On a Monday at RFSS:

Code Club

Computing homework club

Drama group

Rugby

Dodgeball (£3.50)

On Tuesday at RFSS:

MFL & Humanities home-

work club.

Debating club

Netball.

Football

Dungeons and Dragons

Gymnastics (£3.50)

On Wednesdays at RFSS:

Spanish Culture club

English and Art homework

clubs.

Hockey Cheerleading

(£3.50)

On Thursday at RFSS:

Maths and Science home-

work clubs

STEMM 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, nor-

mally hang out with.

We would like to welcome

back all the staff and stu-

dents 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 ex-

cited to be back and to

meet all the new lovely

year sevens who have

joined us.

These first few weeks itself

have been very exciting

and action packed so we

can’t wait to

see what’s

ahead for the

rest of the year.

All the year sev-

ens have

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 in-

volved 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 :)

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 Assis-

tant

Renée Haddow: English and Hu-

manities Teacher

Richard Morgan: English and Hu-

manities 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 Rug-

by.

During the summer

holidays Amy Page

(year 8 ) won an art

competition called

Colour the coach. In

each region the win-

ning designs of chil-

dren 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 :)

Just before half term year 7 had their first music recit-

al 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 accom-

paniment 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 Titani-

um. 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 Di-

amonds.

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 audi-

ence 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 Ro-

wan 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.

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 lan-

guages 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 some-

body.

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 im-

pressed 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:

Mrs Gaynon

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

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 feed-

back 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 peo-

ple 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.

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 bub-

bles 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 interest-

ing 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 sci-

ence teacher with us, so if anything was

to go wrong she knew.

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 en-

vironment. 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 de-

cide 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

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 be-

fore 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?

Cockles its sometimes of shell fish they taste disgusting,

Mrs Morgan forced me try them

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?

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 doo-

dle, about things you like to do out of school.

My favourite colour is Blue.

Add in more rooms so they can do whatever they want at

break and lunch, more space so it isn’t as compact.

If you could pick a theme for the school what would it be

and why?

The past couple of weeks the year 8 netball

team have played 4 netball matches. We have

won 3 and lost 1.

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

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.

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.

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 equal-

iser.

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.’

Then, Bilton and Ashlawn played each other

and Bilton had come out on top with a 3-2 victo-

ry so we were confident going into that game.

We started the game strongly with

Two early tries. But Ashlawn retaliated with scor-

ing 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