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 News from Mr Grady
11th April 2024
Hello Everyone,
Welcome to the Summer Term – two quite long half terms, full once again of plenty of events and experiences for students here at RHS, as well, of course as the start to this year’s formal examinations for years 11 and 13.
As the clocks changed right in the middle of the holiday, that loss of an hour did not have quite the same impact as we of course had a whole week left holiday to recover. The change of time for British Summer time is one of those “glass half full” moments for me. As someone who very much appreciates their sleep, I cannot tell you how much losing an hour of sleep as the clocks go forward upsets my circadian rhythms, but on the other hand, the bonus is of course, lighter mornings and evenings as the summer sets in, and so although one could be grumpy about the short-term loss of something, one can really embrace the longer term bonus of so much more natural light, and the chance to get some much-needed vitamin D.
For students preparing for their formal examinations, it could easily be a case of “glass half empty” as you face the next few weeks of revision and examinations, but, with the incredible preparation you’ve had from your teachers, and the support of RHS staff, your family and friends, far better to take the glass half full approach of thinking, that for some short-term disruption, there will be real long-term gain: The longest summer holiday you’re likely to ever have if you’re In year 13, and of course the joy of opening your envelope in August and seeing your success on paper, the result of some short-term disruption for real long term success.
Life is full of those moments, where one can stare at some short-term feeling of difficulty or uncomfortable-ness, and choose in the moment to avoid, distract or run away from the challenge in front of you. At RHS, and in RH6, we hope that we offer enough opportunities to take on those challenges, to support you through them and out to the other side, realising your aspirations and revelling in your successes!
So, despite my still feeling the effects of losing an hour’s sleep, I am enjoying very much the bright and light drive into work, and the chance to do so many more things in the light in the evenings. I look forward to seeing the brighter side of a whole variety of things in the coming weeks and months.
I also hope that those of you celebrating Easter over the break had a restful and positive break, and that the family time and services attended gave you the chance to reflect and refocus, and of course for those of you celebrating Eid today and tomorrow, then I wish you a very happy Eid.
Stay well and safe everyone,
With all best wishes,
Mr Grady
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Celebration assemblies
Over the last few weeks we have been holding celebration assemblies across the year groups, awarding subject certificates and Headteacher awards. Headteacher Award winners are nominated by their form tutors based on the effort which they have made during registration for their form group. Here are the winners from the spring term:
Year 7
English - Sophia Henry
Maths - Katie Constable
Science - Adhya Joshi
Computer Science - Clara Lewis
Art and Design - Chloe Wong
French - Maryam Elsayed
Spanish - Blossom Kanu
Latin - Amelia Butler
Drama - Melisa Bahceci
Music - Zahra Nadeem
Geography - Martha Williams
History - Sanchitha Permude
PRS - Denver Whitehall
PE - Charice Akintokunbo
PSHE - Iqraa Ahmed
Headteacher Award - Iqraa Ahmed
Year 8
English - Michelle Boateng
Maths - Nikita Shringarpure
Science - Maheen Razaq
Computer Science - Eva Birkinshaw
Art and Design - Siu Ting Wong
Textiles - Elspeth Pheasant
Food Science – Ellini Ahilawanar
French - Alice Page
Spanish - Freia McCall
Latin - Josephine Woolf
Drama - Irene Babu
Music - Emma Artiss
Geography - Xuyan Shangguan
History - Sofia Allen
PRS - Aashna Bhatnagar
PE - Ira Kurian
PSHE - Zoe Copeland
Headteacher Award - Sofia Chabi
Year 9
English - Shaashvati Suresh
Maths - Iris Parsons
Science - Poppy Cullen
Computer Science - Florence Kinsella
Art and Design - Aanchal Khot
French - Meera Raghavan
Spanish - Kasandra Nistreanu
Latin - Izzy Brand
Drama - Poppy French
Music - Jenny Mynott
Geography - Sirisha Gupta
History - Tinn Marsh
