Newsletter for Students and Parents

Friday 27th January 2017

AQUILA ORION PEGASUS PHOENIX CPA COLLEGE VI

The Principal writes ……

Thank you to parents of Year 9 students who attended Parents Evenings this week. Later this term, the Year 9 options process will begin which will support students in selecting suitable courses for Key Stage 4. Further information, including an invitation to the Year 9 Options Evening on 1st March 2017, will follow in due course but I hope that this week's discussions have helped students to start thinking about their choices. Year 11 students received their Pre-Public Exam (PPE) results this week and, as always, we saw a range of responses - some delighted with very encouraging results, some others disappointed with some of the outcomes. The key message for students was that whilst these results are important, it will be the learning that arises from these results that will be far more important in ensuring greater success this summer. By reviewing exam papers and analysing performance carefully in the coming days and weeks, students and teachers will now identify how they can best make improvements and continue working together to build on current achievements. We look for-ward to capitalising on these results through discussions at Year 11 Parents Evening next Wednesday. Whilst the vast majority of students maintain excellent attendance and punctuality records, we would like to further improve both areas and will be introducing a different approach to dealing with latecomers from next week. Mrs Williams, Deputy Principal, outlines the details later in this Newsletter and students have already been informed - we are grateful for parents' support in these matters. Finally, a little late I know, but I wanted to thank and congratulate students for their generous contributions to our chosen charity, Save the Children, in our Christmas collection and non-uniform day at the end of last term. In total, students raised £1476 which is an impressive achievement and one that will be much appreciated by the recipients of the donation.

Timetable:

Week commencing Monday

30th January will be

Timetable Week B Learners of today, Leaders of tomorrow.

Forthcoming Events

30th January

Gardening Club - 1.00pm -1.45pm

31st January

Year 7 E Safety2 Talk

Year 10 Theatre Trip

PSTI – Rocks – Monks Orchard

Primary School

STEM Club - Year 8 & Year 9,

1st February

Year 11 Parents’ Evening – 5-8pm

Physics Catch up - 3.30pm

Astronomy Club 6.00 - 7.00pm

2nd February

Year 10 & Year 11 Intermediate Maths

Challenge

West Side Story Production

Rehearsal

STEM Club - Year 7

Senior STEM - Super cooling

3rd February

West Side Story Production

Rehearsal

Please Like our Riddlesdown

Science College Facebook Page

Punctuality We are grateful to all the parents/carers who ensure students maintain good levels of

attendance and punctuality – this is important for so many reasons. Poor punctuality not

only affects a student’s education and life chances but it also disrupts the learning of others.

All students would benefit from a positive and organised start to their day and so I am

writing to inform you of some changes to the procedures that we will follow should a student

be late to school, starting from Monday 30th January 2017.

Students should be seated in their Tutor rooms by 8.50 am. If a student arrives after this

time, they must register at Student Services where they will be marked in late with the

Attendance Officer, who will issue a “Late to School” slip.

Any student with a “Late to School” slip must attend a 20 minutes lunchtime detention at

1.00 pm in S25 on the same day. Failure to attend this detention will result in an escalation

of the sanction.

If there is a genuine reason for their lateness, students should bring a note from home to

this effect and the late slip will not be issued if we consider the reason to be acceptable.

We understand it can be difficult to make medical or dental appointments and that some

appointments may take all day, although we would ask you to avoid appointments during

the school day wherever possible.

Therefore, lateness due to these appointments must be evidenced with a note, letter, or

appointment card from the surgery. These will then be recorded as authorised absences.

We suggest making these appointments late afternoon if possible.

Parents/carers will continue to receive an email via Intouch informing them if students are

late to school. The Parent Portal is also a useful tool to monitor punctuality.

We close our registers at 9.20 am and if a student arrives after this time this is marked as

an unauthorised absence (U code). If the student is late after the close of registers more

than six times parents/carers could be liable to receive a Penalty Notice.

Thank you in advance for your support. Should you have any concerns regarding

punctuality, please speak the student’s Tutor in the first instance.

Mrs Williams

Deputy Principal

Panathlon Team Congratulations to the Panathlon team for another excellent performance. Croydon

achieved Gold in every event, winning overall and gaining a place in the next round at

Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in March.

Gold in Table Cricket – Megan Hierons 9AMM, Michael Hoad 8CMT, Meghna Vikram

8NPG, Ellie Bowen 8TRH, Scarlett Hewitt 7MRS and Erin O’Flaherty 7MRS.

