RVHS Bulletin weekending 22 May 2020 by Roding Valley High School

“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.”

RVHS Bulletin Aspiration Respect Endeavour Weekending Friday 22nd May 2020 Message from the Headteacher I can’t believe that we have reached the end of the half term and on reflection, I am so incredibly proud of how we have all pulled together to further improve the quality of our online provision during this half term. I thank all those parents who responded to our survey and we have already started to make plans to act upon the feedback given. This is unknown territory to all of us and teachers are responding and learning the new technology to offer engaging learning as quickly as they can. However, as you can appreciate often the students are ahead of us! All our home learning resources and guides can be access from the website. I am delighted to review the contents of this bulletin and see the amazing, continued celebration of the progress and effort of our students. I remain so proud of the continued support being offered from both school and home. As you will be aware from the media, and my recent communication dated 13th May 2020, there remains controversy over the government’s plans for the further opening of primary schools. Secondary schools are still waiting further guidance, but are currently being asked by the government: ‘From 1 June 2020, we expect that secondary schools and colleges will be able to offer some face to face contact with Year 10 and Year 12 pupils. This will not be a return to full timetables or pupils back in school or college full time, rather some support to supplement pupils’ remote education.’ (DfE May 2020) We can see a real benefit for our Year 10 and Year 12 students by offering some initial ‘Progress and Welfare’ meetings with school staff, to supplement their continued home learning. These students are expecting to sit their GCSE/A Levels next year and some further direction and intervention at this stage would be valuable. These individual meetings (socially distanced), for students only, would be to further support the direction of their studies, provide an opportunity to address any concerns around their access to home learning and to discuss any welfare issues that may have arisen during this period. I have written to these parents separately, can I ask that they respond to my survey. This will enable us to plan appropriately and safely for student numbers. I cannot stress enough that the safety of my staff and students is my top priority; we will share detailed safety plans and clear expectations with these parents and students prior to their meetings. These will be issued in the week beginning 1st June 2020. These meetings will continue during the two week period from Monday 8th June 2020, we will then review and make plans for any further enhanced provision on the school site for these year groups. This could then include some targeted small group teaching or clinics. I would also stress that any onsite provision is not compulsory and we will be continuing with our online curriculum during this initial phase. Our plans will be dictated by safety first and ‘is it essential?’ However, this is provisional until the government’s updated announcement on the 28th May 2020. Our students in Year 7,8 and 9 will continue with their remote learning, no further plans have been announced by the government at this time.

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To further enhance our online teaching and learning provision, we have just launched a fantastic new 'Challenge Yourself', this can be accessed from a button the website. Even more exciting, RVHS now have their very own YouTube channel! You can access the channel by clicking the link. We also have a number of teachers who have created their own subject channels - where video teaching & instruction will be available! These channels are brand new and content is being uploaded as it is created. I am delighted to be able to share with you an exclusive video created by the Epping Forest Youth Councillors and would like to say how proud I am of our students that are serving as Councillors. Monday 25th May marks the start of the half term break. I have asked my staff not to set work during this period to enable everyone to recharge their batteries and hopefully enable some quality family time away from the homeschooling routine. I would like to remind you however, that Miss Dyer is our Safeguarding Lead and will remain available via email should any concerns arise (sdyer@rodingvalley.net). Obviously if it was an emergency, you would call 999. Please do keep safe and well and have a lovely weekend. Mrs. Sharon Jenner - Headteacher

Year Progress Leaders  Year 7: Miss Edwards – cedwards@rodingvalley.net  Year 8: Mr Dobson – cdobson@rodingvalley.net

USEFUL CONTACTS

 Year 9: Mr Warry – bwarry@rodingvalley.net  Year 10: Mr Ryan – fryan@rodingvalley.net  Year 11: Miss Reed – hreed@rodingvalley.net  Sixth Form: awheaton@rodingvalley.net Subject Leaders  Art/Photography: Mr Tisdale – dtisdale@rodingvalley.net  Drama: Mrs L Walker – lwalker@rodongvalley.net and Mr R Wilson – rwilson@rodongvalley.net

 English: Mrs Routledge – lroutledge@rodingvalley.net  Food Technology: Mrs Barclay – mbarclay@rodingvalley.net  Humanities: Ms Preston – tpreston@rodingvalley.net  IT/Business: Mr Hussain – ohussain@rodingvalley.net  Maths: Mr Edeko – oedeko@rodingvalley.net  MFL: Mr P Melvin – pmelvin@rodingvalley.net  Science: Mr Poovillingham - npoovillingham@rodingvalley.net  Music: Mr Savage - jsavage@rodingvalley.net  PE/Sports: Mr Jones – ljones@rodingvalley.net General Enquiries  office@rodingvalley.net Finance  finance@rodingvalley.net Safeguarding:  safeguarding@rodingvalley.net How to contact any member of staff at Roding Valley High School: Initial + surname+@rodingvalley.net

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 Please remember that if you cannot find our original Home Learning booklet with our Google Classroom codes, RVHS suggested timetable and step by step guidance for students & parents on how to use Google Classroom, then please follow this link to our website: https://rodingvalley.net/info-faqs/home-learningmaterials-during-covid-19/

 We also have a fantastic new 'Challenge Yourself' button available, also on our home webpage, where students can click on this and access enrichment ideas from across different subject areas- also, don't forget the fantastic 'Brain Boosters' sent out weekly by Mrs. Patel.

