Parent Newsletter 29/04/16

SENIOR SCHOOL NEWS UPDATE Friday 29th April 2016 This Half Term’s Events at a Glance…

Here are just a few important forthcoming events—for our full calendar, click here

Emails Sent this week Year 13

Study Leave and Celebration Information

Years 7-9

PhD Research Project Survey letter

Year 7

Science Enrichment trip letter

Year 8

Science Enrichment trip letter

Tuesday 3rd May Battlefields Trip returns

Whole School

Letter from Mrs Rose

DofE Silver

Expedition reminder

Wednesday 4th May Community Arts to Royal Hospital Chelsea

Year 10 Geog

Reminder re forms for those going to

Friday 6th May Year 8 to Cadbury World

If you have not received any of the emails listed below,

Thursday 12th May Non Uniform Day for Atorkor Year 8 At Home

phopkins@royalmasonic.herts.sch.uk

Saturday 30th April Year 9 Battlefields Trip departs

Friday 13th May Year 10 Geography to Slapton Saturday 14th May FORMS Bollywood Ball

Slapton

please contact Pippa Hopkins

Parent Portal queries & updating contact details To advise us of any changes to your contact details, change of boarding status etc., please contact changeofdetails@royalmasonic.herts.sch.uk . This is a

Sunday 15th May Chapel Celebration Service Slapton Trip returns

group email address and your communication will be sent

Monday 16th May Life Skills Evening (Years 6-11)

contact our Data Systems Manager Mrs Bulow on

to all the relevant parties within the School. If you have any other questions relating to the Parent Portal, please datasupport@royalmasonic.herts.sch.uk

Tuesday 17th May Year 11 Celebration Evening Wednesday 18th May Year 7 to Bhaktivendanta Temple Friday 20th May Rush Hour Concert Friday 27th May HALF TERM

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SPORTS NEWS Tennis Success for Scarlett (Year 9) Congratulations to Scarlett H in Year 9 on her continued tennis success.

Over the Easter holidays, she won both the Under 14 and the Under Singles, and was also an Under 18 doubles finalist in the LTA Rickmansworth Grade 3 competition. She also won the Under 18 doubles at the LTA Cambridge event and both the Under 18 singles and double at Maidenhead LTA. She is also competing at the National County Cup event his weekend representing Middlesex as their Number 1 Under 14 player.

We congratulate Scarlett on her successes to date, and wish her well for her forthcoming competitions—we will of course keep you up to date with her achievements!

Gymnastics Success for Charlotte (Year 7) Charlotte is currently competing the in 12-18 Woman's Group Category governed by the Federation of International Gymnastics. After a season of injury Charlotte and her team went out to compete at the NDGA Acro Cup on Sunday 17th April, where they performed very well and came away with second place and a silver medal.

Charlotte and her two partners are now working and training towards the British Championships at the Echo Area in Liverpool which take place on 29th/30th July 2016 where she hopes to achieve a British ranking. The competitions taking place between now and July along with her 20 hours of training per week are all leading up to British Championships.

It is her ambition to make the British Team to represent GB in Europeans or Worlds so we will of course keep you posted as she progresses throughout the season. We congratulate Charlotte on her successes to date, and wish her well with her forthcoming competitions - we'll keep you updated on her progress!

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS We are delighted to announce two exciting new events, open to girls in Years 7 to 13.

Minecraft Built and Share with Wizard Keen—Saturday May 14th 10.30am—3.00pm Adam Clarke, aka Wizard Keen is one of the main collaborators of Stampy Long Nose, one of the most followed Youtube users in the world. Adam is a freelance artist with over 20 years of engaging people in creative practice, incorporating traditional techniques alongside digital technologies. A forefront creator within the online Minecraft community, he has instigated numerous ground-breaking Minecraft projects and is widely involved in the use of Minecraft within cultural, heritage and educational settings.

This workshop will allow students to share their experiences of Minecraft and participate in a collaborative build project to create a famous world landmark. This is a fantastic opportunity for the girls to learn from one of the world’s leading Minecraft experts is sure to excite ANY student.

For more information about this event, and to book your space, click here http://bit.ly/MinecraftRMS

Light It Up with Genevieve Smith-Nunes—Sunday May 22nd 10.30-3.00pm This workshop is perfectly suited for artistically minded students who are also interested in computer science. Genevieve Smith-Nunes is a computer science educator who has developed creative experimental projects to bring computer science to life. She founded readysaltedcode to make available a more creative approach to computer science education.

In this workshop, students will create a light and sound installation involving coding and various apps, as well as Kinect to ensure that installation responds interactively.

For more information and to book your place, click here http://bit.ly/LightItUpRMS Please note that there is a charge of £45 per student for each of these events. Girls should bring a packed lunch/snacks etc with them.

