September is New Generations Month

September is New Generations Month! Celebrate by focusing on youth issues. Take on projects that benefit young adults in your communities and around the world. When planning activities this month, consider these questions:
How can you involve Rotaractors, Youth Exchange students and Ambassadorial Scholars?  Can you collaborate more closely with Rotaractors through a joint meeting, service project, or fundraising event? September is also a great time to appoint Rotarian mentors for your Rotaractors. Mentorship develops Rotaractors’ professional and leadership skills, enhances collaboration between individual Rotarians and Rotaractors, and creates stronger club connections. Do you know any 18 to 30-year-old? Give them the newest Rotaract in London leaflet available athttps://sites.google.com/site/rotaryofth/documents/Rotaract_Leaflet.pdf

Interested in learning more about Rotaract and how Rotary can benefit from sponsoring a Rotaract club? Celine Pasty can come and speak to your club!

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Beware! Rotary Youth Exchange students trying to visit London

We are currently receiving emails from exchange students who are reaching the end of their year in a European district requesting that we enable them to visit London for a short time. There is some sort of rumour around Europewhich suggests to them that if they can get one of our Rotary clubs to invite them here – or just give them a contact name and a contact number – this satisfies their ‘minders’ and they are allowed to come here. This is completely untrue. Students and their parents know that travelling outside their district, let alone the country, is strictly against the rules and they sign at the outset to keep the rule. Permission to do so is granted only for a very good reason and can only be arranged between DYEOs of the districts concerned. Wherever the students travel to there must be the same high standard of care and screening that was required of their host district. This is very clear under the rules of Certification and to abuse them could cause RI to remove our Certificate to practice youth exchange. Quite apart from this, it is hard enough finding hosting for our own programmes without stray students arbitrarily ‘dropping in’ expecting to be hosted. Requests to District are passed to me. I give the students short shrift, and copy in my counterpart in the country concerned so that they know what is happening. If a student should approach your club  website please forward the email to me and I will handle it in the same way. Do not be soft hearted about this – it could put our own YE programme in jeopardy.
Thank you. Di King, District Youth Exchange Specialist.

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London schoolkids compete at Rotary Crystal Palace Sports Day

THE LONDON ROTARY CLUBS SCHOOLS ATHLETICS MEETING

Sunday, 26th June, 2011

About two hundred youngsters from seventeen schools across the Greater London area are taking part in the Rotary Athletics Sports Day on Sunday, 26th June, 2011 at the national Sports Stadium at Crystal Palace in south-eastLondon.

Schoolchildren will compete in field and track events during the afternoon – with Rotarians from the Greater London area helping to record their efforts.

Years 7 and 8, 9 and 10 (12 to 16 year olds) from seventeen schools are competing.

The event is supported and sponsored by Rotary Clubs in Greater London and Kent, including: Balham, Barkingside, Battersea & Clapham, Bermondsey, Brixton, Catford, Chingford, Crystal Palace & Norwood, Dulwich & Peckham, Golders Green, Greenwich, Hanwell and Northfields, Lewisham, London, Northwick Park, Penge, Putney, Redbridge, Snaresbrook and Wanstead, Streatham, Tooting and Woolwich. The event is supported by the Rotary in London Sports Committee and the Youth Opportunities Committee.

Rotarian Roy Ashby from the Rotary Club of Dulwich and Peckham, who has organised the event for many years, said: “It is very rewarding to run this event each year and see the youngsters enjoying themselves competing at this fantastic venue at Crystal Palace.”

EVENT STARTS AT 1PM AND FINISHES BY 5PM.

Entrance free

ROTARY SPORTS DAY VENUE: CRYSTAL PALACE NATIONAL SPORTS STADIUM, LEDRINGTON ROAD,SE19 2BB.

