Message from the Headteacher
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What a busy couple of weeks we have had at Roding Valley High School! This week we enjoyed celebrating the National World Book Day! Our staff really got into the spirit, with many of them dressing up as their favourite fictional characters. Please see the photo below; my personal favourite was Ms Wills as Katniss Everdeen! It hasn’t just been about World Book Day, we have also held our first ‘Fusion’ event in school. ‘Fusion’, organised by Mr Melvin and a group of very committed sixth formers, is all about celebrating multiculturalism in our school. Thank you to all parents that have supported this, too. Thank you to those parents, carers and students that attended the annual ‘Careers Fest’ at New City College. Mrs Mason, our fantastic Careers Advisor, was so impressed with the large number of RVHS students that she saw networking and gaining more careers information at the festival. There have been enrichment opportunities in abundance this week. A number of our Year 10 students also took part in the Jack Petchey ‘Speak Out’ Challenge. This involves students being trained on how to speak confidently in public. Mrs Patel, one of our challenge and enrichment leaders, was so impressed with the standards of speeches; we cannot wait to see how we progress during the regional final; watch this space! I also wanted to take this opportunity to remind all parents and carers about our continued drive on excellent punctuality and attendance. As you are aware, we have now built in a lesson transition period and a ‘late bell’, so that students are fully aware of what constitutes being ‘late’. As a team, we have noticed a massive change in how our students are valuing the start of their lessons and how they are moving around our building with purpose. We are now focussing on working with the small number of students that are not currently meeting those high
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