 RVHS YouTube Channel- RVHS now have their very own YouTube channel! You can access the channel by clicking the link - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVtsVSrEKn39hzaAXRwGvqg/ We also have a number of teachers who have created their own subject channels- where video teaching & instruction will be available! These channels are brand new and content is being uploaded as it is created! So keep a look out for the new links on the RVHS YouTube Channel.

 Reach Out If You Need Help: We are encouraging our students to get in contact with their teachers through Google Classroom (in the comments section) or to email them directly if they need help.

 If you are still struggling to submit your assignments via Google Classroom- then do not worry- we can help you! You can either click this link, which will take you to our step by step guide OR click this link to watch a step by step video. Submitting your assignments through Google Classroom means that your teacher can see your work, give you some feedback or even celebrate your work in the Parent Bulletin! If you are still struggling with this, then please email plarkin@rodingvalley.net

If you have completed and submitted all of your work to your teachers/ Hear are a few extra activities you can complete:

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Complete the Brain Booster Challenges each week-check your emails on a Monday for a different subject each week and earn House points!

Get involved with Debate Club - please email Ms Garip for more details

Get involved with the next issue of School Magazine RVHS Exposed - email Mrs Patel for more details.

Look at the Big Bang Fair website to see how the big bang fair can help get you involved

Design an app for an IPhone

Think about 'big questions' such as, 'What motivates me?’ and write an article explaining what motivates you and your families during this lockdown period .Email these to either Mrs Patel or Ms Garip.

Get involved with one of the many competitions dotted throughout this bulletin

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Our New Student Executive has now been named for the 2020 to 2021 Academic Year. They have created a video introducing themselves, please click on the link to watch their video:

All editions of our Maths Broadcast are now available on our School Website. Please do take the time to read these as they contain some fantastic puzzles and competitions for our students.

Congratulations to the following students for their fantastic Music Homework on Song Maker. Please do click on the link beside the studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name to hear their musical adaption of Still Dre, Megalovania and Stranger things. Excellent work. Such creative students.

Anthony Blackledge

Hugh Luton

Bethany Cooper

Rana Mortada

Melody Anderson-Sceats

Ema Zilute

Elizabeth Babbs

Sophia Shipillis

Santiago Levy

Lukas Jasevicius

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Congratulations to the Year 12 Sociology class, who have been chosen as the ‘Class of the Week’, for their amazing positivity, resilience and level of achievement throughout this challenging time. They are all working brilliantly from home, completing work on time and to an excellent standard. They are demonstrating all of our ARE values. Miss Garip asked her students to write a few sentences on their experiences of online learning, what it has taught them, what new skills they felt they have learnt and how it has changed them for the better. “Online learning has tested my abilities to study independently, and improved the way I approach tasks. It has also meant that my timetable has to be carefully planned, more so than before”. Baxtor Garrod “Online learning has helped me understand my subjects more, and in depth. With a teacher being present, I can ask them questions on homework and the lesson. I feel I am able to manage my time better, as I am giving an hour to my lessons and then a few hours on homework/revision. It just structures my day, which I find very helpful and motivating.” Amber Giddy “Online learning has been really beneficial in being organised and staying on top of workload, it has allowed me to manage my time better and get more work done to the best of my ability. It has made me feel more confident in the work I’m producing as I feel more relaxed and less pressured by teachers to get work done in a shorter time frame.” Joshua Worral “Online learning has been really helpful for me because we can still be talked through the content as it is difficult to teach it to ourselves. It is also helpful so we can discuss the homework and any parts that we don’t understand. The online lessons are making our learning from home a lot less stressful.” Grace Gadeke

Well done to Emma Kutner 9W, Emma has been nominated for her outstanding community spirit by Mrs Walker. Emma has been getting a newspaper for her elderly neighbour, who is 93 years young and delivering it to her daily. Great Job!

All issues of our weekly newsletter ‘Roding Reads’ on all things reading are now available on our School Website.

Online learning has tested my abilities to study independently, and improved the way I approach tasks. Follow us on: It has also meant that my timetable has to be carefully planned, more so than before. @rodingvalleyHS

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Online learning has helped me understand my subjects more, and in depth. With a teacher being

Challenge and Enrichment Weekly Brain Boosters House Competition Winner!

Congratulations to

Lewis Choules For his amazing contributions to the assembly this week. Lewis went above and beyond, volunteering his time and efforts. Keep up the great work! A certificate of achievement is on its way to you

Well done to Callum Gower for winning the English Board Game Challenge and to Archie Savage for winning the Maths Matchstick puzzle! Excellent effort house points on their way! This week's challenge is creating a Family Tree going back as far as you can and is a part of History. Check your emails for further information and submit your answers by 24/5/2020 to Mrs Patel at shpatel@rodingvalley.net

Roding Valley High School Sixth Form Education Programme Are you a keen footballer and would like to continue developing your football skills alongside your Post 16 studies? There is an opportunity from September 2020, for you, to be a part of the developing partnership between Roding Valley High School and Chelsea FC. Foundation. This will enable you to study at Roding Valley High School alongside developing your football skills. For the academic side of the programme, you would have the opportunity to study a Level 3 Diploma in Sport (worth two Level 3 qualifications) or to choose from other subjects that we have available. For further discussion about the subject options available, please email Mr Mammen at cfcf@rodingvalley.net If you were considering a University after Sixth Form, then for most Universities, you will need to study three Level 3 course (or equivalent). This is also an option; you would just spend less time on football training. If you would like to discuss this option, please also contact Mr Mammen at cfcf@rodingvalley.net who will be able to discuss the subject combinations available for this. Future paths from this programme include going on to be a football coach, studying at university, working for Chelsea in retail, hospitality, at the training facility, finance and administration, the list of opportunities go on.

