Parent Bulletin Week ending Friday 15th March 2019 by Roding Valley High School

RVHS Parent Bulletin Aspiration Respect Endeavour Week ending: Friday 15th March 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

I would like to thank all of Parents that attended our Year 7 Parents Evening last week; it was a very positive evening and I hope that the information provided will prove useful in supporting your child with their learning. This week, I have felt very privileged to be involved Year 11 Sixth Form interviews. We do have record numbers applying and our application process and entry requirements are quite rigorous. It was nice to speak with such aspirational young people and spend some time on an individual basis, discussing their interests and goals for the future. Parents of Year 11 and 13 students will have received a letter this week inviting them to attend our Exam Support Evening on Monday 25th March at 6pm. I would encourage parents to attend as the following topics will be covered, which help you to support your child through their upcoming exams: 

Important information regarding public examinations including resources to take away.

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Practical revision strategies that you can use at home- involving both students and parents.

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How to use your son/daughters report/PPE results to inform revision.

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How to plan revision time effectively over the weeks and months ahead. Over the coming weeks, our staff will be teaching our exam students a different revision technique each week, next week our students will all be learning how to create and use the Buzan Mind Map to revise. Please visit: https://imindmap.com/how-to-mind-map/ for further information on Mind Mapping.

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As usual the school will be running a full programme of support for our GCSE/ A level students during the Easter holidays. I am always so grateful for the excellent and committed staff, who are always prepared to come and support the students at this crucial time.

Not all schools offer such a programme and many students find the structure offered invaluable in preparing for their exams and ultimate success. The programme will be emailed to both parents and students over the coming. The majority of sessions will be targeted at certain students identified as needing additional support or challenge. At Roding Valley High School, we are continually striving to improve the ways in which we communicate with our Parents and local community. So with this in mind; this week, all parents will have received an email regarding our Parent Questionnaire, please can i ask if you could take 2 minutes out of your day to complete this questionnaire as it will help us to improve both the content of our bulletin, its frequency and the method in which you receive it. I have included the link to the questionnaire below:

Please can I remind parents that we are entering a team for the Swimathon on Friday 29th March at Loughton Pool in aid of Cancer Research. The team has now been decided, details of which are further on in this bulletin. Thank you so much to the students, parents, teachers and governors who will be taking part. If you would like to contribute by sponsoring our team, please go to https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rodingvalleyhighschool to help us reach our target of £750 in support of Marie Currie and Cancer Research. Have a great weekend, Happy St. Patrick’s Day for Sunday Mrs S Jenner Headteacher

The school’s main form of communication with parents is by email. If you are not receiving emails from the school, you can:  Check your Spam and move the last school email to your Inbox. Future emails should then make their way into your Inbox.  Phone the school to re-subscribe if you have unsubscribed to our emails in the past.  Provide us with an alternative email address We hope to send more information through the MyEd App once the subscription rates increase. Follow us on: @rodingvalleyHS @humsrvhs @rodingvalleyPE RODING VALLEY DRAMA@rodingdrama

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Monday 18 March

CiDA Drop Down Day

Tuesday 19 March

Year 9 Boys DTPM Injections

Wednesday 20 March st

Thursday 21 March

Maths Strive for Five English Strive for Five

Friday 22 March

Year 10 French Conference

Monday 25 March

Year 11 and 13 Photographs

Monday 25 March

Year 11 and 13 Exam Support Evening

Tuesday 26 March

Year 9 YES Conference

Thursday 28th March

GCSE Music Conference@6pm

Thursday 28 March

KS3 Up for Debate

Thursday 28 March

Primary Maths and Science Event

Friday 29 March

Year 10 Speak Out Challenge

Friday 29th March

Year 11 Science Drop Down Day

Friday 29th March

Year 11 MFL Trip to the Europa Centre

Monday 1 April

Year 9 Maths, English and Science Assessments

Monday 1 April

Year 9 Girls DTMP Injections

Tuesday 2 April

Year 11 Boys Theatre Visit

Thursday 4 April

Year 10 Parents Evening

Monday 5 April

End of term Break begins Parents are invited to the events that are highlighted blue.

