6th Form News

On Friday the 3rd of February 2023 Roding Valley’s Chelsea FC Foundation programme trained at Chelsea FC’s training ground, Cobham. 20 players participated in a 1 hour 30 minutes’ session on the Astro turf, opposite the first team training pitches. Prior to this, players were given a very brief tour of the facility, giving them some history and information regarding Cobham and how the academy structure their pathway to the first team, as well as why Cobham is designed in a specific way.

Our Captain George Marlborough had this to say:

“The day out at Cobham was a surreal experience, Cobham has lovely facilities and was a fantastic insight into an elite premier league training ground. Everyone around Cobham was friendly and very welcoming!”

In a few weeks the squad will return to Cobham on the 20th March to compete and hopefully progress into the final of the Cobham Cup

For further 6th Form news please see out latest bulletins here and here

Ms Wheaton Director of 6th Form

Firstly, I would like to share some great news, we are delighted to share with you that Mr Ifrim will now be working alongside Mr Warry in the role of House Coordinator. This is due to the expansion of our house system in the school and the increase of student leadership roles, of which we now have 60 house leaders. If you have any questions regarding the house system please do reach out to either of us and we will be more than happy to assist.

Knowing that we like to have a community charity day at the end of each half term, a number of students have approached Mrs Jenner, Headteacher, asking for us to show our support for the victims of the natural disaster that has taken place on the border between Turkey and Syria. The earthquake is one of the largest earthquakes the region has seen since 1939. It has already had a profound impact on many in both Turkey and Syria as well as impacting members of our local community. In response to the strong feeling across the student body, we have decided that our non-school uniform day on Friday 10th February 2023 will support one of the charities sending aid to families who have been affected. We will allow all students to wear their own clothes for a suggested donation of £1. We will donate one third of the money raised to the British Red Cross Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal. To find out more information about this charity please visit the following link . The rest of the money raised will go to our house charities as usual.

Our House Captains collecting the nonuniform day charity money and counting up the donations today (Friday 10th February)

Raised so far & still counting…

Rendell - £337.96

Murray - £327.84

Pankhurst - £297.38

Hawking - £291.59

Churchill - £268.24

TOTAL SO FAR - £1446.31

If your child is in year 9, you will know that their pathways to success process has just begun!

Your child will already know what Pathway they have been allocated & will now be thinking about what options they would like to choose.

Please don't forget that our Year 9 options microsite is now live! You can find this by visiting our school website and clicking on high school, followed by options microsite 2023 or clicking Options Microsite

There you will find the form to complete *deadline 3rd March* and all of the helpful videos and information from our wonderful curriculum leaders.

You will also find a link to our Options Clinic Meeting request form - if you have any individual questions.

Lastly, a massive thank you to all of those parents and students that came to our options evening. The recording of this evening is now live on our microsite!

If you have any questions before then, please contact plarkin@rodingvalley.net

Please check your emails for your invitation to our annual Careers Fest. Students and parents/carers in Years 9-13 are all invited to attend. This is an essential part of your child's education and a fantastic way to inspire them and raise aspirations. We have such a huge range of employers, apprenticeship providers, colleges and universities attending it promises to be a fantastic event again. I will be present throughout the evening, if you have any questions please let me know.

Mrs Mason

PE Fantastic achievement!

Ayla Zolfaghari 7Hy

Ayla recently competed in her first weekend of the Swimming Essex County Championships 2023. Ayla has had great success winning gold in 50m butterfly and 50m freestyle. She also won silver in 100m freestyle, bronze in 200m freestyle and in 1500m freestyle, and got three runners up pennants for 4th in both 200m and 400m individual medley and 5th in 200m backstroke!! Against very tough opposition. The PE department are extremely proud of her achievements

Year 11 had a revision workshop this week that covered getting themselves organised and making manageable and useful SMART targets, collecting together and filing all their materials, deciding whether they were a left brain or right brain learner and using the skills associated with this to develop more revision materials.

Well done Year 11 - another really good session! Good luck with your next round of PPE's.

Henry Twyford 12U

Eda Kurtcebe 12V

Emma Kutner 12Q

Dharam Sharma 12T

Gideon King 12T

Nancy Tabram 12U

Siena Salek-Haddadi 10Li