The RGS Today 01.05.20

The RGS Today Friday 1 May 2020 Issue 443

General Reminders Virtual Run: Please see below for details of the Virtual Run which takes place this Sunday. It would be such an amazing gesture if every single one of you – and your families – could take part. Dedicate your exercise slot on Sunday to supporting a great charity and to showing the community that we care by wearing RGS branded kit #WearItWithPride. Please send in photographs to me and Mr Pressley (RJR).

The Midnight Gang: For all you David Walliams fans: Chichester Theatre is sharing an archive recording of their 2018 production of David Walliams's The Midnight Gang, accessible via the Chichester Theatre Home page. The play, adapted by Bryony Lavery with music and lyrics by Joe Stilgoe, is especially suitable for ages 7 and up, and will be available on their website for 30 days (until 29 May) and is free to watch (NCM).

Today’s Notices 8.50am:

Morning registration with Tutors for all students.

1.10pm:

RGS Remote Chess Club takes place as usual: the weekly arena blitz online tournament. Any questions just ask (TF / AWJJ).

1.15pm:

The launch of the RGS Great Book Club which will meet once a fortnight and is open to all boys from Fourth Form and above. Please email Mr Griffin to be added to the Team. The first club meeting will be a brief one, just to come together and choose the first book (CRG).

1.15pm:

Remote Junior Drama Society will meet on Teams at the usual time 1.15 – 1.45pm today.

All junior boys are welcome to attend and if their name has not been added to the Team already and they wish to get involved, please email me and I'll add them to the Team (SJC).

1.50pm:

Afternoon registration with Tutors for all students.

#RGSTogether RGSGuildford

Countdown to the RGS Charity Event Charity Event: At the moment exercise is such an important part of our daily lives: for health, for wellbeing, for perspective, and so on. Whether your daily exercise is a demanding cardio-vascular workout or a more genteel stroll or cycle, we need you! On Sunday 3 May 2020, we would like the whole RGS community to come together and walk, jog, run or cycle for the RGS: students, staff, parents, families, Old Guildfordians and every member of the RGS community. If you feel you can, please do two things: Shooting Star Chase: our school-nominated local charity is a leading children's hospice charity caring for babies, children and young people with life-limiting conditions and does phenomenal work in Surrey and beyond. The children and families they care for, however, are facing a very real and immediate crisis due to limited funds: “Right now we’re facing the unthinkable – a world where our service no longer exists.

Without our hospices, the families we support will simply have nowhere left to turn.

Please donate anything you can to help give us, and the families who need us, a lifeline.”

If you felt able to donate, please do so via this link: www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rgsg #WearItWithPride: For this Sunday, we would love you to proudly wear an RGS shirt, or RGS sports kit, or get your dog to (with its permission…) sport an RGS tie etc. (be creative!). If you don’t have RGS kit, then just wear the recognisable RGS green. Let’s show the community that #RGSTogether means we can still – even remotely – unite and have pride in who we are and what we do and help others in the process. Please send photographs to rjr@rgsg.co.uk and jwp@rgsg.co.uk; the best will be posted on social media.

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