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ROUGEMONT REVIEW SUMMER 2018 ISSUE 15 CONTENTS
WELCOME 4
PREP SCHOOL WELCOME 6
PREP SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS 8
SENIOR SCHOOL WELCOME 38
SENIOR SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS 40
SPORT 72
BEYOND THE CLASSROOM 80
KEY DATES 88
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2 ROUGEMONT REVIEW #ROUGEMONTREADY 3 WELCOME
Each year is special in the life of Congratulations to the class of 2018 the School and for this reason the on achieving excellent results in their magazine is invaluable. The pages are examinations. They have contributed filled with so many memories and to every aspect of school life during images of happy and successful times their time with us through the many spent at Rougemont. talents and attributes they have. I wish them all health, happiness and success This magazine also contains a wide for the future. variety of art work, written articles and photos. It provides an excellent To the new pupils who have recently showcase for our many gifted writers, joined Rougemont, welcome, and may linguists, artists and future scientists/ the time you spend in our school be engineers. both enriching and enjoyable.
This publication also illustrates the I would like to take this opportunity participation and success of our pupils to thank Rachel Garrod and her team in the numerous trips, sporting and for the hard work in producing this Mr Robert Carnevale - Headmaster house events throughout the year. high quality magazine and also to the I offer my sincere gratitude to both dedicated and committed staff we staff and pupils for their contribution have here at Rougemont. to the success of the school. Mr Robert Carnevale Headmaster
ROUGEMONT REVIEW WELCOME
4 ROUGEMONT REVIEW #ROUGEMONTREADY 5 PREP PREP SCHOOL SCHOOL WELCOME
Welcome to our wonderful Prep children are many and varied. School and a reflection on the Our extended family are invited to fabulous activities and experiences join the children’s journeys as often that have dominated the second as we can. From Nursery Afternoon half of the year. Teas, where grand-parents planted their own little saplings, through Our House competitions run through to picnics celebrating our amazing the heart of all we do; with an performance of ‘Joseph and the inclusive system, encouraging all to Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’, take to the various stages, Sports Day the experiences of our children has been the sporting culmination. are incredibly unique. With a sea of red, yellow and blue, the fields were adorned with children, We hope you enjoy the journey parents, flags, and even the fire- through the following pages, sharing breathing dragons, heralding the a few of our highlights. We are success of their charges. Dyfrig took definitely #rougemontready for the spoils this year, but the Houses the year ahead, with the new term Mrs Lisa Pritchard - Head of Prep School have shared the accolades throughout welcoming the Paper Plane Challenge, the year and the spirit of healthy Cross-Country, House Music, a competition has permeated all we myriad of learning challenges and have done. even the glue and glitter season! We embrace all aspects of school life, From the sports field to the Art seizing opportunities with a smile and room, the dance stage to the ski preparing our wonderful pupils for slopes, the experiences of our Prep the challenges that they may face.
ROUGEMONT REVIEW PREP PREP HIGHLIGHTS SCHOOL 6 PREP SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 7 PREP HOUSE SCHOOL COMPETITIONS
After the snowfall of the first week Sharing the spoils across the House Reflecting back across the of March, we saw a slight delay to competitions, the yellow flags of proceedings, before eventually taking Gwynog were proudly flying just year, a highlight this term was to the stage! With stunning poetry before Easter, as they stormed to certainly our Eisteddfod. recitals, individual solos and duets, success on the Rougemont’s Got impromptu talks and even a brand new Talent House stage! category: famous speeches, the power of persuasion pervaded the air! The balance of the inclusive opportunities for all to perform in OUR INFANTS Our Infants had also been very front of their peers, before selecting creative, baking and crafting those happy to perform in front of HAD ALSO BEEN everything from Wales in a Box a full audience, works well. VERY CREATIVE, to wooden spoons, and our older Juniors then acted as judges for Our House events concluded with BAKING AND their Infant friends. our recent Sports Day…finally …with Dyfrig taking the spoils! CRAFTING Caradog were crowned the eventual EVERYTHING winners, recognised with the Crowning of the Bard ceremony. FROM WALES IN A BOX TO WOODEN SPOONS.
WITH STUNNING POETRY RECITALS, INDIVIDUAL SOLOS AND DUETS.
8 PREP SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 9 PREP CHILDREN IN RECEPTION SCHOOL RECEPTION CHILDREN WENT TO THE PLANTED THEIR NEWPORT VERY OWN WETLANDS AS POTATOES, PART OF THEIR CARED FOR THEM TOPIC ON AND WATCHED MINI-BEASTS. THEM GROW.
THEY LOOKED THEY AT DIFFERENT HARVESTED HABITATS, THEM AND POND LIFE AND WEIGHED THEIR WOODLANDS PRODUCE. LIFE. PICKED FRESH HERBS FROM OUR OWN HERB GARDEN… NEWPORT POTATO WETLANDS PLANTING
THEY WENT ...THEN COOKED POND DIPPING AND ENJOYED AND ENJOYED EATING THE GOING ON A POTATOES. MINI-BEAST FROM FARM HUNT. TO FORK ON ROUGEMONT PREMISES!
10 PREP SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 11 PREP SCHOOL
AFTERNOON NURSERY TEA SPORTS DAY
One of our highlights in Nursery this NURSERY term has been our Nursery Grand- OUR Parent Afternoon Tea, complete GRAND- WONDERFUL with saplings to plant! PARENT NURSERY It was lovely to welcome the sun AFTERNOON CHILDREN to enjoy the afternoon of planting, coffee and cakes, courtesy of our TEA, ENJOYED A amazing Nursery team ... with a little COMPLETE help from Iain the Chef, of course! FANTASTIC The children proved themselves very WITH SPORTS DAY. green-fingered, as they deftly planted their little seedlings, ready to watch SAPLINGS them grow. TO PLANT!
12 PREP SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 13 PREP IT HAS BEEN WORLD CUP FEVER SCHOOL A BUSY AND ENJOYABLE HITS THE UPPER INFANTS
SUMMER TERM There has always been a great deal Mr Pritchard in the Juniors allocated Junior School boys attend the Cardiff of interest in football amongst the country teams to the different year City Football Academy each week IN NURSERY. boys in the Upper Infants which can groups in the Infant Department and for training and coaching. The Upper be spotted on the playground each Year 2 enjoyed finding out facts about Infant children had prepared a lot of break time. Spain and Iran utilising iPads. questions to ask them which they happily and confidently answered. This has increased since the start of The children had the opportunity the 2018 World Cup competition in to find out how they could further Good luck with your future sporting Russia. Atlases and globes were used by their football careers when we were careers boys, maybe one day we will Year 2 to locate and mark the various visited by Mannie Barton (Year 5) and see you wearing a Wales shirt in the countries taking part on a world map. Rocco Lenney (Year 4). These two World Cup!
WHAT FUN!
It has been a busy and enjoyable - to develop our awareness of SUMMER summer term in Nursery. Some of letters and sounds, Mrs. Forouzan our highlights have been:- counting read us the story of ”The Very Lazy the legs on spiders and looking at Ladybird”. We counted spots on TERM IN numbers from 1 to 5, followed by an ladybirds and matched them to exciting spider hunt where we found numbers. We worked as a group to many different creatures, including make ladybirds and we used chalks to NURSERY spiders. We recited the rhyme “Incy draw ladybirds on our nursery yard. Wincy Spider” together with actions Another busy and fun week in the and during our Physical Development sunshine. lesson we pretended to be spiders crawling under, over and through - we practised our pencil control obstacles. What fun! together with writing our names in our individual books and drawing circles on our ladybirds. We enjoyed spending time tidying up our garden, finding many insects in the soil.
