Congratulations to the Semper Fidelis Choir, who entertained Their Royal Highnesses The Earl and Countess of Wessex at the McLaren Headquarters on Monday with their singing, and today they learned they had won the Thompson Chamber Choir Cup at this year's Woking Music Festival. 

Portraying the hard life of a confectioner in Victorian times, has earned James Taplin third place in the national BLT19 (19^th century Business, Labour, Trade and Temperance) competition. The teenager depicted his life as a 24 year old, who had inherited his father’s London shop and becomes famous after appearing on the front cover of the magazine ‘Baker and Confectioner’. His essay was submitted to the BLT Project run by Professor Andrew King at the University of Greenwich to understand the history of ‘work’ and the values associated with it. Click here to view his story.  

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Congratulations to the school's Equestrian Team on some great results in the National Schools Equestrian Association (NSEA) National Plate championships at Keysoe. Three riders, placed second as a team and recording individual placings of first, third and sixth!

Members of the community joined students, parents and staff from Gordon’s for the Parade and Service of Remembrance on Sunday around the Parade Square, conducted by the School Chaplain the Reverend Graham Wright. Dressed in their Blues uniform and accompanied by the Pipes and Drums, the student body marched and remembered the sacrifices of so many, including the 155 former students killed in action during the First World War; 31 in the Second World War and Gordonian Darryl Gardiner and affiliated staff member Steve Curley, both killed in Afghanistan.

Poppy wreaths were laid by Major General John Russell Jones OBE, a Gordon’s Trustee on behalf of the Gordon Foundation Trustees; Former Head Boy and Gordonian, Second Lieutenant David Hutchings for the Gordonians and School Sergeant Major Louis Phipps for staff, students and parents of the school.

The two minute silence will be observed across the school site at 11am this morning. On Sunday the Remembrance Parade and Service will take place at Gordon's from 10.45am, to which all are invited.

The Gordon’s Boys’ Choir has recorded a special version of the poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ by John McCrae, which was inspired by the WW1 Battle of Ypres. The poem is said to have led to the adoption of the poppy as a symbol of respect for the war dead a century ago.