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

The Rudolph Walker Inter-School Drama Awards Essex As part of the Rudolph Walker Inter-School Drama Awards, our Year 10 Drama students were able to spend some time working with actor Robbie Gee. Robbie Gee is an extremely experienced actor, who has been in films such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Underworld and many other roles in film, TV and theatre. He will be returning to direct their play, which will be penned over the next two weeks by Lara from Year 10. Then on 29th March, school from across Epping Forest and Harlow will come together for one day on stage to battle it out. Our students will have to write and direct a performance that will wow the industry judges and audience with the help of their mentor – Robbie. Let’s wish them good luck! If you would like tickets to this event details are at the end of this bulletin.

On Thursday 14th March, eight Year 7 athletes took a trip to Southend Leisure Centre. We were representing the West Essex District after successfully winning our local area event last week. We participated in several events, such as the obstacle relay and individual races. We also took part in all the field events, such as speed bounce and vertical jump. With some strong competition and some very talented competitors, we finished 7th out of 10 schools in the Essex County Championships. Even though we didn’t win, we all had an amazing time and exceeded our expectations. Written by Teddy Bender

On Thursday, our Year 8 students visited the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Big Bang Fair at Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College, they had a fantastic time, where only too pleased to write a review of their experience. Miss Patel kindly planned this educational trip that was really eyeopening. We first looked at different presentations from multiple schools. My favourite presentation was the real life heart. The lovely Sixth Formersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; showed us the openings of the heart and I even got to feel the inside of the heart! We then went to upstairs to see lots of eye-opening careers. My favourite was when the friendly lady showed us loads of options for the paths of our futures. It was a very good trip and everyone there was very kind. Thank you Miss Patel for organising it. Written by Eesha Gandhi 8W The thing I found most interesting was the electromagnet, and how it slowed the magnet down. The thing that inspired me the most, was the architecture, this was because it showed how you could help your neighbourhood become more eco- friendly. I found the day very exciting and inspiring! Written by George smith 8V and Henry Twyford 8T I found out today that it takes 390 elastic bands to explode a watermelon. Also today, I have spotted on a sheet the hazards in an office I am inspired by how many elastic bands can explode a melon as well I have seen what happens when our heating is let out of our house Written by Hayden Porter 8R

We thought that stand 13 was the best because first of all the people there were giving us lots of information. They also told us a lot about what the intestine and how it digests food. They used a pair of tights and clamp stands to hold it in place and they used a mixture of all brain and water, which was what the food inside the intestine would look and feel like. Written by Helice Hawkins, 8X and Maisie Southgate 8R

Well done to our Year 10 Art and Photography students, for their amazing working completed in their end of Unit 1 exams. Follow us on: @rodingvalleyHS @humsrvhs @rodingvalleyPE RODING VALLEY DRAMA@rodingdrama

Message from Mr Dobson This week, Year 7’s have once again been enjoying their time on their own AstroTurf area - the girls have been practising for the weekly football match against the boys. The students certainly utilise their extra 20 minute lunch break to fuel up before the lunch time matches.

Lilian Webster 7Q

Parents Evening last week was a great success and thanks to all parents and carers for coming to RVHS and contributing to such a positive evening. This week we are having a significant focus on students having the correct equipment, a DEAR reading book and school standard uniform. You can find the basic equipment list on our website. Our assembly this week was on the problems of litter and I reminded the Year 7’s about their personal responsibility to keep the school and local environment free from litter. This week’s Period 1 Character and Culture lessons have focused on oral communication and the processes of expressing information or ideas by word of mouth. They have learnt more about the types and benefits of oral communication, and discussed how one can improve their own oral communication abilities.

