Parent Bulletin Week Ending Friday 5th April 2019 by Roding Valley High School

RVHS Parent Bulletin Aspiration Respect Endeavour Week ending: Friday 5th April 2019 “Our vision is to be the school of choice for our local community, developing successful young people with high aspirations, who show respect for all and endeavour to become the very best that they can be.”

Message from the Head of School We have now reached the end of this term and spring is in full flow with the clocks going forward by an hour last weekend and Easter just around the corner.

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I would like to thank our parents for their continued support over this past term; it has been a really positive term, with students making huge strides in their progress and outcomes across the whole school. I am delighted to announce that after a challenging round of Interviews on Monday, we have appointed Maisha Khondokar and Sam Copeman as our new Head Girl and Head Boy. Maisha and Sam will be supported in their roles by Imogen Kemp, Mashrur Khondokar and Asha Uddin, who have been appointed the position of Deputies. Congratulations to all of the students that applied for these positions; the decision was incredibly hard to make, all of the applications were quite outstanding. The students showed maturity and initiative beyond their years and displayed tremendous aptitude to Leadership. I am incredibly proud of every student, from their application to their presentations at interview. We have attached to this bulletin the Easter Edition of our student Magazine ‘RVHS Exposed’; we hope you enjoy reading this publication and thank Miss Bingham and all of the students involved for their hard work.

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Please can I ask the parents of our Year 11 and 13 students to remind them to attend the Revision Support sessions over the Easter break and to keep up their study in anticipation of their upcoming exams in May. You can find the Revision Session Timetables further on in this bulletin.

390pts Students, please remember to organise your time, remove distractions, keep mentally and physically fit, eat and sleep well and most importantly remember to have a good balance between study and fun. For the rest of the student body, I hope that you take the time to relax and enjoy the break, so that you return to school refreshed and ready for the summer term.

Just a polite reminder, can please ask parents/carers to be considerate with their parking throughout the school day, the school has received a number of complaints from our local residents regarding cars being parked across private driveways. Lastly please make use of the forthcoming Easter holiday to replace any uniform, equipment or shoes as appropriate. Note that black trainers are not acceptable unless worn for specific, evidenced medical purposes. All jumpers must be school issue and skirts must be worn below the knee. Where medical evidence is provided, then the student is issued with a mauve card which they can show if challenged. The students’ appearance in our community is very important to the good standing of the school and our uniform is now of a very high standard which I intend to maintain. I thank you for your support in advance; if anyone is suffering financial hardship then please do contact Miss Dyer to discuss, we will always do our best to support where we can. Please note that school reopen to all students for the start of the summer term on Tuesday 23rd April at 8:35am. I wish you all a fantastic Easter. Mrs S Jenner Headteacher

Date

Event

Monday 8th April

End of term Break begins

Tuesday 23rd April

Start of Summer Term begins and students return to school at normal time.

Wednesday 24th April

Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge: 6:30pm to 8:30pm – Main Hall

Thursday 25 April

Silver D of E Expedition

Thursday 25 April

Year 11 and 13 Parent Concerns Evening: 4:30pm to 7pm – Invite Only

Monday 29 April

Year 13 Business Conference

Tuesday 30 April

Year 7 and 8 Maths Challenge

Wednesday 1 May

Year 12 Exams begin

Wednesday 1 May

KS3 Up for Debate

Tuesday 7 May

GCSE Language Speaking Exams begin

Tuesday 7 May

Year 8 and 9 STEM Event

Friday 10 May

Year 10 and 11 Macbeth Performance Parents are invited to the events that are highlighted blue. If you would like to view the school calendar for the Year, please go to: https://www.rodingvalley.net/parents/calendar/

Jasmine Singh 7V

Rosa Marshall 7S

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Both students have achieved the highest score in their Music Performance and were awarded an Easter egg by Miss Kalaycioglu. Keep up the good work and enjoy the eggs!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Well done to 7X students, who worked so hard on the Career of the Month Competition 'Computer Games Developer'. They presented their ideas and even designed games for the future. Amazing Work!

Well done to 7A Pankhurst House and 7B Rendell Girls who won the Girls Tag Rugby House Competition this week!