14 PREP SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 15 PREP THE UGLY SCHOOL BUG BALL
If you wanted to find out how bees The different mini-beasts shared carry pollen from the flowers back interesting facts and sang songs about to their hive, how many worms live themselves as the ball progressed. underneath a football pitch or what The brightly coloured bugs delivered ladybirds like to eat, then the Infant their rhythmic bug chant with end of year show, The Ugly Bug Ball, precision and then explained to was the place to be on the final day their audience how some of their of the summer term. mini-beast friends move around the garden. There was a delightful dance Two ringmasters, Daniel Beale and from the delicate pink butterflies who THE DIFFERENT Jacob Martinson, resplendent in their lit up the stage with their luminous MINI-BEASTS costumes, opened the production wings, whilst the spiders performed with an atmospheric dance routine their pieces of poetry perfectly. Finally SHARED set to the popular theme tune from the Nursery children joined, cleverly INTERESTING this year’s cinema blockbuster ‘The disguised as baby ladybirds, to softly Greatest Showman’. They then invited sing their song. FACTS AND SANG into the Queen Bee’s Ball the bees, the SONGS ABOUT worms, the brightly coloured bugs, the Like the Queen Bee, we were feeling butterflies, the ants, the ladybirds and a little sad that the ball was drawing THEMSELVES. the spiders before the arrival of Queen to a close but the creatures knew Bee herself, Isabella Martinez. that although they were going home, they would be back one and all next Saturday night for the Ugly Bug Ball!
THE UGLY BUG BALL WAS THE PLACE TO BE ON THE FINAL DAY OF SUMMER TERM.
16 PREP SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 17 PREP CREATIVE PUPILS SCHOOL CLUB HIT THE
This has proved to be a most popular Rougemont Ranger after-school club SLOPES this term with the children from Reception through to Year 2 deciding Fifty-three pupils from Years 5, 6 and what creative activities they would like 7 enjoyed an amazing week of skiing to complete each week. in Les Deux Alpes.
The children have explored different Getting 53 9-to-12 year old skiers mediums for observational drawings ready to leave the hotel by 8.45 every of flowers, created their own designs morning was no mean feat! From on plastic peg boards using Hama beads, lost goggles and socks, to forgotten drawn themselves and their friends at lip-balms and snacks, mornings on the the seaside following their day of sports hotel veranda were a hive of activity. on the beach at sunny Barry Island, and But the children become experts as created masks using a wide variety of the week progressed and we saw a materials, some of which were quite real sense of team spirit emerge. scary, whilst others such as the unicorns were cute! On the slopes, the children were grouped according to their ability with five ski instructors employed this year. It was lovely to see the pupils’ progress over the week, especially for our new skiers who had a lot to learn.
Off the slopes was great fun too and a fantastic time was had by all.
18 PREP SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 19 PREP SCHOOL
INFANT SPORTS DAY
OUR INFANT GREAT PUPILS ENJOYED WEATHER, A FANTASTIC WONDERFUL SPORTS DAY IN SUPPORT AND THE SUNSHINE! OUTSTANDING TEAMWORK MADE FOR A MEMORABLE MORNING.
20 PREP SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 21 PREP IMAGINE, BELIEVE, WILDLIFE SCHOOL ACHIEVE WEEK WIZARDS
Our ‘Imagine, Believe, Achieve’ Complementing their curricular week opened with the exhumation studies, we enter the children into of these time capsules. This autumn, various competitions, Wildlife the hopes and dreams of our current Wizards being one of them. Our pupils will be buried in time capsules intrepid team faced stiff competition to mark the opening of our new as they took part in the opening auditorium and refectory. rounds, with Claire Poore leading the team, and the added support of Dr Howe. The standard of the Prep pupils were inspired to dream questions is exceptionally high, and of their future lives and careers with this is compounded by the breadth a series of informative and of the subject matter, making it entertaining talks from our parents. difficult to prepare the children. Thank you to all those parents who kindly gave up their time to talk about their professions and a big thank you The team were magnificent and won to Ruth Carroll for planning, creating the competition, which meant that and bringing to fruition such they were through to the semi-final, the penultimate round. Sadly, map a special week. which took place on 21st March. Once Could you answer the following? again, the questions were tough, but reading, a skill studied in Year 6, the team returned victorious and very proved to be their nemesis, with our Q: These are all types of what: keen to share news of their successful Year 5s already performing out of longhorn, ladybird and whirligig? answers! year, and they finished as runners- up. A fantastic achievement and A: They are, in fact, all types The final saw similar success, and something we hope they can of beetle! the team were in the lead up until improve upon next year!
TO CELEBRATE THE END OF THE SPRING TERM, OUR INFANT AND JUNIOR PUPILS ENTERTAINED FAMILY AND FRIENDS WITH A SELECTION OF POEMS, DANCES, SPRING SPEECHES, AND OF COURSE, EASTER FESTIVAL BONNETS TOO!
22 PREP SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 23 PREP OUR UPPER THE GREAT BRITISH SCHOOL INFANT PUPILS ENJOYED THEIR SPRING CLEAN VISIT TO BARRY
ISLAND. In Upper Infants we wanted to be Armed with bags, litter pickers and We challenged the children to design a part of ‘The Great British Spring gloves, Upper Infants walked around a poster about litter. Hopefully this Clean’ campaign. the school grounds to see what they will encourage all pupils to be more THE THEME could find, and then recorded their responsible, put their litter in the bin WAS BEACH We wanted the children to get findings on a chart. and become LITTER HEROES! SPORTS. involved and raise awareness about litter in the hope that they would think We were pleased to say the school about what to do with their own litter was fairly `litter free`! when they are out and about.
BEACH GOLF WE WERE BEACH PLEASED TO SAY VOLLEYBALL THE SCHOOL BEACH CRICKET WAS FAIRLY `LITTER FREE`! BEACH BOULES BEACH PICK UP STICKS BARRY ISLAND
THE CHILDREN GREAT BRITISH ENJOYED ALL OF SPRING CLEAN THE ACTIVITIES BE A LITTER AND THEY HERO! ALSO RAN THEIR USUAL DAILY MILE – SOMETHING THEY DIDN’T WANT TO MISS!
24 PREP SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 25 PREP THE PUPILS SCHOOL HAD A SUPER AFTERNOON WITH DYFRIG TAKING THE COVETED CROWN THIS YEAR!
JUNIOR SPORTS DAY
PUPILS IN THE JUNIOR DEPARTMENT SPRINTING, JUMPING AND THROWING TO WIN POINTS FOR THEIR HOUSE.
26 PREP SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 27 PREP ‘JOSEPH AND SCHOOL HIS AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT’
Music plays a significant role in Our performance of ‘Joseph’ was Rougemont school life. Music simply quite superb. It amazes me is indeed all about performance how our young children pull off songs IT AMAZES and throughout the year all our that professionals deliver on the stage ME HOW children have the opportunity to at the West End. They have such skill perform, whether it be in preparing and confidence and this is born from OUR YOUNG for Rougemont’s Got Talent, the all their opportunities to perform CHILDREN PULL Eisteddfod or Spring Festival or throughout their Prep School years. I playing a role in the Christmas must make mention of our wonderful OFF SONGS THAT concert and End of Year Show. edible accompaniment to this year’s PROFESSIONALS show - Mrs Duggan’s beautiful cake. DELIVER ON THE Not only did the children perform, they also got to keep the edible STAGE AT THE representations of their characters! WEST END.
MUSIC PLAYS A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN ROUGEMONT SCHOOL LIFE.
