At Norwich School we are delighted to host partner organisations on our site for their public lectures on a wide range of cultural matters. On the evening of October 10, we were delighted to welcome back the East of England branch of the prestigious Royal Geographical Society (RGS) for the first of their lectures this academic year in the Blake Studio.
Parents of ONs Sara White and Robert Ferguson FRGS (himself a Norwich School alumnus) treated an audience to a visual spectacle detailing their fascinating conservation work in a talk entitled ‘Working in conservation: reports from the frontline’.
They are both Trustees of the Norfolk based charity ‘Explorers Against Extinction’ and have travelled extensively round the globe engaging in ground-breaking conservation missions. Earlier that week they had just returned from a snow leopard monitoring trip working above 4,000m in the Himalayas, and presented their report on this and a similar expedition to the remotest corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the final site of the northern white rhino (now extinct in the wild).
Their knowledgeable presentation was both sumptuously illustrated and engaging. An audience of RGS members, staff, pupils, ONs and parents engaged in a broad-ranging Q&A session and discussions with the speakers over refreshments afterwards.
Our speakers will also be back on site later this week for their free-to-enter Sketch for Survival exhibition in the school’s Crypt Gallery: Sketching a Future for Wildlife - Crypt Gallery Exhibition.
