Maths – 9am – 12noon – small groups of students made their bookings with Mrs Hudson prior the half-term holidays and these students only are attending their pre-booked personalised sessions.
Any queries, regarding Maths, contact, Mrs Hudson/Mrs Chanter

History – 9.30am – 12noon – Room 15 all History students welcome.

Geography – Paper 2 – 12.30 – 3.00pm – all Geography students are welcome.

We warmly invite all Year 5 students from within and out of our catchment to visit our happy, successful and high performing school. This will be a great opportunity for your child to get to know the school, staff and other students prior to making a secondary school choice in October 2018.

If your child is currently attending one of our partner primary schools, we have been in liaison with your child’s school and have pre-arranged dates as follows:

▪ Grampound Road, Grampound-with-Creed, St Mawes and Veryan primary schools will attend on Tuesday 19 June. A bus will collect the students from their primary schools at 8.30am and return them to their school after lunch by 1.00pm.

▪ Gorran, Probus, Gerrans, Ladock and Tregony primary schools will attend on Thursday 5 July. All transport to and from The Roseland Academy will be provided. A bus will collect students from Gorran, Gerrans, Ladock and Probus primary schools at 8.30am and return them to their school after lunch by 1.00pm.

If your child is in Year 5 and not currently attending one of our partner primaries, you are warmly invited to attend on Tuesday, 19 June. In order for us to meet your individual needs, please email our Transition Co-ordinator, Miss McWilliams, on mmcwilliams@theroseland.co.uk, with the details indicated at the bottom of this letter. Each year we successfully enrol a number of students from across Cornwall and if you would like to find out more please get in touch. It is very important for your child to feel at ease about his or her new school from the start of the process and great care will be taken to ensure their happiness and smooth transition to secondary school. Our taster days are an important part of this and will allow your child to join in lessons and learning activities with our students and staff. It will also give them the chance to form new friendships with students from other primary schools. All children will be offered a complimentary lunch from our Dining Hall. However, if your child would prefer a packed lunch please also indicate this on the tear off slip below.

The Roseland Academy Open Evening – Tuesday 25 September 2018 : 6.00-8.00pm

We are also pleased to invite prospective parents and students to our Open Evening on Tuesday 25 September from 6.00- 8.00pm. We hope to give you a brief ‘taste’ of what will be on offer for your child if you choose our school. Activities will be in the form of displays of work, resources, interactive sessions and experiments and much, much more. Students and parents will also be able to explore the school, either with a student guide or your child may be able to take you around themselves as they will be familiar with the school following the Year 5 taster morning. If you have any questions regarding our Year 5 taster days, please do nohttps://www.theroseland.co.uk/download/year-5-taster-primary-parents/?wpdmdl=6935t hesitate to contact the school.

A copy of the letter sent to parents of Y5 may be downoladed here.

A reminder of the Y11 Family Learning sessions running next week. Open to all and covers supporting students through the exam season – anyone who has not received a letter and is interested should contact Mrs Chanter.

This year’s collaborative art exhibition involving various schools in the Truro area is entitled ‘Gathering STEAM’ and is inspired by Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics. Following a series of art workshops based on this theme, the exhibition will feature a wide range of exciting artwork produced by Roseland Year 9 students, including photography, printmaking, graffitti collage, and glass.

Invitation to Year 9 Parents
To celebrate the opening of this art exhibition a Private View will be held at the Royal Cornwall Museum in River Street, Truro on Monday 26th March, 6pm – 8pm.
All Year 9 students and their families are cordially invited to attend this celebratory event and see the fantastic artwork on display in this prestigious local venue – we look forward to seeing you there!

The schools exhibition will then remain open to the public between 27th March to 26th April during museum opening hours (10am – 4pm Tuesday to Sunday, closed on Mondays) so everyone is welcome to drop in over the Easter break!

A number of teachers have posted tasks for Y11 to complete at home. Please check the school facebook page for these messages.

The Y9 exams that were scheduled today will be rolled to next Monday 26 March. The remainder of this week will run as planned, weather permitting.

Due to current road conditions across The Roseland Academy catchment, the school will be closed on Monday 19 March.  This has been a difficult decision to make, but following reports from a number of our villages, the road conditions are unsafe for transport to school.

Dear Parent(s) / Carer(s)

Year 9 Options and Exams 2018

This week we officially started the Key Stage 4 Options process with our Year 9 students with the release of the initial ‘straw poll’ forms. This information is important for the early planning stages of next year’s curriculum and students have had an assembly explaining how to complete the forms. Please can all straw poll forms be returned to tutors on Tuesday 20 March.

Students have been preparing for their forthcoming Year 9 exams with their subject teachers. These will take place during the week commencing 19 March. The majority of the exams will be 45 minutes long and will take place in the exam hall. The results of these assessments will be released to students on 18 April. This information, along with the full written teacher reports released on 23 April, will be useful for making informed decisions during the options process. A copy of the exam week timetable is below:

You are warmly invited to attend the Key Stage 4 Options Evening on Thursday 26 April at 6.00pm. Parents and students will have the opportunity to discuss GCSE/BTEC Option courses in detail with subject teachers. We strongly recommend that all students attend this event with their parent(s)/carer(s). We will also publish a booklet outlining the curriculum structure in Key Stage 4 which gives advice on how to make the right choices and outlines the content of each course.

Following the Options Evening, the final options form will be released to students on the morning of Friday 27 April.

The final deadline for handing in completed Options forms will be two weeks later on Thursday 10 May.

It is anticipated that students’ options choices will be confirmed shortly after May half term.

Prior to the deadline for the Options Form, there will be a further opportunity to meet staff at the Year 9 Parents’ Evening on Tuesday 8 May from 4.00pm to 6.30pm. A letter detailing how to book appointments through the online system will be forwarded to you 2 weeks prior to Parents’ Evening.

If you have any questions or queries about the process, please do not hesitate to contact me via email, rclarke@theroseland.co.uk. I will also be available throughout the Options Evening.

Yours sincerely

Richard Clarke
Deputy Headteacher