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Head’s Introduction
It is 1 October, and today is the start of Black History Month. We cannot forget our Head Girl’s talk last year, in which she explained how the need for a specific month focusing on Black History shows that we have a long way to go, as Black History should be taught and understood as an integral part of history. As we continue to work towards that aim, we will celebrate and explore many ideas, people, and stories over the coming weeks, with a series of exciting and engaging lectures and activities to give everyone in our community a chance to explore the wide-ranging impact of Black History.
Happy Nigerian Independence Day
Year 7 at Arundel Castle
I am very pleased to hear that the two trips which went out at the end of last week went well. The Year 7s had a great day at Arundel Castle and they were wonderful ambassadors for Roedean. Our Year 11 Geographers also had a highly productive weekend residential at Juniper Hall, where they undertook a lot of the work needed for their GCSE coursework. I am very grateful to my colleagues for taking these trips, and supporting our students in this way. I would like to thank everyone in the School community in advance for all the work that has gone into the preparations for Open Day tomorrow. This is an important event which allows us to celebrate the huge variety of different aspects of school life at Roedean, and to share these with our visitors. Thank you for the part you will play.
Geography in the Surrey Hills
Today is also Nigerian Independence Day, which, this year, marks 61 years of freedom and independence. We would all like to wish our Nigerian students and families well as they celebrate this important day, and I hope that the festivities in Keswick which our Sixth Formers have planned go well. Finally, well done to our Year 13s who had assessments this week. I hope that you all enjoy the weekend, and good luck for next week.
Year 9 DofE Bronze
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Unsung heroes in the spotlight Each week, many wonderful things happen at Roedean, about which many in the school are perhaps unaware; this section of the weekly review is dedicated to ‘unsung heroes’, in order to draw our attention to these people and remind us that our community is special.
Breaking News – Roedean’s STEM Ambassador was on BBC Breakfast this morning!
Rosa and Ayla (Yr9) for making a beautiful cake for Cherrie’s and Willow's birthdays [HBO]
Nigerian Independence Day Preparations Lawrence were preparing for Nigerian Independence Day last night; Sarah made the cakes and Ellen and Hebe made wonderful fondant Nigerian flag, edible decorations. It is great to see girls from different cultures get involved and celebrating this important date during our cultural evening in Lawrence. TDI
Cartoon’s Solo Quarantine
Sonia, Helen, Sydney, Maddie, Mia, Otti, Iras, Channah, Fadillah, Janice, Phoebe, Ellen and Isabel (Yr12) for the brilliant support at the Year 7 Parent and Tutor evening [CC]
Megan, Olivia, and Molly (Yr13), who were all Commended or Highly Commended in last year’s Newnham Essay Competition, for giving up their time this week to talk through the process with the current Year 12 [JSI]
Well done to Cartoon (Yr8), our favourite ‘Quarantiner’ – she smashed it! We were so impressed with her completing her solo-quarantine period that we made her a certificate. I hope this makes you smile – she is now returning to House 3! GCA Each week, a member of staff who has gone above and beyond the call of duty can be nominated by their colleagues or the girls.
Miss Housden for making indoor rowing so much fun [KWA]
Miss Ford-Senior for volunteering to lifeguard the pool when PE needed a helping hand [KWA]
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Mr Carter for stepping Mr Montagnini Jnr up to support and for taking the time cover external to collect all the girls’ provider absence at lost property and a moment’s notice putting it into piles [HBO] for them [KWA]
Mr Lang for his calm and assured invigilation in the Year 13 assessments this week! [GH & Yr13]
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Year 9 DofE Bronze Our new Duke of Edinburgh Bronze participants were given a variety of problems to overcome, giving them the opportunity to develop their team skills this week. Some got a little wet, some got a little tangled, and much laughter emanated as they successfully worked together! JFI
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Geography in the Surrey Hills Last weekend, fifty Year 11 GCSE geographers spent two nights and three days in the Mole Valley region of the North Downs, carrying out investigations into urban regeneration and river processes. The brief but intensive course brought to life the essential fieldwork skills required for GCSE Geography. We stayed at the recently refitted Field Studies Council Centre at Juniper Hall near Dorking. Whilst we spent significant time in the field and following up in the classroom, the students were also able to have a lot of fun with their friends, including singing and marshmallows around the bonfire, as well as a beautiful group walk and picnic at the top of Box Hill. It was an absolute pleasure to take such a wonderful group away, to see them enjoying their time together beyond the school site, and to experience Geography fieldwork again following an 18-month hiatus. GCA
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Year 7 at Arundel Castle Last Friday, the History department took the whole of Year 7 to Arundel Castle in search of medieval enlightenment! Our first trip since before the Covid pandemic, this was an exciting opportunity to re-engage with real history and explore an iconic historical site, and on such a beautiful day too. The girls were full of enthusiasm and asked masses of questions of our lovely guides, suggesting a real thirst for this sort of thing, which they’ve been denied over the past 18 months. We visited the Keep, the Armoury, the Dining Hall, and the ‘oubliette’, which for some reason really captured many of the girls’ imaginations as a place of punishment! Our visit closed with a visit to the newly opened ‘stew ponds’, where the Friary’s inhabitants would keep fish for eating in stews. It was wonderful to see the new Year 7s bond as a year group, and enjoy just exploring the past in a hands-on way, outside of the classroom. Hopefully, this is the first of many other school trips to exciting locations! SBB
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Chapel – Ms Keller This week, Ms Keller led our Chapel services which focused on some of the different faiths of the students at Roedean: After he received the Nobel Peace Prize 1964 Martin Luther King wrote: “We have inherited a large house, a great ’world house’ in which we have to live together – black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu – a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.” Six years ago, a revolutionary project in Switzerland began uniting 8 religions. The House of Religions – Dialogue of Cultures – opened in Bern, Switzerland, brings together worship rooms for eight faiths in a single building. It was built with the intention of encouraging those of different faiths to mingle and converse – a space to allow people to get to know each other beyond the borders of religion. The former Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks wrote: “Faiths are like languages. There are many of them. In order to express ourselves we must acquire mastery of our own language – and when we come across people with different
languages we must learn to communicate with each other.” The existence of English does not replace or supersede the existence of French, Urdu or Mandarin. Each language preserves a unique set of sensibilities. There are things you can say in one language that cannot translate without losing something to others. We are enriched by this multiplicity and would be impoverished without it. The same is true of religions – they do not and should not threaten one another.
