Rugby 360

The aim of these student led sessions is to teach other students about past and present forms of racism in Britain so that they are equipped with the knowledge and skills to challenge racist attitudes and practices when they see them. The course would enable students to speak up for antiracist positions in school and challenge them to speak in local schools and organisations, helping others understand how to confront racism today. A central part of the course in the Lent term would be preparing for and then leading Stephen Lawrence Day on 22 April.

Pupils work alongside local children who are home
schooled introducing them to various aspects of art and sharing their passion for the subject.
Two sessions run simultaneously: one working with 4-16 year olds and the other with 7-13 year olds.

This student group produces artwork for various locations within the community, such as doctors’ surgeries, the local hospital and community centres. Work is also created for use in the School’s social centres and for our many societies. A local primary school also visits to enjoy art sessions supervised by Sixth Form students

In beekeeping, we take care of the School apiary. This involves making regular inspections of the beehives to ensure the health of the colonies, to manage any likelihood of swarming, and to harvest the honey. Students learn to safely open the beehives as well as the important steps beekeepers and others can take to secure the future of these key pollinators.

Pupils have designed and planned a series of co-curricular clubs and societies that are delivered to younger pupils at Bilton Grange on a Tuesday evening.

Rugby School pupils are working with the Rugby Talking Newspaper and the hospital radio at St. Cross. They create weekly content that is broadcast on these radio stations. An example of a broadcast is their ‘A day in the Life of a Rugby School Pupil’, which can be heard here

Students visit Brooke School, a local
school for children with additional
needs. Students are attached to a
class where they either assist with
activities planned by the teachers
or devise a learning activity in
agreement with the teacher

This student group works at several care homes in Rugby. Volunteers assist with crafts, games or events taking place, accompany residents for walks around the grounds and help out in a general way. Students have just started a new relationship with the Friendship Café at Anya Court Care Home.

A chance for students to help out at one of many charity shops in town. The work ranges from helping manage the stock and meeting customers, to running the till. Students currently work at the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Planet Aid, Sense, Pawprints and Dapp.

A chance for students to work more closely with individual charities. An example of this is our work with the Air Ambulance Trust. Pupils are helping to run social media campaigns for the charity, sell items through e-stores and send out gift packs to charity supporters. There is also some warehouse work where sold goods are packaged to be sent out, and bric-a-brac is sorted to be sent into stores.

Students develop a programme
of music together which they take
out into the local community on
Wednesday afternoons. Strong
links have been formed with local
schools, hospitals, and residential
care homes where the musical
visits have been greatly enjoyed.
The group also provides music for
events such as First Schools Day
and visitors’ parties at Christmas
and in the summer.

In this activity students plan a series of experiments, workshops, and practicals to deliver within local primary schools. On occasion, the primary pupils might visit the labs at Rugby. At present our pupils are working closely with St Matthew’s Bloxam, Rokeby Primary School and Oakfield Primary School.

Students, who are undertaking their Gold or Silver Award, will support the Bronze coordinators in delivering a carousel of training for the new Bronze F Block students. A separate sub-group will act as leaders in the Thursday priority slot, to lead D, E & F Block to create charity stalls for the first annual Rugby 360 community fayre.

Students support younger
members of the School when they are involved in debating as part
of their cycle of F Block Clubs.
This activity involves working
alongside the Head of Debating
and encouraging other students to
be able to share their ideas in a safe
environment.

Working as a team of six, students
visit the community and take live
briefs from care homes, charities
and local small businesses, working
alongside them as a design team to
design and manufacture a product
to suit the client’s needs. The design
team manage the process from start
to finish, from the initial research
and pitch, to the manufacturing
and installation of the product

This is an online mentoring platform with pupils from the Huruma slum in Kenya. The principle behind this Rugby 360 activity is for students from Rugby School to log on to their laptops and engage in conversation with these younger students in Kenya. This was partially launched in November 2020 and has been a huge success.

Students will be split into three
different groups with one group
supporting each of the Sports
Centre, School Shop and the Lets
& Events arm of Rugby School
Enterprises. You will be involved in
marketing and advertising activities
and organising projects that come
to fruition with possible live events
for the community and peers being
scheduled and created.

Volunteer students for this group visit local Infant and Junior Schools (age range 5-8, and 8-11). Activities include reading, arts and crafts, CDT, games and computing. This is one of our largest activities with over 80 pupils working in over 15 different Primary Schools each week.

Students support younger
members of the School when they
are involved in this activity as part
of their cycle of F Block Clubs.
This activity involves supporting
them as they learn how to play the
unique sport of Rugby Fives.

Students will organise a Schoolwide strategy to support the local
foodbank, collecting items from Houses to donate and deliver to the foodbank. Students will support the foodbank in various ways, including helping to promote donations in supermarkets. At present our pupils are helping with collections in Tesco, Sainsburys and ASDA. Each year they help to put together Christmas hampers in the food bank itself.

Students support younger
members of the School when they
are involved in this activity as part
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of their cycle of F Block Clubs.
This activity involves supporting
them as they learn the background
of the library, and enjoy group
reading activities within this space.

KiB is working to end the isolation of old age by bringing the generations together. Our imaginative healthcare projects make an immediate and lasting difference to the lives of older people. The beauty of Kissing it Better model is that everyone involved benefits – the patients and their carers, the staff and those giving their time.

Sixth form and D Block students work with an individual primary
school student for the year to help with reading, maths or other projects set by their class teacher. This option has recently developed as students support individual children to help to bridge the gap in primary education caused as a
result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Model United Nations is an
educational simulation in
which students learn about
diplomacy, international relations
and the UN. Students support
younger members of the school
when they are involved in this
activity as part of their cycle of F
Block Clubs.

