The Royal Masonic School For Girls Senior School Weekly News Update
Friday 9th June 2017
SCHOOL INFORMATION This Half Term at a Glance
Life Skills Survey (Years 7 to 11)
Here are just a few important forthcoming events coming this term‌ For our full calendar, click here
As you are aware, this academic year we
Saturday 10th June County Athletics Championships
this year for parents and guardians,
Tuesday 13th June Year 7 History/Classics Trip to St Albans
such as Healthy Choices in Diet and
Friday 16th June Year 8 Science to Royal Observatory
Online, Supporting Study and Revision
Saturday 17th June Boarders’ Camping on the Lowers
Friendships.
Monday 19th June Year 12 UCAS Exhibition Sixth Form Taster Day for Year 10 Year 9 Geography Trip to Windsor Three Rivers Sports Awards
events useful; we have set up a survey
Tuesday 20th June Summer Sports Team Photos Wednesday 21st June Non Uniform Day ABRSM Exams (until Friday 23rd) District Athletics Thursday 22nd June Celebration of Sport (7.00pm start) Saturday 24th June Year 10 History Trip to Berlin FORMS Summer Fair
have run a series of Life Skills workshops covering a number of important topics Exercise, Managing , Keeping Safe Skills , Mindfulness, and Managing
We hope that you have found these so that you can give us your feedback on the events, in terms of how relevant you found them, the convenience of the timings of these events, any topics you would like to see covered next term etc. We would be very grateful if you could complete this survey as it will give us valuable information in planning our Life Skills events for the next academic year. You can access the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/ r/765F696 Thank you in advance for taking the time
Thursday 29th June Photography Exhibition Preview
to complete this.
Saturday 1st July Prize Day and Sports Day
Life Skills Co-ordinator
Mrs J McCurdy
Friday 7th July END OF TERM
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SCHOOL NEWS Emails Sent this Week Year 9
Form Allocations for Year 10
Whole School
Celebration of Sport
Whole School
Reminder about Absence Procedures
Parent Portal queries & updating contact details To advise us of any changes to your contacts details 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 within the School. If you have any other questions relating to the Parent Portal, please contact our Data Systems Team on datasupport@royalmasonic.herts.sch.uk
A Level Photography Exhibition Come and see the work of our talented A Level Photography students at our annual exhibition of their work. The exhibition opens for a private viewing on 15th June, and is open thereafter until Prize Day and Sports Day on 1st July. We hope that many of you are able to come and see the fantastic work that the students have produced this year. Miss Lawrence Photography Department
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SCHOOL NEWS GCSE and A Level Art and Textiles Exhibition from Friday 9th June This year’s GCSE and A Level Art and Textiles Exhibition will have its launch (on Friday 9th June from 4.00-6.00pm. If you aren’t able to come to the launch, the exhibition will also be open on Sports Day (Saturday 1st July), so we hope lots of you are able to visit to see the fantastic work the students have produced this year
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Mrs Kingston
Mrs Coffey
Head of Art
Head of Textiles
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SCHOOL NEWS LADIES & GIRLS SELF-DEFENCE CLASS TUESDAY 27TH JUNE 7.00PM NUFFIELD SPORTS AND FITNESS CENTRE
A one-off class offering practical advice and simple self-protection techniques to help you stay safe and to deal with potential aggressive or violent confrontations. This is not a martial arts session and does not involve any aerobic activity or traditional martial arts. The techniques include: adopting the correct body language, and ways to preserve personal space and prevent escalation when faced with challenging behaviour. TMA instructor Andy Pilborough-Skinner has been teaching at RMS for 11 years. Three girls have gone on to represent England at international level with one student becoming world champion. This class is free of charge for RMS girls, as well as their female friends, siblings, mothers, staff and any interested parties. www.thekickboxer.co.uk
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SPORTS NEWS Athletics On Thursday, our Year 9 Athletics team won the SSP athletics match against all the local secondary schools. With this win, RMS is currently in the lead for the County league for both the U14's and U16's with two matches to go!
Golf taster session We are delighted to invite your daughter/ward to a free golf taster session, for all abilities, run by our experienced golf coach, Tony Bowers. RMS is very lucky to have this new facility and is keen to increase student participation in golf. We hope that your daughter/ward will be able to take part in this experience as it is a great opportunity for them to enhance their basic golf skills. There are limited spaces (10 in each) in the session and they will be offered on a first come first served basis. All parents are welcome to come and watch.
Taster session dates (1 hour session): Saturday 24th June at 4.15pm or Sunday 2nd July at 2.15pm. Please email Mrs Booth on ebooth@royalmasonic.herts.sch.uk if you would like to attend and indicate which session you would like.
Parent/daughter golf competition We would like to gauge interest in a friendly golf competition on the evening of Wednesday 21st June, starting at 6.00pm and lasting about an hour. If you and your daughter/ward would be interested in attending, please email Mr Broome on sbroome@royalmasonic.herts.sch.uk Mrs E Booth and Mr S Broome
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FORMS NEWS
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FORMS NEWS
Second Hand Uniform Shop this term Reminder to all parents that the Second Hand Uniform Shop is open every Friday 8.00-9.00am except for EXEAT weekends when it’s open on Fridays 3.00-4.00pm. Opening times for this term are as follows: June: Friday 9th, 16th, 30th: 8.00 - 9.00am; Friday 23rd (exeat) 3.00 - 4.00pm. The shop will also be open on Wednesday 21st June from 3.00pm - 5.00pm and on Tuesday 27th June from 4.00 - 5.30pm to coincide with Cadogan House and Senior School Induction Days respectively. July: Friday 7th: 8.00-9.00am
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