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JULY 17, 1970 THE NEWS
At Rosa Bassett School, Furzedown, the year does not end with
examinations. At last week's Commemoration Day, the headmistress,
Miss Kathleen Dougill told parents and visitors:
"If education is to mean the ability to communicate, to have breadth
of view and a creative approach to life, non-examination work is of
great importance and has its place throughout the year.
At Rosa Bassett School, Furzedown, the year does not end with
examinations. At last week's Commemoration Day, the headmistress,
Miss Kathleen Dougill told parents and visitors:
"If education is to mean the ability to communicate, to have breadth
of view and a creative approach to life, non-examination work is of
great importance and has its place throughout the year.
| The Sixth-Form Common Room |
THE WORLD TODAY
"After their 'O' level examinations, fifth-formers are having a planned programme for the
afternoons under the title ‘The World Today’. It includes films, lectures, discussions and
visits related to give some examples, to problems such as the multiracial society and
developments in education and, perhaps in somewhat lighter mood, the use of cosmetics."
Miss Dougill said many girls had taken the opportunity, in the middle school, to study first
aid and 30 had gained their St. John Ambulance Brigade certificate.
FRENCH VERSE
In a local French verse-speaking competition for the third forms and seniors, Rosa
Bassett girls had achieved a good standard, and a third-former went through to the semi-
final.
One of the sixth form not only passed Grade IV of the Guildhall School of Speech and
Drama examinations but had the highest standard in London.
Another sixth-former, who played the violin with the London Schools Symphony
Orchestra, had composed a string quartet which had been publicly performed for the first
time last month at a Streatham Philharmonic Society concert.
Miss Dougill spoke of the new sixth-form Common Room for which £2,000 had been
raised by parents and pupils.
"JUSTLY PROUD"
“This is an achievement of which everyone can be justly proud”, she declared, “and we are
especially grateful to the parent-teacher association committee, other fathers and the
schoolkeeper for saving between £200 and £300 by installing the electricity and drainage
themselves."
The speaker was Miss Eleanor MacDonald, a former executive with Unilever.
She emphasised that education was not simply a question of learning and mopping
up facts; it was also a matter of acquiring enough knowledge and skill to develop
an attitude of mind which was worth passing on to other people.
Later Mrs Sheila Edwards, chairman of the governors, formally opened the prefabricated
common room in the school grounds.
Then Mrs. Edwards, Miss MacDonald and Miss Dougill were invited to look around the
building by the head girl Susan Mackmurdie.
"After their 'O' level examinations, fifth-formers are having a planned programme for the
afternoons under the title ‘The World Today’. It includes films, lectures, discussions and
visits related to give some examples, to problems such as the multiracial society and
developments in education and, perhaps in somewhat lighter mood, the use of cosmetics."
Miss Dougill said many girls had taken the opportunity, in the middle school, to study first
aid and 30 had gained their St. John Ambulance Brigade certificate.
FRENCH VERSE
In a local French verse-speaking competition for the third forms and seniors, Rosa
Bassett girls had achieved a good standard, and a third-former went through to the semi-
final.
One of the sixth form not only passed Grade IV of the Guildhall School of Speech and
Drama examinations but had the highest standard in London.
Another sixth-former, who played the violin with the London Schools Symphony
Orchestra, had composed a string quartet which had been publicly performed for the first
time last month at a Streatham Philharmonic Society concert.
Miss Dougill spoke of the new sixth-form Common Room for which £2,000 had been
raised by parents and pupils.
"JUSTLY PROUD"
“This is an achievement of which everyone can be justly proud”, she declared, “and we are
especially grateful to the parent-teacher association committee, other fathers and the
schoolkeeper for saving between £200 and £300 by installing the electricity and drainage
themselves."
The speaker was Miss Eleanor MacDonald, a former executive with Unilever.
She emphasised that education was not simply a question of learning and mopping
up facts; it was also a matter of acquiring enough knowledge and skill to develop
an attitude of mind which was worth passing on to other people.
Later Mrs Sheila Edwards, chairman of the governors, formally opened the prefabricated
common room in the school grounds.
Then Mrs. Edwards, Miss MacDonald and Miss Dougill were invited to look around the
building by the head girl Susan Mackmurdie.
| Article submitted by Jill (nee Hutchinson) Woodward Pupil 1964 - 1970. |