Code Club. Drama group. Rugby. Debating club. Netball. Football

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1 These first few weeks itself have been very exciting and action packed so we can t wait to On a Monday at RFSS: English and Art homework clubs. Hockey Cheerleading ( 3.50) see what s ahead for the rest of the year. All the year sevens have Code Club Computing homework club Drama group Rugby On Thursday at RFSS: Maths and Science homework clubs STEMM Club We would like to welcome back all the staff and students of RFSS after a lovely holiday we are now into the start of our second year here it s crazy how quickly it has gone but we are excited to be back and to meet all the new lovely year sevens who have joined us. seemed to have settled down really well in school and it s great to see them getting along with the year eights too. We have had a lot of activities and clubs for both year 7 and 8 to get involved with. We have a bunch of fun and cool activities that the year 7s and 8s have been up to, hope you enjoy our first newsletter of the year :) Dodgeball ( 3.50) On Tuesday at RFSS: MFL & Humanities homework club. Debating club Netball. Football Dungeons and Dragons Gymnastics ( 3.50) On Wednesdays at RFSS: Spanish Culture club Orchestra, Journalist club. Football fixtures County Music Theatre group Dance ( 3.50) All the clubs run by staff are free. It would be great for students to join after school clubs as, you could meet new people and hang out with people you don t, normally hang out with. During the summer holidays Amy Page (year 8 ) won an art competition called Colour the coach. In each region the winning designs of children aged 5 15 go on the side of a coach. She won 50 for her fantastic drawing of Rugby Art Gallery. She wanted to do it because she loves drawing and often draws her dog Alfie, and Guinea pigs Brooklyn and Crystal. Amy told the rugby adviser Well done Amy you re a great role model for RFSS congratulations from Mrs Green and the whole school :) This year we have had 14 new members of staff join Rugby Free Secondary School. We have had new head of departments join our school. The new teachers that we have had join our school our. Alley Harling: attendance office/ Receptionist Donna-Marie McCrae: Teaching Assistant Gemma Stapley: Head of Science Laura Caldas: Spanish Teacher Liz Gaynon: SENDCo Matthew Hambidge: Teaching Assistant Phil Kerry: Director of Maths and Science Rachael Beasley: Maths Teacher Rachael Probert: PE Teacher Rebecca Callaghan: Art Teacher Rebekah Sanders: Teaching Assistant Renée Haddow: English and Humanities Teacher Richard Morgan: English and Humanities Teacher Sally Leighton: Spanish Teacher We wish all of the teachers and teaching assistants, the best of luck teaching all of us at RFSS. They have now joined the RFSS team who are on a mission to make this school the best in Rugby.

2 Just before half term year 7 had their first music recital and it was brilliant. We saw performances of their current music work on London Underground from Mikey Robbins, Thomas Carvell, Hannah McGuire, Harriet Pryor from 7TM and one with a piano accompaniment from Liam Tutcher, Megan Barnes, Isaac Lancett, Lydia Moser from 7RB. There were lots of singers too and we heard Bella Robinson, Claudia Cater, Tessie McCubbin sing Black Magic, before Bella Robinson encored with Loren Batchelor singing One Last Time. We saw her return later with Claudia Cater, Loren Batchelor, Tessie McCubbin, Bethan Griffiths to Titanium. There are some really talented singers in year 7. Bethan Pybus and Elyse Glover sang Someone to You while Lia Johnson, Molly Sheffield, Monika Skrzek, Mia Robson, Jessica De Oliveira, Lauren Paine sang Lean on Me. Our final singer was a soloist, Bella Robinson again, singing a moving rendition of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Of course we also saw a host of instrument players too. We heard Oliver Howes and Mikey Robbins playing a guitar duet, Helena Beat; Iain Rutte played his violin to a song called Fast Forward while Lydia Moser played The Boat to Inverie on her violin. Lucy Bellfield stood out as the only flautist playing Come Summer, while Sydney Arthur was the only one on recorder playing Ode to Joy. This amazing recital closed with Liam Tuchter and his piano solo. He played Nuvole Bianche and did it so beautifully that a number of members of the audience were reduced to tears. It was a truly successful first recital for the year 7 and we hope to see more from them in the Christmas show. Thursday, 3rd November marked the day of the Year 8 student s music recital. It all kicked off with the first instrumental solo by Megan Mackintosh on the trumpet playing Theme from the New World Symphony accompanied by Mrs Hudson on the piano. She was followed by the first vocal solo of the night, A Thousand Years by Jasmyn Boiten and Peyton Fincher s Stay with Me on the piano. Next, Olivia Brimley and Helena Ball teamed up with their violin duet of My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, Meera Chumber took on a vocal solo with Secret Love Song and Charlie Neate played Waltz in G on the piano. After that, Megan Mackintosh and Rowan Boiten united and played Come Summer and Adelaide Crick-Hughes played Oh When the Saints on her flute. Phoebe Duncan sang Spark, and Arron Brooks played Spot The Dot Blues on the piano, Spot The Dot Blues is a piece that all Year 8 s have been learning in their music lessons as part of their Blues Music Topic. When he finished Megan appeared again with her clarinet and performed a solo called Hernando s Hideaway, Josh Hudson deafened everyone with his amazing but loud drum improvisation, and Sophie Lucas played Somewhere Over The Rainbow on her violin. To finish it all off Taylor Adams sang Just Give Me a Reason beautifully. It was a great night and everyone enjoyed themselves.

