This year Sir Thomas Rich’s hosted the annual Y9 Interschool Geography Quiz. Pupils from Chosen Hill, Deer Park, Gloucester Academy and Maidenhill School took part in the annual Geography quiz, written and run by GITEP Geography Trainee Teachers. Two teams from Sir Thomas Rich took part in a number of rounds...
Congratulations to 1st XV Captain Alex Roper and 1st XV prop Beck Phillips for their selection to the South West of England u18 trials on Saturday 10th January 2016. Good luck boys...
The school were delighted to hear about the success of the seven boys who have been selected for the Junior Academy Centre hockey squads. These squads gather together the top players in the county at the different age groups. We are sure that their selections will benefit their own development and...
The House Languages event, which took place on Friday, 4th December, was a great success and all Houses are to be commended for their worthy contributions. Competitors from year 7 to year 13 produced entertaining sketches and songs in French, German and Spanish. Pieces of creative writing contributed to the overall...
It is four years since the Green Team fielded two teams to represent countries at the first UN Mock Climate Change Conference at Gloucestershire County Hall. It is also the fourth time one of those founder members, Mark T. took part in this December's conference at Cheltenham County Hall. We were...
This is the fourth successive year that we have been able to take advantage of the Gloucestershire County’s Safeguarding Boards funding of this theatre workshop as part of our Year 8 PSHE programme. The play, delivered by Alter Ego Theatre Workshop, enacts the true story of Chelsea, a fifteen year old...
Berliner, Lebkuchen and Bratwurst were just some of the many delicacies tried by our Year 11,12 and 13 linguists at the Frankfurt Christmas market in Birmingham. With over 200 stalls the students tried out their speaking skills on the stallholders and came home with a range of traditional German treats. A...
I cannot believe that it is only three weeks until we break up for Christmas. There seems so much to do both in School and in preparation for the festivities during the break. If like me you do not enjoy the crowded shops at this time of year and increasingly purchase...
Last Thursday evening saw the culmination of a year of training, a navigation day, Practice Expedition and Assessed Expedition with all twelve Gold Participants giving their Presentations. These were well recorded, researched and informative around the two teams' subjects of Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity for “Chasing Sheep" and Tourism and the...
Well done to the Target 2.0 Team who won the Regional Competition of the Bank of England Challenge. Congratulations to the main presenters: Changez Ahmed, Matthew Hamilton, Laura Hosford and Robert Webster, and to the support team: Omar Bhula, Chante Headman, Chris Tillott and Emily Walker. Mrs Banks...
Year 11 parents and pupils have recieved an email inviting them to make a draft of their subject choices for study in the Sixth Form. The email contains a link to the pre-admission form and this must be completed by Monday 7 December. Pupils will get a chance to modify these...
The Citizen reports: Schools in the county are celebrating after being named in a run down of the best in the country. The Sunday Times featured 10 schools in the county in its guides to the top 200 state and independent schools, which was published on Sunday. Sir Thomas Rich's School...
As of 10am on the 23rd November the Ski trip allocation has reached its maximum. Thank you to everyone who has paid their deposit...
A group of Year 10, 12 and 13 students recently spent a week in France staying with their host families. They were paired with students from our partner school, the Lycée Jules Supervielle in Oloron Sainte Marie. Activities included a visit to the capital city of the Béarn region, Pau, to...
Our U13s have made a very successful start to the season, winning all of their 13 games played so far and are set to play Glantaf School in Cardiff on Tues 10th Nov in the U13 National Cup. The side has scored 717 points and conceded just 64 and warmed up...
Congratulations to Anthony Ifeacho in 12C for taking 1st place in the Medic Mentor Medicine Essay Writing Competition 2015. This national competition was open to students from Year 10 -13 across the country who have aspirations to pursue a medical career. Anthony submitted a 1000 word essay on the subject of...
Y11 student, Joe Anderson, won a place against stiff opposition at the start of term on the prestigious ‘Fly to Help Aim High Scholarship Scheme’ which he completed over half term at Staverton Airport. During the week he gained valuable experience working on projects with Global companies such as Airbus and...
There have been a number of programmes on television in recent years about schools; the Channel 4 series Educating Essex, Yorkshire and more recently Cardiff has perhaps received the most attention. However, I know that the fly-on-the-wall documentary on Harrow: A Very British School was also popular. Whilst the schools featured...
