Rodborough Chronicles March15

Inside this Edition Musical Miscellanea A Day in the Life Book Reviews World Book Day Word Millionaires Geography Field Trip Theatre Trips Senior Prefects Duke of Edinburgh Cook It! Sports Hall Athletics Year 9 Basketball Year 8 Netball Swimming Gala Year 7 Netball Girls’ Football

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Dates for your Diary

30 Mar-1 Apr Berlin Trip History & R.E. Years 10 & 11 13 April Summer Term Begins 15 Apr Theatre Trip 39 Steps 29 Apr Provisional TeenAid 30 Apr Y7 Consultation Even 4 May Bank Holiday 9-10 May D of E Bronze Exped.

15 May Y10 Skills Festival 22 May Y9 MasterChef Comp.

25-29 May Half Term 26-29 May Whitsun Revision 1-2 June INSET (except GCSEs)

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Adult and Community Learning Courses Rodborough School Summer 2015 Italian – Level 3+ – Term 3 Course No GTR1001G Monday Evenings 20/04/2015 – 13/07/2015 11 Weeks Time: 7.30 pm – 9.00 pm NO COURSE on 4 May

For more information please contact: Centre Manager Surrey Adult Education 25 West Street, Farnham GU9 7DR Tel 01483 518558

Italian – Level 5+ – Term 3 Course No GTR1000G Monday Evenings 20/04/2015 – 13/07/2015 11 Weeks Time: 7.30 pm – 9.30 pm NO COURSE on 4 May

Email: farnham.aec@surreycc.gov.uk Web: www.surreycc.gov.uk/adultlearning

Please note that ALL courses STOP during half term week from 25 May 2015

Soft Furnishing Curtains/Blinds & Home Textiles Course No GTR2400G Tuesday Evenings 21/04/2015 – 30/06/2015 10 Weeks Time: 7.00 pm – 9.00 pm

Please note that ALL courses STOP during half term week from 25 May 2015

will be: Thursday 9 July 7:30 Friday 10 July 7:30 Saturday 11 July 7:30

IMPORTANT REHEARSAL WEEKENDS

will be: Sat/Sun 20/21 June 2015 EVERYONE Sat/Sun 4/5 July 2015 EVERYONE Friday 3 July Technical Crew only until 9pm

Congratulations to Elizabeth Knatt who has been awarded a place at the Royal College of Music Saturday School.

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Rodborough Musicians Inspire Juniors

Reporter Ms Moyler

Rodborough Music Department have been working closely with our local junior and infant schools recently in many different ways.

Groups of musicians accompanied Mr Smith to his assemblies at Milford, Busbridge, Witley and Shackleford schools this term, where they encouraged the younger pupils to consider learning to play an instrument.

Following the success of November’s Junior Orchestra Day, this was followed up with Junior Singing Day in March (details below).

Emily, Zoe and Megan at Witley School

All our local junior schools were invited to bring their Year 5s singers along to Rodborough for an intensive singing day.

Unfortunately, not all schools were able to attend but we had very healthy representations from Waverley Abbey, Chandler and St Edmond’s - making a total of over seventy singers on the day!

Singers were divided into two groups, each of which began with warm up activities and vocal exercises before tackling rounds to make sure they were fully awake. They were then ready to start learning the three songs that would be performed to parents at the end of the day.

Squash and biscuits kept energy levels high during the wellearned morning break. Rodborough singers were scattered through the Year 6s to help them along and provide moral and musical support and Sports Leaders from Year 10 provided structured games in the spring sunshine out on the field at lunch time.

The day had been planned around learning three pieces; You’ve Got a Friend in Me, Hakuna Matata and Let it Go. By lunch time these were beginning to sound quite good and the after-lunch rehearsals with BOTH groups singing together soon had the part singing perfected. After the final rehearsal the very excited Year 5s moved over to the Main Hall for our last quick run through with the backing track and to check everybody could be seen.

We were delighted that lots of parents were able to come along and be our audience and be proud of their children’s progress. One parent asked his son if he had fun - the first response was, “I had a Jaffa cake, a chocolate biscuit and a custard cream!” Fortunately, this was followed with, “Yes, it was great!”

