RVHS Bulletin Weekending 17th December 2021

“Our vision is to be the school of choice for our local community, developing successful young people with high aspirations, who show respect for all and endeavour to become the very best that they can be.”

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Dear Parents / Carers, Please let me start by wishing everyone in our Roding Valley High School community a very Happy and Safe Christmas. Please click on this link for the school Christmas Concert. A wonderful show of talent at the school. The latest Newsletter from the CLP Trust is now available on website.

It has been wonderful today to join so many of our Celebration Assemblies, the students enjoyed their rewards presented for hard work and effort this last term. Please enjoy the bulletin, it is packed with celebrations, achievement and school events. This is a great school with amazing students, teachers and staff. I thank you all for your continued support.

As per my letter of the 9th December, I have made you aware of our planned phased return in January 2022 to allow for all students to take an onsite lateral flow test before returning to school. All students will receive either face to face or online learning provision from Wednesday 5th January, except the days when their year group is attending for testing.

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Yesterday, all schools received a letter from the Secretary of State for Education, Rt. Hon Nadhim Zahawi. With the rising Covid cases, his ambition remains to keep schools open and operating normally in the new year. He asked, that we all continue to test twice-weekly after the initial onsite test. Staff will test before returning to work on their first day.

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From January, all parents and visitors are to take lateral flow tests before attending any school event or meeting. The government advocates that vaccinations and boosters for the school community are the most effective way to keep school open.

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If your child is in receipt of free school meals, then you will receive a voucher via email on Monday 20th December 2021.

I truly hope that we return as planned, however, please be reassured that we do have a full contingency plan which we will share with you if needed.

From all the staff here at the school, we wish you all a very HAPPY CHRISTMAS and new year.

See you all in 2022!

Mrs Jenner - Headteacher Kind regardsus: always, Follow Sharon Jenner

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Our team is proud to be your child’s Year Progress Leader and very much looking forward to supporting your child and with such a great cohort of students, we are sure it will be a great half term. To ensure that you are aware of who your child’s Year Progress Leader is and who to contact, please refer to their details below:

Year 7: Mr Ryan To contact Mr Ryan, please email fryan@rodingvalley.net

Year 8: Miss Fazakerley To contact Miss Fazakerley, please email J Fazakerley@rodingvalley.net

Year 9: Miss Edwards To contact Miss Edwards, please email cedwards@rodingvalley.net

Year 10: Mr Fletcher To contact Mr Fletcher, please email mfletcher@rodingvalley.net

Year 11: Ms Preston To contact Ms Preston, please email tpreston@rodingvalley.net

Year 7

Happy Christmas

We've made it. It has been an incredibly busy, fun packed Term but we can now say that we have completed a 3rd of the academic year. It is hard to believe that the year group has been in Roding Valley for four months!

I was very fortunate to be able to go on a theatre visit with 101 of the year group to see the amazing Matilda. It was such an enjoyable experience and I can safely say that the children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and the slushies.

It has been lovely awarding so many certificates in our end of term assembly. The year group have really been phenomenal. I would like to take the opportunity now, to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Here's to 2022

Mr Ryan – Year 7 Progress Leader

Year 8 I am so impressed by all of our Year 8's in our Inter House sports hall athletics competition. It was noted by the whole PE department that both sides of the year were by far the most engaged and the best effort shown over all the other years. This is always pleasing to hear as I know how hard our Year 8 students work.

I cannot believe it is already Christmas. What an amazing term this has been! Year 8 has had so many opportunities and all the students continue to make us proud. Well done on all the hard work Year 8's continue to show throughout all of their endeavours.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I hope all of our year 8 community remains safe over the holidays. I hope you all have a restful and enjoyable Christmas.

I look forward to welcoming all the Year 8's back on the 10th January in the new year ready to continue being the best version of yourself.