39 pupils in Years 8 and 9 recently took part in another very successful German trip organised by Mrs Testoni-Ranken. The boys visited the historic and commercial centre of Cologne, travelled by boat down the river Rhine and spent a day at the Phantasialand theme park near Bonn. In the evenings...
On Monday 12th October, the school showed it's support for the Bitola Children's Home in Macedonia. George Moran, our charity ambassador, who also represents the Children's Home, was presented with a cheque for £2000 from the school. George then gave a whole school assembly which outlined the problems facing the orphanage...
Three students competed in the Future Chef School heat on Friday 16th October. Springboard’s FutureChef is an exciting interactive programme of resources matched directly to the food-related curriculum in the UK. FutureChef provides pupils aged 12-16 years with access to, and direct support from, chefs & other hospitality professionals, bringing the...
On Monday 12th October, Cardiff Metropolitan University visited the Art Department to talk to students in Yr 12 and 13 about careers in Art and how to prepare for Art courses at university. The talk inspired lots of creativity and explored career paths students hadn’t previously discovered. Many thanks to Art...
Lord Tyler visited Sir Thomas Rich's School to meet with sixth form students of Politics and the Year 11 Academic Excellence group to discuss life working in the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The former MP addressed students to discuss his views on current matters of national concern...
Tuesday 6th October saw a visit from Kayleigh Tompkins, a Student Ambassador from St Anne's College studying History at Oxford University who spoke to interested Year 12 students about life at Oxford and the application process for Oxford and Cambridge University. She was informative, interesting and inspirational. Many thanks Kayleigh...
The School celebrated European Day of Languages. It is a day to celebrate the large number of languages spoken around the world (approximately 7,000), promote language learning and have some multilingual fun! This day was the initiative of the Council of Europe and it has been celebrated every year since 2001...
Hampton Court is truly one of Britain's Tudor treasures and as part of their A2 History course the History Department took 37 Y13 students to visit the palace on Friday 2 nd of October. Greatly encouraged by the promise of a sunny autumn day, we set off in eager anticipation and...
Wednesday lunchtime saw a visit from Becca O'Neil, Social Inclusion Programme Leader at Access Sport, to speak to interested Year 12 and 13s about how to start a career in sport. The session was informative and enjoyable for all who attended. Our thanks go to Becca for giving up the time...
Come along to our Open Day on 29 September 2015 to find out more about life at Sir Thomas Rich's. Come during the day to experience the ethos of our school community. The day starts with a school assembly at 08:45 but you are welcome to join us at any time...
The school chess team travelled to Eton College on Sunday to compete against some of the best chess-playing schools in the south of the country in the English Chess Federation School’s Rapidplay Competition. We had victories against King Edward VI Grammar School from Essex and Reigate Grammar from Surrey, we drew...
In the Grammar School Heads Association's first newsletter of the Autumn Term, Charlotte Marten, Headteacher of Rugby High School reminded us that the rhythms of the school year are rather different from those of the natural world. She suggests that as green turns golden and then brown and the sap sinks...
There will be a sale of Ugandan made handicrafts on Open Evening. Sir Thomas Rich’s School has shared a partnership link with PMM Girls’ School in Jijna, Uganda for over 10 years. Through fundraising efforts across the school year, we enable 20 girls to stay in school and complete their education...
James Chantler, a year 11 pupil, has recently competed in the British triathlon national youth series (for those in years 10 and 11 at school). There are 6 different events throughout the country, from April to September. His results: 4th at the Liverpool Triathlon 26th July, held at the Liverpool Docks3rd...
Sir Thomas Rich's is celebrating excellent GCSE results this week, with 76% of papers awarded A* or A grades. 46 % of grades were at A* Headmaster, Matthew Morgan, commented, “Both boys and staff have worked extremely hard to achieve these phenomenal results and my congratulations go to them all. We...
Students and staff at Sir Thomas Rich's School are celebrating following an outstanding set of 'A' level results. Over 95% of the grades at A level were at A* to – C and the average grade was an A. Notably, 9 students achieved at least 3 A*s. Headmaster, Matthew Morgan commented...
The July edition of the Richian newsletter is now available from the following link: strschool.co.uk > parents > newsletters...
On Friday 10th July, a group of Year 7 boys were lucky enough to speak to the children's author Richard Middleton about his latest book 'The Wyrm Conspiracy'. The discussion took place over skype – a first for the English Department. During the session, questions explored plot, setting and character as...
We arrived at Gloucester University on Wednesday in anticipation and slight concern. It was the first time we had entered this competition, and we had absolutely no idea what was to come over the next 6 hours, except that we'd be set a STEM task and have to complete it. We...