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Your Challenges for languages this week are:

Congratulations to the following students, who have chosen as our French departments’ Star Students this week: Year 7: Year 9:  Isabelle Slevin  Poppy Tribe  Rowan Howe  Skye Salek-Haddadi  Vaughn Maree  Max Saunders  Freddie Rose  Henry Twyford  Tylan Sami  Artemis Barnett  Liam Smith Year 10  Xenia Tseka  Lily Saunders  Ethan Harvey Year 8:  Alex Allsop  James Boyce  Archie Carr  Hannah Clemens  Awura Duah  Tim Garrod  Samuel Shakespeare  Arabella Smith  Ben Winkworth  Paris Cole  Diana Douhlinska  Rosa Marshall  Natalie Moffat  Darcy Patrick  Jasmine Singh  Aleyna Tekbasti  Iman Shazad Udin

 Challenge One: Practise the language you are studying on an app for 10 minutes a day, e.g. Duolingo  Challenge Two: Look on Spotify, find and listen to 5-10 songs in French/Spanish

Spanish Year 7 Year 9  Archie Savage  Ruby Minchin  Daisy Warden  Caleb Beer  Luca Dominguez  Harry Marcus  Olivia Golding  Joshua Jobson  Paige Richards  Grace Donoghue  Ruby Harris  Dharam Sharma  Sonny Baxter Year 10 Year 8  Harry Pike  Sara Iotu  Isabella Ruse  Bianca Nedelcu  Athina Christofi  Tolani Aradeon  Madison Hamilton  Amelia Martin  Suzannah Grosvenor  Ruby Simmons  Ruo Xi He  Rosie Mcmorrow

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Congratulations to the following students for their outstanding effort and achievement in English. A Certificate of Achievement is on its way to you!

Year 7:

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Melody Anderson-Skeats Ruby Harris Madison Paulin Jacob Winter Billy Muggleton Louisa Nicholson Rowan Howe Xenia Tseka Leo Nathan

Year 10:

Teddy Terry George Glen Santiago Levy Danny Robertson Jaeden Twaites Frankie Cullis Davina Karpavicute Bobby Polain Awura Duah

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Caleb Beer Kailen Archer Harry Hopkins Cydney Spinoza Tuna Parlar George Abbott Jack Carr Lydia Connolly

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Connor Dunkin Erin Weekes Diya Wahiwala Fleur Marks Ellie Griffiths Harry Pike Aimee Garvey Isabella Ruse Vienna Igwe Michal Nowak Cem Eren

Drama Stars of the Week Well done to

Year 11 and Year 13 Parents and Students.

 Lili Warden,

Do you need any support with Post 16 or Post 18 choices? If you have just left Roding Valley, do you need help with college or apprenticeship applications? Maybe a CV review or just general careers advice?

 Harry Pike,

Mrs Mason our careers advisor is available for all students requiring Post 16 and Post 18 careers advice. You can contact her dmason@rodingvalley.net and follow the careers department on twitter for up to date careers information @RVHS_Careers

 Will Cratchley

 Mehdi Pascoe,  Lauren Marks,  Cai Gunning For being named as Drama’s Stars of the Week, they have all actively engaged and submitted the work set

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Well done to Lily in Year 9 for her amazing artwork, you can watch the video of her drawing this piece on our school twitter page. Please click on the picture to open the link to Lily’s video.

Congratulations to the following students who achieved 10 House points for re-creating last week's "Stranger Things" challenge Year 7  Archie Savage  Anthony Blackledge  Anthony Dean  Hannah Salmon  Isabelle Slevin  Liam Smith  Ryley Hendrson  Daisy Callagher  Lucja Trubecka  Nojus Stegvilas  Julius Hounsell  Freddie Rose  Elizabeth Babbs  Rowan Howe  Charlotte Palmer  Leo Anthony

Year 8  Diana Douhlinska  Paris Cole  Alistair Lanz  Madison Hamilton  Alice Anderson  Ciaran Mcloughlin

Congratulations to the following students for being nominated as Mrs Patel’s Science Stars for their excellent Science work and for working really hard this week: Year 9: Year 7:  Ruby Minchin  Anastasia Bila  Flavius Timis  Charlotte Milner  Danielius Jablonskis  Ellie King  Alex Kelly  Jack Balbes  Emily Crisp Year 8:  Abi Akers  Athina Christofi  Bobbie Deboo  Bianca Nedelcu  Billie Smith  Daniel Carter  Eva Haines  Callum Gower  Teddy Lewis  Ava Towner  Joshua Jobson  Franklin Prasse  Milica Bozhinovska  James Newman

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Remember to keep up to date with our weekly mindfulness newsletter ‘#Roding Matters’, these are all now available on our School Website. Congratulations to the following students, who have been named as Miss Hodge’s Science Star’s this week, for their fantastic science work in the last couple of weeks:  Lucy Moir,  Connor Dunkin,  Megan Passmore,  Isabella Ruse,  Haris Mushtaq  Rosie McMorrow.