Everyone made huge progress throughout the day and one common compliment was for our Rodborough Vocal Group members, who worked tirelessly all day helping juniors and Staff alike.

Thank you to everyone involved for making this such a successful event.

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AWUTU SPECIAL

Reporters: Holly Giles, Kiera Chenhall, Charlotte Cook, Nell Rayner & Honor Walsh

A Day in the life of a Rodborough Student October Chronicles showcased a day in the life of Patience Ama Arhin – one of the students that we sponsor at Awutu Winton School in Ghana.

We hope you enjoy the response from Holly (Year 10) and her Year 8 team: At Rodborough our school day starts at 8.45 am and we have a mid-morning break and a lunch break, with our day ending at 3.25 pm. We have 6 lessons per day.

Rodborough's assemblies are very important as well as fun and entertaining; they bring everyone together. We have two assemblies a week, one of which is for the Lower School (540 students) or Upper School (360 students) and the other is for each Year 7s in Lower School Assembly in the Sports Hall Year Group (180 students) separately.

Year group assemblies feature announcements such as House Point Totals, STAR Reader and other achievements/rewards. In the Lower School and Upper School Assemblies competitions and upcoming events available to the whole school are announced. Assemblies teach the school about topical events, morals and life skills. They are engaging and a key part to Rodborough’s daily life.

Our 60 teaching lessons each week are divided as follows: In the Lower School every week we have 4 lessons each of Maths, English Jazz Band Play in Whole School End of Term Assembly and Science. We have six language lessons each fortnight – most of us learning both French and German. Additionally we have Humanities subjects (History, Geography and Religious Studies), Creative subjects (Art, Music and Drama), Technology subjects (Design Tech, Textiles Tech and Food Tech), PE and Computing. In the Upper School (Years 10 and 11) you carry on with some of these subjects depending on what you have chosen to study for GCSEs or vocational courses. Upper School courses are more intensive with a greater number of lessons.

Rodborough is a Technology and Humanities Academy so every student must choose to take either a Technology or a Humanities subject (or both) at GCSE. Technology classes in the Lower School are very practical. This means we are able to learn life skills such as cooking, DIY, sewing and fabric skills. In Food Tech we have practical and theory lessons; in practical lessons we cook, bake and even fry food and get to taste what we have made! In DT (Design Technology) we learn skills as we make items including a key fob, a Pyramid Challenge in Maths metal man, a keepsake box and clock.

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Science, Maths and English lessons can be just as much fun; in Science we conduct interesting experiments and there are many different activities and great things to do in Maths. In English we cover lots of topics including creative writing, analysis of great classic literature, plays and poetry. The sport lessons (PE) at Rodborough are great too. We learn to play a wide range of sports including Netball, Football, Gymnastics, Athletics and many more!

Throughout the year, there are lots of clubs and events you can get involved in, whether you’re sporty or creative, there’s always something for you to do. Huge numbers of Years 9, 10 and 11 get involved in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme – helping in the community, learning new skills and taking part in camping expeditions.

An annual event that’s very popular at Rodborough is the RS Factor (modelled on TV X-Factor). Students from all years can sing solos, duets or form groups to try and win D of E Expedition this prestigious singing competition.

We also have events that fit the seasons, e.g. we will soon have a Gingerbread House competition where teams compete to build the best gingerbread house. And of course, there’s nothing like sport!

Inter-house sport competitions happen all year round, from Football to Rugby, Netball to Hockey, there’s always something you can take part in and win points for your School House.

The school is split into three houses named Wells, Webb and Owen. Throughout the year many Inter-House competitions take place such as: Art, Football, Netball and, most recently, a Photography competition to win points for your house. Students can also earn points through everyday lessons for exceptional standards of work or homework or great contribution to lessons or to the life of the school and community.

The Music and Drama departments are just as busy.

Many Rodborough students play instruments of all types ranging from guitars, violins and other stringed instruments to trumpets, cornets and other brass instruments, woodwind (including clarinet, saxophone, flute, oboe and recorder), keyboards, piano and percussion. Our Rodborough Jazz Band is in demand for events in the community and our Chamber Groups, Wind Band, String Groups, Guitar Groups and many more entertain us at concerts throughout the year.