July 2015 has a busy month in the English Department at Sir Thomas Rich. We decided to end the academic year with a bang and not a whimper! Our first event was a theatre workshop based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream for Year 7, devised and organised by Mrs Jones...
During the Spring Term the year 9 language ambassadors visited French classes at Longlevens Junior School and conducted mini lessons with small groups of pupils. It was now the turn of Longlevens to visit Sir Thomas Rich’s for a morning of fun activities. Each of the two classes enjoyed a visit...
Thirty one boys from Years 8 and 9 spent the first weekend of July in France. They stayed at a PGL centre in Normandy. Activities included a visit to a French market and a cider museum, swimming, mini-golf, climbing and archery. The boys were accompanied by Mrs Ferguson, Mr Gregory, Mrs...
At the start of July, Sir Thomas Rich's hosted a very successful Careers Fayre in the Main School Hall. Students from Years 9-13 were able to engage with numerous representatives covering an expansive array of Career options. We had numerous Universities representing higher Education, major industrial giants, like Renishaw plc, the...
Craig Munden – Craig, who has been a mainstay and outstanding performer for the School's Swimming Team for the last 7 years, represented the South West Division in the ESSA Interdivisional Championships which took place in Sunderland on 27th – 28th June. Craig had a very successful weekend: Won Gold in...
Zak Taylor continues to win races in the Tyro class Karts at Rissington circuit. This season he has been on the podium every race with two wins a second and a third place. Well done Zak...
The Equestrian Team had a successful outing to the Dean Close Inter-Schools Show Jumping Qualifier at Rectory Farm, on Sunday 28th June 2015. Jack Smith, riding Monkey Munchkin, jumped a remarkable clear round in the 1.10m individual competition securing second place and qualifying for the National Championships at Addington Manor, Buckinghamshire...
Regrettably due to low numbers we have had to cancel the Alumni Ball planned for Sat 4th July at GRFC. Many thanks to the significant number of you who showed interest in the event and purchased tickets. We will certainly try to organise a similar event in the future and I...
On the 7th June I was off to the Diamond league in the Alexander Stadium, Birmingham. I got up and went to the Prince of Wales stadium, in Cheltenham where we got on the coach which drove us up to Birmingham. We got off and took in the atmosphere. We waited...
During the 2015 Cheltenham Festival of Performing Arts two Year 10 boys, Callum May and Daniel Parrott, entered a number of categories gaining notable success. Callum entered the Original Story writing competition and his piece about a man who has to deal with a disturbing incident in a neighbours flat gained...
Students from G15 – a partnership of Secondary Schools, Milestone School and Gloucestershire College - gathered in Gloucester Cathedral on Thursday 11th June to put on their summer showcase 'The G15 Celebration of Success' where each organisation is invited to put forward an item for the programme which could be sung...
Our top set mathematicians in Year 10 hopefully went some way to answering the age old question of 'where is Maths actually used in real life?' when we hosted three speakers from varying mathematical careers. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) careers are growing in demand as technology moves on at...
The Race Night and Auction planned for Friday 12 th June has been cancelled. Many apologies for any inconvenience caused. Chris Carter [email protected] Deputy Headmaster...
Gloucester Rugby Club Deadline for tickets EXTENDED UNTIL Friday June 19th See website for more details: https://strschool.co.uk/alumni/ball or ring Chris Carter on 01452 338435...
During half term, 30 intrepid explorers from Years 8 and 9 travelled to Iceland to experience the geography and geology of south-western Iceland. Our itinerary was packed full of impressive and varied landscapes, from huge waterfalls to volcanic craters, to bubbling geothermal pools and expansive glaciers. Our huge 4WD monster coach...
Robbie Hicks has taken part in another speed cubing competition on 24 May at Welwyn Garden City. He competed in the 3x3 event and was very pleased to make it through to the second round. His best time was 17.12seconds, which meant he came in 22nd place in the competition. This...
Two teams of boys from Years 8 and 9 returned from a successful three day tour of the Island on May 22nd. The Mornington Hotel laid on its usual excellent breakfasts and dinners-a successful army always marches on its stomach, and suitably fed, the teams achieved some excellent results. The highlight...
Over the last few weeks year 9 language ambassadors have been visiting Longlevens Junior School and contributing to French lessons. Working with a small group of pupils, they carried out various activities to engage the pupils and help them with their French. The pupils really enjoyed working with the ambassadors and...
