RTS Parents' Newsletter 25 February 2022
Head Teacher's Message
I hope that you all enjoyed a restful half-term break and stayed safe from the storm, wherever you were.
Thank you to those Year 9 parents/carers who were able to remotely attend their Subject Teacher Consultation meetings on Wednesday afternoon/evening. I hope that you found these conversations informative. We look forward to students submitting their final options choices in advance of the GCSE Option deadline on Wednesday 02 March.
It has been a busy end to the week with a large number of Year 11 students attending a GCSE Poetry Live event in central London. It is such an exciting opportunity for them and with poets such as Carol Ann Duffy and Grace Nicols appearing, I wish I could have attended with them!
Next week we await with excitement for National Offers Day on Tuesday 01 March and we look forward to beginning our Transition programme with the new cohort of students due to join us in September 2022! The first event in the diary is a New Intake Evening on Monday 07 March where we will look forward to welcoming all of those children planning to join us in September - it would be great to see some familiar faces as I am sure that we will have many more siblings joining us here at RTS.
Ms K Dooley
Dates for the diary
Wednesday 02 March
Immunisation DTP/MEN ACWY year 9
Year 9 Options Deadline
Assembly Topics
Assemblies for the coming week and next are as follows:
Women's History Month
Contacting the School
If you wish to contact the school, the School Office is open:
Monday-Thursday - 08:15-16:30
Friday - 08:15-15:00
Telephone: 020 8891 2985
Email: info@rts.richmond.sch.uk
Please use the Parents Communications Summary for guidance on types of query and where advice may be found/who to direct your query to.
LFD Testing
Further to the government publishing its Living with Covid Plan on 21 February, the DfE is no longer supplying schools with LFD Tests as twice weekly asymptomatic testing is no longer advised.
As a school the safety of our school community is still of prime concern and, if your child feels unwell at anytime with symptoms of COVID 19, as with any other illness, we would kindly ask that you refrain from sending your child into school.
Remember that if you need to order either an LFD or a PCR test, full advice on how to order can be found at this link.
Be Internet Safe Day
As promised, we have more to share on Year 9's amazing Be Internet Safe Day last half term. We had a great team of facilitators who helped students discuss and understand the issues that arise in the online space. At the end of the day, students from the different groups presented back to the whole year group. A selection of photographs give a flavour of the day.
RTS Sport
Congratulations to this incredible group of girls below on winning the U15 Borough Girls Touch Rugby Tournament! The team were undefeated and conceded just 1 try throughout. An incredible achievement and one that they should be very proud of - we certainly are! Thank you to Waldegrave School for hosting and to Richmond FC for their support.
Before half-term the Year 7 girls took part in an inter-house rugby tournament. They may be friends outside of their house groups - but on the field, their house loyalty shown through! Congratulations to Madiba for their win!
More rugby achievements - with 45 students representing RTS at Richmond Rugby on Saturday 12 February. A huge thank you to Richmond Community rugby for all they have done to support rugby this year.
And finally, on Tuesday 22 February, Year 7 boys took part in the Year 7 Boys Rugby Festival at Richmond Rugby FC. They showed great effort in making it all the way to the final, but despite their best endeavours, they lost to a strong Orleans Park Team. Great sportsmanship and teamwork from all of the boys who took part.
COVID 19 Vaccination Pop Up Centre at RTS
You may be aware that schools in the local borough have, over the last few weeks, been hosting COVID 19 Vaccination Pop Up clinics at the weekend. These clinics are open to children aged 12-15 years old and 16-17 years old across the local area to receive their COVID 19 Vaccinations.
On Saturday 05 March 2022 RTS will be hosting the next Pop Up clinic for the NHS Immunisation Team. The attached flyer details the event and includes a booking link.
The flyer contains a ‘clickable link’ for booking an appointment - Parents will be able to book an appointment online or call the team on 0208 614 5306.
Please note that RTS is NOT organising or involved in the administration of bookings or vaccinations - we are purely making the building available to the Hounslow & Richmond Community Healthcare NHS team to use as a Pop Up Clinic for the public.
