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Autumn Term 2019, issue 5

In this issue...

2 HeadLines

3 School news

4 Trips

5 School news

6 School news

7 Match reports

8 Menu

9 Outside of school

AUTUMN TERM

Newsletter Autumn Term 2019

Issue 5

4 October

The ART Department has one final urgent request for only 500 ml empty plastic clear water bottles for next

week's STEAM week and

the "Recyle, Reuse and

Recreate" Project looking

at the artist Dale Chihuly.

Could pupils please bring

them to the art depart-

ment directly or to recep-

tion as soon as possi-

ble? House Points will be

rewarded!

Many, many thanks,

Mrs Uschi Moore

RECYCLE, REUSE, RECREATE

Day Event Start End

Mon 7 Oct STEAM WEEK

Tues 8 Oct Sir Humphry Davy Lecture - Y6 - 8 to attend

and all children to stay for prep/clubs 17:30 18:30

Wed 9 Oct U11A SVPS Tournament (A) 11:30 17:15

U13 Football v Claremont Prep (A) 14:30 17:15

Colts A Football v Claremont Prep (A) 14:30 17:15

Colts B Football v Claremont Prep (H) 14:30 16:00

Colts C Football v Claremont Prep (H) 14:30 16:00

Colts D Football v Claremont Prep (H) 14:30 16:00

Colts E Football v Claremont Prep (H) 14:30 16:00

Thurs 10 Oct Victorian Day @ Museum of Kent Life 09:00 16:00

U9 A Football v Sevenoaks (A) 14:30 16:45

U9 B Football v Sevenoaks (A) 14:30 16:45

U8 A Football v Sevenoaks (H) 14:30 16:00

U8 B Football v Sevenoaks (H) 14:30 16:00

U8 C Football v Sevenoaks (H) 14:30 16:00

U9 Hockey v Hilden Grange (H) 14:30 16:00

U8 Hockey v Hilden Grange (H) 14:30 16:00

Fri 11 Oct Coffee Connections - 08:15 09:30

Y8 Art Trip - Old School Gallery Exhibition 09:00 11:30


HEADLINES

Last week I had the opportunity to listen to some great educational speakers,

including Professor Deborah Eyre, Priya Lakhani, OBE and Dr Nihara Krause.

Whilst all of their specialist areas are very different there was an overriding

theme regarding attitudes towards learning. The power of growth mindset, in its

truest sense, enabling children to readily take up challenge or opportunity rang

true, as this is the way we support children’s learning at Rose Hill.

With this in mind, it is terrific that our Year 6 girls have taken part in Roedean’s

STEM Festival where they explored chemistry, computing and more. Thank you

Roedean for hosting this wonderfully engaging event.

Next week we celebrate our own STEAM Week. I look forward to reporting back

on the many events we have lined up for our pupils. Thank you in advance to all the pupils and staff for

embracing this event, especially Mr Mansfield and Mr Izzard for your energy and expertise.

This morning we have held our first Open Morning of the academic year and it has been our busiest to

date with thirty families registering to visit. Thank you to the PA parents who volunteered to meet with pro-

spective parents and to our wonderful Year 6 tour guides. We are holding our first Coffee Connections of

the term next Friday straight after drop off. This is an informal event for parents to come together, I look

forward to seeing many of you there.

And finally, well done to the U10 Boys’ Football team for their stunning victory last Saturday winning the

annual 5-a-side tournament at St Michael’s, read more about it later in the newsletter.

Best wishes.

Emma Neville

Head

COFFEE CONNECTIONS


SHOEBOX APPEAL

CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations to Rufus who took 1st place at Saturdays race at the Indoor Lowland Championship in

the Netherlands beating the next fastest u10 boy from Belgium by over 1.5 seconds. Ben took 6th place in

the u12 category, and was 3rd fastest GB boy.

Congratulations to Julian who completed the Kent Golf Approved

Junior Academy 2019.

Congratulations to the following children who have completed the

following Nessy objectives:

Max M 30 objectives

Ameer TA 20 objectives

At this time last year we collected items to fill 344 shoeboxes, for the Satellite Rotary Club of Southborough and

Pembury, which were then sent to Eastern Europe. They were much appreciated by children and families last

Christmas.

