The Royal Masonic School For Girls Senior School Weekly News Update
Friday 20th January 2017
SCHOOL NEWS This Half Term at a Glance
Life Skills Evening—Monday 30th January
Here are just a few important
Parents and Guardians of girls in Years 6 to 11
forthcoming events coming next term… For our full calendar, click here
are invited to join us for the first Life Skills event of 2017.
Monday 23rd January
This session, entitled “Health Choices in Diet and
Visiting Opera Production:
Exercise” will be held on Monday 30th
The Diary Of Anne Frank
January from 7.00pm to 8.30pm in the New Mark
Thursday 26th January
Hall.
Strings Masterclass
Doors open at 6.45pm for drinks and light
Thursday 9th February Musical Theatre and Drama Showcase Monday 30th January
refreshments. The session will end at 8.30pm followed by opportunities for questions and answers. In order to facilitate discussion, please
Life Skills Evening
do not bring your daughters/wards to this
Friday 3rd February
session; they are given advice and strategies
Rush Hour Concert
during their Life Skills lessons.
4th—5th February
The session will be led by Mrs Lucy Williamson,
EXEAT Weekend
RMS parent and nutritionist, and Dr Caroline
Year 11 At Home (Saturday am)
Quinn of the Colne medical practice in
Wednesday 8th February
Rickmansworth.
Year 9 Options Evening
If you are able to attend the event, please contact
Year 10 Vaccinations
Pippa Hopkins via email
Thursday 9th February
phopkins@royalmasonic.herts.sch.uk by
Music and Drama Showcase
Wednesday 25th January.
Friday 10th February Year 9 At Home Friday 10th—Sunday 19th February HALF TERM FORMS DATES THIS TERM Saturday 11th March FORMS QUIZ NIGHT. More details to follow……….
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SCHOOL NEWS Emails Sent this Week Years 7- 11:
Reminder and further information about Life Skills Evening 30th January
Year 9 English:
(Mrs Gardner’s set only) Letter about set text
ALL:
Welcome letter from Mr Carson
Year 10:
Reminder to return vaccination forms
GCSE/A Level Music: Trip to Barbican Year 9:
Letter from Mrs Adamson re. “The Woman in Black” theatre visit
Iceland Trip:
Reminder about final payment
Year 12 Geography:
Reminder about payment for Slapton Field Trip
Year 10 Art:
Art trip to Tate Modern
Parent Portal queries & updating contact details To advise us of any changes to your contact details, change of boarding status etc., please contact changeofdetails@royalmasonic.herts.sch.uk. This is a group email address and your communication will be sent to all the relevant parties wit hin the School. If you have any other questions relating to the Parent Portal, please contact our Data Systems team on data support@royalmasonic.herts.sch.uk
This week’s Sports Results Hockey
Netball
RMS vs Hockerill
RMS v Northwood College
Year 7 A Team lost 1-4
Year 8 A Team won 26-3
Year 7 B Team drew 1-1
Year 8 B team won 23-1
RMS vs Tring School Year 9 won 4-0 Under 14 Invitational Tournament RMS Year 8 team won the tournament, with the Year 9 team coming 4th. Congratulations to all the players.
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SCHOOL NEWS Performing Arts Next Week There are a couple of Performing Arts events next week, and we very much hope to see some of you there! On Monday, we are delighted to be welcoming the “About Turn” Theatre Company to RMS to put on their production of “The Diary of Anne Frank”. The final few tickets for this opera, starring international soprano Polly Ott, are available here: https://www.trybooking.co.uk/950 . On Thursday, we will be hosting violinist Hazel Ross who give a public coaching to a number of our gifted strings players. Ms Ross plays with many of the UK’s professional orchestras including the Halle, CBSO, Northern Ballet, RTE Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra and London Concert Orchestra. She is also in demand as a session musician and has led tours and recorded with artists including Shirley Bassey, Kathryn Jenkins, Bryn Terfel and Michael Buble, as well as making several TV appearances. The masterclass will be held in Scarbrough Gallery and it is FREE to attend, with no ticket necessary. Daniel Hyde
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CHARITY NEWS We are excited to be beginning a brand new term, which we hope will be jam-packed with many fundraising ideas and events for Sparks. It is already looking very promising… To kick-start the term, we held a cake sale and a non-uniform day, which both took place on Tuesday. This enabled managed to combine two things that RMS girls love to do – come into school in their own clothes and also eat cake! What more could an RMS girl wish for? Cake Sale: Thank you to our Sixth Form Charities Committee (Year 12), who created an array of home-made cupcakes, brownies, crispy bites and rocky road slices. Every contribution was extremely well presented, particularly the cupcakes that had some beautiful rainbow icing on them! This just goes to show how useful our Food and Nutrition lessons were in Year 7 and 8! It is safe to say that the sale went very well, with everything selling out before the end of break time. Thank you to everyone who made something for the sale and also to everyone who donated to the cause. Thank you also to Alex, Amber and Chineme in Year 12, who counted up the profits; we raised a very pleasing total of £258.40! Non-uniform day: The ‘Come as Yourself’ theme seemed to be very well-received, which is good! Thank you to everyone who remembered to donate. The Sixth Form raised approximately £217.50, which is great! Thank you to Alex, Amber and Chineme who counted this up. An update on the total profit will hopefully be revealed next week!... Tie Dye Success! A big thank-you must go to Zoe, Maddy and Tegan in Year 8 who took the initiative to set up a Tie Dye service before Christmas. They advertised their business in the Assembly Notices and over the holiday they were hard at work, creating their personalized T-shirts and more. Overall, they raised a fabulous total of £289.01! This is extremely impressive and shows a great deal of creativity and imagination. Well done girls! Email us your ideas! If your daughters, like Zoe, Maddy and Tegan, have an idea about how we can raise money, please ask them to let us know. We are very open to ideas and would love to hear what they have to say! Our emails are on the Charity Board, opposite room 13! We look forward to hearing lots of ideas! Katie and Hannah, Deputy Head Girls for Charity
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