up their holiday to run such a fantastic trip. This is just one of the myriad of opportunities available in Year 12 and 13 that we highlighted at our very well attended Sixth Form Open Evening this week. This area is blessed with many excellent post-16 providers, but naturally we believe that the academic and enrichment experience on offer at Rosebery is second to none. As a result of their dedication and the personalised and relentless support from their teachers, our Sixth Form students thrive in a challenging but secure environment, they are terrific role models for our younger students, and become articulate, compassionate and empathetic young women capable of leading their local and wider community. Next week, the shortlisted Head Girl candidates pitch to their peers, and I am very excited about hearing their thoughts on how they will contribute to the Sixth Form and the school as a whole. In the light of my comments in last week’s newsletter relating to the school’s finances, I am even more grateful to the volunteers of the PSA who ran the very successful film night last Friday evening and to those parents who came in this week to begin preparations for the Christmas Fair which is now less than a month away. You will receive raffle tickets via your daughter and we very much hope that you will feel able to purchase these to support this, our biggest fundraiser of the year. Next Friday sees our annual Mufti Day and further details of items which we would like everyone to bring in to support the Fair can be found later in this newsletter. Thank you for all your support. Finally, can I draw your attention to the new Student Blog which is a fantastic addition to our Hub. It is written by the students, for the students, and we hope it will become an important means of communication and a celebration of all the ways our students make this such a vibrant and inspiring school to belong to. 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 07/11/2016 Week 2

Mon 31/10/2016 – Fri 11/11/2016

International School Visit - Taiwan

Mon 07/11/2016 11.10 – 15:00 Y12 Safe Drive Stay Alive Dorking Halls

Tues 08/11/2016 – Thurs 10/11/2016

Music Festival

Thurs 10/11/2016 18:00 – 19:00 Y11 Operation Wallacea 2018 South Africa Trip Information Evening – JAS

Hall

Fri 11/11/2016 Mufti Day

Mon 14/11/2016 Week 1

Tues 15/11/2016 Y11 Drama Unit 1 Exam Y12 Maths In Action Epsom Rotary Head – Young Chef Competition

UCL Institute of Education

Dates for your Diary

Headteacher Commendations Pages 3 & 4

Student News Pages 4 & 5

Rosebery School Oscars Page 6

Year 11 GCSE Media Studies Page 7

KS3 Mathematics Autumn Assessment Dates Page 8

House News Page 9

PSA Mufti Day Page 10

PSA Rosebery School Christmas Fair Page 11

PSA Christmas Fair Raffle Page 12

Epsom & Ewell School’s Sports Development Update Page 13

Surrey SCITT Network Train to Teach Recruitment Event Page 14

Glyn Surrey SCITT Page 15




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Headteacher Commendations

A record number of students have been nominated this week! Well done to them all! Year 7 - Mrs Barlow has nominated Iris Alcock, Caitlin Armstrong, Daisy Broadhead, Evee Mae Berry and Minette Watkins 7MX for writing and performing raps on the importance of eating a healthy breakfast, which were both informative and amusing. Miss Ramsay has nominated Grace Cheal 7CY for supporting recent PSA events. Mr Chamberlain has nominated Romy Clarkson 7EX for her insightful contributions during History and Libby Horrocks 7EY for the wonderful independent work she carried out on William the Conqueror. Miss Lowe has nominated Jessica Claus 7MY for her enthusiasm in joining extracurricular clubs - she is already on to her second club card - and Mrs Boddy has nominated Bethan Massey 7CX for a stunning application of logic to deduce the relationship in a pattern. Mrs Zidane has nominated Emilia Scott and Charlotte Chivers 7MY; both students produced an excellent piece of writing for their first French assessment showing real progress in their language acquisition and taking initiative in going beyond the task set. Mrs Wiggins-Thirkill has nominated Ciara Sullivan 7EX, who has used questions very bravely in Art to help her make great progress and Katherine Wilkinson 7EX has also acted with independence to improve areas of her work she found challenging, with fabulous results.

Year 8 - Mrs Hanly has nominated Tina Rajeethkumar 8PX for progress with her Textiles and supporting others in her class and Fay Hitchens-Matthews 8PY for her commitment to Rosebery whilst representing her tutor and year group at so many different events, Mrs Wiggins-Thirkill has nominated Estelle Tracey 8CX who has adjusted her entire approach to her work this term and developed a sophisticated set of ideas for her portrait, Jenna Taskas 8CX who has developed a very impressive range of vocabulary and contextual understanding, also nominated are Harriet Humfress and Anna Champness 8MY who have both produced an extraordinary analysis and painted transcriptions in their own time, in response to an artist’s study.

