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Junior School
Welcome to our Junior School
From the nurturing environment of the Foundation Phase through to the innovative Upper Junior School, the Roedean journey to excellence starts here.
Be kind curious and love life active creative and think equal
Junior School Overview
An amazing educational journey
The journey at Roedean begins in Grade 0 in the magical environment of St Margaret’s, home to the Foundation Phase. Here, the Grade 0 Squirrels and Hedgehogs are gently introduced to school life, before transitioning into Grade 1 to Form 1 (Grade 3) and the formality of ‘big’ school. During this phase, the class teachers and classroom assistants focus on the overall well-being of each pupil, ensuring happy and stimulating learning experiences.
As the pupils grow and become more independent, they graduate up the hill to the Upper Junior School. Here, the focus is on developing each student’s unique strengths, creating a love of learning, and encouraging curiosity, tenacity, friendship, physical activity, problem solving, and social justice.
The talents and passions of our teachers, the personal qualities of each pupil in their care, and our stimulating educational approach underpin success at Roedean.Â
Our founding values of Truth, Honour, Freedom, and Courtesy are the cornerstones for encouraging resilient, life-long, self-directed learners, who are able to work collaboratively in striving to live an authentic life of significance.
Message from the Junior School Headmistress
Welcome!
At Roedean, we recognise our students as individuals, each with her unique abilities, interests, and aspirations. We strive towards “Inspiring a Life of Significance”, founded on our values of Truth, Honour, Freedom, and Courtesy, and are committed to educating a generation of young people to become ethical global citizens and equal thinkers who can navigate diversity in a mindful, conscious and considerate way as they develop into our leaders of the future.
Roedean is wholly committed to giving your daughters an outstanding education, allowing them opportunities to flourish and develop into independent, open-minded, and open-hearted young women.
A school must be an environment where children thrive and are inspired to reach their potential. It is our view that strong relationships in the school environment are a key ingredient to success. We appreciate the need to ensure that the pastoral well-being of the pupils in our care is excellent, and that the environment fills both pupils and parents with confidence.
A good school is a competitive, yet compassionate, community. Educating the head, without educating the heart, is no education at all – Aristotle
We hope you enjoy finding out about our wonderful school and the opportunities offered to the pupils. A website can only give you a snapshot of what a school is really like. We invite you to come and visit us, and we look forward to your experiencing this excellent school in action.
Annabel Roberts
Acting Junior School Head
Nurturing Environment
Our Pastoral Care Offering:
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Overview
Focused on the well-being of our pupils.
Our Junior School Pastoral Care Team is made up of the Deputy Head with a team of psychologists who are committed to the emotional and social well-being of our community: our students, teachers, and parents.
Because of ever-increasing social, co-curricular and academic pressures, healthy emotional intelligence is important as it develops resilience, motivation, empathy, reasoning, and good stress management, which all equip the students to navigate their way when facing challenges in their lives.
Authentic connections with the pupils and with you, the parents, make all feel safe, heard and supported.
Academics
Our Curriculum
We offer a progressive and inclusive curriculum that ensures that each of our pupils is given the tools and support to develop key skills in a caring and nurturing environment. Our vision is to develop our students’ cognitive ability, creativity and emotional well-being so that they become ethical global citizens and equal thinkers.
Curriculum Focus Areas
Our aim is to provide a world-class education that is centred around the holistic development of each student and which offers equality of opportunity, ensuring that every pupil is included and supported, and that no pupil gets left behind. The curriculum in the Junior School has moved away from a traditional approach, providing many challenges, and engaging our students in solving problems, applying themselves creatively, and expressing their understanding effectively.
Cognitive Education
The Cognitive Education Programme underpins the entire curriculum at Roedean, from Grade 0 to Matric. It plays a large part in building an effective learning community, with the goal of producing independent, creative, critical, reflective, and ethical thinkers who will be equipped to thrive in the rapidly changing world in which they will work and live. The programme aims to develop and enhance the students’ ability to exercise metacognition, reason logically, think strategically, solve problems, innovate, create, imagine, and to communicate effectively.
Foundation Phase
We instil a love for reading from the very start of Grade 0, so that by the time our pupils leave St Margaret’s (our Foundation Phase) they are confident, fluent readers. Using Jolly Phonics, a multi-sensory programme that teaches children to read and write using synthetic phonics, our students are soon decoding words and expressing themselves in writing.
The programme continues throughout the Junior School years by extending the earlier phonics teaching with further spelling, grammar, and punctuation concepts in the Jolly Grammar Programme.
Upper Junior School
After their grounding in St Margaret’s, the pupils migrate up the hill to the Upper Junior School. Teaching and learning in the separate subjects is complemented by our commitment to current National and Global initiatives and programmes that enhance learning.
We have also implemented the Steerglobal AS Tracking tool, which allows us to monitor the mental well-being of our students, to identify those who are at emotional risk, and to intervene and provide the necessary support as early as possible.
IT Integration
Our IT staff create a variety of interactive learning opportunities with the aid of computers, iPads, drones, virtual reality goggles, Sphero Robots, Lego Robotics and Bee-Bots, to list but a few. Our IT curriculum is constantly evolving and our students are introduced to relevant and up-to-date technology to create real-world learning experiences. With exposure to a plethora of online platforms, it has become imperative to ensure that our pupils are taught to be smart digital citizens who are safe and ethical online.
To assist in this endeavour, our students follow the CyberSharp Digital Citizenship Curriculum.
Co-Curricular Activities
We help our pupils discover their passions
A vibrant co-curricular programme offers pupils additional opportunities to hone their skills in areas that they enjoy. Sporting, cultural and service activities, alongside the experiences provided by Round Square, camps and outings, all extend and enhance our core offering to give each student a truly holistic experience.Â
About our Sports Programme
Ensuring physical, cognitive and emotional growth
Sport exercises each student’s faculties in the physical, cognitive and emotional realms. Our aim is to do more than just feed a pupil’s capacity for growth and development; ultimately, it is to direct that growth and development in accordance with what are believed to be the best long-term interests of the child.
Social Responsibility
See what we’re up to
At the heart of Roedean School is a strong sense of community.
Guided by our principles, we strive to make a difference in the community and world around us through various Social Responsibility projects that focus on sustainable social development and social justice.
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