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We’ve been very remiss in not posting any of our news on the website but hopefully you have seen some of the great things we have been doing – or the kids have been doing with our support – on Facebook and Twitter.  But here’s a very quick catch up of six months of news: Christopher…

We have just had a great afternoon at Rowdown School presenting the annual school awards, the 5th time the Foundation has organised the event, sponsored by Shard Capital LLP.  We were entertained by old boy Christoper Opoku on the piano and the Year 6 steel band and the awards were presented by Sarah Jones MP.…

Reports on our AGM might not fill our followers with huge enthusiasm, but there is some exciting news! Before sharing the news, we’d like to say a big thank you to Al Kennedy, Karen Walsh and all the team at Trinity School for allowing us to use their excellent facilities for our AGM today, including…

Last chance to enter the World Cup prediction competition. In theory the deadline is 11.59pm this evening but I could probably stretch it until noon tomorrow. Here’s a link to the entry form, so get going and get your friends involved, even if it is at short notice. It only takes a few minutes to…

The Art Masterclass has just finished the week with another class at Rowdown Primary School.  8 children from Years 3 through to 6 have an extra hour or so of expert tuition by Deborah Aves, a very talented young artist that has connections (her mum) with the school.  They have been concentrating on sketching and…

We’ve just had a great inaugural Rowdown Foundation Fundraising Golf Day at the Addington Golf Club.  20 teams of 4 competed under the Stableford scoring system in a shotgun start on a dreary day with a couple of April showers turning into prolonged rain just as everyone started getting back to the clubhouse.  The weather…

We’re so pleased to report that a couple more of our 2017 Tuition Programme students have been offered places, both at Trinity School.  Congratulations to Asad Dilawar and Sabeeh Choudhary.   Both have been offered significant bursaries through the Whitgift Foundation so we say a big thank you to Trinity and the Whitgift Foundation. This takes…

This afternoon saw the inaugural Art Masterclass at Rowdown.  This weekly class (meeting on a Friday afternoon, that’s how keen the children are) takes a small group (currently 4, but hopefully soon to become 5) of the most talented artists across Rowdown (from Year 3 to Year 6) and gives them an opportunity to express…

Thought a quick update on the 11+ exam results season might interest a few of you. There were 15 pupils in the 2017 Year 5-6 group. We need to remember that most of these children only had a few months of tuition thanks to Trinity School. They are all really bright kids, of course, but…

Following on from Monday’s first Year 4 Masterclass at Royal Russell, this moring saw the start of the Year 5 element of the Foundation’s Tuition Programme as Trinity’s Maths and English Extension Lessons got under way with the first session: one hour of each subject. Trinity have engaged a new teacher for the lessons and Mrs…