28 PREP SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 29 PREP SCHOOL
Caitlin Caitlin Caitlin Meredith Pheobe Pheobe
JUNIOR ARTWORK YEAR 5
Isabel Katie Bryony
Louise Phoebe Sam Louise Zoe
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Allistair Sam March Harry Lily Ffion Mia
JUNIOR ARTWORK YEAR 6
Olivia Myles George
Isabella Lily Sam March Sam Thomas Amy
32 PREP SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 33 PREP PTA SCHOOL GROW-A-POUND
We have a very energetic and The event culminated with a Market Our overall Best in Show award went newly-formed PTA, who have Stall afternoon, with the children to Albie and Iggy Howe, between been very keen to reinvigorate the hosting their own stands, either them raising over £200 by selling team, refreshing existing events and to showcase a project already tickets to the community to attend introducing their own. Grow-a- delivered, or to sell their produce. their village hall and listen to a talk Pound is an initiative that has been From football shots to selfie shots, given by both boys about their trip tried and tested in various schools, cookies to cake decorating, the to Africa. They then turned their OVERALL, and allows each child from Year 2 - wealth of opportunities and activities, amazing photographs into postcards WE RAISED Year 6 to venture into the world of as well as the genuine sense of and sold them! Overall, we raised business, by investing their £1, given entrepreneurship were evident £1500 for the children to put towards £1500 FOR THE to them by the PTA. throughout the hall. their Junior items for the yard; our CHILDREN TO School Council now has the task We had a fantastic response, and Dylan Matthews had the unenviable of designing their creation. PUT TOWARDS gave the children four weeks to invest job of judging the stalls, and he was THEIR JUNIOR their money. The PTA ladies took absolutely amazed by the originality an assembly to share ideas for the of some of the ideas. ITEMS FOR THE children’s investment and the Year YARD. 9 Business Studies class acted as mentors to our Juniors, guiding and supporting them.
THE EVENT CULMINATED WITH A MARKET STALL AFTERNOON, WITH THE CHILDREN HOSTING THEIR OWN STANDS.
34 PREP SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 35 NEWPORT PREP SCHOOL SCHOOLS’ TENNIS FESTIVALS
The Newport Schools’ tennis festivals have proved to be incredibly successful for our Junior stars. Year 5 girls (Katie Evans, Isabel Williams, Caitlin Beale and Zoe Williams) won bronze medals, with the Year 3 and 4 mixed team, comprising Iggy Howe, Ollie Jemmet, Celyn Servini and Simran Varanasi, winning a silver medal.
Year 6 boys were runners-up, with TERRIFIC TENNIS HARRISON silver medals going to Charles Phillips, WITH UPPER JENKINS Jakob Ryan, Ciaran McDonald and AND JACOB Sam March; The Year 5 boys – Albie INFANTS Howe, Rocco Lenney, Harrison TOWNSEND Jenkins and Jacob Townsend - won This term, our topic in Upper Infants WON GOLD gold medals, which took them has been based around ‘Summer through to the South East Wales Spectacular of Sports’. MEDALS, WHICH final, where they finished fourth TOOK THEM – well done! As part of our community links with THROUGH TO Usk Tennis Centre and their Head Coach, Sean Jones, Upper Infants THE SOUTH EAST headed to the Tennis Centre for a day WALES FINAL. of fun activities.
Balance, agility and co-ordination, with plenty of tennis games, was the order of the day with the support of Sean and his team. TOTS TENNIS FOR OUR As you will see from the photos, the children had a wonderful day! NURSERY CHILDREN
Our Nursery pupils enjoyed their first taste of tennis this term.
Aspire Tennis hosted ‘Tots’ Tennis’ for Nursery pupils during a lunchtime club. The pupils had plenty of fun during the session practising their balance and co- ordination skills with Coach James.
36 PREP SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 37 SENIOR SENIOR SCHOOL WELCOME
Welcome to the ever-busy Senior wonderful time as they continued to School section, packed with the acquire those all important life skills; wonderful achievements of our resilience, kindness, resourcefulness pupils. Although at this time of year and the ability to think for themselves there has been an obvious lean to name but a few - so important in towards a thorough preparation their development into well-rounded, for external examinations, it is confident and articulate individuals. testimony to the enthusiasm of our pupils, parents and staff that a huge As I write, we have just waved number of enjoyable school-based a final and fond farewell to Y13, and activities and healthy competitions as they walked through the gates with have taken place throughout the their fantastic A level results in hand, second half of the year, as well as I am reminded of just how many charity events and trips out of school experiences Rougemont has afforded in both the UK and further afield. them, and how wonderful it must feel for them to be leaving school full House competitions continue to be of excitement, confidence and the hotly contested, with most recently anticipation of moving forward into the Eisteddfod and Sports Day taking the university and career of their Mrs S Archer - Deputy Head Seniors centre stage, along with House Tug of choice with such worthy academic War as a smaller but equally energetic achievements and personal skills. (and noisy!) effort. They are truly #RougemontReady, and we look forward to nurturing The following pages are packed future students towards their with Senior School achievements end goals. and news. Activity Week at the end of term saw pupils having a
ROUGEMONT REVIEW EXCITING SENIOR TIMES! SCHOOL 38 SENIOR SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 39 SENIOR SCHOOL
MATHS DEPARTMENT
Techniquest 2018 UKMT Maths Challenge Gold: Jack Bennett, Paul Dugdale, Competitions Adam Hansa, Luca Huelle, Kirthi Once again, the Maths Department Mankal, Jai Tandon, Luke Van der teamed up with the History It has been another busy year of Cruyssen Department to take our Year 7 pupils Maths Challenge events with well on a ‘Mistory’ trip. Following on from over 100 pupils taking part from Silver: Megan Burridge, Joss Church, their historical morning pursuits all year groups. The questions are Angharad Clements, Imogen at Cosmeston, they moved on to tough and really test our pupils’ ability Copestake, Evan Coulson, Holly Techniquest in the afternoon. They to reason successfully under exam French, Hannah Hussain, Ananya had a fantastic time, exploring the pressure, whilst hopefully having fun Majumdar, Taylor McTavish, Haroon hands on Techniquest exhibits, trying at the same time! Well done to all Mohammed, Beth Parker, Lauren out some Maths puzzles and attending those who participated. The Hall of Pohl, Oliver Vowles, Hirra Yasir a Maths themed lecture. Fame will be displayed in the Maths Corridor but the Intermediate and Junior Gold and Silver award winners are listed right:
40 SENIOR SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 41 SENIOR HAYDN’S ‘NELSON MASS’ NATIONAL HONOURS SCHOOL PERFORMANCE FOR ROUGEMONT MUSICIANS Back in June 2017, I was approached probably the most challenging that we would perform. On March 21st, the by the Director of Music at Hereford the pupils had encountered but they choir travelled to Hereford Cathedral Cathedral to ask if we would be were not fazed by this and they really to attend an afternoon rehearsal along interested in joining with other school focused in all the rehearsals over the with all of the other participating Congratulations to Alex Evans, Clara choirs in a performance of Haydn’s four month period of preparation. It schools, to ensure that the performance Greening and Paul Dugdale on being ‘Nelson Mass’. I was really excited was a tremendous experience to join was as polished as possible. selected to perform with the National by the prospect of our pupils being forces with other schools to perform Youth Band of Wales, the National involved in such a venture as we the work at such a magnificent For many of us, it was here that we Youth Choir of Wales and the would not have the forces to perform venue. Well done to everyone who had our first taste of what performing National Youth Orchestra of Wales such a major work as this with our performed; I am sure this will be an in such a large group was like; it was respectively. This is the first time that pupils alone. occasion that they will remember for the first occasion we had performed Rougemont has been represented in years to come! the Mass with the other choristers, all three of the National Youth Arts In September, at the start of the orchestra and vocal soloists. After the Wales groups in a single year and autumn term, I told the Senior Choir Beth Parker shares her memories rehearsal, we spent the remainder we hope that younger pupils will be about the opportunity and asked of the day: of the day exploring the incredible inspired to follow in their footsteps in them if they would like to be involved. Hereford Cathedral, and spending time the future. I was very pleased that over half the When we first found out that we would in our designated practice room. After Choir took up the invitation and, on be taking part in Haydn’s Nelson Mass, having a delicious meal, kindly provided It’s another first for the Youth Wednesday 21st March, 2018, 27 we were all very excited, as this was by Hereford Cathedral School, we made Orchestra and Choir too as, for the pupils from Rougemont Senior School unlike any music we had ever sung at our way to the Cathedral. The final first time in their combined history, performed the ‘Nelson Mass’ at choir before, and was the most difficult performance was amazing and was a they will combine forces to celebrate Hereford Cathedral. challenge we had faced! We began brilliant experience for all of us! A big Leonard Bernstein’s Centenary with rehearsals immediately, learning each thanks to Mrs Benson-Dugdale and Mr a performance of his ‘Chichester Preparations began in earnest after section of the Mass individually, in order Dobbins for putting in so much work, Psalms’. October half term and I was very to ensure that we were ‘pitch perfect’. in order to ensure that we sounded as impressed by the commitment shown After months of rehearsing and learning perfect as possible! by the pupils. The vocal parts were the music, the day finally arrived when
PREPARATIONS ROTARY YOUNG BEGAN IN MUSICIAN EARNEST AFTER COMPETITION OCTOBER HALF TERM AND I WAS IN FEBRUARY, VERY IMPRESSED ROUGEMONT BY THE MUSICIANS COMMITMENT SWEPT THE SHOWN BY THE BOARD IN THE PUPILS. AREA FINAL! Paul Dugdale (Year 11) Clara Greening (Year 12) instrumental winner winner of the vocal category
42 SENIOR SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 43 SENIOR THE CHEERS SCHOOL FROM THE FIELDS COULD BE HEARD ALL AROUND THE SCHOOL AND WE WERE PLEASED TO SEE SOME OF OUR PARENTS READY TO SUPPORT ON THIS VERY SUNNY MONDAY!