Miss Fazakerley – Year 8 Progress Leader

Year 9 Wow, we have made it through a third of Year 9! Well done to all Year 9's for their hard work, determination and attitude over these past few months. I have been extremely impressed with the application of all students to their studies and I look forward to seeing this continue when we return to school in the new year.

It was lovely to see so many year 9's enjoy a trip to the theatre on Wednesday to see Woman in Black. Our students behaved impeccably and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Looking into the new year, many Year 9's have been selected to visit the Natural History Museum as part of our Challenge & Enrichment program, and we also have many students heading off on the Ski Trip at the end of the half term. I encourage all our students to involve themselves in as many trips, visits, and extra-curricular opportunities as they can.

Today we hosted our Virtual Celebration assembly, and it was truly amazing to see so many different students receive an award, in recognition of their hard work.

Congratulations to all winners, and well done on all your effort so far this year.

Merry Christmas

I would like to wish all students in Year 9, their families, and friends the warmest of Christmas wishes and a Happy New Year. Enjoy this festive period, but please stay safe. I look forward to welcoming you all back to school at 8.30am on Friday 7th January 2022.

Miss Edwards – Year 9 Progress Leader

Year 11 I wanted to take this opportunity to congratulate the students in Year 11 - it has been an enormously busy and eventful first term and they have risen to the challenges presented to them admirably.

They have had guest speakers, a performance of Christmas Carol, revision sessions, exams, sixth form and college taster days and applications to their post 16 choices, interventions, extra sessions and many have been involved in further sporting or enrichment activities such as netball, football and Duke of Edinburgh.

I would also like to say a big thank you to the Year 11 Academic Mentor team from me and on behalf of the students.

The Academic Mentor Team have delivered period 7 sessions to students three times a week to help move them forwards in English, Maths or Science.  Mr Rahman  Ms Bleakley  Mr Rahman  Ms Di Ilio  Mr Qureshi  Ms Bates  Mr Poovilingham  Mr Jennings I do hope that there will be plenty of opportunity for some good times with family and friends so that students return to us fresh and ready for the new year and would like to wish you all a very peaceful Christmas and a healthy, safe New Year!

Thank you for your ongoing support..

Ms Preston – Year 11 Progress Leader

Sixth Form Year 11 Taster Day It was a pleasure to work with so many enthusiastic year 11s on our taster day last week. I know it helped lots of students with finalising their subject choices and gave them a good flavour of what studying in the sixth form is like. Thank you to all those students who have taken time to apply for sixth form. We look forward to interviewing these students in the Spring Term.

Some students visited a college as part of their taster day and found out how this educational environment was different to their own. They got to try out some T level qualifications and were supported with making applications.

Well done to all of Year 11 for their exemplary attitude on this day.

Christmas Jumper Day On 10th December, the sixth form and staff celebrated Christmas Jumper Day. We raised £160 in aid of Save the Children.

UCAS and Careers Applications I wanted a say a huge well done to all those students in Year 13 who are working hard on university and apprenticeship applications. We have now sent off the majority of our UCAS applications and students have been really excited to receive some fantastic offers from their chosen universities. Those students who are not making a university application, are working with Mrs Mason at securing a job at some prestigious firms. If your son or daughter requires any support with university or job applications please make sure they come and see us and we will help in any way we can.

Ms Wheaton- Director of Sixth Form

Last Friday, our students celebrated Christmas with our annual Christmas dinner, served to them by Mrs. Jenner – Headteacher and Miss Dyer - Deputy Headteacher. It was a lot of fun and hard work, with food served to over 1300 students and staff.

On Friday 10 December, year 10 and 11 were treated to a performance of A Christmas Carol by The Globe Players. The show was engaging revision tool, which really brought the ideas from the story to life. As a two person show, the actors created a remarkable range of scenes. The quality of the performance was evident from our students’ appreciation of the show: they were clearly captivated by the occasion. Having the opportunity to see this production helped to capture the Christmas spirit.