Schools taking part:

Acton High School

Alleyns School (Dulwich)

Bishop Thomas Grant Catholic Secondary School (Streatham)

Cator Park School (Bromley)

Crown Woods College (Eltham)

Harris Academy Bermondsey

Harris Boys Academy East Dulwich

Kingsdale Foundation School (Dulwich)

Lilian Baylis Technology School (Kennington)

Prendergast School (Lewisham)

Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Secondary School (Camberwell)

St. Michael’s RC School (Bermondesy)

St.Saviours and St Olaves School (Southwark)

St Thomas the Apostle College (Nunhead)

Stockwell Park High School (Stockwell)

Walworth Academy (Walworth)

Wilson’s School (Wallington)

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Rules

Conditions of Entry -  We abide by the rules laid down by the South of England Athletic Association.

Class of Entry

Girls Years 7 and 8                                             Girls Years 9 and 10

Boys Years 7 and 8                                            Boys  Years  9 and  10

 

Personal Medals  -  The Winner and Runner-up in each event will receive a medal, as will members of the winning Relay Teams.

Trophies  -  A trophy will be presented to:

·       a boy and a girl for Best Individual Performance of the meeting;

·       a boy or girl for Best Endeavour;

·       the winning team in each Relay Event

·       the team in each category with Most Points.

 

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12-YEAR-OLD PIANO PLAYER REBECCA LEUNG IS VOTED RIBI YOUNG MUSICIAN 2011

12-year-old piano player Rebecca Leung, a pupil at Bancrofts School, won the national Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland (RIBI) Young Musician Competition on Saturday, 14th May.  She was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Barkingside.

Rebecca represented the Rotary in London District in the competition which took place at Bedford School in Bedford.  It was a tough competition with excellent young musicians.  Rebecca won the final by 1 point, all the judges agreed that she was the best on the day.

Picture PS140317 shows Rebecca with her parents and District Governor for Rotary in London David Storrie (in mauve jacket).

 

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Rotary Young Citizen Awards on BBC News Channel over Easter weekend

YOUNG CITIZEN AWARDS

A programme about the RIBI Young Citizens Awards is scheduled to be shown on the BBC News Channel over the Easter weekend and next week at the following times:

 

Saturday 23rd April  14.30

Sunday 24th April 02:30, 10:30, 23:30

Monday 25th April 14:30

Wednesday 27th April 03:30

 

The live broadcast from the RIBI Conference in Dublin is currently available on BBC iPlayer but this will only be until Saturday:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010pbyd

DGN Eve Conway

 

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Rotary in London wins Rotary Youth Exchange award

Dear Di
I am pleased to inform you that District 1130 has been awarded the Youth Exchange Award as the best performing district in RIBI in Youth Exchange.  The award which consists of a certificate will be presented during the 3rd plenary session of the conference, directly after the break. I would ask you to be in place at the front of the hall a few minutes before the end of the break, and if you identify yourself to the Sergeants at Arms they will show you where to go. Congratulations on this award
PDG Keith Paver, RIBI Conference Chairman, Dublin 2011

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Rotary Young Citizen 2011 on telly

Celebrate Five years of the Young Citizen Awards by watching a special programme on the BBC News channel at the following dates and times in April:

Sat 9th – 04:30 and 22:30
Sun 10th – 01:30; 10:30 and 22:30
Tue 12th – 03:30
Fri 15th – 02:30

View the Rotary Young Citizen 2011 Awards live on the BBC News channel next Saturday the 16th at 11:30 live from the RDS, Dublin.

 

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Rotary Young Musician Winner from London

The Regional Final of the Young Musician competition took place on Saturday March 19th in Colchester. District 1130 was represented by Rebecca Leung (aged 11) and Christopher Hirschman (aged 17), both of whom performed at the recent Youth Makes Music concert. The standard of performance from all the competitors at the Final was very high and the judges admitted that selecting a winner was not easy but I’m pleased to say that they chose Rebecca. She will now go forward to the RIBI Final on May 14th at Bedford School, De Parys Avenue, Bedford MK40 2TU.

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11-YEAR-OLD PIANIST WINS YOUNG MUSICIAN’S AWARD

BREAKING NEWS
11-year-old Rebecca Leung, from Bancroft School in Woodford Green, Essex, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Barkingside, won the Regional Final of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland’s Young Musician competition on Saturday, 19th March, 2011 at Colchester High School for Girls, Colchester, after playing at Youth Makes Music earlier in the week.   The pieces she performed were Mozart Piano Sonata No 12, 3rd Movement and Debussy Arabesques No 2  in G.