House Competition As you probably guessed, it is a Photography House Competition about our changing world. Your photograph could illustrate the changes which occur within nature, including metamorphosis and shifts from young to adult. You might wish to depict how habitats develop during ecological succession, how wildlife adapts, or the impacts humans have on nature. If you would like to enter email dharris@rodingvalley.net with your name and house, each entry with be awarded five House points.

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1st Prize: 100 house points 2nd Prize: 75 house points 3rd Prize: 50 house points

Maximum three photos per person, the top three will be entered into the Royal Society of Biology Competition. Closing date is 30th June. Follow us on: @rodingvalleyHS @humsrvhs @rodingvalleyPE RODING VALLEY DRAMA@rodingdrama

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Congratulations to: Congratulations to the following students that have been nominated for the Superstar Award by Mr Tisdale. Well done for completing and submitting for submitting all homework tasks for Photography:

 Ellie Dennis

 Dominic Alen  Persia Bellamy  Freya Dinsley  Mercelar Elphus  Adam Ghounbaz

 Callum Burke  Ellie-Louise Griffiths  Daisy Smith

 Mehdi Pascoe  Havin Yalcin For keeping well up to date on their Human Form coursework in Art

 Evie Stone  Scott Kenealy  Sydney Campbell

Nominated by Mr Tisdale

 Sophia Barrett  Ella-Louise Stevenson

Congratulations to Melody AndersonSceats in Year 7 for being nominated as Arts Star Student this week by Mr Tisdale.

Melody has completed and submitted all of her Art homework. Well done, keep up the amazing work Follow us on: @rodingvalleyHS @humsrvhs @rodingvalleyPE RODING VALLEY DRAMA@rodingdrama

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Message from Mrs Prestonâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8R Form Tutor and Head of Faculty (Humanities) Hi 8R, I hope you are all well and coping with the very different way of living and schooling. I am missing our morning greetings and hello's around school. I hope that you are all managing to get on okay and just wanted to remind you that you can email me if you need help or just want to say hi, I would really appreciate it, it makes my day when I hear from you! Remember, if you are out of your home, to stay 2 metres apart from other people, even your friends, make sure the last 2 months count! Take care and have a safe and happy half term. Ms Preston

This is your opportunity to leave a lasting contribution at RVHS! This is the Roding Valley logo, which you can see has different aspects of our school represented in its design. Epping Forest Bridge

Valley School Colour River Roding

We would really like to have a Humanities faculty logo, which represents us - so the sorts of things that you could include in your design are things that are connected with our subjects: ď&#x201A;ˇ History / Geography / RE / Politics/ Psychology and Sociology - one symbol for each connected together? We want to use this for all our work / Instagram / Twitter / badges / certificates / stickers and so on, so it will be everywhere! You could work on this in a group so have a go! Your design needs to be 800 pixels by 800 pixels in size (though do not worry if you do not know how to do this, we would still like you to submit your design!)

Please send to Mrs Preston at tpreston@rodingvalley.net

All editions of our Humanities Broadcast are now available on our School Website. Please do take the time to read these as they contain some fantastic news, tips, puzzles and competitions for our students. Follow us on: @rodingvalleyHS @humsrvhs @rodingvalleyPE RODING VALLEY DRAMA@rodingdrama

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Year 7

Year 8

 Mellisa Bulguric

 Ruby Simmons

 Emma Stoichkova

 Hannah Clemens

 Mya Haines

 Iman Shahzadi Udin

 Anthony Blackledge

 Eleanor Ward

 Luke Curtis

 Kevin Aleksejenko

 Enru Li

 Ciaran McLoughlin

Emma Stoichkova

Mellisa Bulgurcu

Hospitality and Catering Stars Year 9  Grace Felicio  Hannah Luxton  Lauren Harper Year 10  Megan Driver

Imogen Baldwin

Ruby Simmons

Online Workshop: Practical Help for Parents and Carers during Lockdown Make Happen is currently offering a free workshop aimed to help parents/carers who need some support during lockdown to help your child’s education hosted by educational motivator, Mr Beezy. The content is devised to support you as a parent/carer, to engage with your child and help their education during these uncertain times. For more information and signing up please visit: https://www.makehappen.org/event/online-workshop-practical-help-for-parents-during-lockdown/ Follow us on: @rodingvalleyHS @humsrvhs @rodingvalleyPE RODING VALLEY DRAMA@rodingdrama

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Message for our Year 7 Progress Leader Miss Edwards As this half term draws to a close, I want to congratulate all of our Year 7's for adapting so well to this current climate. Students have continued with their studies in an impressive and enthusiastic manner, and handled themselves brilliantly. Well Done! In recognition of this, I have asked our team of Form tutors to nominate two students in their form who have shown an outstanding commitment to their online learning journey this half term. Well done to each and every one of you. Our NHS Learning Project form competition has now concluded and I would like to congratulate 7Q for taking the honours. They had the highest amount of entries, closely followed by 7W. Well done to all students who submitted tasks celebrating the great work of our NHS. I have again included some of these excellent pieces of work in this bulletin. I look forward to rewarding 7Q's hard work once we are back in school again. I understand how difficult it is with no set routine, and being away from your friends during these uncertain times, so I encourage you all to get in touch with myself or your form tutor at any time should you feel the need to talk to someone. I also encourage parents and carers to contact their child’s Form tutor should they have any queries or concerns at all. As we see some form of normality return to our community, I wish you all a happy and safe half term break, and hope that you can enjoy some family time in the sun during this period. Stay alert; Control the virus, Save Lives.