Year 10 STEM Trip to Centre of The Cell This term our Year 10 students enjoyed a STEM trip to Centre of the Cell, we have included their feedback on this trip below: “The trip was spectacular.

I enjoyed every minute of it, the "science nucleus video games" was ecstatic and felt so surreal ,but I think the most exciting part was the lecture segment when we learned more about the immune system. I found it enlightening because we were already studying that topic in biology, and having other people educate us was elevating”

“I really enjoyed the trip to the centre of the cell, it helped me a lot with cells and it gave me a chance to experience how it is like to work with cells. I also liked traveling to Queen Mary University as for my profession, I would like to study medicine, so this trip allowed me to enhance how university is like.

Overall, I enjoyed this trip and believe it's a great way to engage in science”.

A wide range of topics were covered when Epping Forest MP Dame Eleanor Laing joined Year 12 and Year 13 students for a digital surgery on last week. Her online debate with the students followed an earlier session with Loughton Residents Association councillor Judy Jennings.

Our students have been involved with the digital project over the last month and on Friday the online Politics Project initiative saw students, who were in the school’s Sixth Form Centre, raise a number of local and national issues with Dame Eleanor.

Topics covered ranged from COP 26, gay marriage, the role of the Deputy Speaker, democratic engagement, the House of Lords and flooding and water supply issues in Loughton.

Winter Concert 2021 This year we held our second Virtual Winter Concert, congratulations to:

Megan Chilvers, Efe Kurtcebe, Gideon King, Tolani Aradeon, Archie Savage, Elliot Crookbaine, Amelia Dee, Andrea Erhardt, Oliver Furby, Liam Smith, Francesca Hussain, Libby Watson, Aneta Charvatova, Roma-Diya Desai, Taylor Sheill, Leo Laidley, Anthony Blackledge, Rosa Marshall, Luana Cunha, Tom Chilvers, Tylan Sami, Rojus Jaudagis, Theo Savage and Vienna Igwe.

We have included a link to our Concert, we hope you enjoy our students perform, please click on the video below.

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Current House Points Totals We have seen an amazing amount of House Competitions run this term and I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate every student who has taken part and played their part in building the points for their house. I am especially proud of the huge contribution students made to the foodbank appeal. Both 3food4u and Epping Forest Food Bank were overwhelmed by the amount of food donated by our wonderful students and their families.

Next term we will continue to run lots of exciting events aimed at generating some in school fun and engagements within the school community. I will be sharing our plans for these in upcoming assemblies and bulletins.

Mr Warry – Director of Sixth Form

Christmas Foodbank Appeal Thank you to everyone for their donations for our Christmas Appeal, the amount of donations we received were amazing. Well down to our Sixth Form team that made this happen,

Well done to all of our students that participated in our House Sports events this term. The results are now in and the winning Houses are as follows:

Boys Football Hawking - 50 points

Girls Handball Rendell - 50 points

Pankhurst - 40 points

Hawking - 40 points

Churchill - 30 points

Churchill - 30 points

Rendell - 20 points

Murray - 30 points

Murray - 10 points

Pankhurst - 10 points

Well done to all of the students that took part in our House Christmas Cake Decorating competition, your decoration designs were fantastic. The Winners were:

1st Place: Bailey Winslow - Hawking 2nd Place: Nina De Jesus - Hawking 3rd Place: Taylor Winslow - Hawking

House Photography Competition Results Thank you to all of the students that entered out House Photography Competition this term, the brief was that students could send any fabulous photo that they had taken of portrait photography.

The entries were fantastic and we are happy to announce that the winning students are:

1st Place: Archie Shiell100 H/P for Murray

2nd Place: Sam - 75 H/P for Rendell

Special Species House Competition Winners

3rd Place: Daisy 50 H/P for Murray.

Year 7 E-Safety Poster Competition Results

Congratulations to the following students

1st place Bethany Clayton Pankhurst 2nd place Andrea Erhardt - Churchill 3rd place Dante Kunstel - Rendell Congratulations to Elijah Camplin7NE for his fantastic E Safety Poster, your poster was both well designed and informative.