SENIOR SPORTS DAY
OUR SENIOR SPORTS DAY WAS A ROARING SUCCESS WITH CARADOG TAKING THE CROWN AS WINNERS THIS YEAR.
44 SENIOR SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 45 SENIOR SCHOOL ‘IT WAS ‘IT WAS A GREAT AMAZING EXPERIENCE. BECAUSE WE I’VE NEVER WERE ABLE TO DONE SO MANY SPEND LOTS OF ACTIVITIES TIME WITH OUR IN JUST A FEW FRIENDS’ DAYS!’
ACTIVITY YEAR 7 PGL WEEK HIGHLIGHTS
‘RAFT BUILDING ‘THE GIANT WAS MY SWING WAS HIGHLIGHT’ REALLY FUN!’
‘I LOVED THE ‘THE BEST PART ABSEILING WAS SWIMMING ALTHOUGH IN THE LAKE IT WAS ALSO AFTER OUR QUITE SCARY!’ RAFT BROKE!’
46 SENIOR SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 47 SENIOR SCHOOL YEAR 8 FRENCH ON THE DEPARTMENT TRIP MORNING OF TUESDAY 26TH BOULOGNE AND JUNE, THIRTY SEVEN EXCITED VERSAILLES YEAR 8 PUPILS BOARDED THE COACH FOR On the morning of Tuesday 26th sweets and drinks aisle in Carrefour. The third day consisted of a visit to FRANCE. June, thirty seven excited Year 8 Our shopping trip was followed by a Parc Astérix, a theme park on the pupils boarded the coach for France. meal in a lovely little French bistrot, outskirts of Paris. This was to some Hamiot, which overlooked the port. the highlight of the trip. We were Upon arrival in Boulogne that After lunch, we headed to Nausicaa, lucky enough to spend the entire day evening, we headed straight into the national sea centre in the centre there and without exception, we all the historic old town where we ate of town. The sharks and the penguins had a wonderful time! In the evening, dinner in a beautiful French crêperie seemed to provide the most delight we ate at the delightful Pizzeria on the edge of an historic courtyard. and were the highlight of the visit Del Arte. The pizzas were truly The savoury and sweet pancakes here. A couple of hours later, we ‘magnifique’! were ‘délicieux’! What a wonderful went on a tour of a local chocolaterie, start to our trip! where we learned all about the On Friday morning, we drove to process of making artisan chocolate. the Château de Versailles. It was Day two was an action packed day! As if we weren’t full enough after resplendent in the sunshine that We started off bright and early at the sampling their chocolates, in the morning and the visit to the world- Cité de l’Europe, the largest shopping evening, we made our way to Le famous Hall of Mirrors left many centre in Europe. Many pupils Cyrano, another little typically French of our pupils spellbound. This was were brave enough to have little bistrot on the water’s edge. With the final destination of the trip and conversations in French with shop full tummies and aching feet (we so at the end of the afternoon, we assistants and some even managed had done lots of walking today!), headed back to the coach for the long to ask for (and understand and duly we settled down to watch the new journey home. What a fun-packed follow!) directions in French to the Jurassic Park film in the local cinema. and memorable trip we all had! YEAR 8 The perfect end to a busy day. FRENCH TRIP
ON FRIDAY MORNING, WE DROVE TO THE CHÂTEAU DE VERSAILLES.
ACTIVITY WEEK
48 SENIOR SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 49 SENIOR ‘I REALLY ENJOYED SCHOOL THE TRIP AND I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO STAY LONGER SO I COULD HAVE LEARNT MORE.’
‘AN EXCELLENT TRIP! THE TEACHERS WERE LOVELY AND THE TRIP ITSELF WAS THOUGHT PROVOKING BUT ALSO THOROUGHLY YEAR 9 ENJOYABLE.’ BELGIUM TRIP
‘THE HIGHLIGHT ‘IT WAS A OF THE TRIP WAS VERY MOVING VISITING THE EXPERIENCE AND WELSH MEMORIAL I WILL NEVER AND SEEING THE FORGET THE DRAGON STATUE. SIGHT OF SO IT MADE ME THINK MANY GRAVES ABOUT ALL THE AT TYNE COT.’ LIVES THAT WERE LOST.’
50 SENIOR SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 51 SENIOR CARNEGIE SHADOWING SCHOOL IN THE LRC
Carnegie Shadowing is an annual fixture in the LRC calendar. The Book Group, named the Rougemont Readers, spends much of the year reading some of the titles longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. We also create a Carnegie Shadowing website and upload reviews, blogs and films on a weekly basis. The Carnegie Medal is presented annually to the writer of the best children’s novel. After Easter, the Rougemont Readers then read all eight of the shortlisted titles.
This year, seven fellow enthusiastic readers from St Joseph’s R.C. High School spent the morning with us here at Rougemont, sharing their passion for literature and discussion. The Rougemont team consisted of ten Year 7 pupils, namely Sree, Ananya, Shreya, Taylor, Liam, Evan, Lillie- Mae, Izzy, Ava and Darcey. In mixed teams, Rougemont and St Joseph’s pupils created iMovies for each of the eight books shortlisted for the YEAR 11 2018 Carnegie Medal. At lunchtime, the teams presented their film to PROM the other groups. The end results were truly impressive. The groups incorporated animation, artwork and drama into their movies and their interpretations of each book were absolutely fascinating.
Well done, Rougemont Readers! You were inspirational.
