SPRING TERM
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2 Head’s Lines
Head’s Lines continued
3 Independent School
Open Days
4/
Science Week
5
6 Brownies
7 Sports Results
8 Library News
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2nd Mar
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5th Mar
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venue
Arrive/ Collect/
Depart Return
4.30
Boys Hockey U13 @ Dulwich Prep Hockey
Tournament
PA Disco Rec—Y3
Theatre
6.00
6.30
PA Disco Y4—6
Theatre
8.00
Library
1.00
10.00
9.00
10.00
4.00
5.30
away
8.30
1.30
Wed
6th Mar
away
8.45
4.15
15.30
tbc
2.15
home
4.00
3.00
Boys Hockey 2nd IX v Marlborough House
home
4.30
2.15
Boys Hockey Colts B v Marlborough House
away
1.20
4.00
2.45
Boys Hockey Colts C v Marlborough House
away
1.40
4.30
3.15
Boys Hockey Colts D v Marlborough House
away
2.00
5.00
Girls Netball U10 A & B v Holmewood House
away
2.00
4.15
Girls Netball U11 A & B v Holmewood House
home
4.15
Girls Netball U13 v Marlborough House
home
4.15
Theatre
7.30
away
5.00
2.30
5.30
Y8 Consultation evening (No appointments)
7.00
away
12.30
6.00
3.00
World Book Day
Girls Netball U11 IAPS Tournament @ Roedean
(Packed lunch from home)
Guest Assembly—Katie Payne from Life and
Soul
Boys Rugby Colts A @ Ashdown House 7’s
Tournament (Packed lunch from home)
Boys Hockey U9 A Tournament @
Sutton Valence
Boys Hockey U8 A & B v Sutton Valence
home
4.00
3.30
Boys Hockey U9 B & C v Sutton Valence
home
4.30
3.00
Girls U9 & U8 Pop Lacrosse @ St. Ronan’s CANCELLED
tbc
8.40
Thurs
7th Mar
Book Fair—Y3—8
Boys Hockey IAPS U13 @ Tonbridge (packed
lunch from home)
Cross Country @ Kent College U11 & U9 Mixed
Pre-Prep Consultation Evening
Boys Hockey Colts A @ Sutton Valence
Tournament
Boys Hockey 1st IX v Marlborough House
1.30
KIT CHECK AT
WEEKENDS
If you do find
another child’s
article of clothing
could this please be
returned to the office
asap.
Thank you for your
1st March
Book Week—Prep School
Mon
4th Mar
1 Purple Wrap
around Watch
1 Swatch with red strap
1 blue teddy bear watch
1 Blue Olympic Swatch
Please may we ask
that when you wash
your child’s kit at the
weekend, you check it
is labelled correctly.
Issue 7
DIARY SHEET
4th—9th March 2013
10
& Easter Sports Coaching
11
Lost & Found
Spring Term 2013
1.00
1.30
away
12.00
5.00
away
12.30
5.45
TW Arts Festival weekend
Sat
9th Mar
5.00am Green Goblins to Portsmouth
9.00
Rehearsal for Smike
7.00
PA Quiz Night
7.00pm
1.00
theatre
Head’s Lines
CONGRATULATIONS
ELLIOT FLETCHER has won an arts Scholarship to Bede’s for September. Well done!
LIA MCHUGH (11+), VERITY FENN (13+) and KATIE WELBOURN (13+) have all ben offered places
at Mayfield following recent assessments.
SAM COPP has been offered a 13+ place at Ardingly College.
BILLY MARSDEN has won a place on the National Youth Musical Theatre after very competitive auditions. He will be the youngest member of the company and starts rehearsing for ‘Whistle down
the Wind’ in April.
Apologies to COLUMBUS SANDOR whose name was omitted in the last Newsletter for achieving his
Half Colours in Rugby.