SuperStars KS3 Year 7

KS4 Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

KS5 Year 11

Year 12

Year 13

Lillie-Rose Mayo

Lizzie Alex Shepherd Smith

Ruby Simmons

Bronya Daniel Overington Mehr

Nosa Olaleye

Ellie Webster

Iyla James

Aleyna Tekbasti

Ollie Arnold

Stanislav Jude Trowell Dvoryanov

Max Fagelson

Freddie Yarwood

Enru Li

Peter Tapley

Frankie Organ

RuoXi He

Elliott Crookbraine

Georgiana Burcu

Max Djemal

Advaith Sonny Aravind Heath Sreevalsalan

Anthony Danny Lorin Dean Robinson Aktas

Lara Diaz Radovan

Jess Fagan

Ruby Mace

Sacha Perot

Amy Lewis

Amelia Martin

Daniel Phillips

Miley Opara

Archie Savage

Kenny Ball

Emile Clubb

Bobby Lawson

Finley Dickson

Zornitsa Kirilova Henry Sharp

Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme Congratulations to Natalie Newman for completing her Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award.

Congratulations to the following students for their fantastic work during Drop Everything and Write (DEAW) and their English Homework!

Ruby Harris

Ivan Jikieni

RHVS SPORTS NEWS Latest Sports Results Rugby  WESSA – Played 3: Won

1, Drew 1, Lost 1

Year 7 Football   

Netball  Essex Cup – Played 2: lost 2  WESSA League - Played 3: won 2, lost 1

Basketball

Essex Cup – Currently in Round 2 National Cup – Knocked out in Round 2 WESSA League – Played 1: Lost 1

Cross Country Team  3rd Place: Ferne Johnson

No fixtures played

Year 8 Basketball 

WESSA – Played 4: Won 1, Drew 1, Lost 2

Football

Cross Country

 Essex Cup – Currently in round 3  National cup – knocked out in round 4

No fixtures played

Netball

Rugby

 WESSA League - Played 3: won 2, lost 1

 WESSA – Played 5: Won 1, lost 4

U14 Girl’s Football  

Essex Cup – Currently in the quarter finals National Cup - knocked out round 2

Year 9 Rugby  WESSA League – Played 2: Won 1, lost 1

Netball

Basketball  WESSA League – Played 1: Lost 1

Football  Essex Cup - knocked out round 2  National Cup - knocked out round 4  WESSA League - no fixtures so far

U14 Girl’s Football

 Essex Cup – knocked out round 1

 Essex Cup – Currently in the quarter finals

 WESSA League – Played 2, Lost 2

 National Cup - knocked out round 2

Year 10 Football  National Cup – Knocked out in Round 3  Essex Cup – Currently in Round 2  WESSA League - Played 1: Lost 1  Talent ID Day – Semi Final lost on pens

Year 11 Girls Football

Netball   

 National Cup: Knocked out in Round 1  Essex Cup: Knocked out in Round 3

Essex Cup: Knocked out 1st round Essex Plate: Knocked out 1st round WESSA League: Played 2: Won 1, lost 1

Boys Football  National Cup: Knocked out in Round 2  Essex Cup: Currently in round 2

Sixth Form Football

Netball

 Open Cup – Knocked out in the Quarter Finals  League - Played 5: Won 2, Drew 3, Lost 1 – 2nd in the league

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Essex Cup – Played 1: Won 1 Friendly – Played 1: Lost 1

This week the students had great fun making delicious ginger biscuits.

Food & Nutrition Christmas Recipe Christmas Rocky Road Ingredients:  450g white chocolate broken into chunks  200g custard creams broken in to quarters  50g shelled unsalted pistachios (not essential)  75g dried cherries (or cranberries/raisins)  150g pink and white mini marshmallows  40g white or milk chocolate jazzies  1tsp sprinkles  80g butter

Method 1. Butter a 20x5cm deep square baking tray and line with baking parchment 2. Melt the chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water, ensuring the base of the bowl doesn’t touch the water. Stir occasionally until fully melted and smooth.

