Friday 10 March 2017
Dear Parents and Carers
This week we have been celebrating strong and inspirational women. Miss Starr highlighted the fantastic work of
women in STEM activities in her assembly promoting Science Week, including Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan
and Mary Jackson, brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the
greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. International Women’s Day on
Wednesday provided us with an opportunity to spend time discussing what it is like to be a young woman in Britain in
2017, the impact of the continuing lack of parity between the genders in Britain and around the world, and each tutor
group highlighted the #BeBoldForChange that they would like to fight for. We have collected the students’ opinions
and feelings and have created a display for this evening’s Alumnae Event, so our former students can engage with the
thinking of our current cohort. I share some of their thoughts and insights below:
Young women in 2017 are:
Beautiful….strong…confident but self-critical…lonely…judged for our appearance…more powerful than
we imagine…happy…empowered… driven…independent…increasingly
equal…motivated…proud…anxious…unique…brave…fun…inspiring…resourceful…patient…loyal…
objectified…mighty…bold…amazing…sophisticated…the future…just as clever as men
The change I would like to fight for is:
Equality…equal pay…children to be brought up knowing they can do anything…women to be
recognised for their talents…full control for women over their bodies…an end to labelling
women…stopping harassment …choice…stop sexualising women…breaking stereotypes…tax free
sanitary products…a women in space…positive mental health for all
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At the Alumnae Evening tonight, we will be asking our guests to fill in their own speech bubbles highlighting what they
would tell their 16 year-old self to add to our display. We will also be matching up our alumnae with current Year 11
and Sixth Form students who have career interests in their field of expertise and we hope that this will lead to a very
useful dialogue that can be followed up with work experience and mentoring opportunities. It promises to be an
excellent evening.
Have a lovely weekend
Ros Allen @RoseberyHT
IN THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Dates for your Diary
Pages 2 & 3
Headteacher Commendations
Pages 3 & 4
Teenage emotional well-being and safeguarding workshop
Page 4
PE Results and Fixtures
Page 5
Student News
Pages 6 to 8
National Apprenticeship Show
Page 8
Annie
Page 9
Careers Event
Page 9
PSA Glyn/Rosebery Disco
Page 10
PSA Quiz and Form
Pages 11 & 12
PSA 100 Club
Page 13
Epsom & Ewell District Scouting News and Views
Page 14
Dates for your Diary (Subject to Alteration)
Mon 13 March
Mon 13 March
Tues 14 March
12:30 – 14:30
12:10 – 13:10
16:00 – 17:30
18:00 – 20:00
Weds 15 March
Thurs 16 March
Fri 17 March
Sat 17 & Sun 18 March
15:00 – 19:00
18:00 – 19:00
16:00 – 19:00
09:00 – 17:00
Week 1
Y11 Music Exam Performances
Y12 UCAS Higher Education Convention
Y11 Music Exam Performances
Y12 Drama Performance
Careers Evening
Y13 PE Practical Exams
Y12 PHA Gresham Lecture
Music Tour Information Evening
Y8x Parents' Evening
Y12 & Y13 Drama Study Day
Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Training
University of Surrey
D3, D4
Hall
Museum of London
Hall
Hall
Globe Theatre
Hall, OK1
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Mon 20 March
Mon 20 – Fri 24 March
Mon 20 March
Tues 21 March
Weds 22 March
18:00 – 20:00
Thurs 23 March
Fri 24 March
16:00 – 19:00
19:00 – 21:30
19:30 – 21:00
Fri 24 – Sun 26 March
Week 2
Y12 Assessment Weeks
House Sports Tournament
Y12 & Y13 A Level Music Recital
Y13 Law Trip
Y13 Philosophy & Ethics Student Conference
Y8y Parents' Evening
PSA Quiz Night
Y7 & Y8 Glyn/Rosebery Disco
Silver Duke of Edinburgh Practice
The Old Bailey
Bloomsbury Baptist
Church, London
Hall
Hall
Glyn School
Eastbourne
Headteacher Commendations
Many congratulations to all students nominated this week.