PRE-PREP HOUSE CAPTAINS
Baden-Powell
Grange
Mackinnon
LARA BELLINGER
MATTHEW DICKERSON
BELLA WILLIAMS
LILY SANDOR
ISABEL BRAIDWOOD
MAX HALFHIDE
Earlier this term, we sent a
copy of our latest School
Magazine to the Queen!
We have just received the attached letter of thanks from
Buckingham Palace.
HUMPHRY DAVY LECTURE
We enjoyed an hour of excitement Tuesday evening at
our 16th Sir Humphry Davy Science Lecture where Dr
Jasmine from ProEducation, enthralled us with a wide
range of experiments showing the connection between
Art and Physics. The annual lecture was started by my
predecessor, Julian Parker, to encourage children to
get involved in Science. We hosted 9 visiting schools so
the Theatre was packed! Many thanks to our Head of
Science, Mr Mansfield for organising this and to the
Head of Science at Tonbridge, Bill Burnett, for attending and summing things up at the end.
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Head’s Lines continued
Following the success of last year’s
‘Greenpower Festival of Goblins’
karting competition at Goodwood,
Rose Hill School pupils, under the
direction of Mr Izzard and Mr Mansfield were presented with a cheque
for £500 by local businessman David Manning. His company ‘Migsolv’,
who specialise in providing environmentally friendly Computer Room &
Data Centre solutions, decided to
donate money towards the upkeep
and development of the Rose Hill
‘Green Goblin’ karting team. This
aptly coincided with Mr Mansfield’s
assembly promoting Science week
at Rose Hill School.
GREEN GOBLINS
Independent School Open Days
Saturday 2nd March
Eastbourne College
01323452323
Co-Ed Day & Boarding
9.00am — 12noon
Tuesday 5th March
Combe Bank School
01959567166
Girls’ Day School
10.am—12noon
Saturday 9th March
Tonbridge School
01732304297
Boys’ Boarding School
10.15am
Beechwood Sacred Heart 01892532747
Co-Ed Day & Boarding
9.30am—1pm
Battle Abbey Senior School
Co-Ed Day & Boarding
10.30am—12.30pm
Sackville
Co-Ed Day
10.00am
01273 833636
Co-Ed Day & Boarding
10.30am
Tuesday12th March
Kent College
01892820218
Girls’ Day & Boarding
9.30am—1.00pm
Thursday 14th March
Walthamstow Hall
01732451334
Girls’ Day School
10.00am—12noon
Hurstpierpoint College
If you wish to attend any of the above please contact the school directly.
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Science Week
Prince Glass, Ceramic's son, though crystal-clear
Is no wise crystalline. The fond Voyeur
And Narcissist alike devoutly peer
Into Disorder, the Disorderer
Being Covalent Bondings that prefer
Prolonged Viscosity and spread loose nets
Photons slip through. The average Polymer
Enjoys a Glassy state, but cools, forgets
To slump, and clouds in closely patterned Minutes
John Updike in Scientific American: The Dance of the Solids
All week staff and pupils have been working with a Science theme to help celebrate Rose Hill’s
Science Week. Mr Mansfield kicked off the week with an assembly based upon this year’s topic of
Discovery and Invention; he chose ‘glass’ as one of the all-time most important discoveries.
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A competition was launched for Years 3-5 to draw a poster of their all-time favourite invention/discovery

Years 6-8 had to write a 200 word argument for their most important invention/
discovery.
The winner of each year group will receive an adult and child pass to Intech Science Centre and
Planetarium in Winchester.
Tuesday 26th February saw the 16th Annual Sir
Humphry Davy Lecture, with a twist. Dr Jasmine
Pradissitto came into school during the afternoon and
ran hands-on workshops with the pupils about using
science in art and art in science. Dr Jasmine is a
physicist and an international artist.
Another table in the workshop was using bubbles to create shapes inside a bigger section of
that shape.