Our musicians join our dramatists for a huge Summer Production every year. These are usually musicals and involve around 20% of the school on-stage, back-stage, lighting, wardrobe, make-up or props. Last summer’s production was ‘Little Shop of Horrors’, which played to packed houses all three nights.

As you can see Rodborough, just like Awutu, is very busy and full of activities, opportunities and experiences. A day at Rodborough is never dull and many are still in school at 5pm busy with sports and clubs each evening.

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Book Reviews With the Easter holidays stretching before us, it seems a good time to gather inspiration from a few book reviews. Thank you to all our contributors. Do visit our newly refurbished library to pick up a copy or to browse the shelves.

My Smoky Bacon Crisp Obsession by JA Buckle

Reviewed by Jodie (Year 9)

Recently I have read this book and overall I enjoyed it. It is full of humour, life lessons and is a great read. The story is mainly about a boy called Josh (who is very easy to relate to), his friend and his family (including a pet ferret). Josh has just started college and is on a mission to complete a list of things he wants to do.

It is an especially great book to read if you are in the later years of Secondary School or at College. These types of people will relate to it well, both from a social life and school life point of view.

I also enjoyed it because everything that happened in the book continued to surprise me. It seemed as though the story was going a certain way but then it took a different route and I like it when books do this.

The book title and cover didn’t appeal to me at first and it wasn’t a book I would usually choose to read. This certainly supports the phrase ‘don’t judge a book by its cover!’ The ending of the book (without giving anything away) was good as it didn’t wrap the story up neatly but left it open for a sequel, which I hope there will be.

In conclusion, this is one of the best books I have read recently and I totally recommend it to anyone.

Other girl by Nichole Burstein

Reviewed by Molly (Year 8) and Angel (Year 9)

I really enjoyed reading ‘Other Girl’. The suspense was incredible. I was always wondering what was going to happen on the next page. It’s perfect for any young girls who love to read, laugh and like superheroes. The book is also super relatable and touching. I would definitely recommend it to a friend and have already been raving about how much I loved it. I can’t wait for a sequel or anything else written by Nicole Burstein.

(Molly) Other Girl is an action packed book about a world where superheroes exist with the most amazing powers. They’re called vigils; they can do loads of awesome things, like fly. The story follows two girls, Louise and Erica, who are the best of friends and hide an important secret: Erica has powers.

This book is written in a way which kept me interested and made me excited to know what would happen next. I was hooked from the very first page. The pacing was very good and the character development was excellent. I felt as if I knew them; they were made relatable and I saw myself in Louise. The book is ultimately about friendship and succeeds in teaching the reader about what it means to have true friends.

I would give this book an easy 10/10 for its impeccable writing and heartfelt moments.

I recommend this to all teenage boys and girls, it’s definitely worth reading. (Angel)

The Terrible Thing That happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne The book group read this book and Sophie (Year 9) reviewed it for us.

“This book was unique and engaging. I could barely put it down and was always curious to find out what would happen next. This book will help you improve your vocabulary and is a great story.”

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World Book Day Inter-House Quiz Thursday 5th of March was the annual event, World Book Day. Reading is really important and events like this help to keep it alive and keep teens reading. We volunteered as a group of four, Molly Kenyon, Sadie Lawrence, Emily Hazlerigg and Rachel Bartley.

Reporters Molly Kenyon & Sadie Lawrence Our winning team from 9BFA: Polly, Katherine and Ellie picking up House Points for Wells as well as a box of chocolates to share.

In the morning each group was given a sheet to fill in; it had 4 columns. The first column was filled with many teachers’ names, the second had the heading ‘Characters Names’ the third was headed ‘Place’ and finally the last one had the heading ‘Book Name’.

What we had to do was go around the school find the teachers on the sheet and look at their name stickers - for example Mrs Smith had the name tag ‘Jace Wayland’ and outside her door was the place ‘Palladium Club’. We then needed to work out that the book was ‘The Mortal Instruments’ by Cassandra Clare.

We spent the whole day, in-between lessons as normal, looking for names, places and working out the books.

We had a lot of fun and we got to show off our book knowledge, we also learnt about new books to read soon.

Star Reader Millionaires!

Years 7 and 8 take part in our STAR Reader scheme.