The following students have been nominated for their fantastic support for subject areas at Options Evening this week:
for Media by Mrs Cook, Lucy Jackson and Maisy Dodd 9EY, and Carla Taskas 13E; for PE by Mrs Manley, Esme Spencer
10PX and Ellie Wilson 10MX; for History by Mr Chamberlain Cara Evans, Alex Priestley, Charlotte Procter, Ella Danks
all in 10MY and Zoe-Leigh Kealy 10PX.
The following students have been nominated by Mrs Brundish for their participation in the national cyber security
competition: CyberFirst: Zorie Todorova 11CY, Katie Brand 11EX, Sarah Atherton 11CY, Caitlin Daniels 10EX,
Jessica Pascal 10PX, Amy Skinner and Izzy Godley 10CX, Alice Marjot and Amaani Rana 10PX, Niamh Moran 10PX,
Lois Nunez-Jarrett, Eve Ganpatsingh, Anna Champness and Harriet Humfress 8MY.
The following students created the Surrey Youth Games video which was shown in all assemblies and they have
promoted involvement in the event throughout the school: Izzy Berry 9CY, Ellie Parris 7MY, Isabelle Cantwell 7PY,
Lucy Jalland and Sophie Goulder-Perks 9CX, Hannah Palmer and Ishbel Zuurmond 10CY, Estelle Tracey 8CX.
Year 7 - Mr Chamberlain has nominated Amy Brockett 7EX for her fantastic History homework and Ms Gill has
nominated Abigail Stafford 7PX for writing a lovely Shakespearean sonnet in English, worthy of the Bard himself!
Miss Sevenoaks has nominated Joss Sizer 7MX for always being fantastic help in PE, and Emma Simpson 7EY for her
brilliant hockey performance in the Year 7 Hockey Tournament and for always helping others in her hockey PE lessons
learn the rules and Mr Seth has nominated members of 7EY for their fantastic fundraising for Age Concern:
Millie Hancock, Sophia Wray-Clack, Caitlin Hawthorne, Natalie Jennings, Poppy Lloyd, May Fleming, Kira Moore,
Evie Williams, Katya Ganevitch and he has nominated Jaya Townend 7EY for her great efforts in organising the Form
Assembly. Mrs Barlow has nominated Amelia Alkiviades 7MY for her focused work, for working independently and
with care and accuracy to produce an excellent quality batch of Breakfast Berry Muffins.
Year 8 - Miss Hill has nominated Brooke Watson and Ella Powell 8MX for organising and creating a fantastic door for
World Book Day, Miss Reilly has nominated Ella Powell and Aimee Taylor 8MX, Lisa Howlett 8PX and Jo-Anne Winmill
8CX for going the extra step and stretching themselves while completing their Maths homework and Mrs Zidane has
nominated Elena O’Shea 8EX and Lucy Sedgwick 8PX for their progress in French writing.
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Year 9 - Mrs Crawford has nominated Qanita Fatima 9EX for devising and delivering a thoughtful quiz based on
descriptive writing and Mr Chamberlain has nominated Leanne Vega 9CX for her fantastic History homework.
Mrs Anderson has nominated Amelia Casciani 9CY for an excellent Health and Wellbeing Presentation and Ms Gill has
nominated Sadie Czypionka 9MX and Grace Thomas 9PX for giving well-researched presentations on their heritage in
English. Miss Reilly has nominated Miya Dickson and Alex Michael 9MY for fantastic effort for the ‘decorate the door’
competition for World Book Day.
Year 10 - Mr Styles has nominated Ying Tan 10CX for her consistently insightful and articulate contributions to class
discussion and Miss Keoshgerian has nominated Gracie Pritchard 10MX for her consistently fantastic effort in English.