PRS - Breesha Corkish / Rishika Babu
PE - Emily Gascoigne
PSHE - Indie-Rose Cave
Headteacher Award - Molly Dearing
Year 10
English Language - Eva Spyrou
Maths - Athulya Rao Nanjangud
Biology - Corey Beesly
Chemistry - Anya Parmar
Physics - Neha Anand
Science - Mabel Jupe
Computer Science - Tajrian Sadiq
Art and Design - Chloe Wensley
Textiles - Yoki Shao
Food science - Erin Winder
French - Anna Seago
Spanish - Rhianna Williams
Latin - Amritha Nair
Drama - Astrid Bastable
Music - Olly Bond
Geography - Advitha Nagella
History - Lili Jones
PRS - Amulya Huller
PE - Isabella Garcia-Moya
Headteacher Award - Amelia Robson
Year 11
English Language - Livia Jacob
English Literature - Alessia Fracchia
Maths - Jerusha Kuriakose
Biology - Sophie Chang
Chemistry - Elsa George
Physics - Angela Sijo
Science - Fay Leighton
Computer Science - Svara Tejaswi
Business - Grace Foley
Art and Design - Zara Sharif
Textiles - Vi Henry
Food science - Harini Ganesan
French - Alexia Maniyalagan
Spanish - Okiki Arannilewa
Latin - Charlotte Smith
Drama - Jess Allen
Music - Aimee Jones
Geography - Chloe Barrett-Leafe
History - Alice Doull
PRS - Evelyn Bastable
PE - Edith Yaxley
Headteacher Award - Chloe Butler
Year 12
English Language - Edie Lenehan
English Literature - Calvin Robinson
Maths - Nosang Lawati
Further Maths - Sophia Dixon
Biology - Sasha Bobby
Chemistry - Bahar Sais
Physics - Nishad Deulkar
Computer Science - Ellie Box
Psychology - Gloria Badu
Sociology - Ariana Boga
Business - Isabel Morgan
Economics - Anjali Ramesh
Art and Design - Katarina Knezevic
French - Emily Schiesara
Spanish - Katie Nicholls
Latin - Angel Bhatnager
Drama - Ruby Jessop
Music - Ellen Goodwin
Geography - Rosie Seago
History - Chloe Tait
Politics - Eesha Khurana
PRS - Meri Babadi
PSHE - Kacey Holmes
EPQ - Lilybo Norford
Headteacher Award - Blessy Susan Mathew
Year 13
English Language - Liv Harrison
English Literature - Daisy Ringer
Maths - Liliya Herring
Further Maths - Jen Juckes-Paton
Biology - Elisabeth Holland
Chemistry - Alasdair Rowan
Physics - Hema Karthikeyan
Computer Science - Jess Naylor
Psychology - Kammy Sarveswaran
Sociology - Maria Ntravaliaris
Business - Mutende Lupunga
Economics - Beth Rodley
Art and Design - Sharne Badesha
French - Lorna Moran
Spanish - Emily Stoddart
Latin - Millie Woods
Classics - Chloe Azevedo
Drama - Olivia Iles
Music - Evie Frances-Miller
Geography - Thomas Exelby
History - Emily Farrol
Politics - Ruby Stilgoe
PRS - Louisa Bates
PSHE - Tommy Watson
Headteacher Award - Georgia Chikumbirike
Congratulations to everyone!
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Duke of Edinburgh Awards presented
These are the awards that have been approved so far, more are to come! Well done everyone!
Bronze Awards
Minnah Abbas, Aenthel Ahilawanar, Sara Ahmed, Nataniella Akhigbe, Freya Bakewell, Surpriya Banwait, Elizabeth Bates, Millie Butler, Ana Caborn, Harini Ganesan, Isabella Garcia-Moya, Harriet Green, Erin Hayman, Megan Jukes-Paton, Eve McEvoy, Casey-Anne Milton, Sienna Moran, Hermione Newman, Aaliya Patidar, Ellie Payne, Deena Sakr, Charlotte Smith, Chloe Wensley, Rhianna Williams, Mariam Yasin.
Silver Award
Yehya Ahmed, Jody Gowen, Evie Hancock, Rachel Hyland, Nia Jones, Ashlie Neate, Eva Pathania, Anjali Ramesh, Daisy Ringer, Anna-Maria Sebastian, Neehru Tumber.
Gold Award
Megan Stuchbury
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House point totals for the end of term
The winners of last term's house points prize has been announced and this time it is Rauf house! All members of Rauf have won a prize which will be something like a film afternoon or a games afternoon - details to be revealed later.
1st - Rauf with 4411 house points
2nd - Seacole with 3808 house points
3rd - Glennie with 3711 house points
4th - Holmes with 3688 house points
Total house points awarded: 15625
Well done to all our students!
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Our PTA needs your help
Our fantastic PTA team will be meeting this Saturday morning to sort uniform in preparation for the Preloved Uniform sale. If anyone can spare an hour or so to help they will be busy sorting at school from 9.30am on Saturday 13th April.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
The uniform sale will be held on Saturday 27th April, 10am - 12pm - come along to buy uniform at great prices!