”For her fantastic independent research, where she found lots of gruesome statistics and details on the ‘Black Death’. Well done Lilian- I am really proud!! Nominated by Mrs Preston

On Thursday the Year 7 boys and the Year 8 Sportshall athletics teams travelled to Southend to represent West Essex in the Essex County Sportshall Athletics Finals. With the best schools from all corners of Essex having qualified to represent their District, this competition is always going to be tough. All three Roding Valley Teams had qualified after winning the West Essex Competition the week before and showed why they should be there with some fantastic individual and team performances throughout these finals. Both Boys finals had 9 schools including Roding Valley competing whilst the Year 8 girls finals was out of 6 schools. The year 7 boys finished a respectable 7th place and hopefully they can use this experience next year to win the district finals and represent West Essex again at the County finals. The year 8 boys finished in 5th, the same position they finished in year 7 which is a great achievement. The year 8 girls team finished 3rd and picked up their bronze medals after an excellent performance throughout the afternoon with consistent finishes in the track events and some brilliant scores in the field events, matching the best ever achievement by a Roding Valley year 8 girls team since the current year 11 were in year 8. A brilliant day all round and well done to all the students who took part - Mr Allen and Miss Edwards Follow us on: @rodingvalleyHS @humsrvhs @rodingvalleyPE RODING VALLEY DRAMA@rodingdrama

Callum Gower

Pankhurst

Aleyna Tekbasti

Rendell

Lily Grifffin

Hawking

Paris Barney

Murray

Franklin Prasse

Pankhurst

Eli Classen

Rendell

Finley Tickner

Rendell

Laycee Jesson

Murray

Imaan Sattar

Hawking

Athina Christofi

Pankhurst

• 100% attendance

Jack Brinkley

Eliza Kelly

Rafay Ahmed

pupils (for the previous week)

Frankie Cullis

Ruby Donaldson

Alfie Cunningham

Lillie-Mae Henry

Paris McDonagh

Edie Robinson

Ava Dunning

Vinay Wardhan

Sunnie Dyer

Finn Madigan

Welaa Lahreche

Joseph Coyte

Ruzgar Yigit

Maya Harris

• This week the students will be able to queue jump for a week (break and lunch!!) Queue Jumpers this week were:

LORIC Awards Our students use the LORIC principles on a daily basis and therefore PiXL EDGE is a fantastic tool for tracking how and when they are Leaders, Organised, Resilient, using their Initiative and successfully communicating to their peers and teachers. Our careers drop down day highlighted all these fantastic skills in action. The students who collected the most tokens and were personally nominated were:

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Leadership: Tanika Luba

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Organisation: Holly Wiltshire

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Resilience: Archie Sherrin

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Initiative: Aston Watson Weaver and

Congratulations to them all.

Sonny Binnet

Please encourage your child to log on to their PiXL accounts in order to record the amazing work they have achieved.

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Communication: Alex Loveman

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LORIC Overall Award: Johnny Doherty

Written by Miss Williams

8a/Rs3 “For their amazing attitude to learning. They have tried so hard as a class to not only try their best in their Religious Studies lessons but have also tried to regulate each other's behaviour. Such good role models to each other and really good levels of peer support, especially from Frankie Locke. Nominated by Miss Garip

Grace Donoghue

Hawking

Henry Hammerston

Churchill

Monica Jaye

Murray

Efe Kurtcebe

Pankhurst

Denn – Geovontai McKoy

Pankhurst

Esther Richards

Pankhurst

Eda Kurtcebe

Pankhurst

Samuel Labbatt

Rendell

Nancy Tabram

Hawking

Ruby Coyte

Churchill

• 100% attendance pupils (for the previous week)

• This week the students will be able to queue jump for a week (break and lunch!!) Queue Jumpers this week were:

Bailey Allen

Joshua Lewis

Grace Chaplin

Jack Thurgood

Hope Henry

Sophie Reed

Anish Amin

Ralfie Paris

Henry Foster

Faith Mensah

Carys Gooding

Eva Haines

Max Saunders

Georgi Georgiev

Eda Kurtcebe

Jasmine Heatley

Jayden Pryor

Message from Mr Ryan It has been another informative week for year 9. With the boys from the 40/40 lecture group finally being told what to expect over the coming weeks. We look forward to the whole group of 80 students to have their first lecture on Thursday 21st March. Also, we were given an assembly by nurses from the local immunisation team. All students need to return their consent forms so that they can have their immunisations (Tetanus/Polio/Meningitis). What I would ask is that you check your email to see if you are receiving the information that is being sent in electronic letter form as quite a few students claim not to know anything or not to have received any letters. If not could you let the school know so we can fix the problem.