Ms Thomas, LRC Manager
52 SENIOR SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 53 SENIOR CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT AN ACCOUNT OF OUR TRIP SCHOOL FIZZING WITH ACTIVITY TO ROUEN - EASTER 2018
Day 1: Day 3: After an early start, we (a Like day 2, day 3 started with We spent the final evening with our group of 31 pupils from Years 9 – 12) us contesting the table football title host families chatting over dinner and Within the curriculum, pupils have In January, the Chemistry department The STEM club has been popular with got onto the bus and started out on followed by three hours of lessons. enjoyed the ever popular flame packing for an early start the following ran a trip for any GCSE Scientists pupils where they have been learning our journey to Rouen in Normandy. After lunch, we travelled to the testing, modelling atoms using to go to a series of lectures from about how Biogas may be used as a day when we would be returning to When we arrived in Rouen, three typically French picturesque fishing themselves as electrons, and building renowned Scientists in their fuel. In our final lesson of the year, the Wales. hours after getting off the Eurotunnel, port of Honfleur where we looked models of molecules using various respective fields. The pupils enjoyed STEM club pupils tested out the bottle we were greeted off the coach by our around the shops and restaurants materials. These are just some of the day with one remarking “I’m rockets that they had been working We really enjoyed our time in France. host families who drove us to what overlooking the harbour and were the many hands-on activities that now thinking of taking a Science at on over the past couple of months We had fun, spoke a lot of French was to become ‘home’ for the next treated to a crepe or ice cream by make Chemistry such an exciting A-Level”. A very worthwhile trip with the assistance of 8KE. The boys (both at school and with our host four days. Despite the nerves, we our teachers. After this, we all went subject to learn. for pupils to see where a career in learned a lot about aerodynamics families) and got to know the beautiful were all made to feel very welcome bowling in Rouen. Once again, there Science can lead them! whilst creating their rockets and put town of Rouen (where some of us what they had learned into practice by as we chatted over dinner and got to was serious competition between Trips have run throughout the year to want to live when we’re older!). A big building a parachute for their rocket in know each other. We were very tired some of the teams but it was a fun enable pupils to see science in action. Back in May, four Year 8 pupils went “Merci!” to Madame Morgan, Madame Back in October, four pupils took to the annual Salters Chemistry order to keep it in the air longer. after a day of travelling and as it was evening and most rivalries were Munro, Madame Thomas and Signor part in the RSC’s Top of the Bench Festival. The day involved two already quite late, we went to bed to settled before we were picked up by Price for taking us! It was great! competition, a competition in which practical sessions, the first We say a fond farewell to Mr get a good night’s sleep before the our French hosts and taken ‘home’. they have to use their Chemistry investigating the forensics of a crime Lambert, who has been the Science early start the following day. knowledge and general knowledge that had been committed and technician in the school since 2011. Harry Bagwell , Luca Huelle, Yesenia Day 4: Our morning lessons at the to complete a set of challenges put the afternoon session was testing The pupils will remember him singing Mahe-Darlington, Ross Mayo Day 2: This was our first day of school were followed by an excursion forward by Cardiff University. A great their precision in the Iodine clock as he worked and won’t forget the afternoon was had! experiment. Another fun day was intriguing and exciting Science Club he French lessons in the language school to Monet’s house and gardens at had by all! ran for Year 7 pupils. “French in Normandy”, situated in the Giverny. It was interesting visiting the outskirts of Rouen. Before lessons house where this famous French artist
Mrs Clare Langford started, we had time to play a bit of lived and worked as well as seeing the Head of KS3 and KS4 Chemistry ‘babyfoot’ which was fun. (Sam and garden where he got his inspiration Ollie were reigning champions until for some of the paintings that are so Harry and Luke started contesting familiar to us – such as the lily ponds them!). The lessons went really well and the Japanese bridge. – we were split into two groups and our teachers were friendly, made us feel at ease and helped us with our pronunciation by playing games and making us speak a lot of French! After lessons, we had a packed lunch together in the school foyer (delicious French baguette with a choice of fillings) before we set off for a guided tour of Rouen followed by a treasure hunt. Unfortunately, the weather was a little too much like the weather back home – grey and drizzly – but despite this, we enjoyed learning about and finding our way around this interesting and historic town. After the treasure hunt, we all went back to spend the evening with our host families.
54 SENIOR SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 55 SENIOR BUSY YEAR SCHOOL FOR SIXTH FORM
This has been another busy year who will fulfil the role over the next “Being a senior prefect is a demanding for the Sixth Form. Following a year. House Captains have already but very fulfilling role in which we are successful results day, the new Year been hard at work organising able to be involved in all aspects of 12 pupils quickly settled into life in House events. school life. the Sixth Form. Our first big event of the year was the Fashion Show. A busy year culminated in our Year A most recent example of this was The Sixth Form showcased their 13 leavers evening. A busy afternoon the Infant and Junior School Sports organisational skills and the evening was spent decorating the Infant Hall Day in which we thoroughly enjoyed was a huge success, raising £3000 in preparation and Mr Iain Jackson encouraging the younger pupils to take for our chosen charity, Sparkle. produced a feast for all. It was a part in a wide range of events, which wonderful way to say a final goodbye was made easier by the beautiful The end of the autumn term meant to both pupils and parents. Memories sunshine. We have enjoyed our first term the traditional Christmas assembly were shared and good times recalled. as heads and deputies and next year and Christmas tea with Bron Afon. It is always sad to say goodbye and I we are looking forward to continuing our A wonderful afternoon was had, with wish the class of 2018 all the best. roles and interacting with all members entertainment from the Infant School of the school community, with House pupils as well as some of our talented Mrs van der Linde events, School Council and the Sixth Year 13 musicians. Form Christmas Ball. We are very grateful for being given these positions Spring brought with it the and are excited for the future.” appointment of our new senior prefects. Congratulations to those Max Bowman, Freyja Quigley, James Edwards, Ffion Vineall
KS3 ARTWORK
Eva - Year 7
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Ryleigh - Year 9 Taylor - Year 7 Ananya - Year 7
KS3 ARTWORK
Devin - Year 8 Lauren - Year 9 Xav - Year 9 Ava - Year 7
George - Year 8 Sophie - Year 7 Mo - Year 7 Evie - Year 9
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Olivia - Year 9 Ella - Year 9 Maddie - Year 9
Rhia - Year 8
Gruff - Year 7
KS3 GCSE ARTWORK ARTWORK
Rosie - Year 9 Emily - Portrait of Grandparents
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Lewis - Tenby harbour Amy - Portrait of mum Amaya - Portrait of Kirthi in acrylics Olivia - Oils, petals & feathers
GCSE ARTWORK
Taylor - Artist study in acrylics Angharad - Cornwall in oils Lydia - Mixed media
Jesse - Musical mixed media Lauren - Acrylic & thread on canvas Jai - Canal sketch in oil Kirthi - Portrait of mother in pastel
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Ysabelle - Self portrait on wire Ieuan - Artist study in watercolour Ieuan - pastel study of Ysabelle Emma - Etching Rebecca - Oil study
A LEVEL ARTWORK
Ieuan - Self portrait in oils Ieuan - Self Portrait in oils Oliver - Oil study Oliver - Landscape in oils, natural forms & wire
Ysabelle - Self portrait in oils Alice - Self portrait in oils Oliver - Study of ballet shoes Oliver - Portrait of dad in spray paint
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GCSE AND THE EXHIBITION A LEVEL INCLUDED EXHIBITION PAINTED 2018. PORTRAITS, SEASCAPES, PHOTOGRAPHY AND PRINTMAKING.
This year, the Art Department landscapes and architecture using a hosted its first joint GCSE and Sixth wide variety of media which included Form exhibition. The parents of sculpture, printmaking and oil painting. pupils who studied Art and Design at both GCSE and A Level were invited At A Level, our Sixth Form pupils all to attend and they were delighted to produced very personal investigations see the work that their children had into themes such as structures, produced for both the portfolio and identity and the built environment. exam elements of the course. The exhibition included painted portraits, seascapes, photography and At GCSE Level, the pupils had printmaking. Pupils also showcased completed a portfolio on the theme their life drawing skills from the of investigations into the natural workshop in the autumn term. world, using a wide variety of media. Pupils also explored personally It was evident that the pupils had chosen themes such as portraiture, worked exceptionally hard this year and the work produced was collectively of a high standard.