HENRY MOORE
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Dr Jasmine Pradissitto visited Years 6‐8 on Tuesday. She is a physicist but mainly an artist into which she tries to use science. Her specialised area is light as she has done many pieces incorporating this media. One of the tables in the workshop consisted of optical illusions: there was a spiral that you had to stare at until it stopped spinning, then you looked at a plastic rabbit and it appeared to grow! Then when the disc was spun anti‐clockwise the complete opposite effect occurred. NINA HARMAN One of the work stations
we made a coloured
circle, but ours went
very, very, very wrong
but it was still fun.
CHARLIE CROOKE
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Science Week continued
After the workshops she stayed on to present the lecture to a packed theatre; as well as our Years
6-8 pupils we had pupils from 9 other schools
Dr Jasmine showed us how artists use
science in their work. One artist she
showed us was Richard Box. He stuck
hundreds of fluorescent light tubes
into the ground under an electricity
pylon. They all glowed due to the
electricity from the pylon. Dr Jasmine
demonstrated this with a tube and a
plasma ball.
It was really fun for my first experience at a Humphry Davy lecture; I
cannot wait till next year.
SOPHIE TAYLOR
The lecture was really fun. There was a part on illu‐
sions, light and reflection. For the light part Dr Jas‐
mine brought in a laser. IMOGEN TRAVERS‐CALVERT The lecture was very good. My favourite experiment was with a
plastic cup with some coloured water in it. You put in some powder
from a nappy and it became solid.
I really want to try it at home.
FRANCESCA MORRIS
Mr Skottowe, a passionate science teacher, did an excellent assembly on Wednesday and literally
put his money on the line for science. He selected pupils from the audience and offered them a £5
note, they only had to catch it from falling. Archie Baxter came close and made Mr Skottowe
sweat, but his money was safe! Mr Skottowe let the pupils in on the science during Thursday’s
assembly, so parents beware!
Pre-Prep were treated to a fun-filled visit from Mr Mansfield on
Wednesday. He taught us how to grow our very own crystals. Mr
Mansfield use a blue solution (copper sulphate) and he explained all
the precautions one must take when handling this chemical. He suspended a seed crystal, which had been grown
beforehand, into some of the copper sulphate
solution. This was then left for us to watch
over the next few days as beautiful crystals
develop.
Is it a plane? Is it Superman? No, it’s a bird!
Eagle Heights to be precise. Friday afternoon
will see Years 1-6 being enthralled by the
stunning birds from Eagle Heights. More
details and photos (hopefully) next week!
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Brownies
OUR GUIDING FAMILY
Having celebrated 25 years of Brownies at Rose Hill School, I gave the Year 3 & 4 Brownies a challenge to talk to their
mothers, grandmothers, and aunties to find out whether they were guides/brownies.
Some families have enjoyed reminiscing and the girls have shared
some of their Guiding history.
This photograph, was taken at camp in 1927 and includes Sophie
Riley’s Great Grandmother, aged 14 years, who was a Guide in Dover
(she in the middle of the back row).
Sophie’s Grandfather was a scout leader and Grandmother a guide
leader. When they married in 1938 the guides and scouts formed a
guard of honour.
Niamh Hughes’ Great Granny was a guide leader in Gloucestershire.
The photograph below shows the leaders at a training around
1950/51. Great Granny is second from the right on the back row.
Niamh’s Great, Great Aunt was also a guide leader. In 1951 she was
based in Uganda with British Guides in Foreign Countries. Her Great,
Great Aunt was presented with the World Trefoil by Lady BadenPowell in 1951.
This is Isabelle George modelling her mother’s old Brownie uniform, complete with many
badges.
Having set the challenge, I have been amazed at the history within our Rose Hill families. As
well as photographs, we have seen a selection of badges and commented on the “different”
uniforms.
All of the above is possible because Lord Baden-Powell, former pupil of Rose Hill School,
founded Scouting and Guiding over 100 years ago.
Bev Pearce
Brown Owl
5 Brownies attended the Mount Ephraim Division Thinking
Day event at St. John's Church on Sunday 17th February.
Well done to Flavia White, Anna Bowring, Lorna Pearce,
Niamh Hughes and Emily Whittome for their involvement
in the service.