Form Tutor Nominations: 'Online Learner of the Half Term'  7Q: Daisy Warden & Alana Cooper  7R: Lukas Jasevicius & Jack Balbes  7S: Ria Blundell & Alex Smith  7T: Hadleigh Jaye & Sophie Blundy  7U: Archie Savage & Amelia Andrews  7V: Bobbi Swaby & Jennifer Cuison  7W: Liam Smith & Isabelle Slevin  7X: Leila Nusrat & Ellie Babbs

Congratulations to Billy Muggleton who has been nominated by Mrs Rutland for his continued hard work and dedication to his online learning as a Star student. Well Done Billy- keep it up.

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Year 7 NHS Learning Project Form Competition Thank you to all of the students that sent their entries in for our competition. The standard of the entries was amazing, so we have included some example below for you to enjoy. We are pleased to announce that the Winners are as follows:  1st Place: 7Q  2nd Place: 7W  3rd Place: 7T  4th Place: 7X  5th Place: 7R  6th Place: 7V  7th Place: 7S Gunez Y

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-Daisy W Acrostic Poem: Thank You NHS Thank you NHS for everything you’ve done Helping us through the coronavirus, in the rain or sun Always working to put us back together No matter if you’re tired or under the weather Knowing you’re there makes our lives so much better You helped my mum have me and my sister and brother On a different day you helped fix my sister’s shoulder Understanding, patient, caring and friendly No other country has the NHS How proud I am that we have the best Sending my love and thanks to you all... Liam S

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Message for our Year 8 Progress Leader Mr Dobson Just like to say Ramadan Mubarak to many of you in Year 8 and a heartfelt well done to all of you in Year 8 for positively engaging in distant learning. I would also like to say thank you to the tutors and teachers of Year 8 for constantly adapting to the circumstances of distance learning. Displaced learning has evolved enormously since March and every week staff listen to feedback from Parents and Carers in an attempt to fine-tune the provision for Year 8. The tutors of Year 8 have constantly said how their phone calls and email conversations are genuinely positive and that students on a whole have displayed resilience and determination to maintain their learning. As a result of this excellent attitude, the Tutors have come up with some YEAR 8 SUPERSTARS who deserve special mention. This was a difficult choice for me as the list they gave me for the Parent Bulletin was amazingly long. Everyone of the Year group who have positively engaged in their learning during this difficult time is a Superstar. Well done!

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8Q: Natalie Moffat – who has been elected to serve in the Epping Forest Youth Council. Her mother said that she has been busy meeting online with the other Youth Councillors

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8R: Frank Cullis and Bianca Nedelcu - Who are on the Epping Forest Youth Council and have been so busy with this. So proud of you both!

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8S: Jamima Purser and Rosa Marshall - Excellent dedication to learning

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8T: Shola Fuller and Evie Tozer - Excellent dedication to learning

Mr Dobson would like Also a special mention to Samuel Shakespeare

Edie Robinson - For putting in lots of effort and hard work to her home learning Sophie Bailey and Awura Duah - For constantly doing great work in maths

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8U: Abigail Tew - For her positive attitude during these unprecedented times. She has been planting vegetables in her garden and even shared some useful tips for a rookie such as myself! Well done Abigail! Ella Benjamin - For her amazing dedication to learning. No matter how hard a task is, she is always doing her best to complete it and asks for her help when needed. Keep it up! Robert Davenport - The level of work produced in science is absolutely phenomenal. The amount of detail in each piece of work is great. He even managed to smash the extension task - no sweat. Keep it up!

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8V: Connor Hagger - For showing resilience and working extremely hard on his English assignments.

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8W: Lennon Coster, Athina Christofi and Skye Waeland - For showing outstanding resilience and perseverance during this difficult period.

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8X: Ava Towner and Daniel Carter - For their exceptional work in science and for all the extracurricular activities they are involved in.

For his caring and patience during this challenging time. Here is a 'highlight' he mentioned when M Dobson called home, which Samuel then sent to him. "The bond between me and my brother I feel that our bond has definitely got stronger for a few reasons. One, I have been helping him with his Maths homework and we haven’t argued that much, we have been playing more games together and talking a lot more to each other. Luckily, I have always had a good relationship with Charlie, so this lockdown hasn’t been that difficult.”

