Open Morning at RGS Worcester is always enjoyed by pupils, staff and prospective families as it allows for visitors to tour the School with pupil guides and experience what life is like here. Whether a child has an interest in Sport, Music, Drama, Textiles, Design Technology, or an academic subject, whatever a child’s interests, the family is warmly welcomed and the Tour bespoke to match their needs.
We have now finished our successful block of summer sports and we have been fortunate with the weather. It has been fantastic to give pupils the opportunity to perform in the sports that they so disappointingly missed out on last term.
Every year, on 26 September, schools across Europe celebrate European Day of Languages. At RGS Worcester, we prefer to celebrate languages all week long. We would not want to miss an occasion to promote the importance and benefits of lifelong language learning for everyone.
Latterly, the brief ‘September’ cricket season has come to a conclusion with a block set of fixtures against King’s School, Worcester last weekend, an Under16 20/20 fixture against Hereford Cathedral School 1st XI.
Former Pupil, Abigail (Abby) Marsh (2011-2019) has recently played her first England Hockey National Premier League game for Swansea. This is the highest standard of club Hockey you can play in this country and she is the first RGS pupil to play at this level.
Last Friday was Field Day and our intrepid DofE pupils and staff set off for their practice expeditions in the outdoors. Below are the accounts of their adventures.
With A Level Psychology now up and running for the first time at RGS Worcester, students have been busy actively exploring this fascinating expanse of ‘brain and behaviour’.
The start of term has seen RGS pupils across Year Seven to Year Eleven returning to take part in Physical Education (PE) lessons to develop their health and fitness through the activity of Athletics. In particular, pupils have evaluated and developed their running technique as well as participated in a variety of running events over the past three weeks.
With the theatre industry in a major crisis at present, it is hard for our GCSE and A level Drama students to visit the theatre for their courses. As such, Examination Boards have recommended schools take up the option for students to write about digital and streamed productions.
Although it is still the early days of this term, the House Competition is in full swing. As this article is written, Senior Badminton has completed two socially-distanced, Year group bubbled rounds, with Ottley and Whiteladies sharing the spoils for the Sixth Form’s Round 1, and Ottley narrowly taking Round 2 for Year Eleven.