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Sports Results
On Monday 25th February our U11 Boys Hockey team competed in an IAPS Tournament at Tonbridge School. We won our group, winning all 4 matches and qualified for the quarter finals which
we also won, beating Bede’s. Unfortunately, we lost the Semi final but came 3rd overall, beating
Kent College Canterbury, meaning we have qualified for the Nationals which will be held on Monday
11th March. Well done to all the team!
Ollie Strong
BOYS HOCKEY
DATE
Wed
27th Feb
OPPOSITION
Holmewood
House
MATCH
SCORE
SCORERS
BOY OF THE MATCH
REPORT BY
1st IX (h)
Lost 3—0
Louis Tipper
L. Green
2nd IX (h)
Lost 5—0
The whole team!
B. Fitzsimons
3rd IX (h)
Lost 9—1
The whole team!
H. Moore
The whole team!
G. Kendon
William Hunt
Alban Fenn
W. Hunt
Colts A VII (a)
Won 5—0
Owen Fung-On
Oliver Strong
Oliver Bateman
Henry Moore (2)
Colts B VII (a)
Won 2—1
George Kendon
Harry Stafford
Colts C VII (a)
Lost 4—0
Colts D VII (a)
Won 3—0
George Grieve
Billy Marsden
George Grieve
Billy Marsden
GIRLS NETBALL RESULTS
DATE
OPPOSITION
Sutton Valence
Wed
27th Feb
MATCH
SCORE
GIRL OF THE MATCH
REPORT BY
U13 (h)
Rose Hill lost to a very
strong team.
Anja von Nardroff
Katie Welbourn
E. Kendon
U11 B (a)
6—0 to Rose Hill
Lia McHugh
L. Anderson
U10 A (h)
10 –3 to Rose Hill
Flavia White
Laura Williamson
L. Williamson
U9 Pink (h)
6—5 to Kent College
The whole team!
A. Bowring
U9 Maroon (h)
3—2 to Kent College
The whole team!
B. McKeogh
U8 Maroon (a)
4—1 to Kent College
Emilia Wood
Merewenna Fenn
F. Scarbrough
U8 Pink (a)
8 – 2 to Kent College
Louisa Heller
Tilly Spark
S. Makinson
U10 B (h)
Kent College
Thurs
28th Feb
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Library News
Congratulations to my new Library Monitors who are;
3A EMILIA WOOD
4S JOSEPH MORGAN-YONGE
5I RHEA PATEL
3R JOLYON RUSH
4R LORNA PEARCE
5S OLIVER HUGHES
KEEP READING FOR READATHON!
The children have been telling me all about the books they have been reading for Readathon in their
Library lessons. They have been very enthusiastic and have really enjoyed taking part – here is what
my new Library Monitors have been reading for Readathon.
Emilia Wood - Brer Rabbit Collection
Jolyon Rush – Diary of a Wimpy Kid - The Last Straw
Lorna Pearce – Horse Diaries Book 1
Joseph Morgan-Yonge – Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Cabin Fever
Rhea Patel – The Grunts
Oliver Hughes – Tom Gates – All of them!
Readathon finishes on Friday 8th March, after which we will start collecting the sponsorship money
(details to follow). Of course children shouldn’t worry if they haven’t finished reading a book!
PREP SCHOOL BOOK FAIR
On Monday we will hold our annual Book Fair in the Library. I will accept forms on the day.
Remember—children will be able to use their World Book Day book tokens - if a child chooses not to
use their token they will receive it on Thursday (World Book Day) – along with the children in PrePrep. For information on this year’s books please visit worldbookday.com
CATHY CASSIDY AT WATERSTONE’S TUNBRIDGE WELLS
The best-selling children’s author will be signing copies of her
new Chocolate Box Girls novel, ‘Summer’s Dream’ on Saturday
9th March, 10am-12noon. For more details please contact
Waterstone’s.