Year 11 - Mrs Royall has nominated Parisa Shababi, Millie Hilling and Chloe Fish 11CX, Isabel Anderson and
Molly Purvis 11MX, Megan Long 11EX, Hannah Evans and Katie Rowden 11PX for making big improvements in their
recent Year 11 mocks and Mrs Blake has nominated Laura Sinclair 11EX and Sophie Hopkins 11CX for their impressive
efforts in the recent mock examinations in English. Mrs Carnegie has nominated Mariana Lawson-Fernandez 11CX
for achieving her first A* on an end of unit test on Religion in Science and Mr McDonnell has nominated Amy Burgon
11CY for a fantastic poster that she made about the life cycle of a star.
Sixth Form - Mr McDonnell has nominated Rachel Downey 12D. She made a flick book to show how waves interfere
to produce stationary waves which was brilliant.
Teenage emotional well-being and safeguarding workshop
Monday 20 March 2017, 6.00pm - 7.30pm
At Rosebery we are committed to promoting the welfare and safety of all our students.
We are therefore delighted to offer parents the opportunity to engage in an evening
devoted to providing advice and support about the safeguarding and mental health issues
that affect many of our youngsters.
We will be joined by the Education Safeguarding Advisor for Surrey County Council,
Ian McGraw, and Youth Advisors from the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
(CAMHs). The workshops will tackle issues such as e-safety, mental health awareness,
supporting young people with anxiety and those students who self-harm.
If you would like to join us for this event, please contact Sallie Jenns to confirm your
attendance by email: [email protected]
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/Pages/Coping-with-exam-stress.aspx
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PE Results
Netball
Year Group
Team
Date
School Against
Result of Match
Player of the Match
Year 7
A
07/03/2017
Districts
TBC
Year 7
B
07/03/2017
Districts
2nd
N/A
Senior’s
A
08/03/2017
Districts
2nd
N/A
Hockey
Year Group
Team
Date
School Against
Result of Match
Player of the Match
Year 8
A
06/03/2017
Districts
5th
N/A
Year 8
B
06/03/2017
Districts
5th
N/A
Team
Date
School Against
Result of Match
Player of the Match
Years 10&11
07/03/2017
Therfield
Lost 1 : 0
N/A
Years 10&11
07/03/2017
Priory
Won 1 : 0
N/A
Football
Year Group
Next Week's
Fixtures
Monday 13 March
U12 Districts (A and B)
(A) St Teresa's
Hockey
Thursday 16 March
U14 Districts
(A) St Teresa's
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Student News
Year 9 Business Studies
The Year 9 Business Studies students at Rosebery have been busy for the past term: our task – to
plan, prepare and launch a business from scratch – all within a matter of weeks!
We thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this.
The whole class was divided into groups with a maximum of five members in each one. We were
free to choose our partners.
Once the groups were sorted we got down to planning. This involved a lot of brainstorming as we
set about putting our thoughts on paper. The must-haves in the project were: a business name,
a logo, a slogan and consideration to the four P’s of marketing, i.e., Place, Promotion, Price and
Product. Using all of these, but with particular emphasis to the four P’s, all groups were expected to
produce a PowerPoint presentation and a Business Plan.
This project made us step out of our comfort zones. The four P’s were crucial: for example, one of
the P’s - Promotion - required that we create an advertisement. Every group had their own unique
and creative way of promoting their business to the rest of the school; some emailed all the Heads
of Years to share the news, while others created posters and distributed them in every form’s
registers in order to create mass awareness.
And this was the easy bit. The most challenging part was sales – that was serious business! The
arrival of selling week meant that every group needed to finalise their PowerPoint presentations as
well as Business Plans, but, most importantly, every group must have their products ready to sell.
The weather conditions didn’t help as the last two days of selling week brought rain and heavy snow.
This meant most groups were unable to sell their products at the Rosebery Quad as rain and snow
kept our customers away. But Rosebery students were not to be deterred by this: some groups
decided to sell their products outside of school, while others broke up their main stalls to sell at
different locations within school in order to maximise sales.
The entire class worked their socks off on this project and managed to earn a total profit of £382.65!
