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The Principal writes …… Thank you to Year 11 students and their parents for attending the College VI Open Evening this week. I hope that the discussions with subject teachers and current College VI students have supported students in making choices about post-16 options. Should students require any further advice before making their application, they should speak with their Tutor. A reminder that the deadline for applications from Year 11 students already at Riddlesdown Collegiate is Friday 10th November 2017 and all applications should be made through our website. After this date, students will be invited to a Guidance Interview with a senior member of staff later in the term. Parents of Year 11 students have also been invited to the GCSE Preparation Evening next Wednesday, 18th October 2017 at 6.00pm. At this event, we will be sharing with parents advice on how they might best support students in this crucial year by introducing them to a range of learning and revision strategies. This event has been popular and valued in previous years and I hope will be again. To confirm your attendance, please email [email protected]. This event is deliberately a few weeks before Year 11 students begin their Pre-Public Examinations (PPEs) on 20th November 2017 (further details will follow). Further to my comments last week, parents should have received today a letter about a vacancy for a Parent Governor on the Local Governing Body. Please do give this some thought if it something you might be interested in; I look forward to receiving applications by noon Friday 20th October 2017. As Year 7 students come towards the end of their first half term at the Collegiate, there are two particular events for them next week: Meet the Tutor sessions and our annual Choir of the Year competition. On Monday, Year 7 Tutors are looking forward to seeing parents for individual appointments to give them some brief feedback on how their child has settled in. And then students will be singing to win the coveted Choir of the Year trophy on Friday afternoon! Finally, parents may have noticed that performance tables based on examination results in 2017 have now been published on the DfE website. I am delighted that they confirm the very strong outcomes that we celebrated this summer and that they include further information on progress that we are similarly very proud of. Our Progress 8 score of +0.35 indicates that students at the Collegiate made more progress on average than others and the analysis of this shows that it was strong across the ability range, meaning that all groups of students performed very well, irrespective of their starting points. This gives us greater confidence going forwards and we look forward to improving this further in the coming year.

Newsletter for Students and Parents

Friday 13th October 2017

AQUILA ORION PEGASUS PHOENIX CPA COLLEGE VI

Timetable:

Week commencing Monday

16th October will be

Timetable Week A Learners of today, Leaders of tomorrow.

Forthcoming Events

16th October

Year 11 Classical Trip – British

Museum

17th October

Tech Club Hall 3.30pm – 4.30pm

18th October

GCSE Preparation Evening 6.30pm -

7.30pm

Year 13 Geography Trip Returns

22nd October

20th October

Choir of the Year

21st October

New York Return 25th October

Warhol Croydon Ruby Collins 7GBT is proving to be an ambitious and creative art student. She enjoyed

creating screen prints with her younger siblings at 'Warhol Croydon'. This event offered free

walking tours, exhibitions and workshops throughout September. Ruby has commented, "It was

really fun and interesting. My sisters loved it too. I can't wait to do something like this again."

The art team encourage students to follow Ruby's lead and take advantage of all the

extra-curricular opportunities which are currently posted on show my homework. Get out there,

enjoy and spread the word!

Miss McKeefry

Director of Art

Careers Fair On 8th November 2017, Riddlesdown Collegiate will host the Annual Careers Fair in partnership

with Woodcote High School and Oasis Academy Coulson. This year the Event will take place at

Riddlesdown in the main hall from 5.00 pm – 7.30pm.

Students and parents will have the opportunity to informally talk to employers from a wide range of

sectors as well as further and higher education providers, gap year companies and careers

advisors and coaches.

Some of the employers have indicated their ability to take on students for work experience, as well

as discuss apprenticeships in their field, so it is an excellent chance to network with people in the

local business community.

Miss Knox

Litter pick

Well done to Angel Kearney, Holly Lloyd 9MLH and Shreya Krishnan 9GEC for their commitment

to the environment in taking part in a litter pick in the field. The amount of rubbish collected in just

20 minutes was astonishing.

If you use the footpaths in the fields stick to the paths and do not drop your litter.

