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Senior School Newsletter Issue 17, Friday 7th March 2014 On Monday 3rd March we had the honour of welcoming Guillermo Torrens and Maria Maragaki Torrens to the RGS to conduct a 90 minute tango argentino class with 18 of our Lower and Upper Sixth Spanish students. The class for el tango salón’, or improvised tango, was conducted entirely in Spanish. Students were a little shy at first but they really got into the dance and had a lot of fun listening to Spanish, dancing to great music and changing partners several times! Some even said they’d like to continue lessons at their tango school. Guillermo and Maria were impressed with their Spanish and even their dancing by the end of the session! Tango Argentino! Both Guillermo and Maria have had impressive dancing careers so far with performances all over the world. In 2011 they performed with the Midnight Tango show tour in the UK and at West End theatres in London. Currently, they both teach at their own tango school Tangounlimited in the city centre. - Mme Boucaud Well, it’s been a busy couple of weeks since half-term! This newsleer gives a flavour, but you’ll have to wait ll the next to read even more about our remarkable students’ connuing acvies and successes – not least the all-conquering U12 rugby 7s squad who have now won three compeons out of three. Watch this space…

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On Monday 3rd March we had the honour of

welcoming Guillermo Torrens and Maria Maragaki

Torrens to the RGS to conduct a 90 minute tango

argentino class with 18 of our Lower and Upper

Sixth Spanish students. The class for ‘el tango

salón’, or improvised tango, was conducted entirely

in Spanish. Students were a little shy at first but

they really got into the dance and had a lot of fun

listening to Spanish, dancing to great music and

changing partners several times! Some even said they’d like

to continue lessons at their tango school. Guillermo and

Maria were impressed with their Spanish and even their

dancing by the end of the session!

Tango Argentino!

Both Guillermo and Maria have had impressive

dancing careers so far with performances all over the

world. In 2011 they performed with the Midnight

Tango show tour in the UK and at West End theatres

in London. Currently, they both teach at their own

tango school Tangounlimited in the city centre.

- Mme Boucaud

Well, it’s been a busy couple of weeks since half-term! This newsletter gives a flavour, but you’ll have to wait till the next to read even more about our remarkable students’ continuing activities and successes – not least the all-conquering U12 rugby 7s squad who have now won three competitions out of three. Watch this space…

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This fortnight in news...

Thursday 6th March was World Book Day: a day designated by UNESCO as a worldwide

celebration of books and reading. 2014 is the 17th year that there has been a World Book

Day and the RGS library chose to mark the occasion with some fun and interesting events

this week...

Damian Dibben, author of The History Keepers series, gave a fascinating talk to some Year 7/8 students on Monday 3rd March. James Critchley and Francesca

Southwood introduced Damien, who caught the students’ imagination with his unique blend of adventure and history. He also spoke about his travels around the world, researching the historical origins of the places in his books. The students who attended thoroughly enjoyed the visit and many left looking forward to reading their signed copy of The History Keepers. Watch out for the film version of the book!

Damian Dibben Book Signing

Top Readers!

Since September, 20 of the school’s top library users have borrowed a fantastic 673 books in total, an average of 33 each! These students were invited to help choose some new books for the library on Thursday 6th March during the lunchtime period. A book supplier brought in a selection of fiction and non-fiction. The students chose a wide range of books including titles such as What they don’t tell you about William Shakespeare, Misterium, Rock War, Modern Warships and Submarines, Women Who Change History and Siege. This will definitely be something we do again in the future as the students enthusiasm for books and intelligent choices were impressive!

- Mrs Richardson (Librarian)

Last weekend saw a rather intense weekend for our debaters, with both the Cambridge Schools Finals Day

and the International Competition for Young Debaters (ICYD).

Ed Langley and Jamie Robson did very well at the Cambridge competition, finishing mid-table against top

class opposition. Only 1 in 16 of the teams entering this competition made it to finals day, so this alone is

quite the achievement.

