Remarkable & Proud

What a wonderful week of activities and celebrations we have enjoyed, to mark the end of another wonderful year at Rosebery. In September, the theme of Ambition and Joy will continue as our curriculum mantra, but we are going to add the tag line Remarkable and Proud to our pastoral ambitions for our girls, and this year they have already demonstrated that they have already found their #RoseberyRemarkable and should all be #RoseberyProud. 

Across activities week students have continued to develop the character traits and develop he skills and experiences as they progress through their journey of personal development. This has included team building, work experience, obstacle courses, a trip to Iceland, enterprise projects, crime scene investigations, medical mavericks, problem solving, Eco systems, the Active Learn residential, London Zoo and of course Duke of Edinburgh. A series of photos are included below to give you a flavour of just how wonderful the week was, even if some of the girls were a little tired and smelly at times!

Our Celebration Assemblies and Celebration Evening then brought the year to a close and highlighted those students who have excelled this year. For some this is for academic performance, for others the progress they have made, for others it might be for exemplary behaviour or excellence attendance - but for many it is recognising them as young women who demonstrate kindness, compassion, integrity and put others before themselves and in doing so, uphold the Rosebery Way. I even managed to sneak in a little brunch with these students this morning to say thank you to them personally, and as I write this, we are about to sign off the year with our Whole School Assembly, where we will be announcing our students of the year!

Staff Farewells

As always at the end of the school year, we say farewell to colleagues who are moving to pastures new. We extend our sincere thanks and best wishes for the future to: Miss Galley in PE, Miss Sancroft in SEND, Mrs Toye, our Cover Supervisor,  Miss Jackson, Mrs Shah and Miss Watson in Maths, Mr Jovic in Business, Miss McCall in Music, Mrs Mohammadi in Psychology and Mrs Brockett and Mrs Browning in DT.  

GCSE and A Level Results Days

A reminder that the site is open for students collecting their A Level results on Thursday 15 August from 8.30am in the Sixth Form Coffee Bar, and then a week later for GCSE results on Thursday 22 August from 9.00am in the Main Hall - with Sixth Form enrolment taking place on the same day.  

Returning in September

Families of current students should have received an email today outlining pastoral arrangements for next year and confirming that the first day of term for all existing students is Wednesday 4 September 2024, when the site will open from 9.30am for a 9.45am start. 

New students moving from Year 6 into Year 7 and Year 11 into Year 12 will also be invited to a half day orientation session on Tuesday 3 September, and will receive separate communication about this directly. 

On or before Tuesday 3 September, all students will be emailed a copy of their timetable for the start of term which will also be available on Bromcom. Administrative work on the timetable continues over the Summer, so students should disregard changes that pop up in the meantime. Have a wonderful summer break.

Attendance update from the Department for Education and Surrey County Council 

We are obliged to inform you of the following changes to attendance policy that will affect all schools nationally, from 1 September 2024: 

If you take your daughter out of school without authority for 5 or more days (which do not have to be consecutive), then the following will apply: 

1. If you have not incurred a penalty notice relating to this child/children in a rolling 3 year period since 19 August 2024, then the penalty notice will be charged at the rate of £160.00, per parent/carer per child, if paid within 28 days. This will be reduced to £80.00 if paid within 21 days of receipt of the notice. Failure to pay the Penalty Notice will result in Surrey County Council considering legal proceedings against you in the Magistrates Court. 

2. If you have incurred a penalty notice relating to this child/children since 19 August 2024, the rolling 3 year period will be activated from the date of the first penalty notice and the second penalty notice will be charged at the flat rate of £160.00, per parent/carer per child, if paid within 28 days. There will be no reduction for payment within 21 days. Failure to pay the Penalty Notice will result in Surrey County Council considering legal proceedings against you in the Magistrates Court. 

3. If you have incurred 2 penalty notices relating to this child/children in the rolling 3 year period since the first penalty notice was issued, then you will NOT receive a third penalty notice – Surrey County Council will have no option but to consider a prosecution, per parent/carer per child, in the Magistrates Court under s 444 Education Act 1996. 