Year 9 - Mrs Callaghan has nominated the following students for their excellent participation and contribution to class discussion in Year 9 Core RE lessons: Eloise Amesbury and Iola Schmetzer 9EY, Eleonora Bosetti 9MY, Ava Moore and Chelsea Cubley-Mack 9CY, Emily Fry 9PY and Mr McDonnell has nominated Ani White 9PX, Tia McKay 9EX and Sayra Abdul 9CX for exceptional work with a Physics practical. Miss Reilly has nominated Sasha Hunt 9MY for having a consistent good work ethic during her Maths lessons and Hannah Reeve 9EY for being a really supportive and hardworking peer during her Maths lessons, Mrs Little has nominated Sayra Abdul, Maisy Aldis and Rhianna Elliott 9CX, Zoya Danayal, Qanita Fatima and Aamna Mahmood 9MX for starting a club to help younger students access The Hub. Miss Ramsay has nominated Sarah Blake 9EY and Grace Widdowfield 9PY for supporting recent PSA events and Miss Bailey has nominated Samantha Hope-Wynne 9CY for working incredibly hard in Maths and showing a great mindset. Mrs Carnegie has nominated the following students for their thoughtful and insightful assessment on euthanasia which represented an outstanding achievement: Radeyah Ali, Kirsten Harwood, Nuha Rifai, Lauren Marsberg and Ava Moore 9CY, Eleonora Bosetti 9MY, Alex Michael, Zoya Danayal, Alanna Hazlewood, Carys Wakefield and Alisa Strelkova Lundberg 9MX, Devon Jones, Grace Widdowfield and Megan Logan 9PY, Elena Keshvadi 9EX, Lily Moustafa 9EY and Amy Wheatley 9PX. Finally Sophie Goulder-Perks 9CX, Carys Wakefield 9MX and Niamh FitzGerald 9PY have represented the school brilliantly whilst playing for the Surrey rugby team this week; we are very proud of them! Year 10 - Mrs Barlow has nominated Eloise Adolph 10MY, Jessica James 10EY and Samiyah Subhan 10PY who have been conscientiously using our online Digital Bundle for Food Preparation and Nutrition to extend their work and engage further in their learning, Mr Chamberlain has nominated Charlotte Proctor 10MY for her continued work on putting together Kahoot quizzes for the entire form. Miss Bailey has nominated Amaani Rana and Niamh Moran 10PX




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for an excellent piece of homework which showed exceptional effort and Isabelle Jobsz 10PX for a consistent great attitude towards Maths over the last few weeks. Year 11 - Mrs Royall has nominated Katie Brand 11EX for her fantastic work and effort on transformations of graphs, Miss Lowe has nominated Alice Lavender 11MX for her excellent attitude to English and Mrs Callaghan has nominated Alisha Lumley 11EY for the hard work and dedication she puts into her Health and Social Care Controlled Assessment. Miss Bailey has nominated Hannah McKenna and Holly Harding 11EX, Lucy Radcliffe and Eleanor Jones 11MX for an excellent effort in their recent homework showing some real commitment to their Maths GCSE, Miss Haggis has nominated Olivia Hunt 11CY for her generous help with the Year 8 charity project and Mr McDonnell has nominated Olivia Haines 11PY for her excellent work in a Physics practical lesson and especially for working so well with one of our Taiwanese guests. Miss Ramsay has nominated Kaitlin Dailey 11CY for helping out with all PSA events recently and Mrs Saber has nominated the following Geography students for their excellent revision notes on the course case studies: Freya Alldred 11CY, Emma Baptiste 11EX, Lucy Bennett, Mae Evans, Hannah Roberts and Martha Greene 11MY, Annabelle Bryan, Sophie Redmond and Megan Buckwell 11MX, Freya Hawken 11EY, Natalie Oxlade 11PY and Parisa Shababi 11CX. Mrs Browne has nominated Sophie Watts, Becky Reeves and Imogen Stokes in 11CX for coaching and supporting her and Miss Sevenoaks with Junior Hockey; they are doing a great job! Mrs Keaveney has nominated the following students for being excellent ambassadors for the school at the Surrey Opportunities Fair: Alabama Auletta, Rosheen Bernard, Jasmine Butt and Grace Carroll 11EY, Hannah Boniface 11MY, Eloise Charles, Ewa Kedzierawska and Francesca Palmer 11PX, Alice Lavender, Jodie Cliffe and Jorden Sundborg 11MX, Emily Colley, Antonia Courtney-English, Becky Mason, Hannah McKenna, Armani Miyan, Dhruvi Patel, Ella Potter, Amelia Stark and Hannah Staveley 11EX, Lorna Kelly, Mae Tarbuck and Zoe Toulson 11PY, Tegan Nickson and Vedika Ramoo 11CX.

Sixth Form - Mrs Hanly has nominated Eilidh Cottee, 13F Bethany Clara Davies 13D, Megan Feltham 13F, Lucy Venables 12E and Amy Coombes 12D for being great ambassadors for the school and A level Textiles whilst visiting another school.