3. Mix the custard creams, pistachios, dried cherries and marshmallows in to the melted chocolate mixture, reserving a little of each to decorate later, until evenly coated. Tip the rocky road mix in to the prepared tray, smooth the surface with the back of a wooden spoon, then poke the reserved ingredients and Jazzies in to the top and scatter with sprinkles.

4. Chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours until firm.

5. Remove from the tin to a chopping board and cut in to even squares.

It's been a busy term in regard to revision, study & home learning! Our Year 11s and Year 13s have completed a round of PPEs (Pre-Public Examinations) and Year 11 have been 'closing the gap' on these exams at the end of this term. I just wanted to remind all parents about our two, very comprehensive, Revision microsites; tailor made by our teachers for our students at RVHS: 1. GCSE Revision microsite (Useful for Year 10 & 11) - please click here to access 2. A Level Revision microsite (Useful for Year 12 & 13) - please click here to access I also wanted to remind everyone that all of our revision, study skills & home learning guidance is all available on our website. We have our RVHS revision templates to download alongside handy help guides on how to use Google classroom: https://rodingvalley.net/high-school/home-learning/ As ever, if you need any help with any of the above, please contact me on: plarkin@rodingvalley.net

Hi Parents and Carers, As many of you may know, at RVHS we now use an online, interactive literacy tool called 'Bedrock'.

Bedrock is a tool that helps to improve our students Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary and improve their application of these new words. Last Monday, Ms Bleakley and I held a live-streamed parents forumthank you to those that attended! The forum was held to raise awareness of this tool & show parents how they can best engage with the software to support their child at home.

To watch the Live Stream, please click here.

To access the free Bedrock resources on our website, please click here.

If you would like to be re-sent your parent access code via email, please email me on plarkin@rodingvalley.net

With Ms Preston

Doing Things Mindfully!

Being mindful is helpful to us in so many ways:

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Decreased Stress Enhanced Ability to deal with illness Facilitation of recovery Decreased depressive symptoms Improved general health

5 Ways to Practice Mindfulness Right Now 1. Stop What You're Doing and Take a Breath. Take a moment to notice the sensation of your breath. ...

2. Put Down Your Phone. ...

3. Do One Thing at a Time. ...

4. Find Mindful Moments in Everyday Tasks. ...

5. Notice the Moves You Already Make.

I’m off to sit and breathe quietly …

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Explore together: Ask your child to show you their favourite websites and apps and what they do on them. Listen, show interest and encourage them to teach you the basics of the site or app.

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Chat about online safety little and often: Young people are likely to want to explore new apps and websites this month, whether that is for learning or for fun. Take this opportunity to talk to them about how to stay safe on these new services, and in general. Ask if anything ever worries them while they are online. Make sure they know that if they ever feel worried, they can get help by talking to you or another adult they trust.

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Help your child identify trusted adults who can help them if they are worried: This includes you and other adults at home, as well as adults from wider family, school or other support services who they are able to contact at this time. Encourage them to draw a picture or write a list of their trusted adults.

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Be non-judgemental: Explain that you would never blame them for anything that might happen online, and you will always give them calm, loving support.

Talk about how their online actions can affect others: If your child is engaging with others online, remind them to consider how someone else might feel before they post or share something. If they are considering sharing a photo/video of somebody else, they should always ask permission first.

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Parental controls: Make use of the parental controls available on your home broadband and any internet enabled device in your home. You can find out more about how to use parental controls by visiting your broadband provider’s website.

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Direct your child to age appropriate information about relationships and sex: It’s natural for young people to start exploring their sexual feelings online and adolescents are more inclined to take risks. It’s important to understand this and to talk to your child in a positive way. Thinkuknow, Brook, The Mix and Childline all provide age appropriate information about relationships and sex that you can signpost your child to.