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SCHOOL NEWS The French Trip 2016 On Tuesday the 5th April, 36 Year 7 and 8 girls got up really early to arrive at school for 6:40. We were all excited because it was the day of the French trip! We prepared for a three hour long coach journey, saying our goodbyes and promising to see our families again in four days’ time. The bus left and the adventure began. More than half the coach spent more than half the journey on their phones or ipods. When we finally arrived at the ferry, we were ready to stretch our legs and proceeded to leave England bound for Calais. Upon our arrival in France, we went to a ‘boulangerie’, or as it is more commonly known in English, a bakery. As we split into two groups, the second group looked a bit nervous, for a man with a big, heavy stick led them to learn about croissant-making.

Meanwhile, the first group was taken to see how to make bread by hand. As a thank you for coming, each girl received a pain au chocolat or a croissant to take back to the hotel. There we learnt who we would be sharing a room with. Some were pleased, others not so much! Soon we went down for dinner, as we had a dining room exclusively for RMS girls. Dinner that night was chicken curry and chips, followed by a game of lotto (or bingo!). Then we went to our rooms, where we changed into our pyjamas, brushed our teeth, had our phones collected by the teachers and went to bed.

On Wednesday morning we ate traditional French croissants for breakfast and packed our lunches.

We then went to the coach and set off for Montreuil-Sur-Mer where we split into two different groups, Mrs. Roberts and Mrs Baron or Miss Lavelle and Mr.Hogg. I was in Miss Lavelle’s group so we toured the town and filled in our booklet. After we had gone round the town we swapped and did our language workshop. I found the language workshop fun, we created role plays in French. .

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SCHOOL NEWS We then settled down and ate our lunch. In our lunch there was a French sweet, it was like toffee but rock hard and it stuck to your teeth! Once everyone had eaten their lunch we played Chinese Whispers, Miss Lavelle would say a short sentence in French and we’d see what it translated to by the end it reached the line. It was really funny to see what people said at the end.

Afterwards we got on our coach and drove to the goat farm! The goats were really cute and one even jumped up on the bars of the pen. We then got to hold the goats and bunnies! After we watched the process of cheese being made, we were shown a week old, a month old and 6 months old matured cheese. Afterwards we travelled back to the Hippotel where we went to our dorms and had fun with our friends. Later we went to have dinner and afterwards made crepes. My crepes were pretty much burnt. After we had all made crepes we had a quiz on French TV and foreign languages, then all went to bed after a busy day.

On Thursday every girl awoke with a smile. We were going to the chocolate factory! And we were scheduled for a trip around Boulogne, which included shopping.

After a breakfast of cereal, we made our lunch and our beds and climbed aboard the bus. “Alright girls!” Madame Roberts began. “There has been a slight change of plan.

The chocolate factory is closed.” There was some discontented murmuring among the students until Madame Roberts laughed and admitted she was joking. When we arrived at the chocolate factory we were met by the owner and taken to a room where there were literally waterfalls of melted chocolate. It smelled delicious and the small sample we were given tasted even better.

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SCHOOL NEWS After hearing about the chocolate making process and buying a little chocolate, we proceeded to the aquarium. We split into 4 groups and began to explore. We saw turtles, sharks, seals and even a crocodile or two. We ate our lunch and got back on the bus. Finally, after dinner, Madame Roberts told us why she had bought coloured toilet roll. We had to make a futuristic outfit and a historical outfit for two people in our dorm.

It was weird seeing half the trip covered in toilet paper!

On Friday we all packed our bags in the morning. We then went down to breakfast where we ate croissants and packed our lunches for the last time. Then we got on our coach and headed off to Calais. There we filled in a sheet about the town. After eating lunch we were given spare time to have fun with friends. My friends and I looked around the town and bought the last of our gifts for families. Kitty and I shared a giant candy floss and we all tried a Diablo menthe.

It was disgusting!

After we had gone round the town we reluctantly got on the coach and headed to the ferry. We then sailed back to England where we got back on our coach and headed back to school. Francesca and I really enjoyed our trip to France and would like to thank all the staff who came with us, and especially Mrs Roberts for organising it!

You can see a full album of photos from our trip here Jess H (7R) and Francesca W(7S)

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FORMS NEWS ***** Bollywood Tickets now available for purchase ******* With the Ball fast approaching we would strongly advise you visit the link below to secure your ticket. Please speak to Abbey directly if you have a full table of 8 or would like to be with particular year groups.

To buy your tickets click here: http://www.trybooking.co.uk/475 Parental support is essential to our events and we are looking for some lovely raffle prizes for Bollywood night, so please get in contact if you or your company could help us out: Forms.summerball@gmail.com Following the successful quiz night we would like to again say a huge thanks to all that came along to support as this event took approximately £2,000 which will be wisely spent for the benefit of our girls.

NEXT FORMS MEETING IS WEDNESDAY 18TH MAY AT 7.30PM IN THE GOVERNORS’ DINING HALL—ALL WELCOME! Second Hand Uniform Sales Date 06/05/2016 13/05/2016 20/05/2016 27/05/2016

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We have a lot of lost property, so please pop by to see if we can reunite you with your daughters lost items!

Contact Abbey on : forms.rms2hu@gmail.com

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