We are therefore not able to answer any questions about the clinic, eligibility, or booking. Please speak to the NHS team on the number above if you have any queries.
Thank you for your support
RTS flyer V2.pdfFORTS NEWS
FoRTS General Meeting Next Wednesday, 02 March 2022
A reminder that the next FoRTS meeting will be held virtually next Wednesday 02 March at 7.30pm. Please join to hear more about our fundraising successes and plans for the coming year. An agenda and reminder of how to join will be emailed out on the day.
FoRTS General Meeting
Wednesday, March 2 · 7:30 – 9:00pm
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/zqb-nbpo-ciu
Rugby Parking
It’s the first international fixture of the year at Twickenham this Saturday 26 February, and we’ve a busy car park for all the fans going to watch Wales take on England. If you want to get involved and soak up some of the atmosphere, please get in touch and become one of our parking marshals. Additional marshals are needed for the following time slots (kick off is at 16:45):
14:00 – 16:00
16:00 – 18:00
18:00 – 20:00
Continued Support
You can continue to support us by shopping through easyfundraising and AmazonSmile and our donations website is Peoples Fundraising. Even better, we can now accept Gift Aid on donations from UK taxpayers, increasing every £1 donated by 25p.
FoRTS Funding of Subject Leader Termly Bids
In all of the excitement before half-term, although we updated you about the purchase of the volleyball posts and nets - we forgot to share the photograph! Action shots of equipment in use below!
Your FoRTS Team,
Vanessa (Chair), Mark (Treasurer) and Carey (Secretary)
Safeguarding
If you have concerns in relation to a student at RTS or indeed with regards to your own child, you may want to contact Single Point of Access (SPA) which acts as a central information hub for all professional agencies in Kingston and Richmond.
Richmond and Kingston SPA
The SPA phone lines are now open as follows:
Monday-Thursday 08.00-17.15 and Friday 08.00-17.00 - the phone number during these times is 020 8547 5008
Out of hours: 020 8770 5000
Hounslow Early Help Assessment
Telephone number: 020 8583 6600
Out of hours: 020 8583 2222
Email: earlyhelp@hounslow.gov.uk
NSPCC:
Speak to a counsellor 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Telephone number: 0808 800 5000, or text 88858
Email: help@nspcc.org.uk
Signvideo using British Sign Language (Mon - Fri, 9am - 6pm)
Local News - Please note RTS does not endorse items included as Local News
Administration and Finance Officer Vacancy at Bishop Perrin CE Primary School
Bishop Perrin CE Primary School in Whitton are advertising for an Administration and Finance Officer to work in their school office, starting after the Easter Holidays. Please click on the link below to take you to the job advert, job description, person spec and application form if you are interested. Please contact Bishop Perrin School directly (0208 894 1447) if you have any questions.
https://www.eteach.com/job/administration-and-finance-officer-1213978
Brentford FC Women's Match
International Women’s Day this year is on Tuesday 08 March, to celebrate this we would like to celebrate our Brentford FC Women’s First team and we were hoping you could support us with this. Please come along to watch and support the match taking place on Sunday 06 March:
Brentford FC Women v Sport London e Benfica
Bedfont Sports Ground, TW14 9QT
3pm Kick off, ground is open from 1.45pm
FREE Entry!
To register your interest in attending please click on the link: https://www.brentfordfc.com/BFCWregistermatch
This is a great opportunity to celebrate and support the Women at the club.
BrentfordWomen_eBenfica_A5Leaflet.pdfCoderDojo
CoderDojo is a community of 2419 free, open and local programming clubs for young people. Please see the flyers for information about local classes at Kingston University and how to sign up - the first session is on Saturday 26 February.
CoderDojo Flyer feb 2022.pdfCoderDojo KU Unity flyer 2022.pdfSport St Marys - SIMM Sport Easter Camps
Sport St Marys have extended their early bird offer for their camps and parents/carers now have until Friday 04 March to take full advantage of 20% off bookings.
Multisport Camps.pdfTerm Dates 2021-2022
Full term dates and Inset day information is available on the website:
End of Spring Term: Friday 31 March
Easter Break - Friday 01 April-Monday 18 April