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Make sure they know about CEOP: Young people can report a concern about grooming or sexual abuse to CEOP at www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/ and get support from a specialist Child Protection Advisor.

Support your child with Thinkuknow websites The age appropriate Thinkuknow websites are a great way to start and continue chats about online safety.

 11-13yrs Thinkuknow website: https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/11_13/  14yrs + Thinkuknow website – https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/14_plus/ Our websites provide open and honest guidance for young people on friends, relationships and the internet, covering topics like dealing with pressure; consent; and getting support when you are worried.

You will find lots more advice on keeping your child safe online at www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents.

If you are worried that a child or young person is at risk of harm online, you should call the police. Young people can make a report to CEOP at https://www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/

Other Recommended Resources Parent Info: Expert information for parents about building their child’s resilience both online and off.

Produced by NCA-CEOP and Parent Zone. This free service can be embedded on to your child’s school website. www.parentinfo.org Brook: Information and advice for young people on sexual health and wellbeing, including staying safe online. https://www.brook.org.uk The Mix: Support service for young people with information and advice on sex and relationships. https://www.themix.org.uk Internet Matters: A useful tool showing how to set parental controls across a range of devices and websites. http://www.internetmatters.org/parentalcontrols/interactive-guide/ NSPCC Net Aware: Provides reviews and guidance on the most popular social networks, apps and games that children use. https://www.net-aware.org.uk/ Childnet – Information and advice for parents and carers on supporting people online. https://www.childnet.com/resources/supporting-youngpeople-online

How Can I Access Edulink?

EduLink can be accessed on any device – PC, laptop, tablet or mobile device – via the web browser or via the EduLink app. The link to access the EduLink login page on a web browser is www.edulinkone.com Alternatively, you can download the EduLink App which is available to download for free on Apple or on Android.

Both the App and the web browser will display this log-in screen.

Requires iOS 8.0 or later.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

The School ID is ‘Roding’.

Requires Android 4.4 and up.

Parents/Carers will need to enter the Username and Password they have been provided with and click ‘Log in’.

The displayed is dependant of the platform you are logged in to:  Via Web Browser  Via the EduLink App

Navigating Edulink You are able to navigate each of the following areas in EduLink: 

Achievement: You van view all positive achievements that have been awarded to your child

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Behaviour: You will be able to see all behaviour points given to you child and any sanctions given to your child including detentions.

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Medical Information: In this section you can see all of the medical information that we have on file for your child

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Account Information: In this section you can view the current address we have for your child on file, your child’s Year group and the name of their Form tutor

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Timetable: In this section you can view your child’s daily timetable

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Absence Reporting: This feature will allow you to send a direct message to our Attendance Officer, to notify us of any absence for your child

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Linked Resources: This section contains links to all the schools learning resources available to your child both at school and at home

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Update Information: This section shows all of the contact information we hold for yourself and your child. You can review and update this information with any changes that may occur

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Exams: You can see all of your child upcoming exams; your child can also access this information so they can manage their own exam schedule

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Documents: In this section you can view your child’s reports

Parents can access information on all their children currently admitted to Roding Valley High School. If you require any assistance, please contact Mr Vermaak or Miss Stewart (mvermaak@rodingvalley.net or lstewart@rodingvalley.net )

Classroom How to Log on to Google Classroom?

Students can log into their Gmail using their school email address and their password. Their school email will be the year they started at RVHS started plus their first initial and surname @rodingvalley.net (example- 19plarkin@rodingvalley.net).

Once your child has have logged in, they will need to click on the google apps button and then select ‘Google Classroom’ Your child will then be able to see all of the classes they belong to.

They will then need to click on the class they want to use resources for and take a look at everything that their class teacher has posted for them to work on. They will be able to download items and make comments on them. Teachers will be regularly posting new work on their Google Classrooms.

What to Do if your child is a Missing a Subject their Google Classroom?