66 SENIOR SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 67 SENIOR SCHOOL AN OUTSTANDING 85% ACHIEVED A*-B GRADES, (NATIONAL 43%) ANOTHER BEST EVER!
GCSE RESULTS
A RECORD- “Our pupils, parents and staff have BREAKING worked incredibly hard to achieve these excellent results and our 63% OF ALL heartfelt congratulations go out to ENTRIES AT each and every one of our pupils. We are extremely proud!” said GCSE ACHIEVED Headmaster, Mr Rob Carnevale. A*/A GRADES We are excited to welcome our Year (NATIONAL 18%) 11 pupils back to Sixth Form this MAKING 2018 September as they will be the first set of pupils to move into the brand new THE SCHOOL’S Sixth Form Centre this autumn! BEST EVER!
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19% OF PUPILS ACHIEVED A* GRADES, OUR BEST EVER WITH 98% GAINING A PLACE AT THEIR CHOSEN A LEVEL UNIVERSITY. RESULTS
A LEVEL Outstanding results with Twin brothers Owen and Rhys Our Deputy Head Boy Ed will take 100% pass rate coupled with a achieved a truly remarkable 10 up his place at Oxford University to RESULTS: 100% phenomenal 50% A*/A grades A* grades between them after read History after achieving excellent achieved by pupils this year shows taking five A Levels each in Maths, results and fellow classmate Luke PASS RATE – why Rougemont is one of the Further Maths, Chemistry, Biology heads to Cambridge where he will ROUGEMONT leading schools in Wales. and Physics. The brothers will now also read History. take up their places at Cambridge CELEBRATES Oxbridge Calling! University where they will study Four Rougemont pupils will head to Natural Sciences at Churchill College. BEST A LEVEL Oxbridge this autumn after achieving RESULTS IN 8 outstanding results at A Level. YEARS.
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YEAR 6 GIRLS ON NETBALL TOUR DESTINATION: MERTHYR TYDFIL AND BATH
What happens when you take Year 6 girls on Netball Tour?
Apart from excitement, great camaraderie and conversation, you YEAR 6 get superb Netball!
NETBALL Our first stop was Merthyr Tydfil, for the Welsh Netball Nationals. The girls played with determination and great resilience against teams from across the whole of Wales. Being gracious in defeat, we left Merthyr with a sense of pride that we had worked hard to earn our place in the final and were ready to enjoy our matches in Bath.
In Bath, we played our first match against Monkton Coombe ROUGEMONT Preparatory School. After the match we had afternoon tea before heading off to our accommodation in the REVIEW YMCA. On Friday morning we played a number of matches against Royal SPORT High Junior School. It was a great experience for the girls and some great netball was played.
72 SPORT HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 73 YEAR 7 GOLF SPORT GIRLS HOCKEY TEAM HIGHLIGHTS
The Year 7 Girls’ Hockey team have On the day of the finals, the sun was The game, along with the weather, Our golfers enjoyed another enjoyed another successful season. shining and it was a boiling hot day, was heating up. Unfortunately excellent year, achieving highly Both the A and B team won their not your typical hockey weather! Both Caerleon scored 2 more goals and section of the league, winning all teams played brilliantly in the heat won the match 3-1, however, the girls as individuals and within team their matches and qualifying for the and at half time both the A and the played exceptionally well and were competitions. South East Wales League finals. We B teams were winning by 1-0. In the proud to be runners up in the A were drawn to play Caerleon in both second half, Caerleon had made some league. Gracie Mayo won the South Wales matches, and having played them in a substitutions and managed to get an Schools’ Competition at Llanwern friendly before, we knew they were early goal in the A team game. The B team managed to hang on to Golf Club, which qualified her for the going to be tough competition. their lead and win the match 1-0, county team and placed her on the making them South East Wales pathway to Welsh selection. In this champions for the B league. event, Megan Vineall also finished in a very creditable second place – a fine achievement as Megan was one of A FANTASTIC the youngest competitors. Edward Price and Ffion Vineall gained Welsh ACHIEVEMENT selection once again, highlighting how BY BOTH TEAMS. successful our Rougemont golfers have been this year. WELL DONE, In team competitions, our squad of GIRLS. Owen Vineall, Megan Vineall, Ffion Vineall, Jackson Mountford, Nic Williams and Edward Price all played their part during a fine season of golf, in which they won the Independent Schools’ National Golf Wales and West Area competition and qualified for the National Final in St Mellion, GOLF Cornwall in April. Over the two-round final, the team achieved a top-ten HIGHLIGHTS finish. We were very proud of their achievements both on and off the course. NEW UK JUNIOR CHAMPION RECORD
An amazing achievement for Year 12 pupil, Zach, who broke the 25 mile all time UK junior national record by over 30 seconds.
Zach’s cycling continues to go from strength to strength. Well done!
74 SPORT HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 75 LONDON MINI MARATHON RUGBY SPORT HIGHLIGHTS BY JACKSON MOUNTFORD 7’S
During the summer term, boys in When we got to the start, we were Years 5-9 played in a number of rugby In April this year I was selected to (Welsh Cross-Country), I came in separated into our age groups and festivals, including the Monmouth run the London Mini Marathon, a the top six and from then it was a put into different areas. This made Festival, Llandaff 7’s and the Newport three mile road race which covers waiting game. Schools’ U11 Tournament, which was the last three miles of the London it difficult to do a proper warm up hosted by Rougemont. Marathon course. as there was only enough room for I had to wait two weeks for the stretching. I also couldn’t believe how letter to come through the post. many boys they were – 210 in total! During the Newport Schools’ Event, It provides an opportunity for I remember feeling nervous as I ten local schools took part, playing 72 young athletes from Wales to test opened the letter but was so My race was the first one and the matches within the festival. Our boys themselves against the best in excited when I saw the result! start was manic! With so many boys did the school proud, winning seven of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, I had made the team! fighting to get their positions, the start the eight games they played and finishing competing against the other Celtic was very fast. I was thrilled with my runners-up overall. Former pupil Harri nations, the powerful English regions The day came when I travelled to time as it was a personal best and Keddie, who now plays for Newport and athletes representing each of the London with the Welsh team. We I came 38th out of 210 boys. I will Dragons, came back to school to London boroughs. travelled to Royal Holloway College never forget this experience and I present the trophies to all participants. on the Saturday and, following an would do it again tomorrow if I could. Harri’s success will hopefully inspire our The under 13, 15 and 17 teams overnight stay, continued into London boys towards further rugby glory. comprise of six athletes who have early on Sunday morning, with If anyone is inspired by running, then been chosen to represent Wales races taking place shortly after 9am. keep going and you never know Our Year 9 team also achieved success based on their performance over a Television coverage was provided where it may take you. within the Monmouth Festival as they series of cross-country events. via the red button on the BBC. won their group stage and finished third overall. This is a race that I have always I cannot put into words how I was `With self-discipline anything is possible` wanted to run as it is a once in a feeling that morning - being woken lifetime opportunity. up at 5am by our coaches was a shock Theodore Roosevelt. but the adrenalin that I was feeling I had trained hard all winter and had kept me going. some successful wins throughout the season. In the last selection race
76 SPORT HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 77 GIRLS CRICKET YEAR 8 SPORT ATHLETICS TEAM HIGHLIGHTS The summer term has brought the Bethan’s under 17 season has beginning of the county cricket been delayed due to AS exams, season for two of Rougemont’s but she has been kept busy by The Year 8 girls recently took pupils, Bethan Gammon and Sophia her recent selections in the Wales Nancy Knapman Javelin 2nd Place part in the South East Wales Smale. Both girls have made excellent Women’s Senior team for the T20 Schools Athletics Cup. With points starts to their seasons. So far, championship. Her first call up was Ruby Carroll Shot put 2nd Place available across both track and field Sophia has played 12 games and against Durham and Cheshire, and disciplines, the girls worked as part Mimi Copestake 1500m 4th Place scored a career best of 103 not out more recently she received a second of a team to score as many points off 64 balls against Worcestershire selection against Berkshire as possible. Neha Bashir 800m 4th Place girls. She has also taken on great and Gloucester. responsibility with her captaincy role Megan Vineall 100m 4th Place within the Wales under 13 team, With pupils choosing their best event who won 9 out of the 10 games to compete in, the team comprised Ellie Chinn 200m 2nd Place they played. of sprinters, middle distance runners and field athletes. The results came in Ella Buchanan 300m 1st Place steadily throughout the day with some Jessica Thomas 75m Hurdles 1st Place excellent achievements by all. Overall, the Year 8 girls’ team finished in a very Olivia Knight High jump 2nd Place respectable 2nd place to qualify for the final. Jessica Thomas Long Jump 2nd Place
