Headmaster’s Cricket Another well attended Headmaster’s cricket match against the OGs on Sunday, expertly led by captain Alex Sweet OG’16 once again. It was clearly a day for batsmen and the Headmaster’s XI secured victory, with OG and former member of staff, Ali Curran, scoring a wonderful century off just 37 balls. OG’1971 & 72…
The English Department was delighted to welcome Dr Marilyn Corrie from University College London to deliver a highly engaging lecture on Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale to our A-Level English Literature students, the school community at large and guests from our partnership schools, St Catherine’s School, Bramley and Tormead School. Dr…
Competition is an integral part of life. In the natural world, plants and animals compete for resources, and it is competition which gives a lion its strength and a gazelle its speed. Darwin noted, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.’” …
On Field Day 4, various student groups engaged in diverse activities across different locations, making it a day of enrichment, fun and learning. The ‘Art in Context’ class embarked on a walking tour of Shoreditch to learn about graffiti and street art. Guided by a local street artist, the students explored politically charged pieces and…
Congratulations to Lower Sixth student, Joe Thorneycroft, whose painting has just been selected for the Royal Academy Young Artists Online Show. This year there were 21,500 submissions, so this is a phenomenal achievement! The acrylic, on canvas, A1 sized painting entitled ‘Dad’ was painted to last year’s GCSE theme of ‘Isolation’. Joe stated: ‘I wanted…
Upper Sixth student, Oscar Trott, was awarded a Third Prize at the prestigious Surrey Hills Young Composer Competition 2024. Julia Pearson, Chairman of the Festival and of its international jury, saw a very promising talent in Oscar’s piece, titled ‘Festival Rhythms’. This piece, written for piano duet, explores rhythm with intricate and contrasting interplay between…
The organisers of the Physics Olympiad hosted a Year 7 and 8 challenge for the first year. 55 schools and 3581 students entered. RGS students made up the fifth largest entry at 201 candidates completing in both sections. Nationally, the mean score was 56% with a deviation of 16%. Our mean score was over 70%…
The theme for this week is teamwork: something we rely on so often but frequently fail to recognise and appreciate. It’s important that we reflect on team work and really get to grips with what it means as it surrounds us in all realms of life, be it in the classroom, on the sports pitch…
31 Lower Sixth biologists ventured to the Pembrokeshire coastline for their A Level ecology practical. From Friday to Sunday, the weather was perfect for outdoor learning and exploring rockpools to classify marine organisms. The first task involved using dichotomous keys to identify various species collected, including toothed-topshells, dogwhelks, limpets, barnacles, anemones, and periwinkles. Despite efforts,…
“Do or do not. There is no try.” A quote from Yoda, a character in the 1980’s Star Wars film, Empire Strikes Back. Where Yoda shows great wisdom to teach Luke to focus on the present and demonstrates, as a great mentor does, how to give support and how to offer challenges that permit one to…
The Headmaster is delighted to announce the Senior Prefect appointments for 2024/25. School Captain is Charlie Everitt and he is supported by the two Deputy School Captains, Thomas Bull (who is also House Captain of Beckingham) and George Christiansen. Senior Prefect Co-ordinator is Harry Simmons. The other House Captain appointments are as follows: Austen House is Zac Tinkler; Hamonde House is Ollie James;…
On Sunday 17 March, the Sixth Form A-Level English Literature students undertook their very own Chaucerian pilgrimage to experience a day of activities centred on the “Father of English Poetry”. Last year, Professor Marion Turner, the J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford, published a widely celebrated “biography” of Geoffrey Chaucer’s…
On Thursday 14 March, we took the Fourth Form Germanists to a GCSE German Film Study Day at the BFI where, alongside approximately 400 other German students, we watched a series of film clips ranging from a stop-motion animation to a dystopian sci-fi thriller. In addition to describing and predicting the various plotlines, they learnt…