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Menu
THURSDAY
Chicken Korma Curry
Steamed Vegetable Rice
Naan Bread
Vegetarian: Spinach & Mushroom Curry
Raspberry Jam Doughnut
MONDAY
Cumberland Sausage
Baked Beans
Mashed Potatoes
Vegetarian: Vegetarian Sausages
Chocolate Arctic Roll
TUESDAY
Chicken Fajitas with Salad
Vegetarian: Roasted Pepper Soup
Rice Pudding and Jam
WEDNESDAY
Roast Leg of Lamb with Mint Sauce
Roast Potatoes
Carrots
Vegetarian: Cheese and Potato Pasty
Fruit Selection and Chocolate Crispy Cake
FRIDAY
Lasagne Verdi
Carrot & Cucumber Salad
Vegetarian: Vegetarian Bolognaise
Blackberry and Apple Crumble & Custard
Daily Salad Bar
at least 2 options of a meat based dish and at least 1
vegetarian main course and up to 10 side salads plus
freshly baked baguettes for added carbohydrate,
grated cheese as an option with the vegetarian
soups on Tuesdays for added protein
Try an adventure sport that explores the forests, parks and towns of Kent and beyond and will improve your fitness and map reading skills.
Junior Training
Sunday 3 March 2013 :-10.30am to 1.30pm
Where: Tunbridge Wells Common,
Hungershall Park off Major Yorks Rd TN4 8AF
There will be a range of activities to suit all abilities from beginner to intermediate.
Juniors of all ages welcome. Parents and adults may also participate.
Contact Jerry Purkis [email protected] 01892 536332 to reserve a place,
or turn up on the day at 10.30.
SAXONS ORIENTEERING CLUB
The orienteering club for Kent and East Sussex.
Details of all local events can be found on
www.saxons-oc.org
Orienteering: The adventure sport for all
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We are planning four days of Sports Activities for the first week of the
Easter Holiday. Each session will include a mixture of sports including
team games of football, hockey, netball, rounders and cricket. We will
take advantage of the School facilities of sports hall, tennis courts,
playing fields and astro pitch.
Activities will be structured to suit both Boys and Girls.
CLOTHING and EQUIPMENT
All equipment will be provided although suitable footwear will be
required: indoor and outdoor trainers. Sports clothing should be worn.
Mouth guards and shin pads will also be required for children
from Year 3 and above.
A snack and drink should be provided.
INSURANCE
We have full public liability cover, and pupils from Rose Hill have
automatic accident cover.
The cost will be £15 per day.
The proposed timings for each day are as follows:
9:00 – 12:00 Years 1 to 4
12:30 – 3:30 Years 5 to 8
If you would like to reserve a place please return
the Booking Form to Mr Long by Friday 22nd March.
Bookings will only be accepted after this date if places remain.
R Fung-On / D Stacey / T Booth-Jones / P Long
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ROSE HILL SCHOOL
BOOKING FORM
Please return this Booking Form with payment of £15 per day per child, CASH, or
CHEQUE payable to
‘Rose Hill Activity Holidays’,
to MR LONG at ROSE HILL SCHOOL
I would like to book a place on the
Easter Sports Coaching Course: 2nd - 5th April
Child’s Name ______________________________________________ Class__________
Address _________________________________________________________________
Contact Telephone Number during the course _________________________________
Group: Years 1-4 (9:00-12:00)
Please indicate preferred days:
Years 5-8 (12:30-3:30)
(If there is insufficient demand for any day we will offer you an alternative or refund your
payment)
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Children can be dropped at school no more than 10 minutes before the start of each
session and must be collected within 10 minutes of the end of the session.
ACCIDENT OR ILLNESS
Should emergency treatment be considered necessary and neither parent/guardian
can be contacted on the number given above, I agree to permit such treatment to
be undertaken. In the event of this situation arising, I understand that you will
further endeavour to inform me. I set out below details of any medical condition,
allergies, etc. that may affect my child whilst on the course:
___________________________________________________________________________________
Signature of Parent / Guardian___________________________ Date_____________
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