17th November 2017 - Issue 9
HEAD’S
WEEKLY REVIEW
Head’s Introduction I was delighted to be down on the new allweather pitch yesterday, and it is exciting to watch it growing in front of our eyes. All in hard hats and high viz jackets, a group of parents and staff heard how quickly the project is progressing. It was great to hear from a few of the girls too, about what it will mean for them. News of our current sporting successes each week makes me even more excited about the future of sport at Roedean, when so many more girls will have access to high-level facilities here on site.
Year 8 perform ‘Twelfth Night’ at The Shakespeare Schools’ Festival
There have been a number of events this week, and I am grateful to the girls and colleagues for their involvement and valuable contributions. Year 8 Parents had the opportunity to meet with teachers and tutors yesterday, and I hope that this was an informative evening, as well as a chance to put some new names to faces.
interview forum at Lancing on Wednesday, which will stand them in good stead for interviews early next month. Thank you in particular to Miss Kazem for masterminding both events.
Congratulations to all those in Year 8 in Twelfth Night earlier in the week – I really enjoyed the performance, and it was great that we could put it on at Roedean too, so that the school could see it.
Well done to Year 11 who have had their trial GCSE papers this week – some of you now just have the home straight at the start of next week! I hope that you have learnt a lot about where to focus your energies in the coming months, and from the experience of these exams in a hall and under timed conditions.
We welcomed Lancing College to Roedean earlier in the week for an academic dinner, and this was a lovely pre-cursor to the Oxbridge
I wish you all well for a great week, especially all those musicians in the Gala Space Spectacular on Friday – good luck!
A cast of twenty Year 8s has been working hard all term, rehearsing a production of Shakespeare’s classic comedy, ‘Twelfth Night’. On Monday, all the hard work paid off when the girls joined three other schools at ‘The Old Market Theatre’ in Hove as part of the region’s Shakespeare’s Schools’ Festival. The performance was outstanding; the girls operated in every way like a professional theatre company, creating a slick, lively, and hugely entertaining production. The characterisations were ‘spot on’ with every single cast member contributing to the overall success of the performance, but special mention must to go to Persia K-M and Dorothea B as the shipwrecked twins, Bo Ana M as the gracious Olivia, and Poppy S as the lovesick Duke Orsino, the key characters in the tangled web of love stories. They were supported by fantastic comic characters: Saskia L-D was Malvolio the Steward, who is ‘sick of self-love’, and the wonderful double-act of Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, played by India B and Alma S. The girls performed the show again on Tuesday, but this time in our own Theatre at Roedean. They played to a packed, enthusiastic house, and it was a delight to hear the audience laughing uproariously at the girls’ marvellous comedic skills. Congratulations to everyone in the first-rate cast – it was a joy to work with you! CRI
Christmas Fair Come and join us at the Christmas Fair, from 10:30 to 1:00 on Saturday 2nd December. The deadline for Christmas Messages to be included in the fair programme is 20 November – please send them to christmasmessages@roedean.co.uk If you have unwanted bottles of booze which could be donated to the Parents’ Guild to be sold at the fair, they can be brought to the Gala concert on Friday. Thanks!