Presented with the Tes Boarding School of the Year Award in 2022, which recognises innovation, imagination and efforts to develop children in ways that go beyond academic achievement and the league tables as well as maintaining continued excellence. Gordon’s was one of eight boarding schools across the country to have been nominated. 

Hockey midfielder Cara Falconer has been selected to represent Scotland against England at the end of this month. Cara, who started playing for Surrey two seasons ago and was then selected for the England Hockey’s Performance Centre last season, now plays for the Scottish National Emerging Squad. She will be receiving her first cap for Scotland in the series against England from 24^th to 26^th June.  Wishing her the very best of luck!

Celebrating our Patron, HM The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee today with the Patron’s Parade. The Parade Square proudly displaying Union Jacks as the Gordon's Pipes Drums marched on playing Diu Regnare ( ‘Long Reigning'), composed by Stuart Liddell for the occasion of the Platinum Jubilee. Leading the Parade was Sergeant Major Isabelle Fleming. The Drum Major was Rose Roberts and Pipe Major Matt Carter. Gordon’s Parent and Trustee of the Gordon Foundation, Major General Angus Fay inspected the Parade. During the presentations to award winners, Major General Fay presented the Sword of Honour and Gardiner Memorial Award to Abigail Hunter-Blanco as the best senior cadet in Gordon’s CCF this year. The award commemorates the life of Daryl Gardiner a Gordonian who served in the British Army and was killed on active duty in Afghanistan. As part of the award, Abigail will take part in a tandem parachute jump with the Royal Electrical and Mechnical Engineers!

After the Parade, two of the youngest students in the school, Sophie Wallace and Annabelle Hayakawa - both born on August 31st - planted a Liquidambar tree as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative. The two also buried a time capsule containing a science project showing how science has developed throughout HM The Queen’s reign.

For video of today's Parade, please see below (left) and for a Bird's Eye View see below (right)::

Enjoying the spectacle of the Founder’s Day Parade at the iconic Royal Hospital Chelsea, ten of our Year 8 students. Dressed for this auspicious occasion in their Blues, the group will also be be meeting Chelsea Pensioners. The annual Founder’s Day, also known as Oak Apple Day, is held on a date close to 29^th May, the birthday of Charles II and the date of his restoration as King in 1660.

Congratulations to Kate Brazendale, Izzy Kypri and Luke Brennan, winners of the Woking District Rotary Club’s Young Writer Competition. The students each created a piece of prose on the theme of ‘Environment’. They were presented with their certificates at a recent meeting of the Woking District Rotary Club.