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Ms Walker’s in the Guardian! ‘Head-to-toe gold sequins!’: nine readers on their favourite post-lockdown party outfits | Fashion | The Guardian
Because we are different, we each have something unique to give – not to ourselves and our communities alone but to all of us and the life we share. This means integration without assimilation. There are, and will continue to be Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhist, and all other religions and beliefs – and none. But the importance is that what we make, we make together. Well done, and thank you to Rula (Yr13), Fadillah, Alma, and Emma (Yr12), Kimmy, Savina and Tia (Yr11), and Rida, Lydia, and Angelica (Yr9), for sharing their experiences of how their religion affects their lives.
House 4 Many House 4 girls enjoyed a wonderful exeat weekend away with friends, family and/or guardians! Since their return, it has been another very busy week. The girls have enjoyed various activities, some of which include pottery, pancakes and professional basketball players! We are lucky to have a professional basketball player from New York, who is coaching our boarding girls every week, and they loved their first session!!
Year 12 Parisian Picnic Ms Shillito and Miss Hawkins are teaching the new English Lang/Lit A Level, and, to celebrate all things Paris – the topic of the anthology they are studying with Ms Shillito – they were treated to a Monday morning Paris picnic of coffee and croissants…! What a lovely way to start any week and learn lots of exciting new things! Page 8
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Black History Month at Roedean Today marks the first day of Black History Month. The theme for this year is ‘Proud To Be…’, and, for the next couple of weeks, we will be celebrating and exploring the contributions made by black people to British history, either directly, or by influencing a more global landscape. Here is a selection of sporting Britons, who are proud to be at the very top of their sports. HBO
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Deepdene Drawings This week, the Deepdene pupils in Years 3-6 came to Roedean to do Music. They were brilliant, so many thanks to the pupils for these wonderful pictures they drew whilst listening to Carnival Of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens, and for their fantastic musical compositions based on animals. SOB
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Musicians of the Week Musicians of the Week are the Year 9 helpers, Lydia, Inky, Alice, Hermione, Hettie, Amelia, and Maya, for their support for the Deepdene pupils – they led and conducted the groups with fantastic enthusiasm.
Teatime Recital – 12 October Macmillan Coffee Morning Thank you to everyone who contributed to last week’s Macmillan Coffee Morning – we raised £205, which is wonderful! Page 10
Don’t forget to sign up for the music recital on 12 October 12 – entries will close next week. Either sign up on the Music noticeboard or email sob@ roedean.co.uk – thank you in advance to all the musicians who are taking part in musical items on Open Day.
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Literary supplement Sometimes by Sheenagh Pugh
Roedean’s Favourite Poem
r all, Sometimes things don’t go, afte rs, muscadel from bad to worse. Some yea ; the crops don’t fail. faces down frost; green thrives , and all goes well. Sometimes a man aims high back from war, A people sometimes will step they care elect an honest man, decide some stranger poor. e leav ’t enough, that they can y were born for. Some men become what the do not go Sometimes our best intentions meant to. amiss; sometimes we do as we of sorrow field a lt me es The sun will sometim pen for you. hap it y ma that seemed hard frozen; Ms Peters (Drama)
Perhaps by Vera Brittain Perhaps some day the sun will shine again, And I shall see that still the skies are blue, And feel once more I do not live in vain, Although I feel bereft of You. Perhaps the golden meadows at my feet Will make the sunny hours of Spring seem gay And I shall find the white May blossoms sweet, Though You have passed away. Perhaps the summer woods will shimmer bright, And crimson roses once again be fair, And autumn harvest fields a rich delight, Although You are not there. Perhaps someday I shall not shrink in pain To see the passing of the dying year, And listen to the Christmas songs again Although You cannot hear. But, though kind Time may many joys renew, There is one greatest joy I shall not know Again, because my heart for loss of You Was broken, long ago. Jemima (Yr12)
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
As part of National Poetry Day on Monday 7 October, we have been finding out which poems inspire our staff and students. Here are just a few of the entries we have received so far. If you would still like to add your favourite poem to the list, please email Mrs Bailey (gba@roedean.co.uk).
