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Brooke has competed in the London Regionals competition and again did exceptionally well.  She came 4th in the vault scoring 10.900, 4th in the floor (14.450) and…4th overall (25.350, just 0.200 from 3rd).  This is an improvement on the 6th place in her first competition and 5th in the last one.  Mum says Brooke is…

We are now just two weeks away from the third Rowdown Primary School Awards day on 15th July.  We are very pleased to announce that Mr Gavin Barwell MP has again agreed to present the trophies and prizes. The nominations for the two categories (Academic Achievenement or Progress and Attitude and Effort) are in but…

Yesterday, Ciara took part in her class feis and performed extremely well finishing 4th overall including a very pleasing 1st place on her “hards” and 2nd on her “slip”.  She was a very happy young lady and her mum is extremely proud of her. We all like to receive some thanks and Ciara’s mum sent…

We are pleased to report that our very own Marathon Man, Nick Fiander, completed his London Marathon in an impressive (and official) time of 4 hours, 39 minutes and 13 seconds.  Not only that, Nick has raised over £1,600 in donations which, with Gift Aid, means a total for the Foundation in excess of £1,800.…

Last weekend, Brooke took part in the London Regionals and was awarded her blue pin, the next step in her development.  She finished 6th out of 19 entrants in her age group and continues to impress her club and, obviously, the judges at the competition. Brooke’s next competition is at the end of June when…

We have some amazing news.  It’s brilliant.  Hoped for but completely unexpected.  Enough suspense-building? Two of the Year 6 boys that have been part of our Tuition Programme for the last 12 months have been offered places at prestigious independent schools in Croydon, passing the entrance exams with flying colours. Ubaydullaah Ajanaku sat the entrance exams…

We are very lucky to have an entrant in the London Marathon on 24th April 2016 running to raise money for the Rowdown Inspire to Aspire Foundation. Nick Fiander has chosen to support the Foundation following an introduction from Gareth Burchell, a Rowdown old-boy and a keen supporter of ours.  Thanks to Gareth for organising…

Thanks to the Charities Aid Foundation, we are now able to take credit and debit card and PayPal donations online and direct debit donations.  Their terms are very reasonable (compared to other online donation channels).  We will get 98% of all the money donated through these routes and as our costs are minimal (only a…

Now the Year 6 group have finished their 11+ entrance exams, we have sought out the cream of Rowdown’s Year 3 cohort to join our Tuition Programme.  The school provided us with an initial list of 8 names and then narrowed it down to 5.  So congratulations to the following pupils who will kick off…

Congratulations to Christopher who has passed his Grade 2 piano exam with a Merit pass.  And this on top of all the extra studying he is doing ahead of entrance exams in January.  Hopefully, he is still getting time to have some fun, although we know he finds playing the piano fun! Well done to…