SPRING TERM Spring Term 2020 Newsletter Issue 4 31 January 03/02/2020 08:05:00 KG Open Classroom 08:15:00 04/02/2020 08:15:00 Y1 Open Classrooms (Parents) 08:30:00 04/02/2020 12:05:00 KG Open Classroom 12:15:00 04/02/2020 13:45:00 Y1 visit to St. John's Church 15:15:00 05/02/2020 14:30:00 U11 A Rugby v Sacred Heart (H) 16:00:00 05/02/2020 14:30:00 U10 A Rugby v Radnor House (A) 16:45:00 05/02/2020 14:30:00 U10 B Rugby v Sacred Heart (H) 16:00:00 05/02/2020 14:30:00 U10 C Rugby v Radnor House (A) 16:45:00 05/02/2020 14:30:00 U11 Netball v Kent College (A) 16:45:00 05/02/2020 14:30:00 U10 Netball v Kent College (H) 16:00:00 05/02/2020 15:20:00 KG Open Classroom 15:30:00 06/02/2020 14:30:00 U9 A Rugby v Radnor House (A) 16:45:00 06/02/2020 14:30:00 U9 B Rugby v Radnor House (A) 16:45:00 06/02/2020 14:30:00 U8 Rovers v Skippers Hill (H) 16:00:00 06/02/2020 14:30:00 U8 Rangers v Skippers Hill (H) 16:00:00 06/02/2020 14:30:00 U8 Rockets v Skippers Hill (H) 16:00:00 06/02/2020 14:30:00 U9 Netball v Hilden Grange (A) 16:45:00 06/02/2020 14:30:00 U8 Netball v Hilden Grange (H) 16:00:00 Y6-8 Film Night - optional for children to stay at school prior 06/02/2020 17:15:00 19:30:00 to the film 07/02/2020 08:30:00 3B Assembly 09:00:00 07/02/2020 16:15:00 Y3-5 PA Disco 18:00:00 09/02/2020 12:00:00 Coda Recital 18:00:00 Spring Term 2020, issue 4 HEADLINES Dear Parents, Thank you to so many parents who attended this year’s Future Schools’ evening. We feel that this is such an important opportunity to meet so many schools and discuss future school options with Rose Hill staff. We were delighted to welcome Julie Lodrick, Headmistress at Kent College, Pembury as our guest speaker at this year’s event. Julie highlighted the choices between each independent school and the reasons for staying in your prep school until 13+. My thanks to all our senior professionals from over twenty excellent schools for supporting Rose Hill. Parents then had the opportunity to ‘visit’ a number of schools and talk to Rose Hill staff about planning their child’s next steps. Details of which can be found in this newsletter. As always, you are welcome to discuss future schools options with me. For an appointment do contact Ann Green on [email protected]. This morning, along with Coffee Connections, 3A reminded us of the incredibly important message of the power of growth mindset: learning is about making mistakes and we should support each other in the process. Their exciting assembly was told through story and song, retelling the wonderful book ‘The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes’ by Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein. Well done 3A for your excellent assembly. Information regarding Film Night: Pick up time is 7.45pm from the Quad. Disco Night: Pick up time is 6pm from the Quad. Best wishes. ULTIMATE ACTIVITY CAMPS We are delighted to let you know that Ultimate Activity Camps will be returning to run their fun, safe and engaging holiday day camps at Rose Hill School during the Easter and Summer Holidays! Easter Dates – Monday 6th – Friday 17th April 2020 Summer Dates Ultimate Activity Camps (Monday 20th July to Friday 28th August 2020) offer exciting holiday day camps with over 40 activities every week delivered by engaging, enthusiastic and energetic staff who will instruct and encourage every child to try new activities and make new friends – and naturally have lots of fun! Ultimate Survival (Monday 17th July to Friday 28th August 2020) which offers fun and adventurous outdoor day camps where children aged 7 to 14 years will try exciting outdoor activities and games, and learn new skills along the way, there is even an optional sleep out on a Thursday night! *Early Booking Offer £174 / week saving £40 off our standard rate of £214 / week £41 / day saving £6 per day off our standard rate of £47 / week Please visit www.ultimateactivity.co.uk for full details or you can call their friendly team on 0330 111 7077 (local rate). Spring Term 2020, issue 4 FUTURE SCHOOL OPEN DAYS Thank you to all the parents who made it to the Future Schools’ Fair on Tuesday. Below are the upcoming Open Days of the schools who attended. Ardingly, Saturday 7 March www.ardingly.com Battle Abbey, Saturday 7 March http://www.battleabbeyschool.com/open-days/ Bedes, Saturday 7 March www.bedes.org Beechwood School, Tuesday 3 March https://beechwood.org.uk/admissions/open-days-and- events/ Bethany, Saturday 1st February, www.bethanyschool.org.uk/visit. Brighton