Gold in Polybat – Megan Hierons, Ellis Weekes and Jaimeson Kenny 8TRH.

Gold in Precision Beanbag – Ellis Weekes.

Gold in Relays – Megan Hierons, Scarlett Hewitt, Michael Hoad, Jaimeson Kenny.

A great team effort and some fantastic individual performances. Well done to all!

Excellence in Sport I am looking to update our registers for students who are currently competing at County

level or above in Sport.

Please could parents email Mr Langan at paul.langan@riddlesdown.org if your son/daughter

does compete to this standard. There are several students Riddlesdown Collegiate know

about, but there are also many that we are not aware of and we would really like to know.

Please email the following:

Name

Tutor Group

Sport

I will then email parents back to gain more in-depth knowledge.

Mr Langan

Director of Sport

Surrey Schools Individuals Swimming Gala 2017 A series of excellent performances by all swimmers in the girls swimming team: Hannah

Bridges VI/SJB (Medal), Megan Lewis 11ELH, Emily Purser 9SEL, Sophia Lorke 7NMM,

Lucia Hooper 7SEA, Madeleine Brown 7NMM and Connie Harmer 7SEA all finished in

very creditable places. The girls’ excellent efforts resulted in them finishing in a very

respectable position.

Boys Team

All boys worked extremely hard against very strong opposition. Swim team: Ciaran Brennan

11CBC (Medal), Ronan Brennan 9STB, Aidan Brennan 7HMB, Noah Tolfray 7HMB and

Thiago Gentles 7EJS.

All finished in very creditable places. The boys’ excellent efforts resulted in them finishing in a

very respectable position!

Junior Croydon Schools Swimming Gala 2017 A series of excellent results for the girls swimming team in both the individual events and

team relays meant winning the Overall Second Place.

Notable performances:

Sophia Lorke 7NMM, Lucia Hooper 7SEA, Maddie Brown 7NMM, Ellie Radford VI/NEP,

Connie Harmer 7SEA, Sofia Mahmood 8ADC and Melissa Prouten 8TRH all finished in

medal positions. Winning second place in Croydon Swim Championships is a truly

remarkable achievement!

Boys Team

Worked extremely hard against very strong opposition to finish in Overall Third Place.

Notable performances:

Aidan Brennan 7HMB, Noah Tolfray 7HMB, Thiago Gentles 7EJS, Oliver Honeyman

7MRS, Callum Jones 7HMB, Aslak Ensio Varela 8PAB, Ben Watt 8TRH and Jody

Owens 8ODF, all finished in medal positions. The boys’ excellent efforts resulted in

them finishing in a very creditable position!

Surrey Schools National Netball Tournament Our 7A Netballers competed at the Surrey Schools National Netball Tournament on

Wednesday 18th January. After a long drive to St Georges School in Weybridge, the girls

started with a bang, winning their first three matches easily. They then faced Allyens and

Emanuel who were both strong teams, losing marginally to both. However Riddlesdown

Collegiate came fighting back, winning their last two games. With this the girls were in the

running to reach the finals.

After an anxious overnight wait, the results were in and emailed to Miss Mackenzie.

UNDER 12’s SECTION C

1st Alleyns 35pts

2nd Emanuel 30 pts

3rd Riddlesdown 25 pts

4th Kingston Grammar 21 pts

5th Coloma 16 pts

6th Rosebery 11 pts

7th Royal Russell 6 pts

8th Rydens 0 pts

The top two teams got through to the finals, meaning Riddlesdown had just missed out!

The girls have trained so hard over the last few months, early mornings and extra sessions

have shown how dedicated they are. We can only go upwards from this, so well done girls!

Amelia Purnell 7TSA

Ella Cammell 7JAC

Naomi Lines 7EJS

Tamiah Burke 7EJS

Kate Bolwell 7TSA

Amelia Serafim 7TSA

Eleanor Rea 7ICS

Zoe Webster 7CLK

Talisha Crawford 7CJB

Lola Salter 7SEA

Miss Mackenzie

Harry Potter Day Join in the fun. Activities throughout the day in the

Library.

In addition there will be a National Schools

Competition!

To celebrate Harry Potter Book Night: The Professors

of Hogwarts Bloomsbury publishers have launched a

Magical National Schools Competition!

The prizes: One lucky class, of up to 30 pupils, will

win a trip of a lifetime to discover the magic of Harry

Potter at the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London, as well as a hardback box set of the seven

Harry Potter books and Harry Potter themed goody bags!