The scheme benefits students by encouraging them to read good quality fiction at the right level for optimum progress.

Students are rewarded in many ways. One of these is by recognising milestones.

Our ‘Word Millionaires’ this half term are:

Year 7

Year 8

3 Million Words

2 Million Words

Josh Jones 7KSA (Webb)

Molly Kenyon 8RPE (Wells) Alex Turner 8SKH (Webb) Calum Clark 8RPE (Wells)

1 Million Words Danny Burford 7SHO (Wells) Will Cant 7KGU (Webb) Eve Siddall 7KGU (Webb) Lily Sewell 7LEV (Owen) Charlie Gibbons 7LEV (Owen)

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Ella Boulter 8SAN (Webb) Emma Taylor-Stephens 8SKH (Webb) Ruby Steel 8SKE (Wells) Rachel Bartley 8RPE (Wells)

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Year 10 Geography Field Trip to South Wales

Reporter Mrs Howick Quotations from Feedback Sheets

Our Year 10 Geographers set “The Margam off excitedly for their much walk set the mark anticipated field trip to South for the walking Wales on 13-16 March. that was to The rain experienced on the come!”

M4 had slowed to slight drizzle HW by the time we arrived and had disappeared completely by the time we were part way into our first of many walks – this one up (yes, they always seemed to be up) into the wide open hillside of Margam “I learned how to Country Park, armed with calculate clinometers and measuring Spearman’s equipment to test our Rank” hypothesis, ‘Footpaths erode HP most where the slope is steepest’.

We spent the evening settling into the centre and learning ‘Spearman’s Rank’ – a statistical method of comparing dissimilar data, which we can use to raise our coursework levels.

After a full English Breakfast we set off to look at the ‘Tourist Honeypot’ town of Brecon and to enjoy a quick shopping and café opportunity before spending “I loved the snowball the best part of the day up fight on top of the in the Brecon Beacons, mountain!” TH where we studied the river (measuring flow and filming underwater), looked at how tourist impact on the National Park is managed, viewed the glacial landscape, climbed the 5th “The underwater highest mountain and played video looked in the snow at the summit! cool!” TH Half of us spent the evening bowling, whilst the other half rushed around Margam Park with our head torches on a ‘night time navigation’ exercise before chilling out in the common rooms.

Sunday morning dawned fair and we spend the day at Britain’s ‘best’ beach, Rhossili. The most popular activities were measuring the sand dunes for our transects, the photo challenge and dune jumping!

“The day at Rhossili was “We had fun measuring and “Rhossili was my favourite. unbelievable but the other sliding down the steep sand I took some great photos!” days were so good too!” GN dunes.”

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On Sunday evening our groups swapped evening activities of bowling / night time navigation.

Monday morning came all too With Porthcawl disappearing in soon and we were quickly coach wing mirrors, the rains packed up and off to our final returned to Wales.

An Geographical quest – finding uneventful drive delivered all 86 and identifying all the members of the expedition back different types of sea to school tired but happy! defences at Porthcawl (as well Did you lose an electrical device? as eating ice-creams and Come to see me, I may have good news visiting the amusements). for you! (Mrs Howick) “The mountain river was so clear.

It was really cool seeing the underwater films.

We had to add mud to make sediment move on our film!”

“I have always wanted to use a ‘Go-Pro’ type camera. It was cool!”

“I learned how waterfalls form!” TA “Our underwater film was EPIC!” “The river was really cold but it was worth it as using the flow-meters proved that the bigger stones were moved by the faster flow!”

“I will remember Spearman’s Rank and our snowball fight!” TA “I loved the night time navigation and Rhossili Bay.” SB

“I loved Brecon Town & “My favourite parts of the trip “My favourite parts of the the Beacons, the Dunes were the River Survey and the trip were climbing the Sand Dunes at Rhossili Bay.” mountain and being on the and socialising!” HW LH dunes.” GdC Do we have YOUR lovely photos? If not please bring them in.

Have you collected YOUR underwater films / waterfall films? Pop by with a memory stick.

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Cats at the London Palladium A visit to ‘CATS’ for members of Drama Club and other Drama students was made even more special for some lucky Year 8 theatre-goers who were able to go backstage at the London Palladium to get their programmes and tickets signed.