On Wednesday 10 July, five Year 7 students competed in the GLF Spelling Bee at Meridian High School. They prepared diligently and competed valiantly, managing to win with an almighty 121 points overall (and individually won 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th places)! A huge well done to the spelling team who secured this victory for us. 

Miss Robbins - Deputy Head of English

Mrs Callaghan - History and Politics Teacher

Summer Raffle Winners

Thank you to everyone who supported our raffle and to Mr Lach for doing the draw. Congratulations to our winners:

1st - Mr G Clayton (174) - £250 cash - generously donated by The Personal Agent

2nd - Mrs J Fernandes (523) - £100 John Lewis voucher - kindly donated by Stevensons

3rd - Ms L Painter (1187) - £50 shopping voucher - funded by Rosebery PSA 

50/50 Club

Quiz Night

Mark Friday 18 October at 7.30pm in your diary for the PSA Quiz! Tickets will go on sale in September. 

Volunteers needed

We are looking for a few volunteers to sell drinks and snacks at Information Evenings at the start of the next term on 10, 17 and 24 September from 4.30pm to 5.30pm. Please sign up HERE.

During part of their Spring and Summer Term lessons, every Year 7 student designed their own Rosebery Doodle based around the concept of a Google Doodle. These designs were then turned into actual logos using Adobe Photoshop and students entered their final versions into a Year 7 competition.

Well done to everyone for their hard work and amazing designs, which Ms Jacob and I throughly enjoyed looking through in our efforts to find a winning doodle.

After some difficult deliberation, Vivi C 7EX was judged the winner of the competition (see below) and we will be organising for her logo to go onto the Student Intranet page for next year. Paulina M 7PY  and Polly H 7EX were awarded finalist places with Hana A 7EY, Lucy C 7MY, Ivy C 7MY, Amelia R 7EY, Elise J 7PX, Aria M 7PX, Emily K 7PX, Sienna C 7MY, Sophia P 7EY, Leah N 7EX and Daisy R 7PX receiving Highly Commended. You can view all the designs by clicking HERE.

Miss Baker - Computing Co-ordinator

Click the link HERE to access the Design Technology Newsletter for 2023-24.

Mr Boreham - Geography Teacher

Thank you for a fantastic year! You have read 1801 books and have been awarded 553 merits for participating in the Reading Bingo challenge and for writing book recommendations.

Thank you to my helpers:

Library prefects: Raadhika W 12B, Rosie H 11PY, Regan P 10CX and Meg B 10CX

Volunteers: Nia D 9MY, Zaynab A 9PY, Anna M 9CY, Tila F 9CY and Zitta O 9CY

Sixth Form students: Abeer S 12D, Alice P 12C, Issy C 12A, Jessica L 12B, Iyza S 12A, Marianne H 12C, Maeve D 12C, Melody M 12A and Tanna P 12D

Congratulation to this term's winners: 

Jude Y 7CY, Ciara C 7MY, Quinn H 8PX and Rosa E 8CX

We are challenging pupils and staff to take a photo of themselves reading somewhere unusual over the summer holidays. Please email your photo to lrc@roseberyschool.co.uk by Saturday 31 August. There will be prizes for each year group!

Happy reading!

Mrs Spencer - LRH Manager

Miss Jones - Head of Mathematics & Computing

Congratulations to the following students on their fantastic recent music exam results, we are very proud of them:

• Sophie T 8PX ABRSM Grade 1 cello (merit)

• Betty V 8PY ABRSM Grade 3 cello (distinction)

• Winky C 9CY ABRSM Grade 2 viola (distinction)

• Eva L 8EY ABRSM Grade 1 violin (distinction) 

• Fiona W 8CY ABRSM Grade 1 violin (merit)

• Florence H 8EX Grade 6 piano 

Thank you and good luck to Miss McCall as she leaves Rosebery after 3 years; we would like to thank her for everything that she has done for Music at Rosebery and wish her well for the next chapter.