Upcoming PTA Meeting
The next PTA meeting will be held on Tuesday 16th April at 6.30pm in the Sports Hall Classroom or online via Teams.
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Aim High sessions
Year 11s are warmly invited to attend a couple of "Aim High" sessions, that are part of the Year 12 super-curricular programme. These are friendly, informal sessions are designed for students who are interested in applying to competitive courses, such as Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary Medicine, Law and universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, UCL.
These sessions will be led by Year 13 student, so please come along if you’re interested!
Wednesday 17th April: Languages: applying to study modern foreign languages at competitive universities
Wednesday 23rd April: Law: how best to prepare for applying for Law and the LNAT (the extra law exam)
The sessions are in Drama Studio 2, 1.30pm - 2.00pm
Our Year 13 students will be able to give you a honest and insightful view of what it is like to successfully apply for these courses. Don't worry if you have other commitments, you will have the chance to join "Aim High" as a Year 12 student.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Year 8 were a pleasure to take to The RSC last term to watch ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’.
The cohort had an amazing time, were full of laughter and enthusiastically spoke about the amazing performance all the way back to school. What a wonderful way to end the term!
Well done Year 8, you were a pleasure to take to the theatre last term!
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Year 11 Prom
Message from the Prom Committee: "For each student wishing to attend our RHS-only Year 11 Prom it's time to pay your £35! The final date for payment is Tuesday 7th May and you can pay through Parentmail."
The Prom is being held on Thursday 27th June, 7pm to 11pm at Hellidon Lakes Hotel in Daventry.
The Prom will be a fantastic evening for Year 11’s to celebrate the end of their GCSEs and (perhaps) their last year at RHS. We're hoping lots of our year 11s will be back in September joining RH6 to take their A Levels!
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Senior Physics Challenge
All 19 of our students who entered the Physics Challenge organised by BPhO this year achieved a Bronze certificate or above! Two of our students, Sophia Dixon and Milly Ogburn-Storey, achieved a Silver award which puts them in the top 20% of entrants and Nishad Deulkar achieved a Gold award, one of only about 5% of entries who did so.
The exam report celebrated their success explaining: "If your student has managed to achieve a number of marks on this paper, then they should be very proud of their achievement and you should congratulate them. They are amongst the best in the country taking a paper specifically set out to challenge them."
"Those who engage with this paper are the physicists with prospects. Physics is difficult problems. Easy ones are not worth putting a lot of time and effort into, except initially to practise the formula and to absorb the ideas. Problem solving is to improve resilience, command of the ideas, linking ideas together and showing a determination. The only way to improve determination and perseverance is to practice it when it is needed."
Here’s the results and congratulations to all of them!
Bronze 2:
Sophia Wilk, Thevin Wijesiriwardena, Mithun Suresh, Gabriel Debosz, Angel Bhatnagar, Nosang Lawati, Zachariah Mak, Olivia Sam, Joshua Holloway
Bronze 1:
Achsah Abraham, James English, Erin Hayman, Aneek Heer, Finley Hughes, Mithra Suresh, Haniya Nasir
Silver:
Sophia Dixon and Milly Ogburn-Storey
Gold:
Nishad Deulkar
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Magistrate’s Mock Trial
Our team won the Coventry Local Heat at the Magistrate’s Mock Trial competition at the start of the Easter break. RHS has now progressed through to the next round and two of our Year 9 students also won individual prizes. Iris Parsons won Best Magistrate and Florence Kinsella won the Wild Card prize (awarded at the discretion of the heat organiser).
We faced some stiff tough competition – but our students were superb: they were impeccably behaved, gracious and enjoyed themselves thoroughly. They were a real credit to the school and to the Sixth Formers (especially Nathan Stitson and Louisa Bates) who’ve prepared them so well for the competition.
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Linguistics competition success
Ansruta Ayyalasomayajula, in Year 13, has been competing in the UK Linguistics Olympiad and having got through Round 2 she has now been selected for the ‘training camp’ at Magdalen College, Oxford this week.
She is one of only nine competitors to reach this stage, and is now a potential candidate for the team of four who will go on to represent the UK in the International Linguistics Olympiad - in Brazil!
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Ansruta explains more! “Regarding my experience so far, I sat the Round 1 paper in February, a 2.5 hour exam where you have to answer 5 problems that require analysis of different obscure languages. I then progressed to the second round, which is of the same format, but 3.5 hours and there are explanation questions where you need to explain how the language you are presented with works, in as much detail as possible. I enjoy the challenge of deducing the inner workings of different languages, and while it was very difficult, it was also good fun. I can't believe I've now been selected for the training camp, it's really exciting.”