Woman in Black Year 10 & 11 students were treated to a terrifying night at the theatre to see Susan Hill’s famous psychological thriller, The Woman in Black on 24 February.

Robin Herford’s gripping production, celebrating its 25th year in the West End, delighted and terrified our Year10s, Year 11s and teachers in equal measure, prompting screams of terror even from those who have seen it many times before!

www.thewomaninblack.com

www.love39steps.com

By contrast, Years 10 & 11 will soon have the opportunity to see the hilarious West End comedy adaptation of John Buchan’s classic spy thriller, The 39 Steps.

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New Senior Six and House Captains

In February, Year 10s were invited to apply to become Senior Prefects.

This is a rigorous process involving letters of application, panel interviews before school and peer and staff voting. This year’s applications were of exceptionally high quality, making the choice of six students from the field of 42 very difficult.

Our new Senior Six are: Head Girl: Holly Giles Deputy Head Girls: Anneliese Jay and Emily Porter

Head Boy: David Carter Deputy Head Boys: Max Culver and Alex Warner

12 new House Captains have also been appointed: Owen: Miles Blagden, Eleanor Choi, Jess Herring and Lauren Parker Webb: Rowan Bartlett, Grace Da Costa, Kezia Denne and Oliver Sleap Wells: Jessie Cross, Isobel Dalton, Charlie Jones and Will Towner Other applicants from this high calibre field have been asked to head up working groups and will be announced next term. Well done to you all.

Meeting Cathy Cassidy

Reporters Piper Bennett and Esme Byrne 8SKE Cathy Cassidy is a British author, famous for her children's and young adult fiction.

In January we entered a competition about Cathy Cassidy’s books and were the lucky winners chosen to meet Cathy and help at her book signing at Waterstones, Clapham, London of Sweet Honey (her latest book) in February.

On the day we arrived at the store we were asked if to become Cathy’s chocolate fairies. We wore fairy wings and handed out sweets, friendship bracelets and bookmarks to the members of public attending the event. We met other Cathy Cassidy fans and spoke to them about our favourite books.

At the end of the event we were able to chat to Cathy, who kindly signed our books, answered lots of questions and gave us advice about writing stories. Cathy also gave us chocolate bars for being super fans and helping at her event.

We had a fabulous time meeting Cathy and, having spoken to Cathy’s fans, we discovered that Sweet Honey seems to be her most popular book so far. Cathy has two books due out this year; ‘Alice, Looking-Glass Girl’ will be out in April and was written to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Fortune Cookie will be the sixth and final book in Cathy’s Chocolate Box Girls series and we are looking forward to reading them both.

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Year 9 Duke of Edinburgh Progress

126 Year 9 students have signed up for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. Their first major task was to become proficient First Aiders and this job has been made easy for them as ALL our Year 9s now take a day off timetable each spring to learn vital life-saving skills.

Their next challenge was to become proficient navigators.

Several sessions learning map-reading skills after school on Fridays were put to the test recently when the groups set off on their first navigation walks. Suddenly walking on a given bearing didn’t seem quite so easy for some, so the close proximity of our local footpaths was the ideal training ground, with the highly recognisable railway line and comfort of local roads useful aids to navigation during these early stages!

We wish all our Duke of Edinburgh groups well as they progress through their different award stages.

The map trace and statistics represent the correct route of the first navigation walk.

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Cook It!

Reporter Mrs Smith

Well done to everyone who took part in the Rodborough Cook It competition.

The standard was considerably high and the judging (by Heads of Year 7 & Year 8) was difficult but enjoyable!

Well done to 3rd placed Olive Farlow-Wallace for her very flavoursome fishcakes and mango fool dessert.

Josh Marriott’s quail scotch eggs and chips followed by passion fruit shortbread earned him 2nd place.

The winner, Sam Davis presented an excellent Bouillabaisse fish stew followed by chocolate fondant dessert.

All entries were worthy of Master-Chef status in our books!

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Year 7 Sports Hall Athletics County Finals Position Girls Following their success at their local event, our Year 7 team went forward to the County Finals at Surrey Sports Park.

There were 12 Girls’ teams and 11 Boys’ teams from all over Surrey so Rodborough were up against it.

