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Sports Day and a Fond Farewell …

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Sports Day 2010 saw a radical re-branding of the entire day. Designed to put SPORT into the centre of the day for ALL pupils, lessons were cancelled for everyone in favour of participation. During the morning each year group took part in inter-house competitions where house points were at stake fuelling rivalry between houses.

6-a-side Football Rounders Basketball Netball Total (mixed) Boys Girls

Crooksbury Kettlebury Hindhead Hydon Crooksbury Kettlebury Hindhead Hydon Crooksbury Kettlebury Hindhead Hydon Crooksbury Kettlebury Hindhead Hydon

25 30 35 20 20 30 30 40 35 20 30 50 30 25 30 20

30 25 25 20 40 25 10 25 35 20 10 20 35 20 35 15

20 25 40 20 25 15 35 25 35 30 35 10 35 25 35 15

25 35 25 15 20 5 10 15 40 20 10 35 30 35 15 30

30 25 30 15 35 20 30 25 15 35 20 10 15 5 40 10

130 140 155 90 140 95 115 130 160 125 105 125 145 110 155 90

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Track 7 Girls Hindhead (99) 7 Boys Hindhead (91) 8 Girls Crooksbury (86) 8 Boys Kettlebury (82) 9 Girls Kettlebury (80) 9 Boys Crooksbury (82) 10 Girls Crooksbury (89) 10 Boys Hindhead (99)

Field Hydon (83) = Hindhead Hydon (88) Kettlebury (86) Kettlebury (86) Crooksbury (96) Kettlebury (86) Crooksbury (91) Hydon (78)= Kettlebury

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The traditional fun-run Year proved as popular as ever Year just before lunch time, with Year over 90 pupils and staff Year running the mile around the Year school fields and working up Year a healthy appetite for the Year strawberries and ice-cream, Year organised by the Senior 6 (with grateful thanks to Hall Hunter for the strawberries)!

The afternoon saw the entire school gathered to watch the sprinters compete in the 200m races and house relays. Excitement and inter-house rivalry was high as the scores were collated, checked and re-checked.

When all the house totals for the day added together, the final picture showed: Crooksbury Hindhead Congratulations to our winning house, 1846 1626 Crooksbury, and to ALL our competitors.

Kettlebury Hydon Special thanks must go to our magnificent JSLA 1615 1517 students, whose sterling work made the day possible!

Thank you too to our ex-pupils who kindly returned to help out.

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The Retiring Mr Edwards …

Tribute by Mr Ewing

Although „retiring‟ is not a word any of us would use to describe Mr Edwards, he is actually doing that very thing after over 30 years of service at Rodborough at the end of this school year.

So, what better place to write a couple of words about Mr Nigel Edwards than here in the Chronicles, our letter to the wider community.

Over the years at Rodborough we have been lucky to have attracted people of some brilliance who have chosen to spend their working lives here in the community of our school and surrounding area. Those who remember John Record or Jim Bailey will know the sort of characters I mean. Well, Nigel Edwards is in the same mould as those brilliant characters from our past. Over the years many of us may have wondered why Nigel never moved on up into educational consultancy or lecturing, such is his knowledge of pupils and the processes of teaching them. Luckily for us, Mr Edwards has led his working life by a simpler set of rules. He has always believed the point of being a good educator is to make a difference in the school and community where you work. And what a difference he has made!

Many families out there will have had students go on ski trips, water sports trips to Cornwall and France, weeks at Calshot activities centre.

Behind these long established opportunities for our young people was a certain Mr Nigel Edwards. „Activities Week‟ in its modern form was started by Pete and Jean Davies but has been nurtured and improved over many years by RODBOROUGH CHRONICLES

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Mr Edwards.

ICT at Rodborough is also a Mr Edwards‟ success story. It all started about 20 years ago in what is now a languages classroom before expanding into a couple of leaky huts that have long since crumbled on the site of Tennis Together.

Many staff over the years have been sceptical about computing and computers but one man had the faith and vision to see the school through to where it is today – a modern Technology school with a computer and projector in every classroom.

Nigel Edwards also committed himself to getting more kids cycling and walking to school.

He believes passionately that travelling independently to school is a good way to increase the individual responsibilities and awareness of our students. And here he leaves behind a concrete legacy – well, concrete and metal actually! Few members of staff can look at the school and say “that 20 metre long handsome metal structure would not be there but for me”…. Let alone say it about TWO 20 metre long handsome metal structures! But Nigel can truly utter these words, should he feel so inclined, about both the bus shelter and the cycle sheds on our school site. He drove forward the Safer Routes to School project and was insistent that if Rodborough was getting a bus shelter it was going to be a very nice bus shelter. We have the most expensive bespoke designer-built bus shelter in Surrey and possibly the whole of England as a result! All thanks to Mr Edwards‟ insistence that not any old bus shelter would do, it had to be good enough for Rodborough.

Same for the cycle shed – the most expensive one in the catalogue and we have the only one in Surrey like it! You certainly can‟t knock Mr Edwards for poor or inexpensive taste!

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Nigel Edwards has made a huge difference to the staff here at school as well. His people skills are legendary and our working lives have been richer and better because Nigel has helped run our school.

But it is out in the community that his impact and legacy means the most and I am sure every family will have a story to tell about a Nigel Edwards assembly, the length of his amazing fingernails, his seemingly impossible age of 276 or just how he helped any one of thousands of students understand Maths and IT. If any of us want to know what a truly successful and meaningful life as a teacher is then look at Nigel Edwards or ask any kid within 3 miles of the school who Mr Edwards is. The answer will always be, “Mr Edwards, sure I know him. What a legend!”

We are a better school for having had you here all these years and will be a poorer one from your leaving. All of us both in school and in the wider community wish you the very best for your retirement.

Photographs show Mr Edwards doing what we all remember – organising Sports Day, D of E (rain or shine), always game for a laugh for charity, cliché Santa, and our two archive photos (thank you friends) – ‘health & safety in the 1980s’ and Rodborough Staff c.1981

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Strawberries for All

Reporter Mrs Ward

On a steamy hot Tuesday, Rodborough sportsmen and women found that there was nothing like a serving or two of strawberries and ice cream to help speed up the races at their annual Sports Day. Neighbouring strawberry farm, Hall Hunter Partnership, kindly donated 50 kg of strawberries which a small army of pupils prepared in the morning ready to serve at lunchtime with a variety of ice creams. Needless to say they were extremely popular with the pupils, who formed an enthusiastic, orderly and seemingly endless queue for 45 minutes until the strawberries had all gone, raising ÂŁ235 towards special School Council projects.

Reporter Mrs Lewis Golf Championship Decider Year 9 boys held their Championship play-off on Tuesday at Broadwater Park Golf Club. Congratulations to Sean, who beat Matthew and Oliver into 2nd and 3rd places respectively.

Reporter Miss Shephard Fun Run This yearâ€&#x;s run was as successful as ever with a record number of pupils taking part. Despite the heat, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and work up a healthy appetite for lunch.

Thank you to all our JSLA students and staff who helped to marshal the event and encourage the runners.

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