3 Mrs Gaynon At RFSS we had a European language week where we celebrated European languages in school. We did lots of fun activities in school to teach the students all about the different languages in Europe and in the world. Each day in the week we would learn a new way to say hello in a different language and we would try to use in the school time when talking to somebody. We did a Bake Off in school where students got a chance to make a cake design having the theme of something to do with a country or language. All the cakes where amazing and Mrs Morgan and the Spanish Ambassadors were really impressed with what people made. The cakes where delicious, thank you to everyone who made a cake. The winners of the competition were: 1st place: Miss Probert and Miss Callaghan 2nd place: Mr Morgan 3rd place: Mr Wong Staff award for best costume: Y7 overall favourite: Niamh 7LC/SL Y8 overall favourite: Freddie 8SM Y7 Award for presentation: Niamh 7LC/SL Y7 Award for taste: Niamh 7LC/SL Y7 Award for quality: Emily and Esme 7TM Y7 Award for originality: Harriet and Hannah 7TM Y8 Award for presentation: Eamon 8RB Y8 Award for taste: Julieta 8EH Y8 Award for quality: Freddie 8SM Y8 Award for originality: Helena 8RB Y7: 7TM Claudia, 7TM Kacey and Bella, 7TM Yuvraj, 7RB Lydia Y8: Jasmine 8RM, Julia 8EH, Adelaide 8WW, Tim 8MC Staff Bake Off Award: Mrs Fincher Joint winners : Sophie and Adelaide 8WW

4 Miss Ross and I have been talking to each other on the playground about the litter that we see all around the playground every break and lunch time. It is now getting out of hand so we are giving you notice that me and Miss Ross are making a group where Miss Ross takes us out of class after break and lunch for 5 minutes to collect all the rubbish laying around on the floor. We need people to help us every day. This is not a thing where you can get out of class and not do your work because if we find out that you are or see you just messing around we will send you back to class to carry on with your work. Eco Warriors is a great way to care about the environment. Joining this will help the world be a cleaner place and it will increase the years of living because there is good air not bad air from all the rubbish that has gone mouldy over the years. If you decide to take part in the eco warriors, you will receive a badge that you will wear every day. (if you can remember.) Here is a picture of the badge that you will have if you decide to take part. Eco warriors will take place every day after break and lunch one we have equipment for us to use during it. Hope to see you there! By Taylor Adams In physics year 8 have been doing about light and sound. With Mr Wong 8WW did a sound experiment. We had a speaker and some slime. We had the slime in a bowl and put it on the speaker. There was a sound being played through the speaker. The slime in the bowl started to dance or move. It was making bubbles that were moving with the vibration of speaker. The vibration of the sound coming out of the speaker. To make the slime we took cornflour, water, starch and green food colouring to make the slime. But if you want to be really fancy the word is, Non-Newtonian fluid. Mr Wong was assisted by Miss Medes. The experiment was very cool and interesting to watch. As we raised the volume on the speaker the slime started to rise and move. When it does this it makes it look like it might be dancing. This is an experiment that you should probably not try on your own at home. We had a science teacher with us, so if anything was to go wrong she knew. At the beginning of the year RFSS had our first opening evening in September with the new year sevens. For our first one of this year it went extremely well and we got some brilliant feedback from students and parents. All the rooms and teachers had fun activities going on in their classrooms, Mrs Morgan had Spanish foods for people to try and it must have been very popular as it went very quickly, there was Spanish music and a quiz on the board for people to try. Mr Wong and Mr Kerry had cool maths challenges to do in class and there was even a quiz that people could do where visitors could go round the school and they had to find out questions about the teachers. Some students were in the 3D room where people were able to try out our 3D glasses we have in school, the visitors seemed to really enjoy this. There was 3D creatures and animals like spiders and dragon flies, and you could even watch and look around a castle. In the Art room they were making lots of cool things out of cardboard including a cardboard classroom, there was so much cardboard in the classroom it looked like a lot of fun and I m sure the visitors and pupils enjoyed it. The whole opening evening went great and we would like to thank you to everyone that helped and supported on the night and to all the year 7s who did great for their first one.