Reporter Miss Mackay

Boys

5th

238 Heathside

223 Reigate Grammar

4th

248 Rydens

241 The Ashcombe

3rd

252 Rodborough

247 Fullbrook

2nd

253 St John the Baptist

262 Rodborough

1st

299 Reigate Grammar

270 Tomlinscote

The team put in a fantastic effort and each performer gave their all.

Boys Team: Olly Sheppard, Henry Downes, Tom Blamey, Ben Blamey, Luca Ross, Reece Ferris, Blake Hammond, Leon Dyer

Girls Team: Cassie Ebel, Katie Holloway, Poppy Lewis Brown, Lauren Barnett, Maisie Page, Lily Dalton, Grace Sleap, Rebecca Price

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Year 9 Basketball

Reporters Max, Southern & Arthur Year 9 Basketball team’s first match of the year was against Glebelands – one of our greatest rivals.

The game got away to a flying start with Rodborough creating scoring opportunities and making few mistakes.

Every member of the team played exceptionally well – Jed scored an amazing three pointer in the dying moments of the first half bringing the half time score to 24:14 in Rodborough’s favour.

Things began to heat up a bit in the second half. We lost our 10 point lead and, with the scores level it was important that we continued to play well. A fierce battle ensued with defences being breached on both sides. It was crucial that our counter-attacks were as effective as possible.

Substitutions were made and although we were all tired we determined to push on and give of our best, keeping the scores even. Glebelands then opened up a short lead and, with baskets being scored left, right and centre, our defence really sharpened up – preventing their lead from widening.

When the final whistle blew we were dismayed to read 36:37 on the scoreboard – Glebelands a single point ahead! Imagine our relief and delight when it was announced that a scoring mistake had been made and that the final score was 36:36 – a good result after such a keenly fought game and not a bad result for our first game of the season.

All team members enjoyed themselves and can’t wait for the next match. A big thank you to Mr Farrell for all his help and also to the staff who came to support us.

Year 8 Netball

Year 8’s A & B Netball teams took part in a tournament at George Abbot School on 10 February.

The ‘B’ team, Rachel, Sadie, Charlotte, Caroline, Hannah, Emma , Sophie and Emily all played well against some incredible teams including: Broadwater, Woolmer Hill, Guildford County, Christ College, George Abbot & St Peter’s.

The eventual winners were County, followed

by St Peter’s.

Everyone did a great job and tried their hardest – well played everyone!

Reporter Rachel Bartley The ‘A’ team started well with comfortable wins over Christ’s College, Woolmer Hill, Broadwater and George Abbot. Unfortunately, however, the winning streak didn’t last and St Peter’s and Guildford County both beat us. Our next match was closely fought against our own ‘B’ team and both teams were satisfied with the ensuing draw.

After a great day of well-played netball we were very happy with our 4th place finish and, despite this being lower than last year, we felt that we had done well against some very strong teams.

Reporter Josie Beagley ‘A’ Team Captain RODBOROUGH CHRONICLES

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Swimming Gala

Reporters Lola Wright & Josie Beagley

16 students from Years 7 to 10 represented Rodborough at Waverley Schools Swimming Gala on 5th March.

Despite a relatively small team we all swam well, with high standard performances earning us 1st places in three individual events: 50m Butterfly (Rachel Casey 35.97) 50m Back Stroke (Rachel Casey 33.09) 50m Breast Stroke (Holly Giles 42.82) We also triumphed in the relays, achieving 1st place in the Year 8/9 Girls 4x50m Freestyle and in the Year 10/11 Girls 4x50m Freestyle.

We were also very impressed by the courage and determination of our Year 7 boys who swam alongside Keir Hargreaves (Year 10) to complete the boys’ team.

Rodborough finished in an extremely respectable 4th place – one better than last year.

Year 7 Netball

Reporter Katie Telling: Captain B Team

Year 7 ‘A’ & ‘B’ Netball teams took part in a tournament at Christ’s College against 6 other schools. We all really enjoyed the tournament and played well.

Girls’ Football

Both our U14s and our Year 7s have qualified for the finals, having nd come 2 and 1st respectively in their local tournaments. Well done girls and good luck!

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