Not content with achieving a 100 per cent pass rate at A-Level, Gordon’s students have also smashed a school record. Ninety five per cent of them were graded A*-C. A delighted Head Teacher Andrew Moss said: “This is testament to the hard work and determination of our students and dedicated staff in helping them achieve their very best.”
Best of luck to all our A-Level and AS Level students, finding out their achievements tomorrow. A-Level results will be available from the Rec from 8.00am and AS from 10.00am. There will be a direct dial number of the exams office available for results and queries: 01276 859742.
Dedicated, hard-working and enthusiastic – Gordon’s School visitors today exhibited all the traits by which the students are known. But these were four-legged Police dogs! The grounds of Kensington House provided the highly skilled Spaniels with an ideal place to undergo training and testing.
Summer holidays it may be but Gordon’s is anything but quiet. While work goes on to improve perimeter fencing; re-construct offices and departments and keep up with general repairs; the building of the new Nile Maths block of six classrooms is forging ahead. The new classrooms are on target for use in the new school term. For details of further developments at Gordon’s, please click here.
The iconic Gordon’s School gates closed for the last time today. The entrance is now being fitted with new accessed controlled gates which will be shut between 8.15am and 5.45pm Monday to Friday. Visitors to the school are advised to park in the north side car park and walk across the bridge.
While the statue of General Gordon looks out over the Front Field, a mural dedicated to him and painted by a band of Gordon’s artistic students is keeping watch over the Parade Square. The fabulous mural lists General Gordon’s many attributes and words associated with him.
They scaled an eight foot wall; scrambled over 20 feet of an A-frame covered in ropes; crawled through a concrete tube and then tackled the water obstacles. Gordon’s students were taking part in a team building exercise Royal Navy style at HMS Collingwood near Fareham. Some overcame their fear of heights, others claustrophobia but all completed the challenges with help and encouragement from the Collingwood instructors and their fellow team-mates.
Photo courtesy of Keith Woodland, Crown Copyright
Braving high winds and challenging terrain, the Gordon’s Cycling Tour managed some 270 miles over their six days in Lanzarote. This was the third tour of the Spanish island and a welcome respite from the heat in England!
War Horse is coming to Gordon’s School on Saturday 1st September. The special evening, hosted by the Armed Forces Charity SSAFA, will see an open-air screening of the film in the magnificent grounds of the school. The event is being held to mark the centenary of the First World War. Tickets are available through Eventbrite (please click here)with all proceeds going towards SSAFA’s current work helping today’s generation of servicemen and women, veterans and their families across Surrey.
Members of the Gordon’s Pipes and Drums Band today became the first non-military band to take part in a Parade at the Army Training Regiment, Pirbright when they played at the Passing Out Parade this morning. They joined the band of the Royal Logistic Corps for the passing out of Troops from Morley and Dalton.
Their impassioned, informative presentation together with their imaginative fundraising earned them £1,000 for their charity Woking and Sam Beare Hospices. Now Harriet Duffin, who led her Gordon’s School team of Tilly Phillips, Livvy Garner and Nathan Butler to victory, has been nominated for the First Give Student of the Year. She and the team have been invited to Cardiff for the awards ceremony with other shortlisted nominees across Greater London and South Wales. First Give encourages young people to give their time and talent to improve their community. Students from Year 9 identified social issues and engaged with local charities set up to tackle them. Then they set about fundraising and increasing awareness. All were competing for a cheque for £1,000 from First Give for their chosen charity. Harriet’s team appealed to staff and students to bring in their good quality secondhand clothes for stock in charity shops, raising £857 for the hospice charity.
Gordon's News Summer Term 2018 is available on the website now. Please click here to view. Hard copies can be picked up from Day and Residential Boarding Houses in the Autumn Term.
