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Just take a look at the grid for the Junior Scholarship Recommendations 2001. It was found amongst material eventually obtained from Roedean. My parents have redacted all the candidates names on the left-hand side to protect their identity. I am in red.
The top margin contains the initials of the Heads of Departments making the recommendations. PM is the Head Mistress, Mrs Patricia Metham. However there are no Heads for the Arts, except PB for music.
Neither is there a category for the Art Scholarship/Exhibition, which I had been recommended and invited to apply for after my assessment during the 'guest Day'. There is no mechanism in place to make an award or not.
Neither is there a category for U3 Performance Arts (a combination of Singing, Drama & Dance), again I was recommended to go for on account of my time in Performance School, and my previous exam achievements. Again there is no mechanism in place. But there is a category for L4 Performance Arts.
And yet I was placed in the category for a Music Scholarship which I hadn't applied or even qualified for, as I didn't have the instrument skills required. The music report later obtained was oddly blank or completely redacted, with even the examining Head of Music's name not appearing.
However, an unredacted report on my exam piece for the Art Scholarship/Exhibition did exist and later obtained by my parent's solicitors, highly recommending me as a scholar. Which seriously contradicts a very early statement when my parent's questioned my Art Scholarship result, the Art Teacher with the Head Mistress Mrs Patricia Metham confiming, all had disputed the authenticity of my portfolio I submitted. Roedean, before I even began school there, had tried to discredit my abilities and impugn me and my parent's honesty.
Yet the 'Grid' would suggest Roedean knew at the time there was no Art Scholarship/Exhibition on offer that year if they didn't consider it necessary to have the mechanism in place to know if there was one to give. Neither do I or my parent's believe there was a Performing Arts Scholarship/Exhibition for her year group, Upper 3. A 'subject report' from Roedean, sent out to the Prep school I was applying from, gives no report or mention of the exams I had taken for the Art Scholarship or Performing Arts Scholarship. Roedean will not explain themselves.
My parent's are simply told by Lawrence Graham, Roedean's solicitor's, that they have given over all material regarding their daughters Scholarship application and process. The Art Scholarship exam piece was never returned.
And then there is the 'offer' letter. It is surprising the Head Mistress Patricia Metham would consider "The field was strong this year and the candidates did well" and "the decisions regarding the awarding of scholarships were very difficult to make", when as the 'grid' indicates there was no category to processs applicants for the Art or U3 Performance Arts Junior Exhibition/Scholarships, or awarding of any Junior Art Exhibition/Scholarship or Junior Performance Art Exhibition/Scholarship for that year.
As for the inducement of an Academic Day Award being viewed as not a scholarship in her offer letter, why was it considered in all of Roedean's literature as a scholarship? Why was it only offered in the year of my entry? And why should those who had successfully achieved this scholarship not be published alongside the other scholars in the school magazine. Or have this achievement recorded in their schools Academic and "Additional Information" database?
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