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Message for our Year 9 Progress Leader Mr Warry We are not coming towards the end of another half term. Next week is your May half term holiday. During this time you will not be set work to complete, it is a great opportunity to spend time with your family and loved ones, get out and do some exercise etc. Please ensure that you are staying active and making the best of this unusual time. It has been lovely to see that some of you have been helping in the local community in every way you can. Some of you have been going to get shopping for your elderly and vulnerable neighbours; some of you have been going out and dropping items to your vulnerable family. You are a credit to the school, your family and the local community. Big shout-out to Emma Kutner in 9W for going above and beyond to support her elderly neighbor who is 93 years young. I would also like to take this opportunity to ask parents to check in with their children and actively discuss the work they are completing. You children would normally have many teachers to seek advice and support from but now that we are operating a virtual school, some may find this difficult. Ask them what they have been doing; what they have enjoyed doing and perhaps what they have struggled with. It is really important for them to make a productive start to their GCSE despite the current situation. Remember you can always email the class teachers or form tutor for extra support if you need it. It has been lovely speaking to all the parents that I have been in contact with and I know that my team of tutors have really enjoyed catching up with their tutees during their wellbeing calls. Stay safe, stay well and I will see you all soon.

Message for our Year 10 Progress Leader Mr Ryan I hope that everyone is keeping safe and well and making the most of the warm weather. Please remember that although you are not physically attending school it is important to keep up with your studies, especially as you are about to embark on year 11 and your GCSEs. With this in mind now is the right time to think about the future and life after year 11. Are you going to stay on at RVHS and do A Levels or are you thinking about college and apprenticeships? On 18th May we created a 'CV Writing google classroom', at this time we would normally be focusing on this in period one but now this needs to be completed online. Well done to those of you who have submitted some excellent CVs. Mrs. Mason, our Careers Advisor has identified the following students as those with brilliant CVs.

 Kevin Ciobanu  Ethan Dignam  Megan Driver  George Horsfall  Ayse Ibrahim  Amelia Martin  Keidy Rostaka "I have chosen these students as they all did such a fantastic job. They also have really thought about their skills and related them to their extra-curricular activities. Well done to all of them!" Mrs. Mason. We have also launched our ‘Virtual Work Experience. A link to this can also be found in the Google Classroom. Please complete this as it can be added to your CVs. I hope you all keep safe and remember to relax over half term. Follow us on: @rodingvalleyHS @humsrvhs @rodingvalleyPE RODING VALLEY DRAMA@rodingdrama

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This is a free to join website that has news articles and activities for students to stimulate thought and mindfulness, as well as a range of subject based articles. Click the link below: The Day

The Smashed Project is a free workshop on alcohol awareness that students can take part in. It covers the health and social issues associated with alcohol. It is done in an engaging way - drama performances and students will receive a cool certificate like the one below when they complete the course. Mrs. Cain completed it too!

Please take the time to listen to a former student Casey, talk about his love of Football, what it's like playing for Luton Town and how he may have the opportunity to transfer to West Ham United.

If you would like to complete this course, please click on this link.

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Subject: Weekly Schools Bulletin Date: 18 May 2020 Author: Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service Your ECFWS Healthy Schools and Public Health Team are coordinating family friendly activities, advice and guidance for teachers and parents covering themes outlined within national guidance on Personal Social Health and Economic (PSHE) education. We will be sharing these in the coming weeks on our Facebook pages, which can be found via our website. These resources are easily adaptable at home, school or in ‘virtual’ classrooms. Teachers and parents are encouraged to visit our COVID-19 Pandemic Resource Hub for support and guidance during this time.

PSHE Activities (Ideas to support emotional and physical health) Acts of Kindness Being Kind is a great way to boost wellbeing for you, your family or friends. The Mental Health Foundation has some great ideas on how you can get involved in spreading Random Acts of Kindness!

Weekly PSHE Challenge Each week we will be setting schools, a challenge linked to themes within your PSHE programme to support wellbeing. Each challenge will be delivered as a question we want your pupils to consider and answer using a range of different ways e.g. Podcast, poster, artwork, story, comic strip, newspaper report, mind map or Power Point presentation by school pupils. Teachers, parents, siblings and friends may provide support with this; alternatively, the challenge can be completed independently. We are encouraging you to share with us the work being done so we can celebrate the amazing things you are doing to support pupil wellbeing at this time.

Challenge One: Mental Health Awareness week- Kindness Question: How can you be kind to yourself and others this week? Activity: Do an activity that will support someone else to feel happier Learning Objective: To learn about the different ways we can support ourselves and others to have good mental health Learning: To identify the benefits of helping others and why it is important. Activities to Encourage Kindness and Develop Resilience Resources  Red Cross Kindness Calendar: On the next page of this bulletin, you will find a Kindness Calendar from the Red Cross; use the blank calendar to record daily acts of kindness. They can use this to look back on all they have achieved. We have also included a link to few tips to help you complete this calendar. Please email your completed calendar to Mrs Cain mcain@rodingvalley.net  The Mix: Please use this link to visit this website which contains information for the under 25yrs about How to support others during coronavirus

Did you know...?  ECFWS will be contacting all students in Year 9 from 24 May 2020. Do you have a young person who is in Year 9 (Aged