Results were as follows: Megan Vineall, Ella Buchanan, Relay 2nd Place ROUGEMONT Jess Thomas, Ellie Chinn EQUESTRIAN TEAM SWIMMING We are pleased to announce that Sessions will be arranged shortly for Rougemont Equestrian Club has been the 2018-19 academic year and anyone SUCCESS launched. Several pupils have enjoyed interested in being part of the club training sessions which have taken should contact Andy Knight by e-mailing FOR MEGAN place at Broomes Equestrian Centre. [email protected] In September 2017, Megan Allison to find out more. swam in the UK School Games The School plans to set up an Competition where she won gold Equestrian team this year that can in the 200 butterfly and a silver compete at the British Schools medal in the girls 4x 100 free Championships. It was pleasing to note relay. that two girls, Jessica Rose Thomas and In January of this year, Megan was Olivia Knight from 8JJ, both competed chosen to represent Wales in the as individuals at the shows, with Jess Luxembourg Euro meet and made being placed several times in her it to the finals. category. It is pleasing to see both of At Easter, Megan secured three these girls and several others from gold medals at the Welsh National the school competing to a high level in Championships and broke the both local and regional competitions. Welsh Junior long course record in the 50 metre freestyle in a winning Whether you are an experienced rider time of 26.77 seconds. or someone who has just started, Well done, Megan! Rougemont Equestrian Club will cater for all needs.
78 SPORT HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 79 BEYOND CLASSROOM THE CLASSROOM THE BEYOND
These are very exciting times to be a and an additional pitch being created part of Rougemont School. Significant to cater for our increased sporting changes are taking place as the school provision, as well as a small AstroTurf moves into a new chapter of its area on the Infants yard. With the history. partnership with Newport Rugby now in full swing, we are hoping Work is currently being finalised on the to significantly add to our facilities. new Refectory, Auditorium and Sixth The Gym is already proving to be a Form Centre which is due to open on welcome attraction, and next Easter 5th November 2018. This facility will be we are hoping to significantly improve the flagship for the Sixth Form but will the drainage to our main pitches also allow all pupils to benefit from the which will mean we can play sport all outstanding Catering and Auditorium year round. facilities on offer. The school will also be introducing a biometric system for Coupled with the new co-curricular pupils. The building will not only benefit programme and our close links to pupils but also the whole community some of the best sporting clubs in and we are already taking bookings the area, such as Christian Malcolm for large scale shows, conferences and Sports Academy, Cardiff City Football Andy Knight, Director of catering events. and Newport Rugby Club, this should Business and Finance mean that our pupils benefit from If you are interested in hiring any expert coaching and opportunities of these facilities please contact over the coming years. Jane Karrie on Jane.karrie@ rougemontschool.co.uk or ring 01633 Rougemont is changing apace and 820800. hopefully you are excited by these changes as we aim to provide an Significant sporting upgrades have also environment that is challenging, taken place recently, with the tennis stimulating and exciting for everyone courts being resurfaced, a running/cycle associated with the school. track being created around the school
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REVIEW THESE ARE BEYOND THE EXCITING TIMES CLASSROOM 80 BEYOND THE CLASSROOM HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 81 MRS BURRIDGE RUNS THE CLASSROOM LONDON MARATHON 2018 THE BEYOND
I felt honoured to have been awarded After purchasing a specialised pair of Literacy lessons and I was very impressed mile which I made good use of, always I knew that I would be seeing my family This meant that I only had three miles to a place to run this iconic 26.2.mile running trainers and an all-important with the fantastic poems that they ensuring that I had a bottle of water with at several locations in the Isle of Dogs/ go… I was definitely going to finish and race by The Roy Castle Lung Cancer ‘How to do it’ book, I embarked on my composed which really captured the spirit me, if not for myself then for a fellow Canary Wharf area of the city and get that medal! Seeing Buckingham Palace Foundation in October of last year… training and fundraising at the beginning of the day. Statistics about the race were runner. We had been advised not just to also the cheering station for The Roy at the end of Birdcage Walk was a most and also very excited as it is a sporting of November; however, things did not even used during their Maths lessons! drink it but also to pour it over ourselves Castle Lung Cancer Foundation so that welcome sight as was the banner across event that I have wanted to participate get serious until after the new year in order to cool down. There were also kept me motivated. People enjoying the road which said only 365 yards to go! in since the age of 17 (which is quite a when my training sessions increased in After my training being interrupted with stops along the route for energy drinks an early morning refreshment outside 5 hours, 18 minutes and 26 seconds after few years ago now!!). Roy Castle was a length, time and frequency….when the ice and snow, I awoke on the morning and gels as well as showers. The first pubs were calling out the names of beginning the race in Greenwich Park, I personality that I had grown up with … weather allowed. It was hard to run of the race to a beautiful clear blue skied familiar sight along the route was the runners as they passed by, families were felt very emotional as I crossed the finish who of a certain age can forget seeing when the nights were cold and dark but day in London. At 6.30am it was already famous clipper ship, Cutty Sark. Here picnicking on patches of green grass, men line and completed the hottest ever him playing a tune on multiple musical I was mentored by a friend who had too warm to contemplate wearing a there were lots of television cameras so were topping up their tans whilst sat in London Marathon. I was reunited with instruments on Blue Peter or tap completed the race in 2017 and I also t-shirt beneath my running vest and I I gave a big wave in the hope that I might deckchairs by the roadside, children were family and friends at the end of The Mall, dancing in the atrium of the old BBC attended a ‘Meet the Experts’ day in definitely did not need to take a coat! As been seen on the small screen. From offering slices of oranges, jelly babies and including, amazingly, a gentleman who I Television Centre? Sadly he died all too London where motivational speakers my journey on the tube took me closer there it was onto Tower Bridge, where wet wipes, and bands along the route had met whilst walking to the start. young at the age of just 62 from lung provided answers to the many questions to the city centre I was joined by more many charities had cheering stations – it were playing different types of music so cancer. Roy was not a smoker himself that first time marathon runners have. and more runners and my excitement was a strange feeling to be running across we were well entertained. By now I was All those months of training paid off and I but played in pubs and clubs when there This was the encouragement that I gradually began to build. However, I was such an iconic structure but it was the having periods of brisk walking as I was didn’t even have a blister, but I would not weren’t the restrictions that we have needed to keep going. left wondering if I would get to the start most perfect day to be doing so. This seeing runners who were not doing so have achieved my dream if I hadn’t had today on smoking. He, together with his in Greenwich Park when the whole was almost half way, a half marathon well in the heat and I so wanted to finish. a wide support network which included wife and hospital consultant, set up The of the concourse at London Bridge