Jack Croll Charlotte Gadeke David Moir Ethen Dignam Alex Duca Connor Dunkin Rory Langdell Ellie Dennis Hamid Lahreche Megan Passmore

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Rendell Pankhurst Murray Hawking Murray Churchill Hawking Hawking Pankhurst Rendell

20 19 19 18 18 17 17 16 16 16

Kingsley Briggs -Wallace

Ella Kourentis

Mis Balbes

Oliver James

Leo Burrows

Sienna Harding

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Aden Black

Livvy Spiller

Teddy Crossman-Cox

students will be able to queue jump for a week (break and lunch!!) Queue Jumpers this week were:

Tayla Hall

Demi Hoffman

Lewis Trudeau

Dominic Alen

Lucy Moir

Olivia Dixon

pupils (for the previous week)

George Irving

Daniela Perju

Pankhurst

Jake Omer

Murray

Lucy Richards

Hawking

Savannah Scriven

Rendell

Kirsty Flowers

Churchill

Dimitrij Kopylov

Pankhurst

Millie Mace

Murray

Shauna McCabe

Murray

Riya Minhas

Hawking

Grace Reynolds

• 100% attendance pupils (for the previous week)

• This week the students will be able to queue jump for a week (break and lunch!!) Queue Jumpers this week were:

Pankhurst

13 13 13

Olivia Edwards

Kyle Simpson

Elise Murray

Callum O’Grady

Rhys Dolan

Malaiqa Butt

Raajveer Singh

Eloise Booth

Samuel Heal

Zornitsa Kirilova

Alexander Stanfield

Sarah Bagshaw

Georgia Flynn

Jamie Beddall

Adam Wigley

Jonnie Harrison-Wall

Year 11 Catering and Hospitality GCSEs started early in Food & Nutrition last week with the Year 11 Catering & Hospitality students taking their final Level 1/2 practical. Students had 4 hours to prepare, cook and present a two course meal for 2 people and they were marked on varying aspects from health & hygiene, range of cooking skills used, and presentation of their chosen dishes.

Thanks as always to the parents/carers for their continued support in this subject.

Katy Roberts

Rendell

Max Lampey

Pankhurst

Ruby Moody

Murray

Rosie Stone

Churchill

Clara Rodriguez

Churchill

Ben Murkett-Lamb

Pankhurst

Constanta Scilfos

Rendell

Emily Shabani

Rendell

Kate Willis

Churchill

Lottie Clemens

Churchill

• 100% attendance pupils (for the previous week)

Bailey Allen

Joshua Lewis

Grace Chaplin

Jack Thurgood

Hope Henry

Sophie Reed

Anish Amin

Ralfie Paris

Henry Foster

Faith Mensah

Carys Gooding

Eva Haines

Max Saunders

Georgi Georgiev

Eda Kurtcebe

Jasmine Heatley

Jayden Pryor

• This week the students will be able to queue jump for a week (break and lunch!!) Queue Jumpers this week were:

Introducing The Team So Far:We have entered two teams of five to swim a total of 10kms. We have representing the teachers: Mohamed Ibrahim, Physics Teacher and Chris Dobson, Year 7 Progress Leader and Geography Teacher. Steve Abbott: parent to Thomas and George, and Natasha Dean Conway: parent to Joshua for the parents. Our students so far are Emily Fairhead, Jemima Purser and Ema Zilute Year 7, Joshua Conway and Nathan Wakinshaw, Year 8 and our Governor is Sharon Famiglietti.

