Royal Russell Junior School Bulletin Spring Term...
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Royal Russell
Junior School
Bulletin
Spring Term 2016
Dear Parents,
Monday and Tuesday saw me back to my roots as a Games teacher with the
U11 Boys and Girls both in tournaments at Alleyns. They performed extremely
well and the boys were very unlucky to narrowly miss out on a semi final
place before eventually coming 5th out of 12 schools.
An excellent Music Café on Monday culminated in a superb performance
(amongst many) from Cassie on the drums. It was then onto the Ski
Presentation Evening at which La Plagne 2016 really came to life and wetted
the appetite for what I am sure will be an excellent trip.
Report writing, prospective parents and an IAPS meeting in Putney dominated
the remainder of the week for me, that was capped off this morning with a
bumper celebration assembly, where almost every child in the Upper Juniors
received an award of some description. Well done to all.
Family Thompson are off to The Alps tomorrow for some skiing in Morzine, so
do wave if you are there as well. I look forward to seeing you all for the
second half of term.
Best wishes
Mr James C Thompson
Monday 22 February 2016 08:00 U11 IAPS Boys Hockey (A) 16:00 Swimming: U8/U9/U10/U11 Girls Croydon High Swimming Gala (H) (LL/EJ) Tuesday 23 February 2016 15:45 Netball: U11AB v Croydon High (H) (LL) Wednesday 24 February 2016 08:30 - 15:30 Year 2 Trip to the Museum of London (AK/AC) 15:45 Cello Soiree (SFo) Thursday 25 February 2016 15:30 Netball: U10AB Netball v Alleyn's (A) (LL) Friday 26 February 2016 15:45 Trampolining: U11 Croydon Schools Tournament (H) (LL) 15:45 Football: U9AB Boys v St Christopher's (H) (JF) 16:00 Football: U10 Boys v St Christopher's (H) (JF) Saturday 27 February 2016 09:30 Netball: U10 Russell House Tournament (A) (LL)
Key Dates for the Spring Term
Wednesday 24th February
Cello Soiree 3.45pm
Monday 29th February / Wednesday 2nd March
Upper Junior Parents – Teacher- Pupil Consultations
EYFS and LJ Parent - Teacher Consultations
Friday 4th March
Lower Junior Mothering Service 2.30pm
Monday 7th March
Senior School/Junior School Spring Music Concert 7pm
Wednesday 16th March
House Music Competition 6.30pm
Junior School Open Day 9-2pm
Saturday 19th March 2016
1853 Society Comedy Night 7pm
Monday 21st March
Bushcraft Presentation Evening to Parents 7pm
Thursday 24th March
End of Term 3.30pm
Appointments for Parents’ Evening
on Monday 29th February and
Wednesday 2nd March will be
available to make after Half Term on
Monday 22nd February on the boards
in the Junior School Lobby. Please
remember to come in and sign up for
your preferred time.
Year 5 World War 2 History Day
Blitz experience
We experienced a mock air raid which made us really understand what it must
have felt like during an air raid in the Blitz. We only experienced it for 10 minutes, but were unable to imagine how people could have done it every night for years!
War time cooking
We made rock cakes using an authentic recipe.
VE Day Party
We celebrated the end of the war with food, entertainment and fun. We all performed Run
Rabbit Run!
We all dressed up in war time costumes
We all had a lot of fun!
Communication during the war
We learnt about how people communicated their battle plans during
the war and tried writing our own messages in Morse code.
Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore
A Unicorn Production
On Tuesday 9th February 2016 the Nursery bordered a coach for Tooley Street,
London. As well as seeing lots of landmarks on our journey, we also visited the
Unicorn Theatre to see the production of ‘Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore.’ A
show delivered with wit, impeccable timing and plenty of clowning around. The
play was about three people who have a lot to say and only three words with which
to say it, Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore. When the show had finished we all
enjoyed a packed lunch together!
We found it to be a perfect theatre experience for our thriving Nursery pupils. A
truly wonderful time was had by all.
Congratulations to all of our young musicians who performed in the recent Music Café.
The audience was treated to a wonderful, eclectic programme of solo and ensemble musical items,
demonstrating the breadth of musical talent across the Junior School.
Well done and thank you for entertaining and impressing us, in equal measure!
Knitting Club
Our natty knitters
have been busy
weaving and
working on some
lovely knitted
creations.
The U11 Boys and Girls took part in our Annual Royal Russell School Hockey tournament along
with 14 other teams on Saturday, 6th February.
