23th September 2016 - Issue 3
HEAD’S
WEEKLY REVIEW Roedean’s sheep move into their new home! What a wonderful day it was on Wednesday, when the fifteen lambs and one ewe trotted off the trailer into their new field, surrounded by fifty girls and staff. This was quite the opposite reaction to eight months ago, when people just asked ‘why?’ and pulled a confused face when we floated the idea of a farm here. It really is great to have started this; Terry said that he’d never had such a welcome for his sheep. Our new flock seems very at home here, and the boarders and boarding staff have visited them in number over the last few evenings. If this helps in a small way to engage our girls in the natural world around them and to live a little more ‘outside’, it will be certainly be worth it. We look forward to welcoming the hens next week, and who knows what we might add a year from now! In the meantime, the sheep need some names – any ideas? KH
Head’s Introduction It’s only a few weeks since we welcomed all the new girls to Roedean, and I am delighted that everyone seems to have settled very well. But on Wednesday, after months of planning, Roedean opened its own small farm on site, with the arrival of sixteen new recruits: fifteen lambs and one ewe! There were lots of girls and staff waiting as an excited welcoming committee, and I am sure that many more will visit the sheep in the coming weeks and months, particularly when they see girls hand-feeding the lambs. This week we also had our whole school photograph taken. The logistics of getting five hundred girls and over a hundred staff onto the staging were quite tricky, but the sight of all of our girls in their new uniform snaking across the whole site was a real delight!
Thank you to all our Year 7 parents who came to our first parent-tutor meeting. It was wonderful to meet so many of you and to hear how well things are going. I look forward to meeting Sixth Form parents this evening when they will have the opportunity to meet with Senior Staff and tutors. At the end of next week we have our annual Founders’ Day Service, when we celebrate our founders and commemorate those members of the Roedean family who have passed away this year. The weekend will see the first Open Day of the year, at which we are expecting record numbers of visitors. It is very important that all girls and staff contribute to our Open Days, so thank you in advance for your support, and to all the girls and staff for their hard work on that day! The tallest and the smallest at the School photo.