As I am writing this I can hear the Year 11 Geography students leaving their GCSE exam. As with the Chemistry exam this morning, their positivity and energy when they exit the exam is extraordinary. They excitedly share and compare questions and how they answered them, they follow up with their teachers to talk about the questions. There is, obviously, a sense of relief that the exam is over; but their shared sense of excitement is infectious.

Elsewhere in school internal assessments started for Year 9 - and again, walking around school I have seen for myself the hard work that the students are putting in and their maturity during these assessments.

I hope that all students and families are able to have some downtime over this weekend and come back on Monday refreshed and ready for the final week of this half-term.

~Ms K Dooley | Head Teacher

Jack has just completed 5 days of racing at the Swim England London Regional Championships where he succeeded in becoming a 4 time London Regional Champion, taking gold in the 200m, 400m and 800m Freestyle and the 400m Individual Medley. He also landed silver medals in the 100m and 200m Butterfly and the 4 x 200m Freestyle Team Relay. This has secured Jack's entry in to the Aquatics GB National competition taking place this summer at Ponds Forge in Sheffield.

There was also huge success for Teddington swimming club, who were ranked 3rd in London in the overall competition.

We continue to be in awe of Jack's achievements and dedication - congratulations!

Earlier this week the combined Year 7 and Year 8 rounders team headed off full of excitement - resulting in a win against Hampton High in a league match. Congratulations to the whole team: Freyja, Manon, Anna, Anoushka, Phoebe, Lyndsay, Bethany, Jess, Poppy S., Marlie, Anhelina.

This week, it's the turn of Mr Nesztinger, Teacher of Maths

• Describe your teaching style in three words
• Making students believe

• If you could invite any sports personality or musician to speak to your class, who would it be and why?
• Arnold Schwarzenegger - truly inspirational in many ways and a fascinating life story

• If you could redesign your classroom any way you wanted, what would it look like?
• Very small with very few students

• What would be your one piece of advice to parents of your students?
• Checking on their academic progress regularly and setting very high expectations

If you have concerns in relation to a student at RTS or indeed with regards to your own child, you may want to contact Single Point of Access (SPA) which acts as a central information hub for all professional agencies in Kingston and Richmond.

Richmond and Kingston SPA

The SPA phone lines are now open as follows:

• Monday-Thursday 08.00-17.15 and Friday 08.00-17.00 - the phone number during these times is 020 8547 5008

• Out of hours: 020 8770 5000

Hounslow Early Help Assessment

• Telephone number: 020 8583 6600

• Out of hours: 020 8583 2222

• Email: earlyhelp@hounslow.gov.uk

NSPCC:

Speak to a counsellor 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

• Telephone number: 0808 800 5000, or text 88858

• Email: help@nspcc.org.uk

• Signvideo using British Sign Language (Mon - Fri, 9am - 6pm)

Your FoRTS team,

Carmelle (Chair and Acting Secretary) and Jason & Somi (Treasurers)

General: forts@rts.richmond.sch.uk

Parking: fortsparking@rts.richmond.sch.uk

Schooldays will again be operating an appointment system during the summer months.
Book your slot early to avoid disappointment at:

https://schooldaysllp.co.uk/index.php/booking-form/

Also - you can now spread the cost of your purchases over 3 months - using Paypal, (Online only)

Best Wishes
The Schooldays & Just Dancing Team

Full-term dates and Inset day information is available on the school's website:

• Summer Term 1: Monday 15 April-Friday 24 May 2024

• Half-Term break: Monday 27-Friday 31 May 2024

• Summer Term 2: Monday 03 June-Wednesday 17 July 2024

I am project manager for Recirculate, a project which takes second hand bikes, renovates them in prison workshops, and gives them to NHS staff and children in need. We have given away 313 bikes to date! We are now in need of more bikes, especially adult bikes, and we are holding a bike donation day at West Middlesex Hospital from 9.30am to 12pm on Monday 3rd June - World Bike Day.

We are asking potential bike donors to tell us if they are bringing a bike, just to give us an idea of how many bikes we are likely to get. The link to the form is here https://forms.gle/ykQZseixwFbeYYEr5 and the form can also be access by scanning the QR code on the flyer.

Anything you can do to support us would be greatly appreciated.

May 2024 Newsletter

Don’t miss our Summer Holiday Workshops Early Bird Offer!

Dramacube’s much-loved performing arts workshops are back for Summer ’24!

5-7 & 8-12 year olds will be enchanted with our Encanto inspired 3 day Musical
Theatre Workshops or can shape and star in their own movie in our 2 day Movie
Makers Workshops.

13-18 year olds Dancing Queens can whisk themselves to sunny shores in our
Mamma Mia inspired 3 day Musical Theatre workshops.

We offer discounts for siblings and full week bookings.

Book at https://www.dramacubeproductions.co.uk/summer_workshops_2024
We can’t wait to perform with you again soon!

More information for -
Mini Musicals
https://www.dramacubeproductions.co.uk/classes-5-7yrs/
Moana Jr
https://www.dramacubeproductions.co.uk/youth-company/moana-jr/
and
Youth Theatre West End Weekend
https://www.dramacubeproductions.co.uk/youth-company/west-end-musicals-weekend/

We’re now looking forward to all the fun at our summer camp and wanted to remind you of the exclusive discount for your school community.

We wouldn’t want your school parents to miss out on this exclusive offer and would really appreciate it if you could promote this in your newsletters.

Parents just need to add SCHOOL20 in the promotion box to receive an extra £20 off when they book 2 or more days. Please find the coded flyer below and attached.

What’s more, if parents book now, they’ll benefit from our early booking discounts and can take advantage of our interest free monthly instalment options. There couldn’t be a better time to tick summer childcare off the list of things to do.

As we're Ofsted registered, we also accept ALL Childcare Vouchers and Tax-Free Childcare. Parents often like to use the vouchers/credits they’ve saved up over the course of the year for their summer holiday childcare.

The Mental Health Support Team for Richmond are running a series of online workshops for families, entitled ‘Helping Children with…’.

The last series was very popular and feedback was very positive. These workshops would be a great way to support your child at home if they are experiencing any difficulties in the areas covered.

Click on the first link to sign up; the second link is a follow up feedback form if you attend the session:

• Wednesday 05 June: MHST workshop: Helping children with screen time / Parent feedback form
• Thursday 06 June: MHST workshop: Helping children with screen time / Parent feedback form
• Wednesday 26 June: MHST workshop: Helping children with sleep / Parent feedback form
• Friday 28 June: MHST workshop: Helping children with sleep / Parent feedback form

Achieving for Children’s Mental Health Support Teams are delivering a series of webinars for

parents of secondary aged children and young people (CYP). The ‘Helping teens with ...’ series

of webinars will cover a range of common difficulties experienced by CYP and will aim to share

evidence-based strategies to help parents and carers support their CYP with these difficulties.

Below is a list of webinars on offer over the coming months. In the third and fourth columns of

the table below, you will find the sign up links. Please note that sign up links will be added a

month before the webinar dates.

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