Student News

Sophie Goulder-Perks 9CX, Carys Wakefield 9MX and Niamh FitzGerald 9PY have all been selected for the Surrey Rugby u15 Squad. The squad played their first match on Sunday with a score of Surrey 46 and Berkshire 0. We are very proud of these girls.

Miss C Ramsay, Head of Year 9

Caitlin Phillips-Ennis 13E – To view Caitlin’s superb interview at the The Big Bang Fair 2016 – held at the NEC Birmingham, please click on this link https://www.youngeng.org.uk/members/membership/young-engineers-tv/ Mrs J Hanly, Head of Design and Technology



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Talisa Yorke 12D - I have recently released a song for my Grannie who has Cancer. It's called 'Prove It Wrong'. I am trying to raise funds for the Princess Alice Hospice & Macmillan Cancer Support, so if you could buy the song through iTunes or want to donate, please see the links at the bottom of this page. Read the story behind ‘Prove It Wrong’ In July 2015 my family were given the devastating news that my Grannie had terminal Cancer, with a prognosis of 12 months left to live.

I have always played the saxophone and taught myself guitar, so I decided to record my Grannies favourite songs onto a CD to listen to, whilst going through the gruelling sessions of Chemotherapy at the Marsden Hospital in Sutton.

Grannie is a fighter, my love & admiration for her is that she takes on all of life’s challenges - be that the early death of my granddad, to embracing technology with iPads, iPhones & emails, to which I have been her ICT support person.

This was the first time in our family that Cancer, or “Doris” as Grannie calls it, had touched my life. I was heartbroken. I wanted to convey my support and love to Grannie in the only way I knew how, by writing a song.

The song was originally called ‘You're a fighter’ and I gave it to Grannie in August 2015 to take to chemo sessions. Whilst we knew nothing could be done about the Cancer, we knew with Grannie’s strength, character and with our strong family behind her, she would beat the prognosis of 12 months.

Chemo was gruelling, side effects heart-breaking but not once did my Grannie falter - what an amazing inspiration to me, a 16 year old girl. I am and forever will be in awe of her.

Well, she did it!

It is now November 2016, Grannie is 70 (great party), I am nearly 17 (hopefully a great party) and Grannie is now happy to share her song & story. We have changed the title to ‘Prove It Wrong’ because she did, we are now 15 months and counting…

The song is available on iTunes £0.99 and Spotify where 60% of the proceeds are going to, Princess Alice Hospice in Esher & Macmillan Nurses; who are truly amazing. If you'd like to donate more to both of these fabulous causes then I have set up a just giving page for both, (see below).

If this song can help or inspire anyone else going through Cancer, either to beat it or prolong their prognosis, then both Grannie and I will feel truly happy.

You can take a look at my short promotional video on the link below. We would like to reach as many people as possible,

so if you could share this post with all your friends and family that would be great.

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/track/6EOz0hKTEKiQMOE2MhBnW9

iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/prove-it-wrong-single/id1144061813 Promotional Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6rb8T0alY0

So far Talisa has already raised an impressive £300, but would appreciate any further support people can offer.

Miss T Allen, Deputy Head of English




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Year 11 GCSE Media Studies

Unit 2 Controlled Assessment Deadlines

Year 11 GCSE Media Studies students are now in the final stages of completing their GCSE Media Studies coursework and I wanted

to keep you updated with the coming deadlines, details of which can be found below. Please note that after these final deadlines

no further improvements can be made to this work as this would go beyond what the exam board allows.

Students can access the current level of their coursework via their individual class tracker that has been shared on One Drive and

I strongly recommend that students discusses this current grade with you while there is still time to make any improvements that

may be needed. The majority of feedback for pieces that have been completed so far has been given back to students, with the

remaining piece (last seven pages from 12 Page Research and Planning) by next week, and to help support students in meeting

these deadlines, weekly boosters are run for Media Studies every Tuesday Lunchtime and Thursday 3pm-4pm in C20. We have

also adjusted our lesson planning to allow this work to continue during class until Friday 3rd February. After this, we must move

on to the examination unit: Unit 1 TV Game Shows.

December Mock Exam – TV Game Shows

Students are currently working on their coursework in lessons and this will continue into January and students will then start the

exam unit TV Game Shows. Despite this, they will complete a mock exam in December on TV Game Shows. Last year this proved

to be a valuable experience as allowed students a head start in the topic, as well as understanding the structure of the exam. This

will mean, however, that outcomes for students will be lower than we are aiming for in the summer exams.

The exam is structured with a client’s brief (Preliminary Material) that is given to students four weeks before the exam. During

this time, all formal teaching has to cease and students are expected to independently research and plan in response to the brief.

