As we reach the end of a busy and exhausting term, we can look forward to a restful Christmas break. Paradoxically, time seems to have flown so quickly that the start of term is still a remarkably fresh memory. A great deal has been achieved in the course of the term, and as we approach Christmas,... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=233 I write this end of term message in the knowledge that reports of many of the activities and trips that are taking place at the moment will not make the newsletter deadline and will be missing from these pages. This week alone we have had the choir visit to La Rochelle, the Year 9s visit Paris, the... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=232 The senior and intermediate teams performed very well in the national finals of the BPW and Rotary competitions respectively. The senior team of Jacob Wilson, Rilly Chen and Laura Millar were named national runners-up and awarded the Anne Simms trophy. Jacob won an award for being the best chairm... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=231 Music Department News The Summer Term is always packed with activity for musicians – with no fewer than seven different public performances scheduled for our ensemble groups and orchestras.Students who might not immediately perceive themselves as “musical” may have surprised themselv... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=230 To first qualify to be in the race a Duxford at all we had to make a folder which gave the development and initial planning of the car. We overcame a lot of difficulties in making the prototype, the first of these was what material we were going to use. We started using PVC but this was too heav... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=229 This has been another bumper term for CRGSA. How could things get better after last term’s ceilidh, we wondered? Answer – the May Ball followed by the Triathlon and Treasure Hunt. First, the May Ball at Le Talbooth. Somehow we sold too many tickets but managed to squeeze everyone in. The... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=228 The RGS Cricket Festival for 2009 is being hosted by The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire. For more information on the festival, please visit www.royal.vm.bytemark.c... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=227 The Spring Term has been full of activity and showed no sign of letting up as we approached the final days. The Classics and Ski trips departed and the public speakers went to compete in National Finals over the Easter break. The U14 rugby team successfully defended their title of Essex Champions,... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=226 It was a pleasant surprise to see CRGS at the very top of the official league tables for A-level results when they were published in January. We had anticipated being second nationally on the basis of the provisional unofficial data released in the summer but were delighted to find that we were in ... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=225 The CRGS public speaking teams have enjoyed success in a variety of competitions this term. Two of the teams have won through to the National Finals this month and will represent London and the South East. The senior team of Robert Parini, Jake Wilson and Laura Miller won the regional heat of the ... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=224 Year 11 student Tom Crozier has been selected to play for England U16s in a four nations rugby tournament to be held in Wales over the Easter break. Tom was injured in the Autumn Term and unable to play for the school so had to prove his fitness and worth in a very short period of time.For m... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=223 Two nominations were received for the two vacancies and therefore the two nominees were duly elected. Their names are Mr C. Martin and Mr I. Turner.Our thanks go to Alison Inman and Richard Tuck who have stepped down at the end of their term as parent governors.Mrs J. Howlett, Cl... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=222 The Senior Quiz team (Harry Burt, 11C, James Burt, 11G, Jimmy Chen, 10C and Afham Raoof, 9S) played Ipswich High School in the second round of the competition and beat them 660-500 points. They then met Woodbridge School in the Regional Semi-Final, and after a very close and well fought match they ... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=221 In October last year the school were very pleased to be able re-launch the school magazine, 'The Colcestrian’. Two thousand copies were printed and given free of charge to all current students at the school and were mailed out to former students. It is our intention to continue to publish the school... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=220 The Spring term has been a time of almost non-stop activity for our young singers and instrumentalists – and the Summer promises to offer even more opportunities for CRGS students to enrich their lives and the lives of others through music performance.Hard on the heels of the choir trebles’ ... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=219 On Wednesday 18th March, two students from the Upper Sixth and three from the Lower embarked on an Adventure to the Stephen Perse Sixth Form College in Cambridge, where Everyone Wants a Peace: Conflict and Crisis Resolution was taking place. Attended by members from schools across the region,... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=218 Last month, the Politics Society welcomed to CRGS the Vice President of the Socialist Labour Party, Mr Dave Roberts. Mr Roberts was expertly interviewed by the well prepared President of the CRGS Politics Society, Daniel Malcolm. Mr Roberts then proceeded to talk about 50 years of the Cuban Revoluti... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=217 Earlier this term, the History Society organised a visit to the school by Professor Hugh Brogan. Professor Brogan is a distinguished historian of the United States, and Emeritus Professor of American History at Essex University. A packed library heard an engaging lecture on the Korean and Vietnam Wa... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=216 The U14 rugby team capped another successful season with a convincing victory over Robert Clack School on Sunday in the Essex Cup Final held in Dagenham. The final score was 34-0 to CRGS, and the team scored six tries in the process. Robert Clack had inflicted one of the rare defeats on the schoo... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=215 We are a transport company based in Ilford, Essex, providing daily school bus runs to Chelmsford Grammar Schools for boys and girls and have been operating this service for the past 5 years.We have recently had an enquiry to provide the same kind of service to the schools in Colchester, and ... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=214 A team of pupils from are through to the regional final of the Toyota Technology Challenge (TTC), where they will compete to win up to £1,000 in cash for their school and an action-packed adventure holiday in Austria.The team, named Sun B.E.A.M.S., made up of Ben Courtier, Emilios Farrington... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=213 This has been another bumper term for CRGSA. How could things get better after last term’s ceilidh, we wondered? Answer – the May Ball followed by the Triathlon and Treasure Hunt. First, the May Ball at Le Talbooth. Somehow we sold too many tickets but managed to squeeze everyone in. The... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=212 The entry and sponsorship forms for the 20009 CRGSA Mini Triathlon are now available.These can be obtained from the 'Recent Letters' section of crgs.co.uk.A completed entry form - including the £5 entry fee - must be handed in to the Restaurant by Monday May 4th at the late... http://www.crgs.co.uk/news/?item=211