Thank you for all of your support over the last year to the Music Department, we are very grateful and would like to wish you all a happy, relaxing and musical summer holiday.

Mr Holloway - Head of Music

On Thursday 4 July, some of our wonderful Year 12 scientists visited the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. They experienced being shrunk down to the size of an atom, having their brains scanned to calculate their attention span, and listening to air bubbles popping in 300-year-old ice. They met inspirational scientists working on the batteries of the future and rehabilitating abandoned mines into diverse ecosystems. To top it all off, they got to go on Miss Stanwix’s guided tour of London landmarks! 

Miss Stanwix - Head of Chemistry

Mrs Miller - Head of Physics

Miss Elms - PE Teacher

It has been a week of celebration where so many students have been recognised for their fantastic efforts this year in assemblies and at prizegiving. Many congratulations to the students below who are our final EHT nominations for this year.  

Year 7 

Miss Robbins has nominated Imaan L 7MX, Emily K 7PX, Saanvi M 7EY, Rosa M and Lily S 7CY for their excellent performance and triumph in the GLF spelling bee. Miss Stanwix has nominated Grace B 7MX for going above and beyond in her Science homework. Mrs Spencer and Mrs Browne have nominated Sofia D 7CY for making incredible progress in her reading intervention sessions and for her excellent attendance. Mrs Coombes has nominated Francesca P 7PY for creating an accurate and beautifully presented History of Poetry timeline, Miss Hoban has nominated  Imaan L 7MX for her enthusiasm and hard work in English throughout the whole school year and her phenomenal delivery of her soliloquy, Emma D P-M 7MX for her thoughtful contributions in English this year, Yasmin S 7MX for a fantastic soliloquy performance and enthusiasm in English this year and Holly W 7MX for her hard work in English this year, Ms Wiggins has nominated Bea P 7CX for asking excellent questions all year and Lydia S and Phoebe N 7CX for their superb Utopia homework and Miss Fielding has nominated Phoebe B 7CY for her significantly improved attitude to learning, and Sophie M, Bonnie S-F, Elsie T, Lilly T and Amelie H 7CX for their excellent work and effort in PE this year.  

Year 8 

Ms Wiggins has nominated Cara V W and Shanaya K 8EX, Sofia M and Maeve W 8PX for outstanding effort in Illustration this term and for their professional commitment to food preparation in Product Design, Rosa F 8EX, Abby B and Rachael H 8PX, Miss Hoban has nominated Jade V 8CX for her consistent hard work and resilience and Bethany C and Amy S 8CX for their consistent hard work this year.  

Year 9 

Ms Wiggins has nominated Bella R B 9CX and Jenna V D I 9MX for excellence in Art, Miss Hoban has nominated Bella Rose R and Lottie D 9EX, Mariana R 9EY, Evie T and Orla U 9PY, Luisa H 9MY, Izzy M, Amy B, Zulkaif H and Ava T 9MX for their consistent hard work in English this year and their thoughtful contributions to class discussion, Charlotte A 9PY for her resilience in coming back into lessons and her hard work on Romeo and Juliet, Emma R 9CY for her hard work throughout the year and for seeking feedback to always improve her work and Cady T 9EX for her significant improvement in work this year and a positive attitude.  

Year 10 

Mr Holloway has nominated Rhea T 10MY for playing at the start of Celebration Evening and Miss Hoban has nominated Sophia E and Meg B 10CX and Hannah E and Katie M 10MX for her consistent hard work this year, Shalini B 10EX for working incredibly hard, being resilient and always seeking feedback to improve and Zara Q 10EX for working incredibly hard and being resilient.  

Sixth Form 

Ms Stanwix has nominated Aishwarya H 12A, Bethany H, Lily B and Stacey B 12D, Noreen I and Eleesha W 12E and Isabelle W, Natasha J, Rania A and Sadie S 12B for taking part in the fiendishly difficult Cambridge Chemistry Challenge - the ultimate test of their problem-solving skills.