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On the evening of the 10 April 2002, the Gloucestershire County Reception for the Queen's Scout Award was held at the new Gloucestershire University Park Campus in the presence of HWG Elwes JP HM Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire.
At the reception, Adam Griffiths, Matt Key and Rachael Brown were among the 14 Venture Scouts from Gloucestershire who this year have earned their Queen's Scout Award and who were presented before the Lord Lieutenant.
Rachael, Matthew and Adam will officially receive their awards at the national presentation evening, a prestigious event to be held in the Guildhall in London later this year.
School captain Matthew Key took on his newly appointed Queen's Scout duties by attending the St George's Day Parade at Windsor Castle. With Adam Griffiths (who is an old boy of the school) he formed part of the Gloucestershire contingent of Queen's Scouts and was presented to Her Majesty The Queen. A proud moment!
For more detail on the St George's Day parade and service please read the official press release.
For a personal reflection on his big day see Matthew's article in Edition 90 of 'Venture44'
On hearing about the school's appeal for funds to replace its ageing minibus, Young Richard leapt to the walls at The Warehouse and climbing with many coloured balls he strove to break records and earn that much needed dosh for the new minibus appeal.
Scaling a total height equivalent to that of Scafell Pike (England's tallest "mountain") was Richard's aim.
He reckoned in a time of 2 hours 45 minutes.
In 1 hour 47 minutes he deposited the last coloured ball into the summit sock!
Well done Richard - and thanks!!
Congratulations to our junior cricket teams!! They all won through to their respective age group finals and in three out of the four matches came out deserved victors. Only the U15 side suffered defeat - at the hands of a very strong Crypt team.
All the sides relished the superb surfaces and true pitches and the standard of cricket for the most part was extremely high. The U14s made up for some indifferent bowling with secure and powerful batting; the U13s enjoyed a close game which swung first one way then the other; the U12s contained their opponent's batting well and then powered their way to an easy victory with a masterful display of batsmanship by Andrew Green and Will Alder.
Special thanks again to the Rotary for sponsoring this competition and to King's school for allowing the finals to be played on their splendid Archdeacon ground.
On the hot sultry evening of 16th July many-a dignitary and important person gathered in their finery at Sir Thomas Rich's to hear MEP Lord Stockton proclaim the W J Veale Language Centre officially open. The centre has been named in memory of one of the school's previous and well respected headmasters Mr Veale who served in the post from 1936 to 1957 and who sadly died earlier this year.
The centre was commissioned in September 2000 when STRS was awarded Language College status by the government and represents a £600,000-plus investment with funding coming from the government, local business partners and the LEA.
The state of the art building is equipped with five classrooms, an office and computerised language laboratory.
Mrs Jackie Hewett who was appointed the Language Co-ordinator in September 2000 has been instrumental in raising the profile of languages teaching not just at Tommies but also at the local primary and junior schools. Students at Rich's regularly visit nearby junior schools to take part in language classes and presentations in French, German and Spanish and the school has hosted several important "language days" for its junior and secondary neighbours.
With the opening of the W J Veale Language Centre, Sir Thomas Rich's can now offer its superb new resource to local schools and as a centre for community evening classes in the teaching of modern foreign languages.
The vision and hard work put in by Jackie Hewett should not be under-estimated and she deserves highest commendation for promoting the importance of teaching and learning languages and establishing the language college as a vital and permanent part of the local education scene.
Lord Stockton joins his welcoming party on stage - he received short speeches of welcome and thanks in each of the 10 languages currently accessible through the STRS Language College.