Bianca Nedelcu

Churchill

Aleyna Tekbasti

Rendell

Lillie Hankin

Hawking

James Negas

Churchill

Abby Crawford-Kite

Churchill

Paris Cole

Pankhurst

Lillian Webster

Pankhurst

Kylen Opara

Churchill

Davina Karpaviciute

Murray

Ruby Simmons

Murray

Message from Miss Williams As we end another term, I just want to congratulate our Year 8 students on all of their achievements. They have all displayed all of our core values whilst striving to be the best they can be, taking advantages of all the opportunities we have to offer. A group of students attended a major new project aimed at helping to protect students from online grooming; this event has been launched in Essex following a real-life murder of 14 year-old Breck Bednar in Grays, in February 2014 by Lewis Daynes. The event highlighted the risks of grooming and asked the question â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Do you know who your online friends really are?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and the message was informative and vital, which is why our students will be sharing what they learnt from the day to their peers in their very own student led workshop. Our students were engaged and enthusiastic throughout, making the school proud. This week, we also had a group of students visit LSE University as part of the ACE programme. Aiming for a College Education (ACE) encourages students to start thinking about the possibility of going into higher education. This half-day, activitybased session gave our Year 8 students an insight into university life, the opportunities available in higher education, and the options attending university can open up to them. Students were very positive about their experience and all benefited from exploring their future options. Please have a restful break but please keep busy with our stretch and challenge activities and competitions on google classroom!

Girls Tag Rugby House Competition Well done to 8B Hawking House Girls who won the Girls Tag Rugby House Competition this week!

Message from the English Department:

Hartaj Singh ‘For answering a brilliant six mark exam question in his end of unit exam, and also achieved the highest score in his Science class. Well done!’

Johnny Stuchfield ‘What a superstar he is! Hardworking, resilient and a fantastic role model’.

Thank you to all students who have shown an interest in the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time theatre trip. We have been heavily oversubscribed for this trip and therefore in order to make this a fair system for all students we have decided via a ballot. Acceptance and rejection letters have been emailed to all parents.

Hartaj Singh

Rendell

Jack Thurgood

Murray

Lucy Bale

Churchill

Eva Haines

Pankhurst

Alicia Acheampong

Churchill

Sophie Compton

Murray

Skye Salek-Haddadi

Pankhurst

Tyler Fegan

Pankhurst

Maisie Southgate

Rendell

Tugwall Turp

Murray

Message from Mr Fintan Now that the clocks have gone forward and the evenings are lighter, it can only mean that spring is here and we are about to break for the Easter Holidays. While the next two weeks are a good opportunity to un-wind and get out and do things! I would like to ask that you stay safe. After the May half term, we will be issuing students with their new GCSE timetables and our Year 9 students will start their GCSE journey. I would like to make sure that everyone is well rested and ready for the hard work ahead. Please have a fantastic Easter break!

Message from the English Department: Thank you to all students who have shown an interest in the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time theatre trip. We have been heavily oversubscribed for this trip and therefore in order to make this a fair system for all students we have decided via a ballot. Acceptance and rejection letters have been emailed to all parents.

Murray

Pankhurst

Harry Harrison-Wall

Rendell

Anastasia Grytsai

Rendell

Ronnie Musguin

Hawking

David Moir

Murray

Jessica Field

Hawking

Hamid Lahreche

Pankhurst

Dylan Schroder

Churchill

Vienna Igwe

Murray

Suzannah Grosvenor Ellie Knight

Message from Miss Reed As we approach the end of an extremely busy Spring Term, Year 10 students are now approximately a year away from their PPE examinations. Well done to those students who are part of the 'Speak out Challenge', delivering their speeches during Year 7 assembly this morning. Parents Evening on Thursday was a great success with lots of positive feedback from staff. If you were unable to attend, please ensure you email subject teachers individually for some feedback. As we move into the Summer Term, there will be lots going on for Year 10 students. We will be incorporating a revision technique session into our period one programme to start preparing students to revise effectively. The week commencing 3rd June 2019 is the end of year exams for Year 10 students and Careers Week takes place the week commencing 23rd June where students will spend time writing up there CV and taking part in a mock interview in order to prepare them for sixth form applications. During that week is the ‘Take your Child to Work Day’ on Tuesday 24th June. Students should be in the process of organising this; slips should be handed back to form tutors by Monday 6th May. I would like to say a huge well done to all our Y10 students and wish them a restful Easter Break ready to return motivated for the term ahead.

On Tuesday 24th April, Roding Valley will be hosting the ‘Regional Finals for The Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge’. As a hosting school for the first time, we are allowed to enter two Year 10 students to represent the school. We are inviting students and parents to come along and support our students as they go head to head against 18 other winners in the West Essex region. It will be a full house so we encourage students and parents to arrive early. The show will begin at 6:30pm and will go on until 8:30 pm. There will be a panel of eight external judges, who will select the regional Winner and present them with the trophy on the night.

