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We are incredibly proud that the Roedean community has stepped up to the challenge of making a positive difference, in a variety of ingenious ways! 

Year 7 have shown their determination and ability to think of others even in challenging circumstances by donating 31 Easter eggs to the local Rockinghorse charity.

In the midst of everything, our brilliant performances of ‘Hairspray’ illustrated the wonderful resilience of our community.

On Monday, there was an amazing evening of A Level Drama from the Year 12s and 13s.

International Women’s Day 2020 was a great success again this year. The sixteen speakers we welcomed to Roedean this year were true inspirations - their talks were challenging, thought-provoking, entertaining, and, most of all, empowering. We are very fortunate to have had such a range of female role-models at Roedean yesterday.

The Gala Concert at Roedean Chapel last Friday evening proved, once again, to be one of the highlights of the school year. It showcased the wealth of talent, musical diversity, and incredibly high standards which are synonymous with the School.

3 of our students made a visit to St Mark's Primary School last Friday to deliver a special lesson on Chinese culture to the Year 2 class.

Congratulations to everyone involved in House Dance at the start of the week - it was brilliant!

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Congratulations to Alex (Yr8), who took part in a major international short track competition in Baselga di Pinè in the Italian Alps. She competed extremely well, gaining a 777m personal best time of 1:21.574 – this time is only 1.3 seconds off the U14 British record, and it also places her at 23^rd in the world for this distance.

The Year of the Rat has arrived! After weeks of excited preparations in the Houses, making paper decorations and traditional treats, it is wonderful that the entire Roedean community is sharing in the festivities for Chinese New Year.

The Roedean Academy for this academic year launched this week, and it was our pleasure to welcome 53 students from 4 local state schools.

Wednesday evening was the night of our annual New Scholars’ Celebration.

We are proud and delighted for Rosie, Sarah, and Carissa, who all have received offers from Cambridge, and for Elsie and Ellen who have also both received offers for Medicine courses this week.

This week, all of Year 8 took part in Bollywood workshops.

The Chapel services this week, led by Miss Best and Year 8 continued with the theme of Inspirational Women.

At the end of last term, in the week of the General Election, girls from every year group were able to cast their vote in the Roedean Mock Election of 2019.

Congratulations to Alex (Yr8) who performed brilliantly at the British Short Track Championships 2020 in Sheffield, and comfortably retained her British U14 Ladies’ Championship title

This week, all Year 7 pupils took part in an exciting day of rhythmic, music and movement.

Well done to everyone involved in the Harry-Potter-themed Christmas Fair. The girls really went to town with their stalls, and they had some brilliant ideas to engage with our visitors.

On Wednesday and Thursday this week we were treated to an adaptation of Arthur Miller’s exciting and controversial play, The Crucible. 

For the first time in their illustrious history, the Blind Veterans have opened their doors to the youngest volunteers they have ever had, and, luckily for Roedean, it was to four girls from Year 8. Manon, Kincso, Ellie, and Phoebe.

The Around the World in 80 minutes Gala Performance was an outstanding concert, with over 150 girls performing in the Choir, String Orchestra, Junior Strings, Roedean Band, and Roedean Orchestra.

Tuesday saw 2 performances of the annual Dance Showcase. This year the showcase was entitled 'You Will Be Found' and followed the story of a teenager struggling with the pressures of technology and social media.

Congratulations to Emily Townsend, who ran the Brighton Half Marathon, and who, a few weeks ago, ran the Bilbao Marathon in Spain.

This week, some students in 8P contributed to a project run by The Samaritans called Operation Christmas Child.

Molly Hocking, the Winner of The Voice 2019, came to Roedean this week, to perform with Eden.

The Frillensee Cup, where Alex competed on Saturday, was her first long track competition of the season. In the 1000m, she achieved a new Personal Best time of 1:37.65, more than 4.5 seconds faster than her previous PB, placing her at number 12 in the world ranking for this distance in the U14 category.

On Monday, the Year 12 Geography squad took an afternoon trip to the lovely town of Rottingdean.

Year 13 were joined by members of Senior Team, including a very competitive Headmaster, and their tutors for a wonderful meal in the Studios.

The Battle of Hastings came to Roedean last Tuesday! 