The girls played well but faced some tough opposition against St Thomas’ Clapham to come 3rd in
the Cup competition.
The boys had a brilliant run in the Plate competition, but narrowly missed out on coming 1st after
penalty shuffles vs Oakfield. Both teams played some fantastic Hockey throughout the day.
Thank you to all the parents for their support throughout the day and to
Addiscombe HC and Kenley HC for helping with umpiring.
Royal Russell Hockey Tournament
The U11 Boys and Girls took part in our Annual
Royal Russell School Hockey tournament along with
14 other teams on Saturday, 6th February.
The girls played well but faced some tough
opposition against St Thomas’ Clapham to come 3rd
in the Cup competition.
The boys had a brilliant run in the Plate competition,
but narrowly missed out on coming 1st after penalty
shuffles vs Oakfield. Both teams played some
fantastic Hockey throughout the day.
Thank you to all the parents for their support
throughout the day and to
Addiscombe HC and Kenley HC for helping with
umpiring.
Congratulations to all Year 5/6
pupils who gave their all in the
house cross country event.
1st home was Sam Charvet
closely followed by Sam
German. Sasha Howard was
the first girl home in 3rd place,
well done.
Results for Cross Country;
1st: Canterbury
2nd: Exeter
3rd: Durham
4th: York
Results for House Basketball;
1st: Durham
2nd: Canterbury
3rd: York
4th: Exeter
Current Y4/5 pupils will have the chance to
experience a fantastic few days of Hockey
(girls) and Football (boys) in the beautiful town
of Valkenburg.
Laser Tag in the caves - The toboggan
run & chair lift - The front of the
hotel
Raring to play Hockey at a local fixture
The tour is running in the first week of the October half term 2016, see Mrs Lloyd
for more information. Full details have been sent via email.
Royal Russell School has taken Teens Unite into their
hearts since former pupil, Sadie sadly lost her battle
with cancer last year. We supported Sadie throughout
her journey and the staff and students at Royal Russell
School have truly gone above and beyond to
help Teens Unite reach out to even more young people
during their fight against cancer.
Royal Russell School
Raises Over £43,000 for
Teens Unite
It’s safe to say that Royal Russell School didn’t take on the challenge of raising money and
awareness for Teens Unite lightly. Their incredible efforts resulted in a staggering final total of
£43,431.18! The main source of fundraising came from the schools ‘London Loop Challenge’. This
was a mammoth challenge, which saw staff and students come together to travel a total of 152 miles-
the same distance of the London Outer Orbital Path (Loop).
The distance was split into 24 sections and shared amongst different year groups, houses, staff,
parents and students to complete in different ways- some of the students completed five miles in
onesies and one of the teachers, Mr Dear, ran the distance of six marathons in four days. A huge
congratulations goes to everyone who helped Royal Russell School to complete the challenge by
contributing in some way.
As if this wasn’t enough, the school held a calendar of fundraising events alongside the London Loop
including a cinema night and family BBQ, not to mention Mr Rocca shaving his hair to raise a few
extra pounds.
To say a massive thank you to Royal Russell School,
Teens Unite’s CEO and Founder, Debbie Pezzani
visited the school last week, along with parent of Sadie,
Julia and one of Sadie’s friends who is also supported
by Teens Unite, Harry. They spoke with students and
staff during an assembly and took the opportunity to
thank everyone for their dedication and hard work.
We really would like to thank everyone at Royal Russell
School from the bottom of our hearts. It has been truly
overwhelming to see you all come together to support
the same cause and help us make a difference to the
lives of more young people just like Sadie. THANK
YOU.
To read the full article please go to http://teensunitefightingcancer.org/royal-russell-school-raises-over-43000-for-teens-unite
It is really lovely to see some of you in our Lower Junior Celebration Assembly each week. This is part of the children’s timetabled educational provision and as such we respectfully ask with safeguarding and privacy of children and their families that no
photography or recording of the assembly takes place.
The assembly is scheduled to start at 2.50pm each Friday and you are very welcome to enter the hall from 2.40pm
We will announce any birthdays that fall in the week leading up to the Sunday of each week and if a child is absent their card and sticker will be given to the class
teacher to celebrate in class as it is not possible to keep a track of children who have missed assembly in the week of their birthday.
In next week’s assembly on Friday 12th February, we will celebrate birthdays up to
and including Sunday 21st February as the following week will be half term.
Royal Russell are collecting Active kids vouchers! If you go to Sainsbury’s make sure that you pick up some vouchers, bring them to school and put them in the box that’s in the lobby!