5 Claudia Cater I went to Welton CE Academy with Thomas and Jacob who also come to this school, with me. My favourite subjects is defiantly Art because everyone is friendly and it can get very messy, you can also just doodle, about things you like to do out of school. My favourite colour is Blue. If you could pick a theme for the school what would it be and why? Add in more rooms so they can do whatever they want at break and lunch, more space so it isn t as compact. Meet the Teacher Mr Morgan What is your job here at RFSS? I work as a teacher of English and humanities. Did you have a different job before this, if so what was it? I was a humanities and drama teacher in Coventry. What brought you to this school? My wife told me lots of good things about this school and I came and they were all true. I also live in Rugby so I am very close to the school How does RFSS compare to other schools? The behaviour at this school is better than many other schools I ve been to the environment of the whole school it s like a community where everyone is treated equally positive place to be. What is your least favourite food? What is your favourite memory? My favourite memory would be getting married to my wife it was a good day :) What is your favourite colour? My favourite colour is purple wink wink Mrs Green Have you lived anywhere other than England? No I ve been to lots of countries around the world but never lived there. If you could teach another subject, what would it be? Physical education and PSHE they seem like cool and fun subjects to teach Did you go to University, if so which one? I went to Birmingham University. Who inspired you to be a teacher? My mum inspired me to be a teacher. If there was one question you could ask the next teacher that will be interviewed what would it be? Do you enjoy working at RFSS as much as me? Cockles its sometimes of shell fish they taste disgusting, Mrs Morgan forced me try them

6 The past couple of weeks the year 8 netball team have played 4 netball matches. We have won 3 and lost 1. cheering the netball team in and hope that they can bring home another win. Miss Probert has made a year 7 netball team. If any year 7 s would like to come along to join, that would be great. Rugby Free:13 v Harris: 3 Rugby High:23 v Rugby Free:9 Rugby Free:23 v Avon Valley:6 Rugby Free:23 v Ashlawn:1 Ms Probert was very proud of the way we played and Mrs Green was delighted to see that we were winning matches, especially against some of the ones we lost to last year. The next netball match coming up for the year 8 netball team is on Tuesday against Bilton. We are Our first game was against Bilton School and it was a very intense game as we had lost to them the game before. We fought very hard and put in a big shift but we drew the game 2-2. It started off with Liam scoring which put us in a positive mood. Then Bilton managed get two tries back. Shortly after, Parka managed to score the equaliser. After the game, Liam said it was a good game and Bilton were a good side and hopefully in the next match against them we will get a win. A couple of weeks back, Year 7 s took part in a rugby tournament against Ashlawn and Bilton. This took place at Rugby Lions ground. Many year 7 s took part in this tournament and they were: Rocky, Parka, Liam, Derren, Isaac.L (c), Callum, Mikey, Matty, Oliver.W, Stephen, Cameron.H, Alex.R, Heath. Then, Bilton and Ashlawn played each other and Bilton had come out on top with a 3-2 victory so we were confident going into that game. We started the game strongly with Two early tries. But Ashlawn retaliated with scoring six tries but right at the end we got one back and that ended the game 6-3. This meant that Ashlawn won. Later on, Mr Clancy told us We played good attacking rugby But our defence was faulty but overall, we played a good game of rugby. By Parka Roderick and Isaac Lancett