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Rotary Youth Makes Music 2011

Media contact:  Eve Conway, Communications Chairman, Rotary in London on 07850 357842, Youth Makes Music Chairman Clive Amos on 07931 666675.  Photographs are available.

PHOTOS OF YOUTH MAKES MUSIC CONCERT ARE AVAILABLE ON THE LINK BELOW:

Link to Snapfish – http://www1.snapfish.com/snapfish/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=3203151012/a=107705822/

Photos taken by Sydney Parker – Mob  +44 (0) 7973 25 84 24

 

Young musicians from across Greater London performed on a world-class stage for Rotary in London’s “Youth Makes Music” at the Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Centre on Monday, 14th March.

Seventeen young acts provided a variety of music of differing styles are starring, all sponsored by Rotary Clubs in the district (listed below in order of appearance, programme attached).  They were chosen out of more than sixty nominations.

The compere for the evening was Pam Rhodes, who has been the familiar face of BBC Television’s “SONGS OF PRAISE” programme for more than twenty years.

Rotary in London organises the “Youth Make Music” concert in the capital every two years.

The Youth Makes Music concert is just one of the Youth programmes that Rotarians within the London District put on for young people.

TWO OF THE YOUNGSTERS ARE ENTRANTS IN THE ROTARY INTERNATIONAL IN GREAT BRITAIN’S AND IRELAND’S REGIONAL YOUNG MUSICIANS CONTEST ON SATURDAY, 19TH MARCH IN COLCHESTER. They are 11-year-old Rebecca Leung from Bancrofts School and Christopher Hirschman from St. Paul’s School.

Youth Makes Music 2011

Programme – In order of appearance

1 Redbridge Music School (See page 6)

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Leytonstone and Woodford

Fantasia on British Sea Songs – Sir Henry Wood (1869 – 1944)

The Padstow Lifeboat Op. 94 – Sir Malcolm Arnold (1921 – 2006)

2 Christopher Hirschman (See page 7

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Ealing

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D op. 35 – Finale: Allegro vivacissimo

3 James Allen’s Girl’s School (See page 8)

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Dulwich and Peckham

Dance Suite – Tielman Susato

 

4 Emma & Rebecca Whitehouse (See page 9)

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Edmonton

Sonata in F major – Handel

5 The Henrietta Barnett School (See page 10

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Barnet)

Singara Velane Deva – Subbaiah Naidu

6 Rebecca Leung (See page 11

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Barkingside

Sonata in F, 3rd movment, Allegro Assai – Mozart

7 St John’s School (See page 12)

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Epping

Day Tripper – Lennon and McCartney

All the Small Things – Blink-182

8 Putney High School (See page 13)

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Putney

Gloria – Vivaldi

 

9 Ealing Youth Orchestra (See page 18)

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Hanwell and Northfields and Greenford

Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor – Alexander Borodin 1833-1887

10 West Hatch High School (See page 19)

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Chigwell

Adiemus – Theme from Songs of Sanctuary by Karl Jenkins

11 Paulina Mikolajczyk (See page 20)

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Edgware and Stanmore

Polonaise de Concert – David Popper

12 Jonathan Antoine (See page 21)

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Chigwell

Ave Maria – J S Bach

13 The Retro Boys (Page 22)

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Chingford

Mess around – Ray Charles

Boogie Woogie Country Girl – Turner

14 Ben Yelverton (See page 23)

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Barkingside

Ernő Dohnányi – Rhapsody in C major

15 Hillingdon Sax Group (See page 24)

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Greenford

Simple or What?! – Chris Gumbley

When I`m Sixty-Four – John Lennon & Paul McCartney arr Ramon Ricker

Yakety Sax – James Rich & Boots Randolph arr Larry Norred

16 Park High School (See page 25)

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Northwick Park

Dhol in the Park – Anand Vekaria

17 The Purcell School (See page 26)

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Radlett

Lord of the Dance – Sydney Carter

 

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