Thursday 10th June 2010
Students from Wymondham College, along with17 other schools across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are to take part in the national final of the Citizenship Foundation's Magistrates' Court Mock Trial Competition on 26 June. The teams of 12-14 year olds, the regional finalists from over 350 state-funded secondary schools, will take on the roles of lawyers, witnesses,... Read more »
Monday 7th June 2010
Following their hat-trick of victories at the Lancashire Schools Rugby Knockout Competitions earlier this year, Lancaster Royal Grammar School has been named Lancashire Rugby School of the Year. This is the second time that the school has won this prestigious award.
At an award ceremony at the Lancashire RFU Annual Dinner last week, held at Preston Grasshoppers RUFC,... Read more »
Tuesday 1st June 2010
18 year old Siobhan Randall from Bedfordshire and a boarder at St George's School Harpenden is the school's second sixth former to win a coveted Prime Minister's Global Fellowship Award to study in Brazil.
Having written an essay and attended a series of selection activities and interviews Siobhan will now spend 6 weeks this summer, (from mid July) in Brazil exploring... Read more »
Friday 28th May 2010
A new generation of residents has arrived at the Royal Alexandra and Albert School. The school's flock of Dorking hens has produced three lively chicks and pupils have been helping to care for them. The chicks, two girls and a boy are three days old, are fit and healthy and the females are destined to be the egg-layers of the future. The male is likely to be used for... Read more »
Thursday 13th May 2010
Primary school pupils in Lancashire dressed up Japanese-style at a masterclass on Japan held recently at Lancaster Royal Grammar School. This was just one of a whole array of Japanese-themed activities that they enjoyed, including drinking green tea, making Ningyo dolls, learning Japanese words and numbers, making peace cranes to send to Hiroshima and trying out the Chopsticks... Read more »
Tuesday 11th May 2010
Four Lancaster Royal Grammar School pupils proved their mastery of knowledge as they beat some of the UK's top independent schools recently in the national Senior Schools Challenge Quiz.
The Senior Quiz Team from LRGS comprehensively beat King's School, Worcester in the final, by 990 points to 480, to become national winners. They were runners up in the 2009 final... Read more »
Friday 30th April 2010
Sussex astronaut and former Cranbrook School pupil Piers Sellers is scheduled to take part in another NASA space mission on May 14th. This time he is taking with him into space an original watercolour painting of the school painted by Buxted artist Brenda Barratt.
Piers Sellers is Britain's most famous spaceman having undertaken two NASA space missions and spent... Read more »
Wednesday 28th April 2010
The under 13 and under 14 sides from Wymondham College travelled to Disneyland Paris during the Easter holidays to take part in an international Rugby tournament and were given expert coaching by former England scrum half Andy Gomarsall.
The under14 side started their tournament at 9.30 on the Sunday morning having arrived at Disneyland Paris the previous evening.... Read more »
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