This year the School Council would like to support this initiative again. Over the next few weeks Rotarians are run-

ning their ‘Shoebox Appeal’ and have asked Rose Hill School if we could collect non-food items, small enough to

fit into a shoebox, to send to children in Romania, whose only Christmas gift will be the items in the shoebox. Fur-

ther information can be found at http://www.rotaryshoebox.org/ .

There are 3 categories for the shoeboxes:

• Children from 0 to 7 years old

• Children from 8 to 11 years old

• Teenagers

There will be a female shoebox and male shoebox for each category and the items that are acceptable to send

can include:

Toothpaste, shower gel, shampoo

Stationery, small books, notepads

Toys, games (nothing that needs a battery)

Gloves, scarves, hats, combs, mirrors

Soaps, sponges, flannels, hair decorations

Teenage items cosmetics, stationery, games

Items should be new or of good quality, remembering that the recipient will be opening the box in eager antici-

pation and, especially with toys for the children, quite possibly the first real gifts they have received for a very

long time.

We hope you will kindly support this Shoebox Appeal and bring in your donations to your child’s class teacher by

Friday 18 October. We will then pass them on to Mr Cornish and members of Rotary Club for collection and

packing into special boxes. (DO NOT prepare your own shoebox as all donations will be sorted appropriately at

the depot).

Thank you for your co-operation.

The School Council

http://www.rotaryshoebox.org/


ROEDEAN STEM FESTIVAL

Tuesday saw all Y6 girls head to the coast to attend Roedean School

STEM Festival along with nearly 150 other girls from across the South and

London. The girls had four sessions across the school: Science – making

rocket fuel, Technology – improving an air powered car, Engineering –

making the tallest tower from spaghetti and marshmallows, Maths – un-

derstanding binary and codes (and really bad maths jokes!). The day

ended with an inspirational talk from Dr Suzie Imber about her quest to

become an astronaut.

Y7 TRIP TO BATTLE ABBEY

Y7 had a great trip to Battle Abbey last Friday. We were met outside the abbey by Brother James, dressed

as a Benedictine monk, who gave us a tour of the abbey grounds and Battle Abbey school. We met up

with our former pupils, Dylan Horton and Finly Lloyd, who

joined us for drinks and donuts. We then went on a tour of

the battlefield and visited the exhibition centre. We watched

an informative film on the Battle of Hastings and spent the

last part of the trip visiting the Gatehouse museum.


WEST END TRIP TO SEE WICKED

Year 2 writing music using kodaly sol

fa and rhythms!

Picture from

composition

club this week.

They are com-

posing a piece

of music for

violin and cel-

lo! Good work!

Excited pupils in Year 6 and 7 made their way to the West End on Thursday, 26 September. Pupils and staff

alike were left speechless by the incredible staging, costumes and talented performances. Those familiar

with the production could not resist singing along to songs such as ‘Defying Gravity’ and ‘Popular’ whilst

newcomers vowed to download the soundtrack as soon as they got home. It turned out to be a rather

special night for the musical as they celebrated 14 years in the West End with balloons galore filling the

aisles and stage at the end of the show.

SCHOOL LIFE

The Scouts

have begun

work towards

their Geocach-

ing and Navi-

gator badges,

by using GPS to

find two cach-

es in Hurst

Woods!


FLU IMMUNISATION PROGRAMME 2019

This Sunday, we have the marvellous James Lisney coming to

Rose Hill to perform a programme of late masterworks by

Haydn, Chopin, Schubert and Beethoven. The concert is part

of the Royal Tunbridge Wells International Music Festival. Full

programme details are as follows:

James Lisney, piano. Sunday 6th October, 3pm

Rose Hill School Theatre.

Joseph Haydn, Sonata in C, Hob XVI 50

Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata in E, Op. 109

Fryderyk Chopin, Nocturnes, Op. 62

Franz Schubert, Sonata in C minor, D. 958

Full details and ticket information is here :

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/codatw/james-lisney-piano/

e-alrpxd

Under 18s are free, and the discount code ROSEHILL gives a

£5 reduction to adult tickets when applied at the checkout.