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13/14)? If so, within the summer term, a member of the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service will be in contact with you. Together we will discuss how we can support your young person in starting to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing, and anything we can do to support you as a family. As part of this, we will be asking to speak to your 13/14 year old directly to share any appropriate health information and ask if there is anything, we can do to support them. If you have any further questions, then please contact your local Healthy Family Team. The Children and Young People Now Awards 2020 close on 26th June. For more information and to nominate anyone that you feel has made a positive impact to the lives of children and young people Click here. Do you need support regarding a particular child or young person? Your School Nurse is available to support you with the Health and Wellbeing needs of any child, young person or family you may have concerns about. Please contact your local team for further information: Mid Essex Tel: 0300 247 0014, North Essex Tel: 0300 247 0015, South Essex Tel: 0300 247 0013 West Essex Tel: 0300 247 0122 CHAT Health: Our texting service remains active and is well resourced with highly skilled School Nurses. Young people have the opportunity to contact us directly. Checkout our website and search engine for services local to schools and your communities: www.essexfamilywellbeing.co.uk Follow us on: @rodingvalleyHS @humsrvhs @rodingvalleyPE RODING VALLEY DRAMA@rodingdrama

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Explore together: Ask your child to show you their favourite websites and apps and what they do on them. Listen, show interest and encourage them to teach you the basics of the site or app.

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Make sure they know about CEOP: Young people can report a concern about grooming or sexual abuse to CEOP at www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/ and get support from a specialist Child Protection Advisor.

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Support your child with Thinkuknow websites The age appropriate Thinkuknow websites are a great way to start and continue chats about online safety.

 11-13yrs Thinkuknow website: https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/11_13/  14yrs + Thinkuknow website – https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/14_plus/ Our websites provide open and honest guidance for young people on friends, relationships and the internet, covering topics like dealing with pressure; consent; and getting support when you’re worried. You’ll find lots more advice on keeping your child safe online at www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents. If you’re worried that a child or young person is at risk of harm online, you should call the police. Young people can make a report to CEOP at https://www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/

Other Recommended Resources Parent Info: Expert information for parents about building their child’s resilience both online and off. Produced by NCA-CEOP and Parent Zone. This free service can be embedded on to your child’s school website. www.parentinfo.org Brook: Information and advice for young people on sexual health and wellbeing, including staying safe online. https://www.brook.org.uk The Mix: Support service for young people with information and advice on sex and relationships. https://www.themix.org.uk Internet Matters: A useful tool showing how to set parental controls across a range of devices and websites. http://www.internetmatters.org/parentalcontrols/interactive-guide/ NSPCC Net Aware: Provides reviews and guidance on the most popular social networks, apps and games that children use. https://www.net-aware.org.uk/ Childnet – Information and advice for parents and carers on supporting people online. https://www.childnet.com/resources/suppo rting-young-people-online

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Prepare Yourself  If possible, find a space that is tidy and organized.  Sit at a table if you can  If you have siblings or parents who working too, try sitting and working together.

 If you need quiet, sit in your room if you can.

During Your Day  Plan your day. Make sure you know what you are doing when. Why not plan your day the night before? Write out a schedule (including breaks). An example plan would be as follows:

Monday

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English (include 30 minutes reading

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Science

Humanities

Art & Creative Subjects

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French / Spanish

Business / IT / Computer Science

English (include 30 minutes reading

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 Avoid distractions when you are working. Unless you need it for research, put your phone away for a while.

 Keep active! You are more likely to focus better on your work if you plan active breaks in between tasks

If you get stuck  Ask a friend or family member – they might be able to help.  Contact your Teacher or the Subject Leader. Keep in touch using your school emails. We’re still here to support you. If you don’t get reply, it might be that they are poorly. Copy in another teacher too and we’ll work together to help however we can.

 Please use all of the available links with our Home Learning Booklet and within the Bulletin to access the many websites that have lots of learning activities and support.

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How Can I Access Edulink? EduLink can be accessed on any device – PC, laptop, tablet or mobile device – via the web browser or via the EduLink app. The link to access the EduLink login page on a web browser is www.edulinkone.com Alternatively, you can download the EduLink App which is available to download for free on Apple or on Android. Both the App and the web browser will display this log-in screen. The School ID is ‘Roding’.

Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

Requires Android 4.4 and up.

Parents/Carers will need to enter the Username and Password they have been provided with and click ‘Log in’.

The displayed is dependant of the platform you are logged in to:  Via Web Browser  Via the EduLink App

Navigating Edulink You are able to navigate each of the following areas in EduLink: 

Achievement: You van view all positive achievements that have been awarded to your child

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Behaviour: You will be able to see all behaviour points given to you child and any sanctions given to your child including detentions.

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Medical Information: In this section you can see all of the medical information that we have on file for your child

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Account Information: In this section you can view the current address we have for your child on file, your child’s Year group and the name of their Form tutor

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Timetable: In this section you can view your child’s daily timetable

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Absence Reporting: This feature will allow you to send a direct message to our Attendance Officer, to notify us of any absence for your child

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Linked Resources: This section contains links to all the schools learning resources available to your child both at school and at home

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Messages: You will be able to view all communication from the school; you are also able to reply to all messages and send messages to any of your child teachers

Parents can access information on all their children currently admitted to Roding Valley High School. If you require any assistance, please contact Mr Vermaak or Miss Stewart (mvermaak@rodingvalley.net or lstewart@rodingvalley.net ) Follow us on: @rodingvalleyHS @humsrvhs @rodingvalleyPE RODING VALLEY DRAMA@rodingdrama

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Classroom How to Log on to Google Classroom? Students can log into their Gmail using their school email address and their password. Their school email will be the year they started at RVHS started plus their first initial and surname @rodingvalley.net (example- 19plarkin@rodingvalley.net). Once your child has have logged in, they will need to click on the google apps button and then select ‘Google Classroom’ Your child will then be able to see all of the classes they belong to. They will then need to click on the class they want to use resources for and take a look at everything that their class teacher has posted for them to work on. They will be able to download items and make comments on them. Teachers will be regularly posting new work on their Google Classrooms.

