18 January 2019 - Issue 2
HEAD’S
WEEKLY REVIEW
Congratulations to all our Year 13 for their university offers
Head’s Introduction
‘Language Buddies’ at St Marks
This week’s Chapel services have been about friendship. As we continue to focus on relationships as one of our whole school foci, it has been a useful and timely reminder of the value of friendship: friends are people that you enjoy your time with, but they are also people who can give you support when it is needed. You need not have known a friend for a long time for them to add value to your life and this week’s Head’s Review is full of little moments of friendship, from the new Language Buddies scheme at St Mark’s Primary School, to the friends made in House 1, to the Y8 girls who have nominated their friends to be Unsung Heroes.
Congratulations to Kinsco (Y7) and Paula (Y8) who became Roedean’s first ever ‘Language Buddies’ last week. As ‘Language Buddies’, the girls will travel to St Mark’s Primary School every week to work with students who speak the same native language as they do: Hungarian and Spanish respectively. Kinsco will be working with two siblings from Reception and Y2. While Paula will work with a student from Y3. The aim of the initiative is to assist the St Mark’s students with their English skills and confidence. Furthermore, it is a fantastic opportunity for Kinsco and Paula to represent Roedean in the wider community and to make a genuine difference in the lives of others. GWI
The Year 11 and Year 13 trials drew to a close this week, and, whilst we wish the pupils the very best of luck as they receive their results, we know that these tests are formative and will highlight areas that they still need to work on alongside the success stories. We know that all our girls will do their best to keep these results in perspective and use them to plan how to move forward. Monday was a day for celebration as we welcomed our new scholars with an evening’s programme of entertainment, speeches and presentations from scholars across the school. The range of interests and ambitions of these pupils was impressive to see and it was great to watch them all addressing the audience with confidence and self-assuredness. We also celebrated those Year 13 pupils who have recently received conditional offers, including those offered conditional Oxbridge places. All these offers represent not only hard work, but the quality and talent of the girls and, in an increasingly competitive environment, represent an achievement worth celebrating. I will end on this thought from The Beatles, in honour of Claudette and Connie’s visit to Abbey Road studios this week: “I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends.” It is choosing to give something a go that creates the opportunities for success and that’s always easier with the encouragement of others. Have a wonderful weekend.
‘I found my first tim ‘Language Buddy’ reall e being a exciting, and I loved y fun and me and Ester. I am lookineting Daniel to getting to know th g forward em helping them with th better and eir English.’ Kinscö
to ‘I am really looking forward t gen elli it. Lola is very kind, int ion iat nc and her English pronu y is great. My parents are ver s thi in ed proud that I am involv program.’ Paula