Welcome to Rosebery School: Year 7 Transition Evening 2018
Welcome to Rosebery: Mrs Garrod
Ms Lowe : Head of Year 7 Miss Glazebrook: Deputy Head of Year
Our aims for this evening: To welcome you officially to the Rosebery community To show you who is who at Rosebery and introduce key staff To share with you our ethos for year 7 To clarify the communication channels To show the opportunities open to our students in Year 7 To provide practical guidance for the next few weeks and the forthcoming year To explain some of our systems at Rosebery
Communication at Rosebery Tutor Subject Teacher Head of Year/ Deputy Head of Department Senior Leadership Team Senior Leadership Team
Role of the Tutor and Head of Year The Tutor The tutor is the most important point of contact for you and your daughter at Rosebery. Registers Pastoral care PSHE Day to day queries and questions Head of Year and Deputy The Head of Year is responsible for issues that need more intervention and will step in to deal with issues where necessary. The Head of Year is responsible for overseeing all of the tutor groups.
Our communication channels: Student planners Parent Information Evenings Rosebery News Insight Website Academic reports Parents Evening The Hub Twitter Email and phone
Insight
How we organise classes Our priority when organising form groups is to create 8 equal forms in terms of abilities, strengths and weaknesses. Where children join us from a large school they are likely to be with girls from their primary, but we also have a lot of girls who will be arriving without a primary buddy. We like to give everyone the opportunity to make new friends and make a fresh start. We appreciate your positivity and openness to this and ask that you encourage your daughter to seize the opportunity to make new friends. There are lots of opportunities for girls to mix with those outside of their forms groups. This year, your daughter s language choice will determine which form they are in. If you foresee any issues with your daughter s class or have any preferences or things you think we should be aware of please tell us asap- we cannot make changes after transition day. (hlowe@rosebery.surrey.sch.uk)
Uniform at Rosebery The uniform policy and checklist of what uniform your daughter needs is in your Transition Pack All uniform is available from Lester Bowden.
Intervention SEND = Special Educational Needs & Disabilities Miss Marsh Student Wellbeing - Mrs Anderson The Student Wellbeing Team work with students on a range of issues such as anxiety, friendship skills, family issues, bereavement etc. We run transition support groups in the first term to help students settle in and we also invite girls to join us for breakfast club.
Homework in Year 7 There will be no homework for the first half term of year 7 After the October break homework will be set in core subjects and gradually build up to a full homework timetable starting in January Our focus for the first term is on extra curricular activities and we expect students to sign up for 2 clubs a week in this term. This will be monitored using Year 7 Club Cards. 30 minutes per week for core subjects 20 minutes per fortnight for all others
Enrichment and Extra Curricular activities Music Sport Performance Houses Trips Charity
Enrichment and Extra Curricular activities Hockey Coding Club Basketball Art Club Badminton Breakfast Club Textiles Junior band Homework Club Science Cricket Guitar Ensemble Time to Talk Trampolining Craft Club Italian Club Board Games Club Feminist Society Drama Netball Cheerleading Rounders Rosebery Singers Media Club Young Voices Amnesty International Carnegie Shadow Athletics
Instrumental/Singing lessons Extracurricular We have a wide and varied programme of extracurricular clubs and activities, including three choirs, a main orchestra and junior band, big band, wind band, brass ensemble and string orchestra. They perform every year at the Christmas Concert at the Epsom Playhouse and spring or summer concert later in the year. Music Festival Every two years we hold a music festival, where professional adjudicators come to listen to performances and give feedback. There is a class for every instrument and every standard, in addition to the House Choirs competition. Music Tour Every two years students in the Big Band and Rosebery Singers go on tour to Europe. Recent destinations include Paris, The Rhineland, Valkenburg and The Black Forest. Flute Clarinet Singing Classical, Musical theatre and Pop Saxophone Piano Violin Viola Cello Double bass Trumpet Trombone French Horn Guitar Classical or contemporary Oboe Bassoon Drum kit Music theory to grade 5 To apply for lessons please download the form on the website
Year 7 Residential Trip The Bushcraft Company
Year 7 Residential Trip The Bushcraft Company
Transition Day 3 rd July from 9am 2.45pm Staff will meet your daughter at the gate from 8.45 Your daughter will meet her form group and her form tutor The girls will do a carousel of activities with their form We will have peer supporters on hand throughout the day Girls will need to bring packed lunch and a pencil case and wear their primary school uniform If you have any concerns about your daughter s form group allocation you must raise this before transition day. No changes can be made after this day. Please email hlowe@rosebery.surrey.sch.uk or lbroome@rosebery.surrey.sch.uk
Summer School Evie-Rose Cunningham
Summer School 23 rd -25 th July from 8.45 3.00 pm Staff will meet your daughter in the quad for registration Your daughter will be put in a coloured group The girls will do a range of fun activities with an enterprise theme We will provide snacks and refreshments but girls will need to bring packed lunch. They can wear their own clothes but footwear must be suitable for sports. We hope it will be a fantastic way to get to know each other, staff and the school site
The first day Tuesday 4 th September 8.30am Please drop-off on Dorking Road not Whitehorse Drive Staggered start Come straight to the Hall and sit in Tutor Groups Assembly All morning with the Tutor (timetables, planners, tour of the school, visit to Library etc.) Your transition pack has lots of information about how to best support your daughter.
Starting Rosebery Savanna Persad
Highlights of the year Tilly Anderson- Smith
Timeline of events 21 st May 22 nd and 23 rd May 4 th - 15 th June 3 rd July 23 4d, 24 th, 25 th July Date Tuesday 4 th September 2018 Saturday 8 th September 2018 September 2018 October 2018 Event Transition Parents Evening Small School mixers Transition Interviews Transition Day Summer School First day of school Year 7 picnic Information Evening Meet the Tutor Academic reports: at key points throughout the year There will be an academic parents evening to meet subject teachers in the summer term.
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