What to Do if your child is a Missing a Subject their Google Classroom? If your child is missing a Google Classroom for one of their subjects, they will need to click on the addition symbol, followed by ‘Join Class’ and then enter the Class Code for their missing subject. Class Codes are available from their subject teacher.

Top Tips for Our Students  Students must keep up to date with their lessons by using Google Classroom every day.  Use their workbooks to complete the work shown on their Google Classroom.  Don’t slack on presentation! Keep their notes in order of the lessons on the Google Classroom.  Year 11 and 13 Students: There will be revision materials available on Google Classroom. Please use them.

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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 and See the Work Set  Go to www.showmyhomework.co.uk/pin  Or you can download the app.  Students can log in with their Gmail account. If this doesn’t work, they can use their student Pin that they were originally given. If they can’t access their Pin and cannot log in at all, please contact Ms Larkinplarkin@rodingvalley.net  Your child will then be able to see their homework dashboard and see what homework they have been set and what is due. When they have completed their set homework- please remember ‘tick’ it off.

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. PINs are then only be used as a backup in case you forget the memorable login 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 Larkin: plarkin@rodingvalley.net

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

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.

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

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

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What is Seneca? Seneca is a free home learning & revision platform that is very popular with our students. It is based on cognitive science, has adaptive learning and can be accessed by our students via their phones!

What Content is available to our Students through Seneca? Seneca has resources available for KS3, KS4 and KS5 students that has been supplied to them from AQA, OCR, EdExcel Pearson and IGCSE. Our students will be able to access content designed for each of their subjects and also for their specific courses. There is so much to choose from. Some areas are even linked to the Exam Boards Course Specifications.

How to Access Seneca? Students will need to go to https://www.senecalearning.com/ , click try for free and create a log in with their school email address.

Once Logged in Once they are logged in, students are able to search for different subject areas and learn about their chosen topic. At the end of each subject presentation there will be a quiz on the presentation This Online tool will enable our students to stay on top of their home learning.

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We have included some links below that Parents / Carers may find useful for resources ideas, solutions, plans and support:

 http://homelearninguk.com  http://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/  https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/135609/list-of-education-companiesoffering-free-subscriptions/ These sites can be quite overwhelming, so think carefully about what you are looking for to make it easier to search. You could also follow this celebrity timetable:

Free Lessons with Celebrities

9:00am

PE with Joe Wicks

10:00am

Music with Myleene Klass

11:00am

Science with Maddie Moate

11:30am

Dance with Oti Mabuse

13:00pm

Maths with Carol Vorderman

14:00pm

History with Dan Snow

15:00pm

English with David Walliams

17:30pm

Food Tech with Jamie Oliver

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Further Resources for Students  Gojimo.com has GCSE quizzes that relate to different specifications and are set up and ready to go.  Memrise.com is a useful app for all languages and uses videos to help learners.  Mind Mapping Looking for visual thinking? Try bubbl.us, to help students better understand, remember and generate new ideas.  Revisionbuddies.com can provide short bursts of revision for many GCSE topics and tracks progress too. It even allows the pupils to access past papers and mark schemes.  Goconqr.com allows pupils or teachers to create mind maps and flashcards using key terms.  Wordflex.com app uses a dictionary with a focus on key terms and a content-rich curriculum  Brainpop has a great set of videos, freely available for pupils.  Safer Internet Day is all-year-round in my opinion and there are loads of online resources pupils and parents can use on  BBC Bitesize resources and videos.  BBC Learning This site is old and no longer updated and yet there's so much still available, from language learning to BBC Bitesize for revision. No TV licence required except for content on BBC iPlayer.  Futurelearn Free to access 100s of courses, only pay to upgrade if you need a certificate in your name (own account from age 14+ but younger learners can use a parent account).  Openlearn Free taster courses aimed at those considering Open University, but everyone can access it. Adult level, but some e.g. nature and environment courses could well be of interest to young people.  Blockly: Learn computer programming skills - fun and free.  Scratch Creative computer programming  Ted Ed All sorts of engaging educational videos  National Geographic Kids Activities and quizzes for younger kids.  Duolingo Learn languages for free. Web or app.  Mystery Science Free science lessons  The Kids Should See This Wide range of cool educational videos  Crash Course YouTube videos on many subjects  Crest Awards Science awards you can complete from home.  iDEA Awards Digital enterprise award scheme you can complete online.  Tinkercad All kinds of making.  Nature Detectives A lot of these can be done in a garden, or if you can get to a remote forest location!  British Council Resources for English language learning  Big History Project Aimed at Secondary age. Multi-disciplinary activities.  Geography Games Geography gaming!  The Artful Parent Good, free art activities  DK Find Out Activities and quizzes  Twinkl This is more for printouts, and usually at a fee, but they are offering a month of free access to parents in the event of school closures.

 English Literature Useful resources, including work booklets that students can complete at home.

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