Purple Patch
The Week Ahead
3 Feb 2012 2:37PM
Monday 6th
14.30 Mrs St. Clair speaking to Year 2 re Mary Seacole
15.45 Girls Football vs. Blackheath (away)
Tuesday 7th
Mrs Everitt attending course for the day ‘Leading Your School in the 21st Century’
9.00-11.00 RK on visit to Pizza Express
9.30 Showround at TPR
10.15 Showround at EC
15.45 Years 5/6 mixed Hockey match vs. Blackheath at Elmgreen School
Wednesday 8th
8.20 Student Council in school hall
13.30 Year 5 & Year 6 Football matches vs. Eridge House at Dulwich Sports ground
Thursday 9th
8.55-9.20 5R Class assembly – Parents welcome to visit classroom afterwards
13.30-16.00 Miss Barry on course ‘Getting it right from the start’
14.00 Year 3 Tag Rugby vs. Eridge House at Dulwich Sports ground
Friday 10th
9.00 Rosemead Prayer Group at TPR
9.10-9.40 1G Class Assembly - Parents welcome to visit classroom afterwards
12.00-15.45 ISA Under 11's Football Tournament at Dulwich Sports ground
19.30-21.30 RSA leaving 'do' for Mrs Brown
RSA supports the upgrade of Thurlow Park Road and Elmcourt libraries
2 Feb 2012 6:33PM
The RSA has provided £3,000 to support the upgrade of Elmcourt and Thurlow Park Road libraries. A significant part of the donation will go towards purchasing the ‘Junior Librarian’ system, which will make it easier for children to take books from the library, to collect information about children’s reading patterns, and to use this to analyse and direct children’s reading. The new system will be an integral part of a more significant cataloguing, destocking and restocking exercise that will be take place over the coming year. The RSA is delighted to support this initiative; there will be further information from Mr Bray in due course.
Success in the Alleyns Football Tournament
31 Jan 2012 6:56PM
The Year 3’s journeyed to Alleyns on a frosty Monday afternoon. The group stages saw us undefeated against St. Paul’s, St. Dunstan’s, Blackheath and Alleyns, with 2 wins and 2 draws respectively. The semi-final, against Eltham College went into gruelling extra time and when neither team were able to score, the dreaded penalties were on the cards. Khalil slotted his very efficiently and Benjy saved the replying penalty. The Eltham goal keeper then saved a sharp chance from Archie and the Eltham striker scored to even things up. Louie stepped up and calmly put us back in the lead. Benjy held firm against the last penalty and we were through to the final against St. Paul’s, who we had drawn against earlier in the competition. The final score was 2 – 0 so we were the runners-up for the day, a feat not seen in an Alleyns tournament in recent history. Congratulations to Louie, Benjy, Khalil, Archie, Kai, Dan, Danny, Levi, George and Finlay for a great achievement.
Mr. Harrison
Uniform Sale
31 Jan 2012 5:25PM
Many thanks to Tracy Laughton for organising the start of term uniform sale. Thank you also to all the parents who helped to set up and run the event with Tracy, and to those who came and purchased uniform and ski-gear. The event was well-attended and raised £350 for the RSA. Our next uniform sale will be at the Summer Fair on 23rd June.
English Primary Schools Chess Championship
29 Jan 2012 10:09PM
Congratulations to members of our two Under 9 chess teams who played in the first round of the English Primary Schools Chess Championship at Eltham College on Sunday 29th January. For some of the children this was their first experience of a tournament and they faced stiff competition, notably from Dulwich and Eltham Colleges. All the children held their own very well and there was some promising play. The children making up the teams were Zubayr, Athena, Louis, Sam M., Martha, David P., Stanley, James K., Baruch and Tawana. By the end of the day everyone was playing much better chess than at the beginning. The children behaved beautifully and we are very grateful to the parents who supported us and kept the children amused when they were not playing.
YEAR 6 NETBALL RESULT
28 Jan 2012 5:17PM
Well done to the Year 6 netball squad who beat Oakfield 4 - 3 on Monday. It was an extremely exciting match. Rosemead went 3 - 0 up. Then Oakfield scored 3 to come back to 3 - 3. Rosemead then scored to finish 4 - 3 win. Well done to the team; a great game played by all.
Miss King
YEAR 3 NETBALL RESULT
28 Jan 2012 1:21PM
The Year 3 netball squad played two matches against Oakfield on Thursday. All the girls represented the school very well. The first game saw a 2 0 win to Rosemead and the second game was a draw, neither team scoring. Congratulations to all involved.