There have been changes to the venues of some cricket matches against St Edward’s Cheltenham on Saturday 9th May. The revised list of fixtures is as follows: 10am @ STRS U15A (NDP) and U12A (RGW/NO) 10am @ St. Edward’s U14A (GSA) 1pm @ STRS 1st XI (NO/RGW) and 13A...
The Sixth form girls, boys and staff have played in the Gloucestershire Fun League this season ( www.netballfunleague.co.uk). We played a total of 22 fixtures every Monday evening at school from October through to April. This provided a fantastic opportunity for us to play a more competitive level of Netball, as...
We are delighted that three boys from Sir Thomas Rich’s have been selected for the South West regional training squads for their age groups. After a number of training sessions, and a season of school hockey under their belts, they were selected as they impressed while representing Gloucestershire in the the...
This weekend the school saw Miles Pettit from Year 9, coming in second in the Schools' Clay Shooting Challenge. He was competing against boys from all over the country. Well done Miles...
Sean Moss in Year 13 has recently taken part in a fortnight training with the prestigious National Youth Dance Company in London. This follows after being selected from over 500 candidates. He was spotted by company bosses after attending a workshop in Swindon, where he had been a regular member of...
The STRS chess team beat Stroud ‘C’ 4 – 1 last night, a victory that confirms us as winners of Division 3 of the North Gloucestershire Chess League. The team have a league record of P15, W8, D4, L3. Next season we will be promoted into Division 2, which will be...
Fresh from his debut at Ronnie Scots before Easter, Charlie Ros led the Jazz Band in a polished performance at ‘Jazz it Up’ as part of the Cheltenham Jazz Festival on May 3. Spurred on by the dry weather and support from families, friends and teachers, the band performed ‘Night in...
Following the devastating earthquake in Nepal, we have two Old Richians who have been reporting and assisting in this tragic news item. Elizabeth Roberts, who works for the Telegraph, filed an article about the fundraising efforts of Dan Wright to help victims of the earthquake in Nepal. Both are members of...
An old Richian has helped bring a pioneering a new brain surgery technique to the UK. Babar Vaqas, who is now 36, has spearheaded a project in which a pen-like probe, called the Core is being used in operations in the UK. The probe shines a near-infrared light onto malignant tissue...
Jamie Harper has reached another sporting milestone. Before Easter, Jamie represented Great Britain at the Solihull pentathlon. He trains 6 days a week, in sports including fencing, riding and swimming, and he also has to balance this with his A Levels. He was recently invited to participate in a GB International...
After graduating with a degree in geography from Oxford University, former Richian Michael Clapton has been working on his artistic career. During his time at Rich’s Mike excelled academically and artistically, being awarded several prizes for his achievements in both fields. Mike produces art which predominantly revolves around portraiture in graphite...
Robbie Hicks has recently taken part in a Rubik’s Cube competition. In the competition, Robbie’s average time in solving the 3X3 cube was 22.87 seconds, and his best time was 19.41 seconds. He also managed to solve the 2X2 cube in an impressive time of 7.86 seconds. Robbie has improved by...
On the last day of term pupils from years 8, 9 and 10 had the opportunity to watch a performance of the very funny German play, Meine neue Schwester, by Onatti Productions. The play did not fail to entertain and amuse pupils. It was entirely in German, fast paced and cleverly...
Congratulations to the five pupils from year 9 who participated in the Modern Foreign Language Film competition at Bristol University on Friday. The competition was run by the ALL, the Association of Language Learning, and attracted entries from the whole of the South West. Five entries were selected for the finals...
Sir Thomas Rich's School has received national recognition for the value it adds to students' achievements at GCSE. SSAT, the Schools, Students and Teachers Network, recently undertook its annual in-depth analysis of official Department for Education data on all state-funded schools in England and identified Sir Thomas Rich's School's success. The...
Arran started rowing in the Summer of 2013. Since then, he has proceeded very quickly from being a beginner to winning all under 15 events entered. Back in October, Arran and his partner won the Henley Long Distance Head race, beating teams from all over the country. Recently, he entered the...
On Monday 16 March 21 year 10 boys waved goodbye to their German exchange partners from the Otto-Hahn Gymnasium in Göttingen – Germany. The German pupils had a fun-packed week in England and thoroughly enjoyed their stay here. Their programme included day trips to Bristol and London and a day in...
