Speech Night

Speech Night is held yearly on two separate occasions, one for GCSE results and one for A-Levels. Each Speech Night has a guest speaker, who often provide light relief from the unrelenting boredom of the official speeches.

A feature of Speech Nights is the recipients of the awards (the students) running down to the Basement Corridor and lining up in alphabetical order - a surprisingly difficult task for such supposedly intelligent individuals. Each student gets their ten seconds of fame, with a staff member (often Mrs Taylor) announcing to the gathered guests what the student in question is currently doing, and any awards they have received. This provides an interesting problem, as students go up to the stage in pairs, so hope you aren't next to somebody who has won several awards as it makes you look rather stupid by comparison.

Speech Night is an unusual ritual that, sooner or later, every BRGS student will be expected to attend. However, only a small proportion of each year group will make the effort to attend theirs, with many citing such reasons as "it's unbelievably dull."

And indeed, they are right.