In the exam, they will be asked four questions based on the brief, assessing students’ ability to research, plan and respond to a

client’s brief. Students are well equipped to complete this task as the knowledge and understanding of the exam is centred on

the same four key concepts from their coursework; media language, audience, representation and institution. They need to now

apply this knowledge to TV Game Shows, using the resources given to them in their mock exam packs. To support students in

preparing for this mock exam successfully, they have were given their mock Preliminary Material and revision pack prior to half

term and they can also attend booster sessions if they have any questions or concerns.

Miss J Cooke

Media Co-ordinator

Weds 4th Jan Tues 3rd Jan




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KS3 Mathematics Autumn Assessment Dates

KS3 Mathematics assessments will commence from the week beginning Monday, 14 November 2016. All assessments will be an

hour long, non-calculator and take place during Maths lessons. Students need to have all relevant Maths equipment for this

assessment - ruler, pencil, pen, eraser and sharpener (protractors, compasses and set squares are not needed until term 2),

students will not be given equipment from their teacher so it is very important that they bring these with them on the day.

The KS3 assessments will focus on algebra and shape with some numerical skills. These are topics which your daughter has been studying during Maths lessons this term. We advise that the students use their theory books for revision along with some useful websites such as: MathsWatchvle https://vle.mathswatch.com/vle/ , MyMaths https://www.mymaths.co.uk/ and BBC Bitesize http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/zqhs34j The students have been given their login details for these websites from their class teacher. Dates for KS3 Mathematics Assessments

Class Day Where

7QR1 Tuesday, 22nd Nov Usual Maths Classroom

7QR2 Monday, 21st Nov Usual Maths Classroom




7ST1 Tuesday, 22nd Nov Usual Maths Classroom


7ST3 Monday, 21st Nov Usual Maths Classroom


7ST5 Monday, 21st Nov Usual Maths Classroom

Year Date Where

8 Wed, 16th Nov Usual Maths Classroom

9 Tuesday, 15th Nov Usual Maths Classroom

Please contact your daughter’s class teacher, or Miss Reilly, with any queries.

Year 10 Autumn Assessment Dates

Year 10 Mathematics assessments will commence during their Maths lessons on Thursday 24th November. All assessments will

be an hour long, non-calculator and take place during Maths lessons. Students need to have all relevant Maths equipment for this

assessment - ruler, pencil, pen, eraser, sharpener, protractor, and pair of compasses; students will not be given equipment from

their teacher so it is very important that they bring these with them on the day.

The year 10 assessments will focus on the topics covered this term and the students will be given full detail in class. We advise that the students use their theory books for revision along with some useful websites such as: MathsWatchvle https://vle.mathswatch.com/vle/ , MyMaths https://www.mymaths.co.uk/ and BBC Bitesize http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/z38pycw The students have been given their login details for these websites from their class teacher. Please contact your daughter’s class teacher, or Miss Bailey, with any queries.



https://vle.mathswatch.com/vle/

https://www.mymaths.co.uk/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/zqhs34j

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https://www.mymaths.co.uk/

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House News

We started off the year with some great House events that lots of the girls got involved in. In total 680 items donated

at Harvest which were given to the Food Bank and Wallington Day Centre who were extremely grateful. Our first Sports

Festival was a success with lots of Year 7s, 8s and 9s out playing at lunch time or supporting their form. Our next House

event coming up is the Music Festival. Thank you to everyone who has entered on their own, or as a group, to perform

on the 8th or 9th of November. We want as many students as possible to join their House choir so the Disney songs will

sound amazing on the 10th – just ask your House Captains about rehearsal days. The Christmas countdown has begun

and the Rosebery Christmas Fair will be on the 25th November; mufti day is next Friday, 11th November when students

can bring in items for various stalls. Here’s the current table of house points:

2016-17 Points

Autumn Term 2016

Event Curie Pankhurst Malala Elizabeth

Staff Tug of War 50 25 100 75

Harvest Items 221 107 232 120

Harvest Posters 70 50

Harvest Boxes 10 20 40 30

Harvest Banners 60 10 50

Annie Auditions 18 26 37 29

Riddle 4 3 5

Sports Festival 75 250 275 100

TOTA 438 511 684 459

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This week the Glyn Surrey SCITT held its first Get Into Teaching event. The event provided an opportunity for potential ITT trainees to find out more information about teaching, how to

apply and what specifically the SCITT can offer by way of support, guidance and training. Our next event takes place on 8th November, 6.00-8.00pm at the Hilton Doubletree Hotel in

Woking, as part of the Surrey SCITT Network.

This event is aimed at anyone interested in either primary or secondary teaching. If you would like to find out more about the ITT programmes run by the SCITT, please visit the website:

glynsurreyscitt.co.uk or follow us on Twitter @GlynSurreySCITT



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