Jake Omer

Murray

Bo Green

Rendell

Hollie White

Hawking

Edie Rawlinson

Rendell

Daniela Perju

Pankhurst

Finley Dickson

Rendell

Harvie Woods

Hawking

Charlotte Copeman

Churchill

Mollie Harper

Hawking

Grace Reynolds

Pankhurst

It is going to be BIG!!

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Message from Mr Price. It has been an extremely busy term with all focus on the impending public exams starting in May. There has been a real drive and determination about the Year group (particularly over the last month) in preparation for the GCSE’s and it’s wonderful to see the pupils giving themselves the best possible chance of success. Many of our students are attending interventions and revision sessions and really going the extra mile to secure their best possible grades. It is essential that the pupils do not take their ‘foot off the gas’ and continue with their hard work and independent revision over the coming weeks. We, as teachers are proud of their efforts as I’m sure you are as parents/guardians. I hope you all have a restful break and look forward to seeing you all in the summer term for the last push!

This week, 62 of our Year 11 boys were taken off timetable to learn ‘how to write a newspaper article’. Journalist; Stefan Stern came to host a talk for our Year 11 students about Journalism and how to write an article for a broadsheet newspaper in preparation for their GCSE exam in June. Stefan Stern has been writing and commenting on business, management and politics for over two decades. His career in journalism has included stints at Euromoney, the BBC, Management Today magazine and the Financial Times, where he was the management columnist between 2006 and 2010. He has won awards for his management writing and blogging. We would like to thank Stefan providing our students with this fantastic opportunity!

We are nearly there!

Year 11 Business Trip This week, 15 of our Year 11 students brushed up their skills for their upcoming Business Exam when they visited the GCSE Business Conference! Well done to our Year 11 Chemists, who created some excellent examples of Buzan Mind maps this week! Keep up the good work!

Mock Results Day

 Monday 8th to Friday 12th April: Intervention/Support sessions in school.

 Monday 29th April to Thursday 2nd May: Art and Photography Exams

 Monday 13th May: Last formal day of teaching for Year 11 students

 May Half Term Week:

The clear message that was given to the students was that if they were happy with their results then this is excellent but keep going as their will still be improvements that can be made. If students were disappointed then it is not too late and small changes can make a big impact!

Intervention/Support sessions in school.

 July 2nd Leavers Assembly and Prom (More information to follow)

Monday 8 April

Session One: 9am to11:20am

Maths Target 4 Maths Target 5 Maths Clinic Higher

On Thursday the year 11’s had their PPE results morning. This was a great morning where the pupils could celebrate their all their efforts. Inevitably some pupils were disappointed but hopefully this will only spur them on to increase their efforts so that they do not experience this same disappointment on results day in August.

Tuesday 9 April

Wednesday 10 April GCSE

Combined Science Higher Combined Science Foundation

Triple Science Physics

Spanish

Friday 12 April

Drama

Geography

Art & Photography

Triple Science

History

English Target 4

Computer Science

Art & Photography

English Target 5

French

Session Two: 11:30am to- 13:50pm

Thursday 11 April

Business

Maths Target 4 Maths Target 5 Maths Clinic Foundation

Combined Science Higher Combined Science Foundation Triple Science Physics

Spanish

Combined Science Higher Combined Science Foundation Triple Science Chemistry Computer Science

French

Drama

Geography

Art & Photography

History(Repeat) Art & Photography Business

English Target 4 English Target 5

Rendell

Madison Holden Ettridge

Churchill

Ruby Moody

Murray

Clara Rodriguez

Churchill

James Garcia

Rendell

Casey Lockhart

Murray

Archie Marney

Pankhurst

Rendell

Pankhurst

Hawking

Constanta Sclifos

Nathan McDougall Maisie Mead Ryan Clark

Year 12 MFL Trip The Languages Department with the Year 12 French students attended an excellent presentation on Immigration delivered completely in French at Forest School on Wednesday 27th March. The presentation attracted language students from four other schools and was a great opportunity to have an insight into the impact of Immigration through the lens of three generations. Our students found the presentation very insightful, informative and managed to understand the key points of the presentation. Undoubtedly, our students have now a clear idea about the topic, which they will be studying in depth next academic year.