Last Sunday, the Sixth Form History Society ventured to Hever Castle to explore some Tudor history.

It was our pleasure to welcome the wonderful comedian and musical improviser, Rachel Parris, star of AUSTENTATIOUS and The Mash Report to Roedean for Speech Day on 2 November.

This week, the Roedean community has indulged in a dazzling array of events, experiences, and lectures, all themed around tricks of the mind. 

The annual and infamous Horror Maze provided a great night of fun which was enjoyed by girls in every year in the school.

he CAP Music group, who will be working mostly with St Mark’s from now on, went to the Blind Veterans home this week.

The Year 9 Battlefields trip to Belgium before half term was another excellent opportunity to engage with history of the First World War.

The Year 7 2-day experience at Blacklands Farm in Sussex was one to remember.

Year 10 Design and Technology students venture to the London Design Museum to see the Beazley Design of the Year Exhibition

House Drama on Tuesday was an exhilarating evening, jam-packed with talent. Each House created a short drama by combining performance skills in acting, singing, and dance.

Following last Thursday’s Sixth Form Information Evening, which was for the current Year 11 and those considering joining the Roedean Sixth Form, Open Day on Saturday was the biggest we have hosted, and it was incredibly successful. 

The year 10 art trip to the V&A gallery was an incredible experience and Year 11-13 Art students then went on a valuable trip to the Tate Modern yesterday

House 1 held their annual Macmillan Coffee Morning on Friday. The total amount raised was......£435.30.

From making a circuit using lemons and copper coins to holding machine guns and parachutes, our trip to Sandhurst was thoroughly enjoyable, as not only was it fun, but it also informed us of the possibilities of a future career in STEM. As Sandhurst is an active military academy and encourages women to go into STEM

150 girls in Years 5 and 6 from London and South-East came to Roedean this week to take part in a challenging and really enjoyable STEM Day. 

The Roedean Music Scholars’ Recital was a wonderful showcase of impressive musicianship, and it was a real pleasure to see players and singers from Years 7-13 performing with great confidence and composure.

Four of the sheep from Roedean’s Farm, our Welsh Badger Face ewes, move to pastures new at East Clayton Farm in West Sussex.

We were delighted to welcome both Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh, our Sports Ambassadors, to Roedean this week. They ran interactive workshops on mental resilience for every girl in Years 7 and 9, and the Sports’ Scholars.

Last Friday, the Year 11 Geographers travelled an hour and a half to Juniper Hall, in Dorking in order to spend the weekend collecting data for their GCSE exam

On Monday and Tuesday this week, the houses took to the badminton courts to find out who would be queen of the court!

Well done to Amber Anning OR, who has won a full scholarship to study at university in America.

Book binder and conservator, Holly Smith, visits the Art Department for the first KS3 scholars masterclass of the year.

Congratulations to Miss Wakeling and Miss Cheesman who completed in the Brighton and Hove Triathlon this week.

‘Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales
Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales
And treasure isles, and distant shores
Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars.’

The School is delighted to have been shortlisted for three different categories as part of the Independent School Parent magazine's Independent School of the Year awards

Congratulations to all Roedean students on achieving excellent GCSE examination results. 

Congratulations to all Roedean A Level students on their outstanding results – well done!  We are delighted that 22.4% of all A Level grades have been awarded A*, our second best results in over a decade, and that 54.8% were at A*-A, showing a second year of improvement in the number of top grades.

Kincső recently starred as Poseidon in a play called the The Magical Voyage of Ulysses. 

Roedean's new modular, multi-purpose classroom, to replace the old unusable space, has landed!

The Art Department held a Private View at the end of the term of GCSE and A Level work and the standard, range, and variety of media was exceptional.

Congratulations to Amelie H (Yr10) and India H (Yr7), who recently took part in a campaign to raise awareness for Clean Air Day and to promote zero emission ice cream vans.

18 girls took part in the finals of the Roedean Musician of the Year. Congratulations to Freya, winning in her final year at Roedean, and to all the performers.

Darcey, Gowri, Niah and Chloe have worked really hard this year to raise £450 for Downs View.

We had another brilliant staff versus student hockey match at the end of the school year to round of the sporting year. 