If your child is missing a Google Classroom for one of their subjects, they will need to click on the addition symbol, followed by ‘Join Class’ and then enter the Class Code for their missing subject.

Class Codes are available from their subject teacher.

Top Tips for Our Students  Students must keep up to date with their lessons by using Google Classroom every day.  Use their workbooks to complete the work shown on their Google Classroom.  Don’t slack on presentation! Keep their notes in order of the lessons on the Google Classroom.  Year 11 and 13 Students: There will be revision materials available on Google Classroom.

Please use them.

What is DODDLE? Doddle provides students with access to thousands of engaging, formative resources and guides students through the curriculum.

Doddle Progress automatically tracks student attainment in key curriculum skills. Parents can see student attainment and progress through our easy-to-use Doddle Parent feature.

Skills within Doddle are rated as red, amber or green. These ratings give a clear indication of how much progress a child has made and highlight the weaker areas to be targeted with revision.

Each student has a personal Doddle account where they can access their homework to-do lists and families can view the work their child has been assigned.

These accounts enable parents to view their child's results and encourage them to better their scores by using Doddle's revision resources.

Find out how to create a Doddle Parent account and then link that account to your child with this short video:

Find out how our school uses Doddle Progress by watching our short video to find out how Progress works.

We have also included a link to a very useful guide on how to view your child's due and submitted homework:

We have also included a link to a very useful guide on how Progress works and how you can use it to help your child's learning.

This is a valuable resource that will assist parents in supporting their child’s progression. Please use the following link to the log in:

Find out how to view and track your child's homework with this short video.

We have also included a link to a very useful guide on Troubleshooting.

What is Seneca?

Seneca is a free home learning & revision platform that is very popular with our students. It is based on cognitive science, has adaptive learning and can be accessed by our students via their phones!

What Content is available to our Students through Seneca?

Seneca has resources available for KS3, KS4 and KS5 students that has been supplied to them from AQA, OCR, EdExcel Pearson and IGCSE. Our students will be able to access content designed for each of their subjects and also for their specific courses.

There is so much to choose from.

Some areas are even linked to the Exam Boards Course Specifications.

How to Access Seneca?

Students will need to go to https://www.senecalearning.com/, click try for free and create a log in with their school email address.

Once Logged in Once they are logged in, students are able to search for different subject areas and learn about their chosen topic. At the end of each subject presentation there will be a quiz on the presentation This Online tool will enable our students to stay on top of their home learning.

Year Progress Leaders  Year 7: Mr Ryan -fryan@rodingvalley.net  Year 8: Miss Fazakerley – jfazakerley@rodingvalley.net  Year 9: Miss Edwards – cedwards@rodingvalley.net  Year 10: Mr Dobson – cdobson@rodingvalley.net  Year 11: Ms Preston– tpreston@rodingvalley.net

USEFUL CONTACTS

 Sixth Form: Miss Wheaton – awheaton@rodingvalley.net

Heads of Faculty  Creative Arts: Mr Tisdale – dtisdale@rodingvalley.net  English: Mrs Routledge – lroutledge@rodingvalley.net  Humanities: Mr Cocker – mcocker@rodingvalley.net  IT/Business: Mr Hussain – ohussain@rodingvalley.net  Maths: Mr Edeko – oedeko@rodingvalley.net  MFL: Mr P Melvin – pmelvin@rodingvalley.net  Science: Mr Poovillingham - npoovillingham@rodingvalley.net  Sports & Nutrition: Mr Jones – ljones@rodingvalley.net  SENDco: Mrs Tarantini-Amor – ltarantini-amor@rodingvalley.net

General Enquiries  office@rodingvalley.net

Sixth Form Enquiries  sixthformoffice@rodingvalley.net

Finance  finance@rodingvalley.net

Safeguarding:  safeguarding@rodingvalley.net

How to contact any member of staff at Roding Valley High School: Initial + surname+@rodingvalley.net