ICYD was also a great success ! After three debates Roisin Kennan and Adam Perros qualified 1st , whilst

Orlando Murphy and Jamie Johnson qualified 3rd

. This means both RGS teams have made it through to the

national final in Oxford on the 3rd

May. What’s more, there was then a final round to settle who ‘won the

day’ and this was won by Orlando and Jamie. An excellent achievement and result! Well done to all the

debaters!

- Mr Shepherd

DEBATING...

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On Wednesday

26th February, Year 10 students Guoxuan Xia, Jess

Walker, Sam Trevelyan and Tarn Howorth competed in the regional heat of the Further Maths

Support Programme's Year 10 Maths Challenge. This competition combined mathematical, communication and teamwork skills and challenged students to experience and enjoy Mathematics outside of the GCSE syllabus. Out of the 23 schools present, RGS notably came in 2nd place - a fantastic reward for the hard work that went into preparing for this competition. This places us in the running to compete in the regional final at York Railway Museum in April. Well done to our Maths team! - Miss Pridmore This year's RGS Spring Recital took place

on Wednesday 5th March in the Recital Room. It featured a tightly-packed, but well-paced programme of music covering a wide range of styles.

The 90 minute concert gave the audience of proud parents, fellow students and the public a chance to sample some of the work undertaken over the past months by 28 students from Years 5 to 13.

This was a great “warm up” for our Senior

and Junior Spring Concerts on 19th March

and 4th April which will feature more than

200 performers in various instrumental

ensembles.

- Mr Fazlic

Year 10

Maths Challenge

For more information on anything contained

within this newsletter, or to provide us with

any news updates, please email:

[email protected]

After much preparation, on Monday 3rd March members of

7S dressed up to celebrate Carnival in Germany. They had a

special celebration in their German lesson which included

songs, games, dancing and delicious homemade Kreppel

(courtesy of our German Assistant, Monika)!

7S Carnival!

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Dates for the Diary!

Tuesday 11th March

Sport Relief Mile

Non-uniform day

Year 8 Parents’ Conference

Senior Spring Concert at 7pm

(PAC)

Friday 14th March

Year 9 Parents’ Conference at 3.30pm

(PAC/Dining Hall)

Monday 17th March

Wednesday 19th March

Thursday 20th March

Presentation about Oxbridge applications for Lower Sixth parents and students at

6pm

(PAC)

Sunday 23rd March

The Friends of the RGS Spring Walk

(Weardale Way)

Over half-term, 5 students travelled to Spain for a week of climbing

in Sella, near Alicante...

On our first day of climbing we visited a crag called Echo 1.5 and we

got straight into it, applying all the skills we had acquired back at the

indoor walls as well as being introduced to

a few new skills throughout the day. The

weather was very kind to us as we enjoyed

a brilliant day of climbing in the sun.

The next day we started on a big crag (Toix

– a sea cliff right next to the sea: with

amazing views). After stocking up from the

supermarket in the town a few of us made

a very successful dinner, enjoyed by all!

The next day, we got a break from the hot

sun, but it was still perfect for climbing and

we even started lead belaying

and climbing. Later we visited

Guadalest and bought some

souvenirs (and lots of sweets!)

from some of the shops,

enjoying ice creams and drinks

after a long day of climbing.

On the last day we went to a crag

very close to where we were

staying in Sella which is a huge

valley with a series of enormous crags all along its length!

- Elliott Groves and Felix Thomas

The boys were excellent: they climbed well, listened well and learned lots of

new skills. They cooked meals and prepared lunches, which we were all very

impressed with (as well as their fluent Spanglish which they were able to

practice on frequent visits to the local bakery).

The bar is set very high for the next groups to go away in October 2014 and

February 2015.

- Mr Dunn

The Friends of the RGS Book Club

The next Book Club meeting will be on Tuesday

6th May at 7pm.

Chosen book: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Venue: Jesmond Dene House, Jesmond

For more information please contact [email protected]

The Friends of the RGS Spring Walk will take place

along the Weardale Way, from Wolsingham to

Bishop Auckland.

For more information contact

[email protected]

To book a place email

[email protected]