The crops will be used as animal foodstuff and you wouldn’t want to be responsible for an animal’s

illness or death due to them eating rubbish. DON’T DROP LITTER!

Miss Relph

World Homeless Day In recognition of World Homeless Day, Riddlesdown students are raising money for the charity

Crisis.

By making origami boxes and filling them with change, hopefully we can help Crisis in their aim to

eliminate homelessness in Croydon. Once your boxes are full, please ensure that they find their

way to room P09 where Mr Bell is collecting. Many thanks for your support.

Mr Bell

Riddlesdown PE Fixtures Forthcoming Event

17th October

Year 9A Football vs HASN - Home - 3.00pm

Year 10A Football vs St. Joseph's - Away - 3.30-6.00pm

Under 13’s A, B, C Teams vs Coloma 2.30-4.30pm

Surrey Schools Cricket - Away - 5.30-7.00pm

18th October

Under 18 Football vs Orchard Way - Home - 2.30-4.30pm

19th October

Year 10A vs Tenison's - Home - 3.00-5.30pm

Year 11A vs St. Joseph's - Home - 3.30-6.00pm

Year 8A vs St. Joseph's - Away - 3.30-6.00pm

Parking and collecting students from PE fixtures/ extra curricular activities

We ask that parents park in Honister Heights and not drive to the school gate. The school

must not be blocked. Many thanks for your cooperation.

2nd October

Jamie’s Farm

3rd October

Jamie’s

Farm

Year 11

Road Safety

Tech Club

Hall 3.30 –

4.30 pm

Parents In-

formation

Meeting –

New York

Main Hall 6

– 7pm

4th Oc-

tober

Jamie’s Farm

Roe-

Duke of Edinburgh Award Students Current Duke of Edinburgh Award students: With lots of you applying for the next D of E Level, now

is the time to get that current level completed – we really do want you to get them finished before you

embark upon a new level. If you have any queries please go and see Mrs White in Student

Services

New Year 9 Bronze and Year 10 Silver Duke of Edinburgh applications: Thank you for giving us

your application. We are currently liaising with senior staff within Colleges regarding acceptance onto

the Award. Please note that we will be sending this information out via “In Touch” and not through the

post, by Friday 20th October.

My Fair Lady—Rehearsal Schedule 16/10 –20/10

DAY Staff LUNCHTIME

12.20 – 1.00

(unless other-

wise stated)

PDT Time

Tues-

day/Thursday

AFTER SCHOOL 15.30

Tuesday, Thursday 4.40

Thursday, Friday–

(check individual days

for finish times)

MONDAY 16.10.17

COLLEGE

VI

TUESDAY 17.10.17

TKW/GEC

ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA

AMC FTD WLR

‘Wouldn’t it be loverly?’ 2ND & 3rd CLASS Cockneys & H-Man/ S-

Man/ Alfie Doolittle and

gang (Fred, George etc.)

WEDNESDAY 18.10.17

TKW Cockneys &

H-Man/ S-Man/

AMC FTD GEC

‘Wouldn’t it be loverly?’ 2ND & 3rd CLASS Cockneys & H-Man/ S-

Man/ Alfie Doolittle and

gang (Fred, George etc.)

THURSDAY 19.10.17

GEC Chorus – Ascot Gavotte

AMC FTD WLR

Act 1: Scene 3 Pickering/ Higgns/ Mrs

Pearce/ Eliza

TKW

Maids & Eliza –

Danced all Night

ORCHESTRA

FRIDAY 20.10.17

GEC WLR

TKW

Best Attendance: 2th October 2017

Year Best Tutor

Group

College

7 OLO 99.6% Orion

8 JAC 99.3% Pegasus

9 JAH 100% Pegasus

10 JJF 98.1%

JMP 98.1%

Orion

Pegasus

11 IDH 98.5% Pegasus

12/13 SPO 99.1% College VI

Percentage of Students with 100% Attendance

Aquila 84.3%

Orion 84.8%

Pegasus 89.2%

Phoenix 85.6%