News from Mr Grady
Hello everyone.
Last week we had an incredibly successful Sixth Form Open Evening, where we put the whole school on show and invited prospective Year 12 students to come and see what is on offer at Rugby High School.
Members of our Senior Student Team, Mrs Dermott-Bond and myself spoke about our culture at RHS and what a special place it is, and what was so pleasing, after talking about our constant focus on treating our entire community with kindness, care and respect and about setting the very highest of heights in our hearts, was that this message fed through to students and parents in all the individual subject presentations. The passion, joy and curiosity of learning was infectious, and the smiling faces of students, parents and staff were proof (if it were needed) that for many students Rugby High School is the place to aim for!
The key, I think to our success is our focus on supporting the whole student, not simply aiming for a set of results on a page, and this is really captured in our Cool To Be Kind Week, which we are currently half way through.
Students and staff are taking part in random acts of kindness across the school, from something as simple as smiling at your colleagues and peers all the way up to small gifts of appreciation and notecards expressing how friends, colleagues and peers have offered kindnesses to each other.
It is very easy, I think, to become quite single minded about what one might need each day and to focus on your own path, and your own requirements. Cool To Be Kind week reminds us to think of those around us, and consider their needs perhaps even ahead of ours! I’m not sure this is a particularly revolutionary concept, but with those dark winter nights drawing in, it’s been lovely to have been warmed by the supportive and kind atmosphere we’ve experienced in school this week.
Best wishes,
Mr Grady
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Inside Classics Club
As well as the population size, the repertoire of activities that the classics club leaders come up with is increasing too - just this week, we looked at spells from the infamous Harry Potter books, and studied their Latin roots. This was extremely interesting to learn about, adding an extra depth to the series. Another great week at classics club took place in the food tech department, a different setting from the usual room 12. There we made Roman honey biscuits, which were fun to prepare as well as delicious! And of course, who could forget the many in depth insights into Greek and Roman culture and mythology, including Heracles and his 12 labours, and the multitude of gods and goddesses.
However, the indisputable factor that classics club couldn’t run without is the amazing Year 7s. The fresh crop of students adds so much entertainment to the session, with their doodles and annotations adding life to the lessons. They always manage to come up with some amusing anecdote or joke to accompany the information, and are as important to the session as garum was to Roman society (a fermented fish sauce which was sort of like the Roman ketchup).
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