We were delighted to have 2 fantastic performance opportunities to finish off the term and academic year; the Performing Arts Gala and pre-launch of Artemis Performing Arts School and Roedean’s Got Talent.

A painting, thought to be by one of Britain's most famous artists, has been found in a walk-in safe in an old store cupboard in the former Headmistress' office.

Roedean is thrilled that our Honorary Chaplain, Rose Hudson-Wilkin, (also chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, and chaplain to the Queen) has just been appointed as the Church of England's first black female bishop.

It was absolutely brilliant to see the whole school community walking together on Tuesday to raise money for St Mark’s Primary and the ten girls we support around the world through PlanUK.

Congratulations to Mary, Chloe, and Freya (Yr13) who have won the ‘Best Innovation - Model, Prototype, or Product’ category at the 2019 TeenTech Awards, presented at a glitzy awards’ ceremony at the Institute of Engineering and Technology in London.

Well done to Galina B (Yr7), who performed with the National Children's Orchestra (NCO) London Seniors regional orchestra at the weekend.

100 girls in Year 5 came to Roedean yesterday to take part in our annual Rockpools Day. Well done to everyone who took part, and thank you to all the staff and girls who brought this day to life! 

The opening night of Peter Pan was one for the books! The gasps were audible when Dorothea B flew onto stage through the curtains as Peter Pan! Thank you to every single member of the creative team who put on such a great show –congratulations to everyone involved! 

On Thursday, the Year 12 History students ventured to London to visit the National Archives and Westminster Abbey.

The Art Department is delighted to announce another incredible achievement by an A Level Art student. Fawn C (Yr12) has had her painting 'Untitled' selected by the Royal Academy for the 2019 Young Artists’ Summer Show. Selected from over 6000 entries, Fawn’s painting is one of just over displayed 300 online and in the gallery at Burlington House in Piccadilly, London.

On Monday this week, it was a real pleasure to welcome Marcia Bellamy to Roedean to lead a day of masterclasses for 25 of our very talented singers.

Congratulations to everyone who took part in the Evening of Song last Friday which raised £125 for our charities.

This is the 16^th year that Roedean has held a large-scale concert as part of the Brighton Festival Fringe, and we are delighted to be part of the largest Arts Festival in England, to which 400,000 visitors come each year. 

Hot on the heels of her amazing success at the British Long Track championships in The Hague, Alex won all of her races at the recent British Short Track Championships in Sheffield, and therefore became the 2019 U14 Ladies’ British Champion and Gold Medallist!

Last weekend four of our Sixth Formers, Bells, Cherry, Alicia and Maggie, were featured in the Sunday Times having submitted an impassioned letter arguing in defence of girls in Physics, following the views of Italian Professor Alessandro Strumia that “women don’t like physics.”  The Sixth Formers also invited the recently sacked Professor to visit us here at Roedean, to see for himself the enthusiasm Roedean girls have for STEM subjects.

Congratulations to Alex S (Yr7) who has returned from a very successful weekend at the British Longtrack Speed Skating Championships in The Hague and has been crowned champion and multiple Gold medallist!

Roedean is delighted to welcome Gruffalo and Sox to the Farm and wait with baited breath for 3 more due any day now. 

A Quarterly review between Roedean UK and Roedean South Africa

What an amazing day Friday was!  Fifteen successful women from a variety of fields came to Roedean to share their experiences with the girls and staff, to mark International Women’s Day, and the speakers inspired their audiences in so many ways. 

Amelia M (Yr7) was invited to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford on Sunday 17 February as a finalist in a UK-wide competition, the UK Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge.

Congratulations to Susan C (Yr13) who has achieved a Gold Medal in the British Mathematical Olympiad.

The children at St Mark’s Primary have just started a new chapter in their reading lives. The culmination of weeks of planning, building, and landscaping, and months of fund-raising and book-donating, is the fantastic ‘Secret Garden Library’ at St Mark’s. Congratulations to everyone involved!

43 girls and 6 members of staff had a wonderful time skiing over the half-term holiday in the French Alps at SuperDévoluy.

Over half-term, 30 girls had the brilliant opportunity to go to Iceland, and they had an amazing time, as you can see from the photos. 