Plus 25 lucky runners-up will also win copies of the books and themed goody bags.

How to Enter: To be in with a chance of winning the above prizes, we would like students to

invent their own Magical Professor.

The template to enter can be found on Pupilshare/Library. There will be copies in the Library

For further details http://www.harrypotter.bloomsbury.com/uk/national-schools-competition/

Mrs Woodworth

Collegiate Librarian

Class of 2017’ Sweatshirts As part of the End of Year 11 celebrations, we are offering students the opportunity to

purchase a sweatshirt which will be available for collection before their end of Year 11

assembly in May 2017.

The cost is £14.45 for a hooded sweatshirt which will be available in all of the college colours

plus black, charcoal, and other choices. The sweatshirts can be personalised by the

students for an extra £3.95. or you can have a zipped one for £15.95.

The front text reads Riddlesdown Collegiate Class of 2017 in white writing and on the back

the logo reads Class of 17 with all students’ names appearing within the roundel logo itself.

You can view and personalise your sweatshirt before ordering. If you choose to add your

name or nickname as a personalisation to the sweatshirt this will appear on the back of the

sweatshirt above the logo.

The sweatshirts are available to order and pay for online until 3rd

April 2017 at:

https://www.schoolleaverscompany.co.uk/shops/SL35190

The online shop will close on 3rd April 2017 and sweatshirts cannot be ordered after this

date, as we need to allow time for processing the orders. The sweatshirts will be delivered to

Riddlesdown Collegiate where they will be distributed.

No sweatshirts can be ordered after the online shop has closed, order early so you don’t

forget and miss out.

Happy Chinese New Year

Year of the Rooster

30th January 2017

Break Time Menu 10.40-11.00

Sweet Chilli Wings, £1.50

Hoisin Duck Steamed Bone, £1..30

Lunch Menu 12.20-13.25, £2.30

Crispy Chilli Chicken

Chow Mein Vegetarian Option Available

Pasta King Menu, £2.30

Chinese Chicken Curry

Chinese Vegetable Curry

Ice Cream

Sweet & Sour Hot Wrap £1.80

Riddlesdown Science College In 2015 Riddlesdown students won the trip of a lifetime to NASA in the UKSDC Final.

The UK Space Design Competition is a science and engineering challenge designed as a

simulation of life in industry.

Teams are given a list of requirements for a space settlement, and have a day to come up

with a detailed design which they present to a panel of judges who include experts in the field

and representatives of the UK Space Agency

This year our Senior STEM team have won a place via their video entry into the finals once

again. Congratulations to Liam McDonald VI/SPO, Imran Azizuddin VI/SPO, Aksaye

Devesar VI/NEP, Eleutherios Kurkulos VI/CCS, Oshane Stewart VI/SPO, Owen

Hutchings 11NJJ, William Hagon VI/SPO, Tom Gale VI/CCS, Omar Harhara VI/AKG,

Joshua Chaney VI/MBM, Zara BurtonVI/AKG and Joshua Ferriman 11FTD.

West Side Story Rehearsal Schedule

DAY LUNCHTIME 12.40 – 1.40

(unless otherwise stated)

AFTER SCHOOL - UNTIL 6pm

30th January AMC/FD

Rumble - Theatre ALL CAST - HALL

WLR Anita and Maria

TKW Orchestra, America Girls and

Somewhere Girls

GEC Tony

TUESDAY 31st January

AMC

/FD

Taunting Scene – Theatre

ALL CAST - HALL

TKW

Orchestra & Tony & Maria

WLR Orchestra Orchestra

GEC Orchestra Orchestra

WEDNES-

DAY 1st February

AMC/FD

Mambo – Theatre – ALL CAST ALL CAST - HALL

TKW

Orchestra Orchestra

WLR

GEC Orchestra

THURSDAY 2nd February

AMC/FD

Rehearsals all day in the Hall

HMB

TKW

WLR

GEC

FRIDAY 3rd February

AMC/FD

TKW

WLR

GEC

Best Attendance: 23rd January 2017

Year Best Tutor

Group

College

7 7JKB 98.9% Orion

8 8NAW 98.6% Pegasus

9 9EIC 99.2% Phoenix

10 10MAS 97.5% Pegasus

11 11NJJ 98.9% Orion

12/13 MPL 95% College VI

Percentage of Students with 100% Attendance:

Aquila 81.5%

Orion 82%

Pegasus 79%

Phoenix 81.6%