Gordonians have helped England get off to a flying start at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Eboni Usoro-Brown and her team defending their netball title, beat Trinidad and Tobago 74-22 in their opening game. Meanwhile Ellie Boatman (pictured above) scored a stunning four tries in the first half of England’s 57-0 win against Sri Lanka in the Women’s Rugby 7s. Ellie, a former Kensington House student excelled in sport during her time here, playing for the netball team, captaining the hockey team and riding in the equestrian team. Olympic gold medallist Hannah Russell OBE, competing in her first Commonwealth Games, finished in the silver medal position in the Women's 50m Freestyle S13 final.

We wish them all the best of luck in the Games. 

For more information on their time at Gordon's and for other Gordonian achievers, please click here.

The smile says it all. A cup win at the Staines Amateur Regatta in the Junior 16 sculls for James Gibson. The plucky rower who has been unable to compete until now - or even train since May - due to an injury at the start of the year, more than made up for it in Staines today! Fellow rowers were equally delighted at his success in his first race as while he was unable to compete, he has cheered them on from riverbanks as they represented the school’s boat club. Congratulations James!

An honour for our PIpes and Drums to play at last night’s Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate memorial in Ypres. The ceremony, held every evening at 8pm since 2nd July 1928, is in remembrance of the soldiers of the former British Empire and its allies, who died in the Ypres Salient during the First World War.

Sixth Form students Isaac Johnson (left) and Daniel Drakeford (right) have spurned the lure of beaches, nightclubs and festivals as a celebration of the end of their A Levels in favour of  the challenge of the Via Francigena, a 1,900km pilgrimage from Canterbury to Rome via the Alps! The two have chosen to raise money for the whole-school charity the Camelthorn Foundation which is raising money to build a girls' boarding house in Zimbabwe, to be named Gordon's House.  For the full story, please click here. For further information on Gordon's House, please click here. To donate, please visit their Justgiving page here.

Pots for rowers Immie Spink and Mimi Hewetson, who competed at the Egham Regatta at the weekend. The two train eight times a week before and after school and during the weekends and were rewarded with their first win in the Women’s J16 double scull. They are pictured here with their Coach, three times Olympian cox Alan Inns and the school’s Head of Rowing Maddie Shoolbread. Congratulations both! Click here to see more information about rowing at Gordon's.

Congratulations to U13s cricketer Tom Norman, who has been awarded a Bedser Scholarship. For the all-rounder opening bowler and top order batsman, the award is a fantastic end to a very successful season, in which his teams at Gordon’s have won every game played.  The Bedser Scholarship identifies six children aged between 8 and 16 years old from Woking schools who have the potential to become performance cricketers.