Lara S (Yr10) recently played rugby at Twickenham before the Harlequins vs Wasps Premiership match and scored a hat trick!

This week we were treated to a fantastic performance from each house in the House Dance Competition. Well done to House 3, who were the overall winners.

Congratulations to Bryony (Yr13) who represented English independent schools’football last weekend.

Lawrence would like to thank all the wonderful junior boarders who visited us last Saturday to sample some of the most popular Spanish tapas.

On Monday, the whole of Year 9 took part in the Funky Lunch Enterprise Challenge. This was an opportunity for the students to work in groups on a variety of challenges, based around designing a new sandwich that would encourage young children to eat new foods.

It was wonderful to celebrate Chinese New Year at Roedean on Tuesday. The School was treated to some wonderful traditional music from our Chinese band, lovely red paper-cut decorations in the Houses and the Fireplace, delicious Chinese food, and there were also amazing fireworks in front of School.

Dawn T (Yr8) and Mrs Wu were honoured to visit 10 Downing Street and the Prime Minister on Thursday 31st January.

Alex is selected by UK Longtrack to represent Great Britain at two major European championships this year.

Roedean is incredibly proud of the recent dance achievements of India and Amelie H in Year 7 and 10 – both competed at the Essex Street Dance Championships on 27 January, and India won two Top 5 trophies in Under 14 Advanced Solos and Duos.

We are incredibly proud that the girls’ GCSE results last academic year place Roedean as the highest performing school in the area in one category of the recently published Department for Education comparison tables.

Four Year 13 girls have received the wonderful news that they have been offered conditional places to study at Cambridge University. This is an exceptional achievement, and everyone at Roedean is very proud of them.

On Monday evening, we issued the scholars who started in September with their badges in an event that gave every pupil the opportunity to share what scholarship at Roedean means to her.

Academic enrichment for students from 3 local schools and Roedean: the Roedean Academy launched for 2018-2019 this week. Nearly 50 students from Roedean, Blatchington Mill School, Longhill High School, and Peacehaven Community School, came to Roedean on Tuesday to find out how the Academy will work, and to select the modules they will take.

Academic enrichment for students from 3 local schools and Roedean: the Roedean Academy launched for 2018-2019 this week. Nearly 50 students from Roedean, Blatchington Mill School, Longhill High School, and Peacehaven Community School, came to Roedean on Tuesday to find out how the Academy will work, and to select the modules they will take.

It has been wonderful to welcome Roedean’s Olympic Gold Medal winning Sports Ambassadors, Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh, to the School this week. Kate and Helen also worked with pupils from St Mark’s Primary in Whitehawk.

On November 20^th, the Year 8 cast presented their performance of ‘The Comedy of Errors’ as part of the Shakespeare Schools’ Festival at the Old Market Theatre in Brighton.

Yesterday, early applicants for Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and for Medicine and Veterinary Medicine courses, from Roedean and Lancing College came together for our annual interview exchange and dinner.

In the first half of term, all four year groups from Year 7 to 10 have been on residential trips.

Roedean is incredibly proud to announce that both Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh will be the School's Sports Ambassadors for the next two years

120 girls aged 9-10 from London and the South-East joined Roedean's Year 7 to enjoy a wonderful literary festival, entitled 'Murder by the Sea'.

Fantastic GCSEs, hot on the heels of outstanding A Level results!

A 'once in a lifetime' experience

Congratulations to Year 13 for their outstanding A Level results!

The last week of term was absolutely full of a dazzling array of activities.

The 1st hockey team had one last game of the season against Mr Blond's mighty staff team, the Headmaster's XI

This week concluded the "Listening Buddies" initiative with St Mark"s Primary School

Roedean welcomed the Bodø Cathedral Youth Choir to our Chapel this week.

Roedean was delighted to host Kate Richardson-Walsh OBE as our guest speaker on Roedean Day

This the second year of the Roedean Musician of the Year competition and we were delighted that over 40 girls took part in the first round auditions.

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The Roedean community was taken down the rabbit hole into a dreamlike world of enormous tea cups, flamingo croquet mallets and a dazzling array of characters.

Read the weekly Review from the head.

Read the weekly Review from the head.

Read the weekly Review from the head.