Rose Hill attends the national finals at RAF Wittering
A very early start saw Abi, Rufus and Sam head off to RAF Wittering with Mr Izzard and Mr Mansfield. Once we cleared security we entered the main competition hangar. We couldn’t believe how many people there were and all the different activities we could do as well as make our rocket car. Her Royal Highness Countess of Wessex arrived and spent the morning watching the cars being made.
The teachers were banned from helping us and had to stay behind a yellow line during the competition. We quickly shaped the body for our rocket car, Jimmy the Flamethrower, and we fitted our custom made laser cut wheels and carbon fibre axles.
We got a chance to look around the STEM village and we all had ago at making a gas turbine blade. The naval officer in charge couldn’t believe how good our turbines were. He saw us at the end of the day to say we had beaten everyone that day. The RAF bomb disposal was pretty cool and they had some massive robots on display.
Everyone was transported to the other side of the airfield where the rocket cars were to be fired. There were loads of different aircraft we could look in and around as well as an armoured Land Rover.
There were 60 rocket cars and they were fired off in batches of 5, ours was in one of the last runs. During this time, we had air displays from a Tutor, BBMF Spitfire Mk X and Typhoon. Our rocket car wasn’t quite as quick as a Typhoon, but it went well and more importantly didn’t fall apart!
HRH Countess of Wessex presented the awards to the top three cars, unfortunately we were not one of them. The winning car managed 66mph over the 15m track and Jimmy did just under 40mph – there is work to do done for next year’s competition. As HRH finished her speech the Red Arrows screamed right over the top of her and did an amazing display including drawing a giant 100 in the air to mark the RAF Centenary.
Lower School Production of Mary Poppins, practically perfect in every way!
13 December 2019
When we found out this year's Junior Production was 'Mary Poppins', we felt excited about what part we would get and how rehearsals would go. Rehearsals started straight away and we realised it wasn't going to be as easy as we thought! It was going to be tough and we would need to work very hard!
Year 7 art trip to the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne
14 November 2019
On Thursday, 9 November Year 7 went on an Art trip to the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne. After a bus journey to Eastbourne College we had a delicious lunch in their canteen. We then walked a short distance to the Towner Gallery which is located right next to the College. It wasn’t hard to miss as there was an amazing mural painted on the side of the building, in all sorts of shapes and colours, celebrating the Towner’s 10th Anniversary.
Rose Hill School Sports Tour to Holland
11 November 2019
During the half-term break 45 Rose Hill School pupils and staff travelled to Eindhoven in Holland as part of the school’s Sports tour. During the trip the boys were lucky enough to train with Dutch Giants PSV Eindhoven, whilst the girls trained with the Dutch National Hockey Champions Oranje-Rood.
Rose Hill School pupils 'Fly to the Line'
06 July 2018
At 5.30am on Wednesday 27th June, 4 eager children and 2 tired teachers, set off for RAF Cosford for the national ‘Fly to the Line’ competition.
02 July 2018
On lundi, vingt-cinq juin, the annual journée francaise got underway with pupils arriving in the customary bleu, blanc, rouge. Year 7s set up the bureau de change in the Quad as eager pupils exchanged Pounds for Euros before morning registration.
Rose Hill pupils score a hat trick!
29 June 2018
Year 6 pupils from Rose Hill School have scooped a hat trick of prizes winning second, third and runners up in the national John Lewis Innovation Challenge. The task was to reinvent a school blazer and give it a new life.
"If a thing is worth having, it is worth waiting for"
22 June 2018
Rose Hill School today celebrated the official opening of their new indoor pool with a visit from the Rt Hon Greg Clark. The sun shone and the pupils provided an excellent drum roll for the ribbon cutting ceremony.
