Rougemont Review Summer 2018 Issue 15 Contents
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#rougemontready 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 Designed by Wonder Company wondercompany.co.uk 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.