What makes a city sustainable? In a collaborative workshop with @RGSGuildford, Mrs Edwards introduced Y8 to a number of different sustainable cities around the world from Copenhagen to Goyang, and then tasked the group with making their own using recyclable materials. From Cowlandia, where milk production played an integral part, to a snail farming city in France, complete with a live mollusc – it was clear that the groups had had fun with the brief, whilst still considering the key elements of sustainability. The workshop also provided important networking opportunities for both our students.

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We had a couple of rather prickly visitors on Tuesday – say hello to Henry and Holly! Graham, who runs a small animal rescue near Storrington came to talk to Y4-6 about all things hedgehog. Did you know a baby hedgehog is called a hoglet, or that badgers eat hedgehogs? We were delighted to meet our cute visitors and for some of the girls it was their first time seeing a hedgehog in real life. Year 5Y were exceptionally lucky as they got to stroke the hedgehogs – which almost never happens.

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Last Tuesday, Tormead prefects were joined by the prefects from @RGSGuildford for their second prefect event. Last summer, we visited them at Bradstone Brook for an afternoon of garden games and a barbeque and everyone was excited to reunite again, this time at Tormead. Over dinner, everyone had a great time catching up on what they had been up to since the summer, and then it came time for the quiz. With rounds on pop culture, putting the key events in historical order and guessing the monument based on the floor plan it quickly got very competitive. However, the winners were the house captains with the last place going to the teachers. Overall, it was a great event and we hope to see the boys again at Tormead and RGS Winter Formal.

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