The Flu Immunisation Programme helps protect children against flu which can be a

very unpleasant illness in children which may lead to serious complications like

bronchitis and pneumonia.

The Kent Immunisation Team will be visiting the school on Monday 2nd December

2019 to deliver the Flu vaccine to all those pupils in Years Reception- Year 6 inclu-

sive.

The vaccine is administered in the form of a nasal spray which is a quick and pain-

less process.

Serious side effects are uncommon but many children can develop a runny or blocked nose, headache,

some tiredness or loss of appetite that lasts a short period.

Invitation Letters along with information leaflets and consent forms will be emailed out to all parents of

those year groups in November with clear instructions on how to complete electronically and return to the

Immunisation Team.

Due to the large number of schools, our vaccination session is scheduled slightly later in the term. If you are

concerned about this because your child is more at risk from flu because of an underlying health condi-

tion, please contact the Kent & Medway Immunisation Healthcare Team directly on Tel: 0300 123 5205.

CODA SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/codatw/james-lisney-piano/e-alrpxd

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/codatw/james-lisney-piano/e-alrpxd


Rose Hill Under 10 team won the annual 5-a-side

tournament at St Michael’s on Saturday with an ex-

tra-time “Golden Goal”. This was a deserved reward

for going through the tournament unbeaten, aided

by the team’s spirit, determination and non-stop ef-

fort, even when being a goal behind in some

matches. A truly tremendous overall performance.

MATCH REPORTS

Girls’ Hockey Results

Date Opposition Match Score Player of the

Match

11/09 Kent Col-

lege

U11 Pink Won 4-3 Elena T (2), Amelia D (2) Lottie D

U11 Grey Lost 3-2 Thea M (2) Evie T

U10 Pink Won 11-4 Charlie W (5), Madeleine G, Lot-

tie B (2)’ Juliette T (3)

Charlie W

U10 Grey Lost 6-1 Claudia G Charlotte H & Eva

R

12/09 Kent Col-

lege

U9 Pink Lost 3-1 Amelie S Millie L

U9 Grey Lost 2-0 Rebecca S

U8 Pink Lost 5-1 Lottie C Lottie C & Lydia

C

U8 Grey Lost 6-2 Sophia J, Catherine M The Whole Team

Boys’ Football Results

Date Opposition Match Score Scorers

Player of the Match

Marlbor-

ough House

U13 Won 8-1 Freddie C (4)

Charlie P, Ben W,

Alex S, Henry T

Max C

Colts A Won 3-1

Won 3-1

Oyedamola O (3) Oyedamola O, Fraser M

Colts B Drew 3-3 Oliver Johnson (3) Jacob Fenn

Colts C Lost 4-1 Hugo Y Robert Z & Oscar W

Colts D/E Lost 3-0 Tom B, Sam B

12/09 Marlbor-

ough House

U9A Lost 8-1 Ben W

U9B Lost 3-0 Oliver S

U8 Rovers Won 5-0 Xander E (4) Harry

C

Freddie Mc

U8 Rangers Drew 0-0 Ashton D

U8 Rockets Drew 0-0 Ben H


MENU

Monday Chicken curry & vegetable rice

Vegetable curry (v)

Green beans

Jam & coconut tart

Tuesday Sausages, gravy & pasta

Asparagus quiche (v)

Broccoli

Flapjack

Wednesday Burger in a bun, curly fries & salad

Vegetable burger (v)

Courgettes

Fruit, yoghurt & berries

Thursday Meatballs in tomato & basil sauce with fusilli pasta

Vegetable bake (v)

Curly Kale

Ice cream tub

Friday Fish fingers & saute potatoes

Vegetable bake (v)

Peas

Vanilla sponge cake

Soup

Fresh produce

A vegetarian soup is available daily with crusty white and brown ba-

guettes.

We have a varied salad bar which includes coleslaws. Green leaves,

tomatoes, peppers, sliced ham and boiled eggs.

A selection of fresh fruit is always available.


CHRISTMAS FAIR JAR DONATIONS

DROP OFF SESSIONS

At this year’s Christmas Fair Sweet Stall we are reducing plastic waste by selling sweets in jars.

During the term please save any empty jam/sauce jars you can and bring them to the school office!


OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL

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