On Friday 6th March, a team of 4 of Rich's best young mathematicians, along with Mr Robson, went to Wycliffe College for the UKMT's Junior Team Maths Challenge. 25 schools from Gloucestershire and Worcestershire sent teams. The Rich's team did very well in round 1, even though rather unfortunately we got...
The U18 Rugby 7s Squad won the Plate Final at Wycliffe College on Thurs 5 th March. In the Group stage they beat Prior Park, Bath [21-19], Bristol GS [21-0], Katharine Lady Berkeley [43-7] and lost to Kingswood, Bath [15-19] in a very exciting, outstanding encounter. This left us as runners...
During February half term, our year 12 students spent a week in Aachen, Germany completing a Work Experience placement. This was the ideal opportunity to practise their language skills and experience first hand German life and culture. The students chose work placements from an extensive list covering a wide range of...
Every year we take Year 7 to the Lake District where they spend four and a half days working in groups, participating in activities that take them out of their comfort zones. These activities include abseiling down steep rock faces, orienteering at night, raft building and canoeing, often in the pouring...
With the bleak early morning rain rapidly giving way to a bright winter's day, Sam Singha, of Sir Thomas Rich's, stepped out the car at a spot in the lovely Devon countryside overlooking a familiar cottage farm. He was joining the other finalists from all over the South West, as they...
Santos Hau is one of six of the county's top musical talents who competed for the title of Gloucestershire Young Musician of the Year. Whittled down from a record entry of 22, the six finalists performed at the prestigious Pittville Pump Room on Tuesday, February 24 before a panel of judges...
Sir Thomas Rich's U18 boys hockey team were crowned the county plate winners today. This is a magnificent achievement given only 8 of the boys play hockey regularly for a club. The County Plate competition was created as a new competition this year for all those schools who did not want...
On 24th February the year 9 language ambassadors enlisted the help of other members of their forms to organise and run an event in celebration of International Mother Tongue Day. It is a day when we celebrate language diversity and variety worldwide. It remembers the killing of four students from the...
In February pupils, who just started learning French in September, were able to enjoy a production by the Onatti Theatre Company. It was cleverly written to allow for the natural use of English and French within the story which revolved around missing pieces of a magic jigsaw puzzle of the world...
The newly formed U13 hockey team participated in the county tournament on 13th February, and showed great promise and potential. With the withdrawal of teams due to illness, the tournament became a round-robin style competition and pitted us against favourites Dean Close in the first game. After a nervous start the...
Day of rugby festivities and celebration with an evening black tie dinner - Saturday 19th March 2016 Find out more: Facebook '70 Years' Twitter @TommiesRugby Email: 70years...
Following the great success of the last Quiz and Pudding night in the Autumn Term, another one, in aid of the South Africa Rugby Tour this Summer, has been organised for Friday 13th March in the Hall starting at 7.30pm. Tickets are £5, which includes a selection of wonderful puddings during...
If you have visited the school site in the last week or so, you will have seen that the new changing rooms and pavilion are beginning to resemble the plans. Many thanks to all those who attended the Parents' Association Valentine's Ball on Saturday. It was a splendid event and raised...
This term has seen the School involved in a number of very prestigious fixtures against some of the country's best rugby playing schools. Both the 1st XV and Under 16's played Millfield, the 1st team travelled to Somerset and were narrowly beaten 21 – 14. Two weeks later the Under 16s...
This Saturday 94 boys and 9 staff are going to Twickenham to see if England can follow up their excellent start to the Six Nations down in Cardiff with another good performance against Italy. We are meeting at 8.45 in the Dutch Barn and the coaches leave at 9am. It is...
Last week students of Spanish had the opportunity to see the Spanish Play ¡Fuera! It was a fun performance which engaged the audience from beginning to end. Acted almost completely in Spanish with the exception of a few outbursts of the song “Fernando”, it gave students the opportunity to listen to...
The School was pleased to welcome Dr Irene Macias from Bath University to speak to year 9 pupils about the importance of continuing with their languages to GCSE and beyond. Dr Irene Macías has a keen interest in language teaching and learning in schools. She has led two research projects on...
Using Your Languages: Interpreting and Translation Ten language students from year 12 and 13 had the opportunity to attend an excellent and inspiring careers event at Bath University last Wednesday. They were privileged to hear two eminent speakers, Helen Campbell Director of the National Network for Interpreting who outlined the career...
This winter to date has been uncharacteristically mild and until the last couple of days, snow has not been a problem, but I should nonetheless like to remind all pupils and parents of the arrangements should the weather take a turn for the worse. Firstly, we will not close the School...