Spanish Exchange - November 2012
This November, twenty Year 8 and 9 pupils from Spain arrived at Royal Russell School for a ‘Spanish Exchange' visit accompanied by their two teachers. They received a warm welcome from our pupils and were paired up with our own Years 9 and 10. The pupils from Spain spent a weekend with their host Royal Russell families.


Max's Lacrosse Success - May 2012
Max (Year 9, St Andrew's) has graduated to the England U15 Lacrosse Training camp held at Manchester University later this month. Max, who is a keen all-round sportsman, has represented the school at football, hockey, cricket and athletics, but it is in the relatively minor sport (in this country) of Lacrosse that he excels.


Geography A Level Field Trip to Exmoor - April 2012
This April, the Geography A level teaching team led an expedition to Exmoor National Park to study the River Horner. Year 12 students measured every aspect of the river from width and velocity to hydraulic radius and wetted perimeter. Unlike last year when there was a mini heatwave, the forecast was not good.


Success at the England Schools' Table Tennis Finals April 2012
On Saturday 21 April James represented Royal Russell School in the England Schools' Individual Table Tennis Finals in Doncaster. As the top seed he reached the final with ease without even dropping a game. In the final he met the number two seed from Hampshire.


Royal Russell School Ski Trip 2013
Click on Read More for a promotional video advertising the Senior Ski Trip going to Brighton, Utah in February 2013.


Shakespeare's Birthday Celebrations - April 2012
The Senior School celebrated Shakespeare's birthday in style. A fun quiz about the bard and his life and times got pupils in the mood. This was followed by pupils from nearly every year group presenting short scenes, monologues or songs from a wide range of his works. The highlight for many was the selection of Shakespearean insults that were traded by a couple of Year 7 boys with great gusto! The festivities ended with a chorus of “Happy Birthday” to the great man and a sharing in his birthday cake.


International Table Tennis Success - April 2012
One weekend in April 2012 saw James in Year Six representing England in a seven nation international table tennis tournament in Largs, Scotland. As the England number one, he won an impressive 14 out of 17 matches in the team event. Unfortunately the England number 3 was unwell and they had to give 3 walkovers in every match to the other teams. However, they still managed to win the team Bronze medal. On the final day there was an individual tournament. James continued with his winning streak, reaching the final and picking up the individual Silver medal. Well done James!


Royal Russell Singer to Perform at Royal College of Music - April 2012
Article Posted in Croydon Guardian, Thursday 12 April 2012. 
Following the huge success of their concert at Royal Russell School last October, award-winning Croydon singer, Nikita Bazil, and concert pianist Panos Karan, are once again sharing the stage, this time at the prestigious central London venue of the Royal College of Music on Thursday 26 April.


Jason Meets the Prime Minister - April 2012
Jason, a Year 13 student at Royal Russell School and member of the Conservative party, attended a rally at Orpington Village Hall to hear Boris Johnson speaking as part of his bid to retain his role as London Mayor. There was an unannounced guest appearance by the Prime Minister and Jason managed to meet both Boris and the Prime Minister.

 

Dublin MUN - April 2012
During the Easter holidays, 12 Royal Russell Students attended SAIMUN, the four day Model United Nations conference based in Dun Laoghaire near Dublin. It is a very well run International conference with over 100 delegations and this year only two schools came over from the UK.


Headmaster's Spring Newsletter - March 2012

Welcome to our bumper Spring Term Newsletter which is full of activities and events from across the community in this busy Royal Russell term. I have enjoyed learning more about our wonderful school and in particular have enjoyed supporting a whole host of cultural, artistic and sporting events including the successful 1^st XI Football side above, who have played some tremendous open football this season.

Gavin Barwell, MP Visits Our Own Politicians - March 2012
On the last day of the Easter term Gavin Barwell, the MP for Central Croydon, visited the School to discuss his new initiative Project Change: Croydon. He met with Year 12 and 13 Politics students to explain the project and to also answer political questions.The MP was keen to spread the word on the project and suggested that any students wishing to discover more they should go to the webpage: http://www.projectchangecroydon.org/


'r' - March 2012
The second issue of r – Royal Russell’s student newspaper – rolled off the presses this week, before being distributed in Houses. The highlights of the latest edition include a review and picture spread of the annual all-school cross-country and news of plans to set-up a tuck shop. Issue 2 click here


Geology Field Trip to Devon - March 2012
"So where is Devon?” I think he meant it literally (rather than existentially). My answer was “here”. That seemed to satisfy him. We moved on! Happily, in a few more moments, we were again on the rocks. And a lovely red colour many of them are in Devon. Sixth Form geologists will now tell you that this is due to the fact that this bit of crust was at the latitude of the Sahara Desert just a few hundred million years ago. Yes really!


French Exchange - March 2012
It is with great pleasure that twenty one Royal Russell School pupils from Years 8 - 10 welcomed into their homes, 21 French correspondents from Camille Claudel School in Montpellier.