Category: Academic
Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of William Shakespeare’s First Folio
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the publication of William Shakespeare’s First Folio this month, we were delighted to welcome back to the RGS Dr Robert Stagg, an Associate Senior Member of the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford, and a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham’s Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon….
English & History Trip to London
Upper Sixth English Literature and History students enhanced their study of the Windrush generation by visiting the Black Cultural Archives (BCA) in Brixton and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in South Kensington. The day began with a visit to the African and Caribbean War Memorial in Windrush Square, commemorating those who served in the…
ILA/ORIS Presentation Evening
On November 8, the ILA/ORIS Presentation Evening showcased the outstanding independent research projects of Sixth Form students. These projects, completed during the Trinity Term of the Lower Sixth Form, covered a diverse range of topics. The shortlisted candidates presented confidently on subjects such as historically informed musical performance, hypersonic missiles, the Parisian suburbs’ built environment,…
RGS Model United Nations Conference
On November 11, around 190 students from RGS and twelve other schools attended our annual MUN conference. Throughout the day, they engaged in rigorous debates on complex and controversial topics such as cultural erosion, antibiotic resistance, religious education in schools, and the global illegal arms trade. Our students demonstrated admirable conduct, embodying our school’s values…
GCSE History Trip
On November 7, the History Department took 83 Fifth Form Historians to the Old Operating Theatre and the Golden Hinde in London. The Old Operating Theatre, Europe’s oldest surviving medical operating theatre, provided a tailored lecture and demonstration for the AQA “Health and the People” unit, vividly depicting 19th-century surgery challenges. The visit also served…
Bridgestone World Solar Challenge
Anish Sathananthan, OG’20, is studying Engineering at Durham and is Team Principal for the University’s Solar Car Project, leading a team to the 2023 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Australia in their new solar powered electric car, DUSC 2023. The race starts in Darwin on 22 October and finishes in Adelaide on 29 October covering…
English Trip: The Empress
Last Thursday, the English department took the Fifth Form to see The Empress, a new play by Tanika Gupta. Students are studying the play for their GCSE English Literature exam so the opportunity to see it live in performance was too good to miss. The play tells the story of Rani, a sixteen year old…
Chris Riddell OBE visits on National Poetry Day
On National Poetry Day, and we were thrilled to welcome the multi-award winning former Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell OBE to school. The boys were captivated from the moment they entered the Auditorium to find Chris already drawing imagined creatures and himself as a small boy drawing on his father’s wall. He talked about his love…
Writing after Windrush
On 3 October, A Level English Literature students from RGS Guildford and Tormead watched the live streaming of a lecture from Gresham College. “Writing after Windrush” was delivered by Dr Malachi McIntosh, Associate Professor of World Literatures in English at the University of Oxford and the Barbara Pym Tutorial Fellow in English at St. Hilda’s…
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…