College, Saturday 25 April, https://www.brightoncollege.org.uk/admissions/open-mornings/ Burgess Hill Girls School Saturday 1 February https://burgesshillgirls.com/admissions/open-events Caterham School https://www.caterhamschool.co.uk/admissions/open-days-and-visits/ Claremont Senior School 14 March www.claremontschool.co.uk Eastbourne College, Saturday 29 February, www.eastbourne-college.co.uk Kent College, 3 March www.kent-college.co.uk Lingfield College, Monday 22 June https://www.lingfieldcollege.co.uk/ Mayfield School, Friday 20 March, www.mayfieldgirls.org Roedean School , Saturday 7 March, www.roedean.co.uk Sutton Valence Saturday 14 March www.svs.org.uk Sevenoaks School, Saturday 13 June, https://www.sevenoaksschool.org/home/ Tonbridge School, Saturday 7 March https://www.tonbridge-school.co.uk/admissions/contact-us Walthamstow Hall Thursday 12 March www.walthamstow-hall.co.uk Worth School, Saturday 14 March, www.worthschool.org.uk We are always pleased to discuss future schools, please contact the school for an appointment. FOUND, PLEASE COME TO THE OFFICE Spring Term 2020, issue 4 CONGRATULATIONS Well done to Isabela in Year 6 who wrote a fantastic diary entry this week ADVICE FROM PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND In light of the recent outbreak of the Coronavirus in Wuhan, China we would like to reassure you that, as always, we are monitoring government advice and assessing any potential risks on a daily basis. The advice we and other schools are following comes from PHE (Public Health England) and I encourage you to check their website https://www.gov.uk/guidance/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-information-for-the- public PHE have suggested that we forward the links below to our parent body. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-information-for-the-public#advice-for-travellers- from-wuhan WHO advice: https://www.who.int/ith/2020-27-01-outbreak-of-Pneumonia-caused-by-new-coronavirus/en/ National Travel Health Network and Centre advice: https://travelhealthpro.org.uk/countries Foreign travel advice from FCO: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/france/health We operate a proactive approach to hand hygiene and encourage staff and pupils to pay special atten- tion to their hand hygiene techniques. Washing hands with soap and water helps break the chain of infec- tion. We will continue to monitor the updates on the Coronavirus and update you accordingly. In the meantime we will keep reminding our staff and pupils to continue the high standard of hand hygiene already in ef- fect at school. Juliet Makinson School Nurse Spring Term 2020, issue 4 KINDERGARTEN CHINESE NEW YEAR The children have been looking at Chinese New Year this week and Chinese culture. Some of the children have been playing in our Chinese restaurant role play area. Some of them wanted to be waiters and oth- ers wanted to be served. They ordered some noodles to eat with their chopsticks! 3B LOOK AFTER ROSIE 3B thoroughly enjoyed looking after Rosie this week. Every morning Rosie was put into her ball for a half hours exercise and different children took on the responsibility of collecting little treats for her from the dining room. Everyone thought she was very cute and enjoyed having the opportunity to stroke or hold her. YEAR 3 GEOGRAPHY In geography Year Three are investigating settlements. After looking at why settlements grew up in the areas they did, the children designed their own settlements using Plasticine. Spring Term 2020, issue 4 SCOUTS COOKING BADGE The scouts have been working towards their cooking badge this week, by making a delicious Bolognese 3A ASSEMBLY Well done to 3A for such a great assembly teaching us about the importance of making mistakes and having a growth mindset. WELLNESS WEEK 4-7 MAY We will be holding our third Wellness Week in May this year. If you or anyone you know might like to volun- teer their time to be part of the week to offer something for pupils, staff or parents, please contact [email protected]. Many thanks. Spring Term 2020, issue 4 YEAR 2 3D SHAPES Year 2 have had lots of fun exploring 3D shapes this week; finding out the shapes of faces, number of edges and vertices and where we see these types of shapes in the real world. We also experimented with nets by building our own 3D shapes – this was quite tricky. Take a look at our success! YEAR 4 BRITISH MUSEUM Year 4 visited the British Museum last Friday.