The RGS Today Monday 18 May 2020 Issue 454
General Reminders Sports Fixture: After the success of our first-ever remote fixture, we are diving into the world of virtual competition once again in order to enable you to represent your school in sport! This event is bigger and better and is open to all students. During Monday to Wednesday this week, starting today, we will take on five schools from across Surrey, Hampshire and Yorkshire in an inter-schools’ athletics competition. To compete you may run either a 1KM or 3KM distance (or both) and submit your time via the link on my email. Times / distances must be submitted by midnight on Wednesday 20 May so that we can post team and individual results by Friday 22 May. The schools competing are: RGS Guildford; Guildford High School; Weydon School; Perins School; Bradford Grammar School and Priestlands School. Participation in this event will be your weekly challenge for this week; please make every effort to take part (a good use of your core PE lesson or Games time). I would love for our participation numbers to be even larger than before. Best of luck #RGSTogether (GDGC). From the Senior Prefects: A reminder to all students and staff to take part in this week’s Senior Prefect Challenge: the Stay Connected Challenge. You need to send in a photo of you staying connected with your friends. The best entries will feature in The RGS Last Week. You have until 4.00pm on Monday to send in your pictures to Christian Moody: 8640@rgsg.co.uk . We look forward to seeing the creative ways you’ve found to stay connected this week. Leavers’ Testimonials: A reminder that the extended deadline for submission of Leavers’ Testimonials by members of the Upper Sixth Form is tomorrow, Tuesday 19, at 9.00am. See my email for further details. Thank you (NWG). A Night with the Stars 1 & 2!: Thank you to every single one of you who sent such kind words of support or made such generous donations to the SMT Sleep Out. At the time of writing, the event has raised well in excess of £6,000 for the young people’s homeless charity Centrepoint. Reaching the £6,000 figure meant that the Headmaster agreed to do a second night out (Sunday night). For photographs take a look at the RGS social media channels; to make a donation, however small, please click on this link: www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rgs-smt
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Digital Resource Spotlight Research: Half term at home offers the opportunity to read some classic fiction, and the good news is that many older books are available completely free once their copyright has expired (usually 70 years after the author’s death). Project Gutenberg is a good source of e-books in several formats, including Kindle; authors available include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), John Buchan (The Thirty-Nine Steps), Jack London (The Call of the Wild), H G Wells, (The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds), Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. Go to https://www.gutenberg.org to search or browse; if you prefer to have books read to you, try its sister site Librivox https://librivox.org/.
Today’s Notices All Day:
The Upper Sixth Form Expanding Horizons and Fifth Form transitional A Level / FTRP research project programme continue.
8.50am:
Morning registration with Tutors for all students (except for the Upper Sixth Form).
Assembly: Full-school assembly for all year groups including a message from the Headmaster. Tutors will make the video available to students immediately after registration. 1.00pm:
The Lit Quiz Club meets for a virtual meeting via Teams for book discussion and quizzes. If you would like to be added to the Team, please email me on tff@rgsg.co.uk (TFF).
1.15pm:
Warhammer Club meets today for live paint-alongs, playing games virtually and discussing creation of scenery using 3D printers. Everyone is welcome including new members even if you have never played or painted before. Email me with any queries (MBA).
1.50pm:
Afternoon registration with Tutors for all students (except for the Fifth Form and Upper Sixth Form).
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