Not only playing for the England U18s in the Six Nations Festival (in which they were unbeaten in all three games), but Sixth Form student Elliot Williams captained the side for their game against France - and was voted man of the match! The away game brought Elliot’s caps for England tally to ten and saw the England team make a nailbiting comeback to win 27-29, watched by a crowd of 5,000 French supporters! Congratulations Elliot and the team!
What a term! In this, the start of the 140th anniversary year of the school, students have performed in Whitehall, Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral, Ypres and New York, as well as London’s Steinway Hall. We have welcomed Dr Al Pinkerton, MP for Surrey Heath to the Gordon’s MUN Conference; The Bishop of Dorking and Baron Robert Winston as well as Gordonians, parents and supporters of the school. The golf team has turned leaderboards Gordon’s green both nationally and internationally, the girls’ netball team reached the national finals (again!) and the girls made school history at Rosslyn Park by making it through to the quarter finals. The cast and crew of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory played to capacity audiences, Matilda’s culinary skills took her to the national finals and Harry’s charity leg wax, to well beyond his pain threshold! Here’s to another fantastic term. Happy Easter!
Not every day you pitch up for an Easter camp in rugby and football to find your heroes training next to you! These lucky football and rugby players on the Gordon’s Easter Camps were thrilled to not only watch their Harlequins/England idols in action but speak to them afterwards, get their autographs AND attend a private Q&A with Marcus Smith! Bookings for the Gordon's Summer Camps are now open. Click here for further information.
Hitting the slopes on their first day of the junior ski trip on the French/Italian border in Montgenevre. The week long tour is packed with time on the slopes as well as plenty of apres ski!
Achieving his goal of sub four hours with just 30 seconds to spare, Ned Hewson in the Brighton Marathon completed the 26.2 mile course in 3:59:30. The Sixth Form student also realised his fundraising goal, and more, for mental health charity MIND, raising £2,804! Congratulations Ned! Donations can still be made to Ned’s Justgiving page here:
The Pipes and Drums flies the flag for Gordon's in New York's Tartan Day Parade. The band joined 10,000 musicians for this spectacular annual event on 6th Avenue.
Eye-wateringly painful, rugby player Harry Ludkin (pictured above with Deputy Head of Khartoum House Vanessa Mosdell) lost all his hair today for charity! Students and staff paid to wax his legs and shave his head, beard and moustache to raise funds for Treloar's School and College. Watched at breaktime by students on the Parade Square, the Harlequins/Gordon’s Partnership Programme student’s fundraising efforts even persuaded a fellow student to undergo a wax on his beard! The event raised almost £400 and was a great end to the Easter term.
New York for these 50 creative arts students, who arrived yesterday for a five day tour. Gentle sightseeing and dinner in Times Square in readiness for a packed programme today of singing at the Empire State Building, visiting the Steinway and Sons factory and taking in a Broadway show!
Off on the trip of a lifetime – to New York! Fifty students now at Heathrow Airport looking forward to an incredible five day stay, taking in Broadway workshop and show, Brooklyn’s Street art tour and graffiti lesson and the Steinway factory with the choir singing in the Empire State Building and the Gordon's School Pipes and Drums performing in the Tartan Day Parade and much more! Bon voyage.
The challenge for Year 9 was to learn about the social issues facing the local community and research those charities providing crucial support. Students then split into groups, with each selecting one of the local charities. After meeting and consulting with the charities, each group devised and delivered a social action plan to support their charity.
One thousand pounds was up for grabs from First Give for one of the charities, as the judging panel of Councillors Pat Tedder and Liz Noble, together with teachers James Greggor and James Butler listened to their presentations. The team representing the Grace Dear Trust which campaigns to prevent teen suicide, won.
Graham Dear from the charity was able to attend the final and had high praise for the group, who made an awareness training film and campaign. He was particularly impressed that they had been able to get across the key message that ‘it’s OK to not be OK’ and that as a school, Gordon’s has such a good range of mental health support strategies.
Also listening to the First Give presentations were representatives from the other charities picked by students - Carol Ellis from White Lodge, Gemma Johnston from The Hope Hub Surrey Heath and Irina Bush from Catalyst Support. Congratulations to all the students taking part.
History made on the pitches of Rosslyn Park by Gordon’s girls, competing in the largest school rugby tournament in the world! The U18 team were unbeaten yesterday, winning 31-15 against Moulton College; 29-5 against Dartford Grammar School; 40-10 against Rugby School and 41-17 against New Hall School. This is the first time the girls have made it through to the second day of the Rosslyn Park 7s. Today, in the Quarter Finals, they meet Peter Symonds’ College; Trinity School and Hereford Sixth Form College. Best of luck to them.
One of 12 finalists in the national Springboard Futurechef competition, Matilda Spink enjoyed a night in a top London hotel before cooking a meal for 17 of the UK's most talented chefs, including her idol, Bake Off: The Professionals Judge and international pastry consultant Cherish Finden. Matilda had just two hours in which to fillet a fish and produce four plates of cured and torched mackerel fillets with watercress mayonnaise, potato and butternut fondants, charred shallots and rainbow chard followed by her own take on rhubarb and custard.
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