Why Did You Want To Join the School’s Swimathon Challenge? “As a RVHS teacher I am really looking forward to being part of the Roding Valley team participating in an event that will raise money to help find a cure for cancer - a disease that has affected my life on far too many occasions.” C Dobson, Year 7 Progress leader and Geography Teacher “I'm so pleased to be able to support these charities as my family has been affected recently. I love swimming so will look forward to the challenge.” Emily Fairhead, Year 7 student “As a Governor and parent I wanted to organise a charity event that included the whole school community as I believe that schools need to be more than just education. On a personal note, I have lost several people to cancer, my cousin to Hodgkin Lymphoma at 16, several good friends including a mum of children in the school and my dad has suffered life-changing disfigurement to the disease so I would love to raise as much as we can for these charities. On a lighter note my swim strategy will be to hang onto the feet of one of our team who has the unfair advantage of in built flippers!” S Famiglietti, Governor and Parent You can support our challenge and see how much we have raised so far at: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rodingvalleyhighschool

For more information and advice on Careers, please speak to Mrs Donna Mason at dmason@rodingvalley.net

Apprenticeships Year 11 and Year 13 The following link takes you to the Careers Page on our website. For the most current vacancies click on apprenticeship news and follow the links to the vacancies. https://www.rodingvalley.net/students/careers/ Last week the whole school participated in National Careers Week. All students and staff took part in the ‘Buzz Quiz’ and found out what animal they were. This quiz is based on personality strengths and can be useful when thinking about future careers. If you would like to take the quiz then please visit:

Year 8 participated in a ‘Careers Drop Down Day’ and part of that day was spent with employers finding out about careers and the pathways to these careers. We had visiting alumni students sharing their pathways with the students and giving information and advice about the apprenticeships/university route that they have taken. The whole school received assemblies from the science department and looked at careers in STEM. We had a visit from the Managing Director and two apprentices from Capgemini for our sixth form students. Students were given information on the apprenticeship and sponsored degree programmes offered by Capgemini.

We had a lunch time drop in session with Aim Apprenticeships and students were shown how to research and apply. It was a great week for students to really start their research about careers. I regularly put information on Twitter please follow me to stay up to date with the Careers Department:

@RVHS_Careers

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.

HB Pencil Non-stop Pencil Biro (Black, Blue or Green) Handwriting Pen (Black or Blue) Gel Pen (Black or Blue) Gel Clear Pen (Black or Blue) Felt Tip Pens (pack) Coloured pencils (pack) Highlighter Pen Multi - Pen Rollerball Pen (Black, Blue or Red) RVHS Pen 15cm Ruler 30cm Ruler Eraser Sharpener Protractor Set Square Compass Calculator Scientific Calculator Small Pencil Case Large Pencil Case

10p 30p 10p 10p 40p 50p £2.00 £1.00 20p 60p 30p 50p 10p 20p 5p 10p 15p 15p 30p £1.70 £6.50 80p £1.00

Maths Set Maths Set with small pencil case Revision set Glue - Small Glue - Medium Glue - Large Post Its Card Document wallet Popper Folder – coloured Popper Folder - clear Display file - 20 Pockets Clip File Ring Binder Zip wallets (A5) Zip wallets (A4) Zip wallets (A3) 10 stage dividers A4 clear pockets Lever arch file Box File Data File Small Note Pad- Lined

90p £1.60 £1.80 30p 80p £1.00 20p 10p 40p 70p £2.00 60p 50p 20p 25p 30p 40p 5p £1.40 £2.20 20p 30p

At RVHS, we use Show My Homework; an account has been created for you to keep up to date with your child’s homework progress from home.

What is ‘Show My Homework’? Show my Homework is a simple online solution for students and parents to view homework details and upcoming deadlines. Mobile apps and notifications ensure you always know what homework your child has and when it’s due. How to Log In?  Go to https://www.showmyhomework.co.uk/login What are PINs? PINs are unique codes that ‘Show My Homework’ has assigned to each parent that allow us to confirm their identity on initial login. After logging in for the first time users will be asked to provide more memorable login details for future use. PINs are then only be used as a backup in case you forget these logins.

 Or you can download the app.  Enter your PIN details that you have been given in the letter provided by your school.  Click ‘Log in’  Create a memorable password and enter your email address then click ‘Update you details’.

Students do not need a pin to be able to access their homework. They can gain access to their Show My Homework account though their Gmail account.

