Month: September 2023
Sports Fixtures & Achievements
An impressive start to this term’s fixtures. Teams across the school have performed excellently and achieved great results across a range of sports. The endurance team took part in the City of London Freeman’s School biathlon. The U10s finished 2nd and the U11s finished 1st, crowning RGS Prep as overall champions. A special mention to…
Reflection: Collaboration
The iconic opening lyrics to the song Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice seem an excellent way to start today’s Reflection: to use those words, “All right, stop, collaborate and listen.” I am sure collaboration is something we are all familiar with. Yet I would just like to highlight one particular definition that I believe…
Masterclasses
Saturday morning saw the launch of the 2023 RGS Masterclasses with 140 Year 6 pupils joining us from over 20 different primary schools for enrichment classes in Clay sculpture (Creative Strand), classical myths (Humanities Strand), Arabic (Languages Strand), Mayan number system (Maths Strand), the heart and circulation systems (Science Strand) and creating an amplifier circuit…
Original Research in Science (ORIS)
Original Research in Science (ORIS) is an RGS initiative where students complete a minimum of two weeks of original research in any area of science at a university or in industry. This year, 14 Sixth Form students carried out ORIS projects. The work was undertaken at a number of universities including Cambridge, Imperial, UCL, KCL,…
Joint Music Tour to Lake Garda
A group of 56 talented musicians spanning the Fourth Form up to the Upper Sixth embarked on a remarkable Tour to Lake Garda, Italy, under the joint banner of GHS and RGS Big Band and Swing Band, led by Lorraine Wild. This unforgettable Tour was a harmonious blend of musical excellence and the breathtaking beauty…
Joint trip to Vietnam
In the first week of the summer holidays two teams of RGS and Tormead students departed for Vietnam. Landing in Hanoi they had a few days to acclimatise to the heat, the chaotic roads and communicating with the locals. Teams then undertook the physical challenge of hiking in temperatures in the high 30s and over…
Joint Drama Workshop
Fourth and Fifth Form GCSE Drama students attended a devising workshop with students from Tormead School. The session was run by an innovative theatre company called The Paper Birds who devise work inspired by social or broadly political issues and use unusual and original techniques to create exciting, thought-provoking plays. The students learnt how to…
Berlin Trip
Third and Fourth Form German students travelled to Berlin. The first day saw a walking tour of the historic city centre, followed by a graffiti workshop on a remaining section of the Berlin Wall. Day two comprised a relaxed cruise along the river Spree, followed by a sombre visit to the Holocaust Memorial, and visits…
Engineering Trip
A summer full of trips and excursions began with the annual Fourth Form engineering trip. The multi-stop trip took in RAF Cosford, where students enjoyed furthering their knowledge of aeronautical engineering with displays of planes and equipment showing the changing of engineering throughout history; Ironbridge: the world’s first iron bridge; a stop at Jodrell Bank…