Roedean School

Roedean enjoys inspirational talk from bookseller for Black History Month

29th October 2024

Roedean pupils and students from local Brighton schools marked Black History Month this October by attending a lecture by inspirational black bookshop owner Carolynn Bain. Ms Bain told pupils how…

Roedean STEM Leader Scoops Euro Science Award

8th October 2024

A Roedean science teacher has beaten off competition from 35 different countries to win a STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Maths) educators’ award in Finland. STEM coordinator Colleen Reesink-Wells captured…

Olympian returns to Roedean to share her story

8th October 2024

FORMER Roedean pupil Amber Anning paid tribute to her old school and home city this week when she went back to the classrooms of her childhood to show her medals…

Roedean students experience life-changing trip to Moldova

24th July 2024

Roedean students embarked on a “lifechanging experience” to teach English to children from Moldova and the Ukraine this month (July). The 12 students from years 11 and 12 had been…

Welcome to Shakespeare for the Insta age…

3rd July 2024

SHAKESPEARE’S classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream got a Glasto twist this week when Roedean pupils reinterpreted the woodland tale as if its characters were at a music festival. With aural…

Teacher runs double marathon distance as part of Roedean’s £9K MNDA fundraiser

30th April 2024

ROEDEAN pupils and teachers ran for 24 hours and raised more than £9000 for Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA) – with many clocking up enough miles to have run a…

Roedean marks International Women’s Day 2024 with Beefeater Emily

20th March 2024

ROEDEAN marked International Women’s Day this year by inviting an impressive roll call of speakers into school including Emily Lewis-Garwood, only the fifth female Beefeater in a 500 year tradition….

Synchronised skater Lucy glides into personal best at British championships

13th February 2024

WHEN six year old Lucy Ladret saw ice skaters for the first time on TV at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, she knew the sport was for her.  Fast forward…

Roedean Students Take to the Stage

9th February 2024

NOTHING says early noughties female empowerment like the classic musical Legally Blonde and the pupils of Roedean embraced this, their first production of 2024, with gusto. With Spice Girls tracks…

Roedean teachers sleep rough to raise money for city homeless charity

24th November 2023

FOUR teachers from Roedean School spent the night sleeping rough this month to help raise cash to support a Brighton homeless charity. Phil Halsey, Anabel Fortes-Ortega, Natasha Holmes and David…