You are now able to access your account and view all the homework that has been set for your child. If yourself or your child experience any difficulties with using ‘Show my Homework’ or you no longer have your pin, please contact Miss Paige Larkin: plarkin@rodingvalley.net Follow us on: @rodingvalleyHS @humsrvhs @rodingvalleyPE RODING VALLEY DRAMA@rodingdrama

What is DODDLE? Doddle provides students with access to thousands of engaging, formative resources and guides students through the curriculum. Doddle Progress automatically tracks student attainment in key curriculum skills. Parents can see student attainment and progress through our easy-to-use Doddle Parent feature. Skills within Doddle are rated as red, amber or green. These ratings give a clear indication of how much progress a child has made and highlight the weaker areas to be targeted with revision.

Each student has a personal Doddle account where they can access their homework to-do lists and families can view the work their child has been assigned. These accounts enable parents to view their child's results and encourage them to better their scores by using Doddle's revision resources.

Find out how to create a Doddle Parent account and then link that account to your child with this short video:

We have also included a link to a very useful guide on how to view your child's due and submitted homework:

Find out how our school uses Doddle Progress by watching our short video to find out how Progress works.

We have also included a link to a very useful guide on how Progress works and how you can use it to help your child's learning.

This is a valuable resource that will assist parents in supporting their childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s progression. Please use the following link to the log in: Follow us on: @rodingvalleyHS @humsrvhs @rodingvalleyPE RODING VALLEY DRAMA@rodingdrama

Find out how to view and track your child's homework with this short video. .

We have also included a link to a very useful guide on Troubleshooting.

School Communications: We have been communicating by email for over a year now in a bid to get information to you quicker and more cost effectively. We found, however, our previous parental communication system did not give the functionality that people expect from smart phone apps today. So the school has invested in a new communication system call RS Connect Ed and with this comes a shiny new App.

MyEd is the free parent app that gives you a multitude of communication and information features to stay in touch with what is going on at school. The app gives you direct access to your child's attendance, timetable, absence records, achievements, behaviour and much, much more. You will also see that we update and change the information in the app as the school year moves along. Click here to see a short video about the app We are able to send you messages directly to the MyEd app relating to important information about your child's education and to remind you of events that are taking place at school. We can also embed links to regularly used systems, for example ParentPay & Doddle so you can keep everything in one place. You will receive a notification if we send you a message and there is no charge for the messages you send to us. The App can be downloaded by anyone and they will have access to information also available on our website. Only parents will be able to access their own studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s information as long as we have the email address and mobile number you are using to access the App.

But only parents of students in the school will be able to access this when clicking on the My Students tab. The MyEd app is available for both Apple iOS and Android devices and can be found using the links below: Step 1 - Go to your App Store Step 2 - Search for My Ed Step 3 - Download the Free app Apple iOS App Google Android App Once you have installed and opened MyEd, search for Roding Valley High School and follow the simple instructions to identify yourself.

Student Absence If your child is unable to attend School for any reason please report their absence by phoning the school number by 9.30am at the latest, you must also ring in each day of your child’s absence. 0208-508-1173 On their return to School please ensure your child brings with them a. letter or medical evidence if requested explaining the reason for the absence for our records.

Medical Appointments Please make sure you make any medical or dental appointments outside of school time. If this is not possible then please try to ensure that your child attends before and/or after their appointment.

Holidays in Term Time It is not school policy to authorise any holidays during term time except in exceptional circumstances. A ‘Leave of Absence’ form must be completed (these are available at Student Reception) should you require leave for your child, a letter detailing your exceptional circumstances should accompany it. Please be aware if the absence is not authorised and the holiday is taken, the case may be referred to the Education Welfare Service who may issue a Penalty Notice for £120 (or £60 if paid within 21 days) to each parent for each child taken out of school. For full details regarding attendance please see our Attendance Policy which can be found on our website or contact Mrs. Jeanette Low, our Attendance and Welfare Manager on the school number.

Guidance for Common Ailments Please see on the following page guidance from the NHS of common childhood illnesses; this advises what type of illness requires time off from school and what does not. Should you require further guidance please contact the school on 0208-508-1173