Well done to all of our Sixth Form students that applied for our Head Boy, Head Girl and Deputy positions this week. I am proud to announce that our new Head boy is Sam Copeman and Head Girl is Maisha Khondokar. Our new Deputies are Imogen Kemp, Mashrur Khonokar and Asha Uddin

Written by Mrs K. Lasfer

Wednesday 10 April A LEVEL

Session Two: 11:30am to13:50pm

Session One: 9am to 11:20am

Monday 8 April

Tuesday 9 April

Y13 Maths

Y13 Economics

Y13 Business

Y13 Media

Y13 Computer Science Paper 2

Y13 Maths

Y13 Philosophy Y13 Chemistry 1

Y13 Gov. & Politics Paper 3

Y13 Maths

Y13 Business

Y13 Economics

Y13 Computer Science Paper2 Y13 Philosophy Y13 Chemistry 2 Y13 Media

Y13 Maths

Thursday 11 April

Friday 12 April

Year 13 CS Paper 1

Year 13 Geography

Year 13 CS Paper 1

Year 13 Geography

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RVHS Extra-Curricular Enrichment Activities â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Spring 2019 Club/Activity

Teacher

Year Group

Room

Day

Time

Art Open Gallery

DTI/PBA

Years 10 & 11

A1 & A3

Mon & Thurs

3:05pm to 4.30pm

Netball Fixtures

LBL/HRE

All Years

Various

Mon & Wed

3:05pm to 4pm

Year 11 Composition Support

JSA

Year 11 Music Students

CA2

Mon to Fri

3:05pm to 4.30pm

Art Open Gallery

DTI/PBA

Year 10 & 11

A1 &A3

Mon to Fri

Lunch time

The Zone

RLA

All students

The Hub

Mon to Thurs

Lunch time and 3:05pm to 4pm

Photography

SCO

Years 10, 11, 12 & 13

Mon to Wed

3:05pm to 4pm

PiXL Edge Club

FWI

Years 7 to 9

ME2

Monday

3:05pm to 4pm

Sociology Surgery

SGR

Sociology Students

E10

Monday

3:05pm to 4pm

Science club

WMC

All years

Monday

3:05pm to 4pm

Year 13 Business

TGR

Year 13

IT2

Monday

3:05pm to 4pm

Year 10 Business

TGR

Invited year 10s

IT2

Monday

Lunch time

KS4 Exam Literature Texts on Film

CBL

Years 10 to 11

Monday

Lunch time

Year 13 Economics

OHU

Year 13

IT3

Monday

3:05pm to 4pm

KS3 Languages Club

PML/ZER

Year 7 to 9

Mondays

Lunch time

Maths Club

SRH

Year 7 to 9

Tues & Thurs

Lunch time

Cartoon Club

MC1

Year 7 to 9

Tues & Thurs

Lunch time

Handball

CAL

all students

Tuesday

Lunch time

Year 7 and 8 Computer Club

TGR/JHI

Year 7 & 8

IT3

Tuesdays

Lunch time

Year 9 Computer Club

NCO/MSE

Year 9

IT4

Tuesdays

Lunch time

Clay Club

PBA

Year 7 to 9 by invitation

Wed

3:05pm to 4pm

Girls Rugby

LJO

All students

Wednesday

3:05pm to 4pm

Media

CPE

Year 10 to 13

Me1

Wednesdays

3:05pm to 4pm

CiDA Coursework Support

NCO

Year 11

IT4

Wednesdays

Lunch time

Year 10 Brain Boosters

HRE

Year 10 by Invitation

ME2

Thursday

3:05pm to 4pm

Choir

BKA

all students

CA4

Thursday

Lunch time

Year 11 Business

TGR

Year 11

IT2

Thursday

Lunch time

KS5 Clinic

CTA

Year 12 & 13

E12

Thursday

3:05pm to 4pm

Maths Homework Support

OED

All years

Thursday

3:05pm to 4pm

Year 11 English Clinic

English

KS4

English

Thursday

3:05pm to 4pm

Business/Eco Surgery

OHU

Year 10 to 13

IT3

Thursdays

3:05pm to 4pm

History Film Club

TPR

Year 7 to 9

Friday

Lunch time

Geography Attenborough Club

JLI

Year 7 to 9

Friday

Lunch time

English Literacy Club

CBL

Year 7 to 9

Fridays

Lunch time

Carnegie Reading group

CBL

Year 7 to 9

Fridays

Lunch time

Year 7 Cooking Club

MBA

Year 7

Wednesday

3:05pm to 4pm

Before School: 8:15am to 8:40am Break: 11:00am to 11:20am Have Fun and Raise

Lunch: 1:20pm to 2:05pm After School: 3:05pm to 3:30pm

Please be aware that from Monday 12th November, students will not be served outside of these times.

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