Her terrific tortellini and perfect posset won over industry judges today in the Regional Final of the Future Chef competition, earning Megan Brock a place in the London final next month! Megan competed against four other students to win the regional round, with the judges declaring her lemon posset “beautiful”! Congratulations Megan.
After winning all their games in the North West Surrey District Indoor Cricket Competition, our U15 boys now join the boys’ U13 side and girls’ U15 side for the County Finals of the Surrey Cricket competition in March. Congratulations!
Today's theme for Children's Mental Health Week is 'connecting' and for the girls in Victoria House this involved pulling out board games (and Twister!) and spending time connecting with each other. Connecting is one of the school's five boarding aims and every day this week the focus will be on one of the aims, which are designed to promote and develop well-being and mental strength and resilience.
Both the girls' U15 side and boys' U13 cricket teams are now through to the County Finals of Surrey Cricket's Indoor Cricket Competition after the boys won the North West Surrey District Championship! Both teams will play in the finals in March. Congratulations all!
Aged just 17 Leonor Nunes may very well be able to fly a plane before she gets behind the wheel of a car for the first time! For Leonor learned that not only can she wear the coveted yellow lanyard having passed the CCF Instructional Technique Course but she has also just been awarded the ACPS (Air Cadets Pilot Scholarship) by the RAF! “I have always wanted to fly” enthused Leonor, who says she reacted to the news of the scholarship with “disbelief”. The Sixth Form student enrolled in the RAF section of the school’s CCF (Combined Cadet Force) two years ago as a compulsory co-curricular activity in Year 10 and continued on, becoming an Instructor Cadet for the school. She has been gliding in Odiham as part of her CCF but at the end of this month she will travel to Dundee to Tayside Aviation where she will undertake a two week course in flying which will include learning the theory, how to check over an aeroplane and 11 hours of flying with an instructor. All being well - including the Scottish weather - the flying time will result in a solo flight. For further information on the Gordon's CCF, please click here.
Gold for Joshua Thompson, who won the 100m breaststroke for Gordon’s in the Surrey Schools Individual Swimming Championships recently. The Sixth Form student, who trains five times a week and is a member of Woking Swimming Club, is hoping for place in the Nationals. Congratulations and best of luck!
A major three year charity initiative was launched at Gordon’s this week, linking the school with the Camelthorn Foundation, a UK-based charity which supports global community and conservation projects including one based in Zimbabwe, Southern Africa. Gordon's School has pledged to fundraise for building a boarding block for girls at Ngamo School, to be called Gordon's House, so these children no longer have to sleep on the floor of accommodation provided for teachers. The initiative is part of the Gordon's Vision 2025, which calls for the school to be a symbol of what can be achieved by a community united in making an outstanding contribution for the good of global society. Please click here to read more about this exciting project.
Congratulations to Jayda and Pippa, picked for the Roses Invitational side at the Europe Netball U17 Championship. Jayda, who will captain the side and Pippa will play at the competition in Newcastle next month.
Congratulations to our U15 girls' cricket team, champions of the North West Surrey Indoor Cricket Tournament, after winning all three of their games. The girls, from Years 9 and 10 played eight overs in each game, putting on a talented display of both bowling and batting.
The Disney classic Beauty and the Beast arrives at Gordon’s tonight for the first of three sell-out performances. The whole school musical production, complete with outsized teapots and talking clocks and candles comes just a month after the lower school’s Matilda Jr and is a magical celebration of the talented students in the Drama Department, both on the stage and in the production team.
Gordon’s School returned to Whitehall today for the annual Parade in memory of General Charles Gordon in whose honour the school was founded. The Parade, along one of London’s most iconic streets, was cancelled due to the pandemic last year, for the first time in living memory. But the 200 students together with the Pipes and Drums, more than made up for the missed event as they made their way along Whitehall to the General Gordon statue on the banks of the Thames. There, wreaths were laid on behalf of the Gordon family; the Gordonians and Governors, Trustees; staff and students.
A perennial problem for some, putting on extra pounds after Christmas. But for Sixth Former Jake Wright, his post-Christmas weight has increased by 20 kilos! Jake started wearing a 20kg weighted vest on 1st January and will continue until the end of the month in a bid to raise as much money as he can for the men’s mental health charity ManUp? The teenager, who wears the vest all the time, except when sleeping and showering, researched a number of charities before picking ManUp?, which aims to change minds about men’s mental health. Jake says the extra weight has caused him some pain in his calves, shoulders and lower back but “I wanted to put myself through something difficult because of what other guys are going through”. To support Jake’s fundraising appeal please click here.