Music Scholars visit local primary schools with Rugby’s brass teacher to introduce children to the trumpet. This ‘Hands on Brass’ initiative started last year and has been extremely well received by local teachers, children and their parents. Already this academic year pupils have organised performances at the United Reformed Church and in several Primary Schools.

Rugby School will invite local mathematicians into Rugby School to participate in some Maths revision, booster and taster sessions. We currently have 50 Primary School pupils from a variety of local schools visiting us every Wednesday afternoon as part of the Mathemagicians club.

Students proficient in one or more
foreign languages (native speakers
and modern linguists) develop,
promote and raise the profile of
the online Modern Languages
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Magazine. This includes writing,
collecting and editing articles
relevant to international affairs
and the study and practice of
foreign languages (in the UK and
elsewhere); creating film clips,
interviews, sound bites and music
files; writing film and play reviews
and more. There will be liaison
with Rugby High School, Ashlawn
School and Lawrence Sheriff
students.

Students who have completed their
Sports Leaders award accompany
the Sports staff to various prep
schools. They will use their skills
gained through their Sports
Leaders award to coach children
and chat to them about senior
school sport.

Students design a series of lessons in Spanish (with the potential
for French provision dependent on demand) to be delivered to primary school students locally. These will be planned in the Advent term and delivered in the
Lent term. These will be basic introductory languages courses for primary pupils. Our pupils are currently delivering French lessons at Oakfield Primary School.

Students support local primary
students learning Latin from
scratch. In the Advent term,
students will work collaboratively
to plan teaching sessions using
the ‘Minimus’ textbook. Students
will then deliver these lessons to
primary students at the start of the
Lent term.

Students run a multi-sport afterschool club for primary school students using Rugby School’s facilities. There are 15 Primary School pupils who visit each Wednesday to participate in this club in the Collingwood Sports Centre.

Rugby students work with a small group of primary students at a local school catering to those with additional needs associated with autism spectrum condition (ASC) or social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) difficulties. Sessions involve engaging with students in various games or projects with
the goal of helping them develop their social skills in a casual environment. Rugby School pupils are currently helping Quest pupils to plan their Questival, and working on several enterprise projects.

Students explore areas of school
life that interest them by writing
articles for Quod magazine, an
internal publication that highlights
people and activities from within
the Rugby School community.
The articles cover a multitude
of different topics which are of
particular interest to the authors.

Students support Rugby and East
Warwickshire Hockey Club at
their junior training sessions held
at Rugby School Sports Centre
each Friday evening. They lead
small groups completing drills and
assisting the qualified coaches.
A perfect opportunity to engage
with a local sports club, it is
recommended to students with a good standard of hockey and an
interest in the sport.

For students embarking on the
Level 2 Sports Leader Award, this
course covers the skills required to
communicate well with children
and to organise and deliver
safe sports sessions. Successful
completion of the course,
including assessment, leads to the
Sports Leader Award which will be
useful for those wanting to coach sport during a GAP year or whilst
at university.

Students visit the local hospital
to offer assistance and support.
Students are assigned to a
hospital ward and assist by
talking to patients and visitors
as well as making tea and coffee
and other tasks requested by the
nursing team.

This student group works at several care homes in Rugby. Volunteers assist with crafts, games or events taking place, accompany residents for walks around the grounds and help out in a general way. Students have just started a new relationship with the Friendship Café at Anya Court Care Home.

Students formulate the overarching
plan for sustainability action at
Rugby School. The student-led
group is aiming to achieve
the Eco-Schools Charter in the
coming year.

Students, mainly Drama Scholars, develop leadership skills and devise a workshop series in the early part of the year. They then use these to
deliver drama workshops in local primary schools enhancing their current provision of the arts and ‘specialist’ drama teaching. At present, pupils are working with both Quest Academy and Eastlands Primary School.

Students visit the university teaching
hospital in Coventry to offer
assistance and support. Students
are assigned to a hospital ward and
assist by talking to patients and
visitors as well as making tea and
coffee and other tasks requested by
the nursing team.

Students will take place in classroom-based learning sessions,
before participating in a Young Whistlers course, designed to teach the basics on how to officiate competitive rugby. Once the course has been completed,
students will help referee junior rugby football at Rugby School and at local prep and primary schools. Rugby School pupils are now volunteering their time, refereeing at Old Laurentians RFC in Rugby.

The group supports Amnesty International in its work on behalf of political prisoners worldwide. This includes writing letters to prisoners and to governments who hold them, raising funds, increasing people’s awareness of the issues and developing the group’s website.

The Model United Nations (MUN) programme is a student-directed simulation of the United Nations. It allows students to participate as ambassadors of the UN, discussing global issues such as finance and economics, disarmament, science and the environment. The fundamental aim is to facilitate debate and positive solutions to critical issues of today under the banner of diplomacy and open perspectives.

The aim of the Club is to allow Rugby School members to come up with new business ideas, and if viable, set up and run their own company. Students will be expected to produce a business plan, detailing how they aim to bring the product/firm to market. This will include extensive market research to assess the viability of the project, and a plan of the financial and logistical requirements of the business. Students will be encouraged to develop a relationship with a business mentor in the field that they have chosen to enter.

It is hoped that this will involve contact with OR’s who can oversee and provide advice to individuals regarding potential problems and possible routes to success. Profits that accrue from successful initiatives will be ploughed back into Beanstalk, a national charity that recruits, vets, trains and supports volunteers to work in primary schools with children who have fallen behind with their reading.

An editorial group produces a termly Modern Languages online magazine called Page Polyglotte. The publication is entirely coded by pupils, a difficult language in itself. Click here to see the latest version.