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Elidh’s article in The Guardian
Eilidh de Bruin in year 8 has been published in The Guardian recently with her article for the Young country diary: “What was barking in the woods at night?”!
Eilidh said: “We got so much great footage on the night-time camera, even if our cat, Jaffa, tried to steal the show.”
Read the full article here: Young Country Diary
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Pilot’s Licence passed
Will Elliott, Year 13, has achieved his Private Pilot’s Licence at age 17! Last Friday, with a storm approaching so it was extremely windy, William passed the final stage in his PPL which is a practical skills test in the air.
William’s chosen career since the age of 5 or 6 has been to fly and he is now looking at commercial flight schools to enable his career to progress. Congratulations Will!
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Final U13s Football
Score: RHS 0 - 1 Ashlawn
Photo caption: l-r Katie C, Louise M, Ella M, Melisa B, Nimi K, Rohitha R.
This was a very close game and sadly we conceded a goal in the dying minutes of the second half. RHS fought hard for the whole game - we had no subs, as some of our U13 players were playing up in the U16s game - and our team showed a relentless work rate and determination until the final whistle. Melisa had a great game in goal, making many excellent saves and we also had several close shots on goal from Anushay, Ella M, Nimi and Louise, with lovely passing in midfield from Katie, Nimi and Louise. Sofia, Rohitha and Ella J worked well together as our back three and Sofia made an excellent clearance. We saw so much hard work from all of the team but particular shout outs to Nimi, Anushay and Ella M, who worked so hard for the whole game. Well done U13s on a great season!
Special thanks to our referee, Belle Ngan, Mrs Constable who recorded some of the action, and Mr Constable and Mr Allen, who ran the line for us.
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A Howl about an Owl
Laura Richards
It was an owl lived in an oak,
Sing heigh ho! the prowly owl!
He often smiled, but he seldom spoke,
And he wore a wig and a camlet cloak.
Sing heigh ho! the howly fowl!
Tu-whit! tu-whit! tu-whoo!
He fell in love with the chickadee,
Sing heigh ho! the prowly owl!
He asked her, would she marry he,
And they’d go and live in Crim Tartaree.
Sing heigh ho! the howly fowl!
Tu-whit! tu-whit! tu-whoo!
“’T is true,” says he, “you are far from big.”
Sing heigh ho! the prowly owl!
“But you’ll look twice as well when I’ve bought you a wig,
And I’ll teach you the Lancers and the Chorus Jig.”
Sing heigh ho! the howly fowl!
Tu-whit! tu-whit! tu-whoo!
“I’ll feed you with honey when the moon grows pale.”
Sing heigh ho! the prowly owl!
“I’ll hum you a hymn, and I’ll sing you a scale,
Till you quiver with delight to the tip of your tail!”
Sing heigh ho! the howly fowl!
Tu-whit! tu-whit! tu-whoo!
So he went for to marry of the chickadee,
Sing heigh ho! the prowly owl!
But the sun was so bright that he could not see,
So he married the hoppergrass instead of she.
And wasn’t that a sad disappointment for he!
Sing heigh ho! the howly fowl!
Tu-whit! tu-whit! tu-whoo!
All things Poetry found at Poetry by Heart
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Jobs
Reprographics Technician
We are delighted to offer this exciting opportunity to join our fantastic school as a Reprographics Technician, to provide comprehensive support to enable the smooth running of lessons and maintain resources.
This job is on NJC Pay scale 3-4: £22737 - £23114 FTE pay award pending (Actual £16024- £16290)
You’ll be working 30 hours per week in term-time plus 1 week (39 weeks) and we’d love you to start by 1st May 2024 (or as soon as possible after). Our school is a successful, calm, respectful and welcoming school and a delightful environment in which to work.
You’ll be providing a comprehensive photocopying service within the school and associated tasks such as binding and laminating. Some other key responsibilities include prioritising the flow of work to ensure all photocopied documentation is consistently provided to the required standards and within the specified timescales and liaising with external repair contractors and other agencies to ensure availability of equipment.
Find out more and how to apply on our website: www.rugbyhighschool.co.uk/jobs
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Please find below information that has been passed to us that may be of interest to you and your family.
Warwickshire Family Information Service Newsletter
9th April Edition
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The School Newsletter is sent out every other Thursday during Term time.
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