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Lila B Secures Fourth Consecutive County Title

A fantastic achievement for Year 12 student Lila B, who has once again demonstrated outstanding consistency and talent by winning the Women’s Northamptonshire County Championship for an incredible fourth year in a row.

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Rossall Dance Scholar Emily Accepts Italia Conti Offer

We are delighted to celebrate the success of A Level Dance and Drama student, Emily, who has received offers from several leading drama and performing arts institutions, including Urdang, Performers College Essex & Birmingham, and the prestigious Italia Conti.

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Royal Society of Chemistry Analyst competition

We recently took part in the Royal Society of Chemistry Schools’ Analyst Competition at Lancaster University, where we worked as analytical chemists to investigate a real-world forensic scenario, and one of our groups came away winning the competition. Congratulations to Ellis and Zachary, two of our A level students and Jenny who is one of our IB students who formed the winning trio!

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Duke of Edinburgh Silver Practice Expedition

Our Silver Duke of Edinburgh group arrived in Silverdale on Wednesday night, greeted by cool, clear skies and plenty of excitement for the days ahead. We would like to wish all of our students and staff the very best of luck as they take part in this important practice expedition.

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The Science of Saturday Success: Beating the ‘Forgetting Curve’ One Week at a Time

We can all relate to the student who spends an entire weekend afternoon meticulously revising a complex topic in Mathematics or a nuanced interpretation in History, reaching a point of seemingly genuine mastery, only for that knowledge to inexplicably vanish by Monday morning.

For parents and teachers, this is a familiar frustration; for students, it can often feel like a personal failing. Yet this phenomenon is not a reflection of ability or diligence. It is a fundamental characteristic of human biology.

In 1885, the German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus pioneered the scientific study of memory and identified what he termed the Forgetting Curve, the exponential rate at which newly acquired information is lost when no conscious effort is made to retain it.

At Rossall, we steadfastly refuse to let hard-won knowledge slip away.

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