completed with just another one to do! the staff, parents and children from Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation “My final long run was 22 miles from railway station was blocked with runners Before long The Tower of London was Rougemont so thank you. before he died, and today it is the only everywhere…I was thinking at one point in sight, the crowds were getting deeper charity that solely supports lung cancer Abergavenny to Newport on the morning that I would be running with my kit bag as “Before long The Tower of London was and louder and before I knew it I was Here’s to the next one!! sufferers and their families. A frightening of my 50th birthday” the baggage lorries were due to close at running under the start of the Mini in sight, the crowds were getting deeper fact is that each year, more people in 9.15am. I need not have worried as once Marathon which Jackson Mountford had the UK are diagnosed with lung cancer on the train it was a short journey to the and louder” competed in earlier in the day. than the number of runners who My final long run was 22 miles from start. Runners are very social people and I participate in The London Marathon. Abergavenny to Newport on the was soon chatting to other athletes finding morning of my 50th birthday but I knew out their backstory to competing in the During the previous four years I had that I had to put the training in if I was to 2018 London Marathon as we walked taken up running again, a sport that I had stand a chance of completing the race through Greenwich. For many, like me, it I WOULD NOT enjoyed as a teenager, after becoming on Sunday 22nd April. The charity had was their first marathon experience…. HAVE ACHIEVED involved in Parkrun at Tredegar House asked me to raise a minimum of £2,000 some were very definite that it was also and the Rougemont Runners Half and a huge part of this was raised by going to be their last! Everyone I met had MY DREAM IF I Marathon teams. However a marathon Mr Dobbins arranging to take the Junior a reason for being there. is almost nine Parkruns or two half Choir plus several Infant Choir members HADN’T HAD A marathons back to back!! to sing Christmas carols at Sainsbury’s Being at the start as one of 40,000+ WIDE SUPPORT Newport. Thanks must also go to Mrs runners, something that I had watched Pritchard for allowing a Charity Day at many times from the comfort of my own NETWORK… “After purchasing a specialised pair of school on the Friday before I ran. On armchair, was a ‘pinch yourself’ moment. this day, the children of the Prep School running trainers and an all-important I did not feel at all nervous and thought were asked to wear an item of blue or of it as another training run whilst I kept ‘How to do it’ book, I embarked on THANK YOU. white, and participated in several world telling myself that I wasn’t hot even my training and fundraising at the record breaking attempts, whilst pupils though it was. Just before 10.50am I went HERE’S TO THE beginning of November” in the Infants completed various activities through the famous gates of Greenwich associated with breathing. The Upper Park, towards the Red Start and then NEXT ONE! Infant children had been finding out all the race was on. After the first three about The London Marathon during their miles there were water stations at every
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ROUGEMONT READY AT EVERY CHALLENGE.
ROUGEMONT LDC RUNNERS TRIP
On 29th April, 56 runners from This year’s LDC trip was to Govilon Rougemont took part in the inaugural ON 29TH Outdoor Activity Centre. Pupils from Newport 10k road race. Pupils from APRIL, 56 the ages of 7 to 16 had a fantastic Year 10 and above were eligible to time climbing the rocks on Llangattock run and, in doing so, raise money RUNNERS FROM Mountain and canoeing on Keeper’s for Velindre. In addition, Mr Andy Lake on the Blorenge. Breath-taking Richards and Mrs Louise Bateman ROUGEMONT scenery, outstanding instructors completed the Newport marathon. TOOK PART IN and amazing pupils, who proved It was a fantastic morning of running themselves to be Rougemont Ready and an excellent effort from everyone THE INAUGURAL at every challenge. Not all classrooms involved. We are also delighted to NEWPORT 10K need tables and chairs! confirm that we have broken the £20,000 barrier on our Just Giving ROAD RACE. page and have raised in total £22,399, the most we have every raised for Velindre. Well done to everyone who took part and thank you for generous donations.
84 BEYOND THE CLASSROOM HIGHLIGHTS #ROUGEMONTREADY 85 ZIGI DR JONATHAN TRIBBICK, CLASSROOM SHIPPER 1959 - 2018 – A TRIBUTE THE BEYOND
We were privileged to welcome Our School community was shocked the development and completion Holocaust survivor Zigi Shipper and deeply saddened by the news of the new Design Technology and to school to talk to the Rougemont of the sudden death of Dr Jonathan Science block. community as part of our Tribbick on Monday 14th May 2018. ‘Rougemont Horizons’ programme. After retirement he was still involved Originally from Leighton Buzzard, actively in the teaching of Latin at In conjunction with the Holocaust Bedfordshire, Dr Tribbick was a Rougemont, the Duke of Edinburgh Educational Trust, Zigi has visited our classicist who spent his teaching Award Scheme and continued to school on a number of occasions in career in HMC schools: as Assistant support the School as a Governor. the past to talk at length with pupils, Master and Head of Classics at staff and parents alike about his Hampton School, and Vice-Principal Dr Tribbick was a wise and very well- experience at Auschwitz-Birkenau of Newcastle-Under-Lyme School. respected member of the Rougemont during World War II. He was Headmaster of Rougemont family and he will be greatly missed. School from 2002 to 2014. Our thoughts and prayers are with Zigi is an extraordinary gentleman his wife Margaret and family. with an extraordinary life story His integrity and the quality of to share. To hear his story was a his leadership were outstanding, A service of thanksgiving celebrating humbling experience and everyone enabling the School to make the life of Dr Tribbick was held on who attended this event felt privileged Dr Jonathan Tribbick improvements for our pupils beyond Thursday 14th June at Newport to be in his presence. We look any expectations. He led Rougemont Cathedral and was attended by forward to welcoming Zigi back to through two excellent Estyn current and former staff and many Rougemont in the near future. inspections and his contribution to alumni who remember Dr Tribbick the School was immeasurable. His with great fondness. Our choir many accomplishments included the performed beautifully during the relocation of the Infant School from service which was a moving tribute Nant Coch House on Risca Road, to a wonderful man and an DUKE OF EDINBURGH Newport, to our current site, and outstanding Headmaster.
Senior Pupil Council members GOLD AWARDS enjoyed a delicious afternoon tea ATTENDING treat as they were rewarded for It has been a busy term for our pupils MEETINGS all their excellent work during who have participated in the Duke of the past academic year. Edinburgh Award Scheme. Our Year AND SHARING 10 pupils have been working towards IDEAS. The pupils have worked extremely their Bronze Award and Year 11 hard this year, attending meetings, pupils have been out on their Silver sharing ideas and taking the role expedition, having to endure the hot as ‘pupil voice’ on behalf of their and humid conditions. We were classmates. Plenty of new and exciting delighted to see seven alumni and initiatives are in place because of their two Year 13 pupils attend Buckingham hard work and we are very proud Palace to receive their Gold Awards. of their efforts. A great achievement! Well done SENIOR to all involved. We look forward to working COUNCIL with many of them again.
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As we look back upon the year, We can happily reflect and cheer. Activities, trophies, rewards and more With smiles aplenty and confidences that soar.
Activities Week brought out the sun, And the children clearly had so much fun! From dens to ponds, and builds to ropes, With every day, they raised their hopes.
Our sports have excelled, success the theme, With so much talent, what a year it has been! From track to pitch, Gillespie to Garrod, National honours to celebrate, records to herald.
Academic standards have all soared, Recognitions abounding and names on the board. Our clubs have also caused much delight, With Dance and Archery hitting new heights!
Our musical triumphs never cease to amaze, As stars of all ages take to the stage. Even Nursery sing solos, astounding us all. Encores resound, ‘Once again’, is the call!
As we look to the Summer and a chance to take stock, We anticipate September, potential to unlock. With thanks to staff, Mrs Mills and Miss Dyer, We shall welcome you back and set our sights even higher!
Mrs Lisa Prichard - Head of Prep School
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