Bearing in mind we only had a few weeks to prepare, and three to four school days to sell, this was
no mean achievement.
In keeping with Rosebery values the entire sum was given to a charity of each group’s choice. What
a fantastic way to end our very first business project! We truly had a phenomenal time. A very
special thanks to Mr Harvey, our Business Studies teacher, for guiding us every step of the way!
By: Zoya Danayal 9MX
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BBC News School Report
On Thursday 16 March, a group of budding young journalists will be taking part in the BBC’s national News Day event,
which gives 11-16 year-old students in the UK the chance to make their own news reports for a real audience. Our
reporters have been researching a range of stories from Brexit to Science Week; Trump to mental health in schools.
Look out for our reports on the website here: http://www.roseberyschool.co.uk/bbc-news-school-report-2017/
World Book Day
Rosebery embraced the power of
reading last week with a range of World
Book Day celebrations. Students dressed
up as their favourite characters,
decorated their form room doors to
resemble favourite book covers and took
part in quizzes, book sales and creative
writing competitions. The winning
entries will be shared next week.
7EY’s Cake Sale
On World Book Day 7EY
Held
an
Alice
in
Wonderland themed cake
sale to raise money for
the Year 7 charity, Age
Concern, Epsom. The girls,
organised by Sophia Wray-Clack 7EY and
Millie Hancock 7EY and supported by
Poppy Lloyd 7EY made £105.79 in break
time! Well done girls!
Ms H Lowe, Head of Year 7
Year 9 Students raised over £100 for RDA Group
Lainey Peck 9CX and Lucy King 9CX organised a cake and sweet stall to raise funds for
the Horsley and Bookham Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA).
Well done girls.
Miss C Ramsay, Head of Year 9
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Ski Report
Bormio 2017 was an absolute blast! The week was full of fun, games and messing around in the snow! Beginners,
intermediates and advanced groups all progressed amazingly throughout the week, thanks to a jam packed schedule.
Skiing five hours a day meant we worked up a serious appetite for some delicious pizza. The coach journey was long
(23hrs), however the films watched helped us through! The hospitable family run Hotel (Hotel Gufo) was fantastic,
and the delicious meals that awaited us at the end of the day were welcomed greatly. Bormio’s lovely town with its
boutique shops and cobbled streets added to the cultural experience. All in all the week was great and if you are
offered the chance to go don’t hesitate in saying yes!
Students from Bormio, 2017
On Tuesday 7 March 2017 Mrs Cooley and Mrs Keaveney took fifteen Year 13 students to the
National Apprenticeship Show to look at some of the opportunities that apprenticeships
can offer as an alternative to university.
The show was also featured on television on Monday evening.
To watch the full report on BBC News please visit the following link:
http://www.nationalapprenticeshipshow.org/londonsoutheast/
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“From start to finish, the
Annie production has
been
an
amazing
experience for all of us
involved. We have made
such strong friendships
across year groups and it
is something we will not
forget. Taking on these roles at first seemed daunting but
the Drama teachers helped us to develop our characters
throughout the rehearsal process. It was a big commitment
but all the hours were so worth it because the whole cast
pulled together for the amazing shows. The Music teachers
were so helpful in adapting the music to suit our vocal
registers and the amazing band took on the challenging
score. It was hard getting used to performing on such a big
stage at the Playhouse but the backstage crew made scene
and mic changes easy. Overall, it has been so much fun
working with such a close-knit, talented group of people
and although there were times where it was challenging,
with the help of all the wonderful teachers and support
of the whole cast, we all worked together to create a
fabulous show.”
By Anabel Hindmarsh 11CX and Rachael Hawthorne 10EY
CAREERS EVENT
Date: Tuesday 14 March 2017
Time: 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Just a reminder that our annual Careers Fair will be taking place on the above
date. These events are extremely helpful for those who have yet to
decide their future career path. They are also excellent networking opportunities
and a chance to meet potential future employers.
We hope to see you there but please be aware that there will be no parking
facilities available in school on the evening.
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