Looking for minute amounts of specially hidden explosives in the Rec today are police dogs Lola and Rogue. The dogs are training at Gordon’s during with The Guildford Police Dog Training Unit. Both passed with flying colours!
A Poetry Slam ended four weeks of performance poetry by students in Year 7. Those taking part in the competition gave passionate recitals about many contentious issues and ones close to their hearts such as suicide; anxiety; a trouble free world and falling in love with a mermaid! They were judged by their peers who voted Jemima Robinson in first place followed by Thomas Allen.
Usually dressed in the distinctive green, Gordon’s students (and staff!) have donned every shade of pink today. Their mufti attire will raise money for Breast Cancer Now’s ‘Wear it Pink’ day.
Hannah Francis and her family put the case brilliantly in the Daily Mail as to why boarding at Gordon's is so great.
Congratulations to China House for winning the Inter-House Hockey tournament. They were followed by Victoria in second place and Augusta, third. The next Inter-House event will be the Boys’ Rugby on Saturday 3rd November. Supporters welcome!
Gordon’s Pipes and Drums will be taking part in the Concert for Peace event on Saturday 10th November at G Live as part of the Guildford Remembers Weekend. The community concert, in aid of the Royal British Legion, will feature a selection of music and readings as a tribute to all those in Guildford and surrounding area who gave their life in the Great War and conflicts since. The narrators will be Dame Penelope Keith and Gordon Foundation Trustee Michael More-Molyneux the Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey. For tickets and more information, please click here.
Photographs from the Harvest Festival Parade are now available on the website. Please click here to view.
Tremendous honour to receive a framed photograph from Major Goate of OC 96 Squadron commemorating Gordon's involvement in the Passing Out Parade at Pirbright in the summer. The Pipes and Drums joined the band of the Royal Logistic Corps for the passing out of Troops from Morley and Dalton. By doing so, they became the first non-military band to take part in a Parade at the Army Training Regiment, Pirbright.
Pedal power: recording fantastic performances on Saturday in the Charlotteville Cycle Club’s Rainbow Splash off-road races, were Gordon’s cycle club members Joshua Deakin (first in the time trial race); Lachlan Bethune, first in the handicap race and Oliver Pinder (second in the skills race).
Indoor rowers at Gordon’s were crowned champions in the State Boarding Forum’s U14 competition recently. Now they have the chance to try their luck on the water with their first boat. The new Kanghua boat, funded by the GSPA and the Rowing Foundation will mean that rowers in Years 9-12 will be able to compete as Gordon’s School Boat Club. Coaches Manon Jones and Olympian Alan Inns will be training them.
The Chapel was filled with generous donations of food for Harvest Festival. All the items will be taken to the Salvation Army in Woking for their food bank. Thank you to all who contributed.
The rain failed to dampen spirits this morning for the Gordon's Harvest Festival Parade as our new Y7s marched in front of their parents and friends for the first time.
