The RGS Today Tuesday 28 April 2020 Issue 440
General Reminders Weekly Challenge: In preparation for Mrs Rathmell’s Charity Event this Sunday (further details below), your challenge for this week is to run 5k as quickly as you can. Leaderboards will be set up for each year group, although you do not have to submit your time if you don’t want to. Please email your time to me with a screenshot if using a GPS App., although again this is not compulsory. The top three times in each year group will be published on Teams at the end of the week. Look on RGSPE Twitter or Teams for further details. Good luck! (GDGC). The RGS Great Book Club: Isolation isn’t all bad: make the most of your free evenings and jump into some of the greatest tales our language has to offer, tales that will stay with you for life. The RGS Great Book Club is launching this Friday. Once every fortnight we will be meeting to share our experience of some of the greatest novels ever written. It’s open to all boys from Fourth Form and above, as well as to all staff! Please email Mr Griffin to be added to the Team. The first club meeting (a brief one, just to come together and choose the first book) will be this Friday lunchtime at 1.15pm (CRG). RGS Remote Chess Club: This continues to take place each week – it is not too late to join! It is done through Chess.com and is a weekly arena blitz tournament taking place from 1.10pm to 1.40pm every Friday lunchtime. This allows you to play several 3|2 blitz games online against other RGS students within a 30-minute period. If you are interested, there are two things to do: 1. Students should join the Chess Club Teams site by using the code sw3ipsm under the Join a Team option. 2. Parents should complete the online form in the attached email by Friday at 9.15am so that we can add their son to the closed group on Chess.com. (Note that their son must already have a Chess.com account, which is free to create but must be supervised by a parent or guardian, if younger than 13.) Further details are in the email and are also available from Mr Foster and Mr Jessett (TF / AWJJ). Duke of Edinburgh’s Award: Some of your activities may not be possible at this time, but there are lots of other things that can be done. We will be looking at the best way to deliver expeditions, but please review all other sections and liaise with SJHY if you have questions, this new routine should not stop you progressing as long as you take action now. A new DofE Help site has been set up on Teams with ideas on how to proceed and also a help forum. In Teams, go to the Teams tab and select the Join a Team option and input the code sphujxd. Participants have also been sent a link, but using the code here is a quicker way to join the team (SJHY).
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