Rossett News Update - 17 July 2020
Year 6 Transition
As we finish school today for the summer holidays, we wanted to thank all of our future students for their engagement in our virtual transition activities this term. We have been very impressed with the effort, creativity and enthusiasm of a large number of the students. We were very pleased to read this week’s entries which were based around the Rossett 3R’s, and we are looking forward to meeting all the responsible, resilient and reflective students who are joining us in September. The winner of this week's challenge is Hannah Scurrah - well done.
If you have any questions over the summer break, please email Transition@rossettschool.co.uk and we will endeavour to reply as soon as possible.
Farewell to staff...
Today we have recognised the contribution of staff leaving Rossett in a 'virtual' way and wish them well in their new endeavours. With very special thanks to Mrs Delaney who is retiring after 25 years of service as the welcoming face of Rossett School. Mrs Delaney has given so much to the school over the years as part of our Reception team and we wish her well as she hopes to spend her retirement seeing more of her grandchildren and enjoying more time for countryside walks with her partner.
We wish our Head of Sixth Form, Mr Foley, well as he moves on to pastures new. Dr Reed and Mr Keyworth, teachers with a wealth of academic and pastoral experience, will lead the Sixth Form from September 2020.
September start information from the Headteacher
Please click here to read a letter from the Headteacher for information regarding September and the return to school for all our students.
KS3 PE Remote Learning- Role Model Project
This week, as part of the remote learning process, the Sports Studies Department asked students to produce a piece of work based on their sporting role models. We wanted to know which sporting heroes inspired them and why. We received many fantastic pieces of work from across the world of sport including those that are household names and also many that may not be as well known, including ex Rossett students Chloe Bellerby and Matt Price. What was more impressive were the stories of what these athletes have achieved, the adversity that they have overcome and how they have managed to change the world of sport for the better. We have selected a few examples of the incredible work the students have produced below:
Ellesha Matthews (Year 8) - Simone Biles
Eilidh Owens (Year 7) - Matt Price
Lauren Edwards (Year 9) - Chloe Bellerby
Virtual Sports Day Results
As we were unable to organise the 'real thing' this year we hosted a virtual Sports' Day throughout last week. Thank you to all of the students who entered across ten different activities; there were some fantastic performances. We have listed the winning forms in each year group and would like to thank everyone for taking part in these challenges from home so enthusiastically.
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1st |
7JMA |
8MWN |
9JCG |
10DGR |
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2nd |
7RSN |
8MET |
9SSR |
10STN |
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3rd |
7EGR |
8KTL |
9PTM |
10KFN/MPK |
There were outstanding performances from the following students, well done to them all:
Harry Bandeira, George Papadopoullos, Jakub Szymkowiak, Noah Wilson, Sophie Illingworth, Niamh Owens and Eilidh Owens.
Well Done Mrs Leeming
Mrs Leeming, Teacher of Geography at Rossett last weekend completed 3 Olympic Distance (1.5km swim, 40km bike and 10km run) Triathlons over 3 days to raise money for her local primary school, Fountains Earth School. Like all schools they have had to cancel the normal fundraising events (pop-up cafes, summer fairs etc), so Mrs Leeming thought she would do something to make some money. Mrs Leeming has been overwhelmed by support, and has raised over £2,000 having covered a distance of 166km overall (5km open water swimming, 130km biking and 31km running).
Fantastic Mathematicians
Last year, the school invested in Hegarty Maths to support the teaching of Mathematics. It is an ever evolving resource offering students; help videos, quizzes, bespoke Memri quizzes to keep their knowledge fluent and FixUp5 tasks to target areas that need improving. Over 650,000 questions have been answered this academic year by our brilliant students and the top three in each year group are listed below. Next year we have our sights set on a Hegarty Super School award and we can achieve this by pulling together to aim for one million questions answered. Every student has their part to play and we hope to achieve this accolade together.
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Year 7 |
Number of Questions answered |
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Katie Harland |
1st 2081 |
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Annabelle Gosper |
2nd 2078 |
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Annalise Groves |
3rd 1923 |
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Year 8 |
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Nishaan Chatterjee |
1st 2703 |
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Liam Corner |
2nd 1817 |
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Xi Chen |
3rd 1602 |
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Year 9 |
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Sophie Langley |
1st 2284 |
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Nadia Othman |
2nd 2235 |
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Rachel Youlden |
3rd 1900 |
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Year 10 |
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Ing Kaewkraikhot |
1st 2356 |
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Freya Hoare |
2nd 1589 |
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Anna Mitchell |
3rd 1458 |
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Year 11 |
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Katie Lipscombe |
1st 3156 |
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Emily Wighton |
2nd 2639 |
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Laura Francis |
3rd 2450 |
Photography Competition Winners
We are delighted to announce the winners of our photography competition which was launched during this period of remote learning. Our judging panel found deciding the overall winners very difficult as the standard of entries was very high. The winners received a small prize and all students who took part received a 'well done' postcard.
Year 7
Jack Watson and Issy Mackintosh
Year 8
Eve McGee and Andrew Whewell
Year 9
Emma Coates
Year 10
Hannah Thompson
Padlet
We would like to encourage students to continue reading over the summer break and there are lots of ways to do this. The Padlet has links to both Harrogate and Leeds libraries. Joining online will provide our students with free access to their great range of e-books, magazines and comics.
Along with this, Audible has free access to audiobooks for young people until schools reopen if students prefer to listen to a story.
MyOn offers a range of books to read, many with Accelerated Reader quizzes and access to this has been extended until the end of August.
Details of how to access all of these are in the Useful Links column of Padlet. There are yet more reading and author event ideas on the Padlet too which will be updated with new items over the summer so keep checking in! Follow the link to 'Padlet' here.
Leeds Bus
We would like to remind parents that if they wish to sign up for the Leeds Bus for September please email finance@rossettschool.co.uk by Wednesday 22 July 2020 as places may be limited.
Mental Health and Wellbeing
We would like to remind you of the support groups, websites and text-based helplines that exist to help students combat feelings of anxiety that may result from worrying about school or the current national coverage of the pandemic.
- Kooth – a free, online counselling service available at kooth.com
- Buzz Us – run by Compass Buzz and specific to young people from North Yorkshire; this is a text messaging service that connects students to a ‘well-being’ advisor on 07520631168 https://www.compass-uk.org/buzz-us/
- Young Minds - https://youngminds.org.uk/
- NHS Every Mind Matters - https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/
- Give us a Shout - https://www.giveusashout.org/
- The Mix - https://www.themix.org.uk/
- Nightline - https://www.nightline.ac.uk/
Home Learning Activities
In PSHE last week students did a review lesson where they reviewed their learning from the period of home learning. We received some fantastic poems, posters and thank you letters. The work sums up the students feelings and experiences really well. Thank you to Ella Lewis, Raya Bastiman and Evelyn Ridley for their contributions which we have shared below - we could have shared many more wonderful accounts with you - well done to everyone for their sharing their lockdown experiences in a myriad of ways.
Mrs Cunningham has, once again, shared some wonderful Year 9 Design Technology work with us. Cheli Phillip designed her own album cover as part of a 'Dare to Design' challenge. Alec Twigg made a decorative letter from his initial and Gemma Bielby produced this lovely wall art design.
I would like to take the opportunity to wish you all a relaxing and enjoyable summer break and we very much look forward to welcoming all of our students back in September.
H Woodcock
Headteacher
