Rodings Primary School Parent Portal

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Issue Number: 37

4th July 2025

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Relationship and Sex Education (RSE)

At the RSE parent workshop, I promised I would notify you when these lessons were due to take place. Teachers will deliver these lessons from Monday 7th July.

Heywood Cup

Every year we award the Heywood cup to a pupil who has demonstrated excellence in an area of sport, outside of school.

This includes any and all areas of sport and could a team based game, dance, gymnastics, etc. If you wish to nominate a pupil then can you please email me by 3pm on Wednesday 9th July. Please include an explanation of why you think they should win and a photo if possible.

Cups

If you have any of the awarded cups from last year's leavers assembly or from the last Effort Cup assembly, please could they be returned by Friday 18th July. Thank you!

Last day of term

We will finish at 1pm on Tuesday 22nd July for the summer holidays.

Good luck to Mrs B

Mrs B has now gone off on her maternity leave. We wish her and her family all the best as they await the arrival of their new addition.

Miss Yiu will be covering the SENDCO role during Mrs B's maternity leave. She will be doing one day a week. If you need to make contact about a SEND issue please contact Miss Yiu on miss.yiu@rodihgsprimary.co.uk. Miss Yiu will have reduced capacity so I will also be supporting her in this role.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mr Raraty

Weekly Attendance (week ending 27/06/2025)
School target: 97%		Number on roll: 286
Whole-School Attendance	Unauthorised Absences	Persistent Absentees	Lateness
97.0%	0.9% (=)	7.8% (down 1.1%)	1.1% (down 1%)

Hello from Rodings Governors!

This was our last meeting of the school year; we began by agreeing the minutes of the last meeting and then Mr Raraty presented his Headteachers report to the board. We were all very pleased to hear that Rodings have recently had 2 external reviews – both with really positive feedback! The reviews captured what we do as a school and how well we listen to staff and children. They also understood and observed the school’s ethos which is a real compliment to the school and the children alike.

We talked about our School Development plan and the Rodings Road Map, this will be updated in due course and shared when ready!

We went on to discuss the allocation of teachers for next year and heard the great news that we have some new staff to welcome. We are very excited to meet Miss Emily Curtis and are also very much looking forward to welcoming back Mrs Magness! Mrs Magness will be our Forest School lead from September!

While talking about staff we would like to thank Mrs Gates, Mrs Fuller and Mrs Wade for all of their hard work and they will be missed as part of the Rodings Team.

We would also like thank Mr Jinkerson, he has taken to his new role as Deputy Head with great success.

We would also like to wish Mrs B a wonderful time on maternity leave!

Lastly, the Rodings Governing board would like to thank The Friends for their tireless fundraising over the year!

We wish you all a relaxing summer, and we will be back in September to start afresh!

Lauren Dearsley

Governor

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Last Sunday, Ruby, Willow, Stan, Alice and Annie all took to the stage at Harlow Playhouse performing to a sell out audience with their dance group, the Buckhurst Hill and Woodford School of Dancing. Despite the heat, they all coped with rehearsals, outfit changes and multiple dance routines like true professionals! We were so incredibly proud of them all, and enjoyed every minute of their ballet and tap dances

Well done to all of you, we are very proud of you :-)

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Some pics from the last few beautiful , sunny weeks at Forest School ... making flower presses, Summer Solstice lanterns and tiny wish bottles with Toucans!

Mrs G .