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt, But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like the moon and like suns, With the certainty of tides, It’s like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise.
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W.B. Yeats Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. Miss Vasquez (Classics) and Miss Spence (English)
Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries? Does my haughtiness offend you? Don’t take it awful hard ‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines Diggin’ in my own backyard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise Tali (Yr7)
Leisure by William Henry Davies What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. Mrs Marshal-Taylor (Chaplain)
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I carry your heart with me by E.E. Cummings y it in i carry your heart with me(i carr nywhere it(a out with er nev am rt)i my hea r is done teve wha d r;an i go you go,my dea ling) dar y g,m doin r you is me by only i fear t wan i et) swe no fate(for you are my fate,my true) y ld,m wor my are you ul no world(for beautif meant ays alw has on and it’s you are whatever a mo you is sing ays alw will and whatever a sun ody knows here is the deepest secret nob the bud of the bud and t roo (here is the root of the called life;which grows and the sky of the sky of a tree d can hide) min or e higher than soul can hop g the stars apart pin kee t's tha der won the is and this Miss Boles (Marketing)
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SPORT Hockey vs Lancing 2nd XI
The 2nd team played exceptionally well against Lancing this week. The attacking unit worked hard, resulting in a number of shots on goal. Jemima assisted Toni’s shot on goal, and this resulted in us taking a 1-0 lead. With 30 seconds to go, Lancing scored. We finished the match on a draw. Lea was nominated as Player of the Match by the opposition. A huge well done to everyone who played.
Cricketer of the Year
Hockey vs Ardingly
Last weekend, Roedean cricketers were celebrated at the St James Montefiore Cricket Awards: Maria (Yr11) won U15 Player of the Year, Orla won U13 Player of the Year, and Liepa won Most Improved Player – congratulations!
U12B
Maria was the top female scorer in the whole club, and 3rd overall, including the men, and she also contributed to every match by wicket keeping and opening the batting. As well as this, she scored several over 50s, and she also retired frequently in T20 matches. Well done!
The game started tensely, with both teams making their way up the pitch, towards the attacking Ds. Roedean was passing very well through space and making an impact towards the Ardingly goal. They were rewarded for their hard work by scoring a well-worked goal. The team carried this momentum forward, and managed to continue scoring consistently throughout, despite moving positions during the game. The entire team looked confident and comfortable on the ball, passed well, and led into space out wide and in front of the ball to ensure we kept possession as much as possible. The game ended 10-1 to Roedean!
U12D
The U12D team played well against Ardingly this week, after practising running onto the ball and driving into space in lessons. The team had a tough start, with a 1-2 scoreline at half time, with Super Sub Stella coming on and scoring! In the second half, the girls played another great game, with Coco smashing a fantastic ball into the corner of the goal. Unfortunately, Ardingly took the win with a 2-4 finish, but the U12s put on a great performance. Special congratulations goto captain Iris, who was named Player of the Match by the opposition, and Coco who was Coaches’ Player of the Match. Well done!
U13B
The U13Bs played out an exciting 2-2 draw at Ardingly, with very little to choose between the two teams. Roedean began brightly and opened the scoring through Aimee. Ardingly replied, leaving the game all square at half time. The second half followed a similar pattern; this time it was Ardingly who took the lead, but Minnie equalised for Roedean with a minute remaining to end on a draw. Well done!
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U13C
The U13Cs played some brilliant hockey, moving the ball round well between them. Bea dictated the play, distributing the ball well to her teammates. Alicia drove the ball down the right at speed, and crossed the ball into the D, giving her team a number of opportunities to score. Ardingly were clinical with their attacks and scored two good goals. Unfortunately Roedean couldn’t quite get a goal, despite playing some lovely hockey and giving themselves lots of opportunities. Well done to everyone who played, congratulations to Bea for being awarded Opposition's Player.
U13D
The first half of the U13D match began with Ardingly having the most possession for the first 5 minutes. At this point, the girls dug deep and worked extremely hard to change this. The next 10 minutes consisted of a lot of breaks into the Ardingly half, with good movement playing wide and the cutting into the D. In the final 5 minutes of the first half, the girls dominated play and continued to apply pressure on Ardingly’s defence. This was rewarded when Asmitha took control of the ball 10 yards outside the D and drove into the right side. From here, she took a couple of touches more of the ball to steady herself and tucked away the shot into the left hand side of the goal. At half time, Roedean went in with the lead and looked in control. However, Ardingly was able to score 2 goals in quick succession in the second half, and regained control of the game. Despite the girls’ hard work and effort, they struggled to produce any more chances. The game finished 2-1 to Ardingly. A special mention goes to Peony who made some excellent clearances of the ball in goal, and Poppy for leading the team well setting the example of a strong captain.
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