Our A Level students are already immersing themselves in the rich history of Berlin at the Potsdam Palace and German History Museum. The group arrived in the city today on a two trip which will also include a tour of the Cold War bunkers; the Berlin Wall Memorial and the Topography of Terror.
Some of the UK’s best comedic talent is coming to Gordon’s on Friday 7th February for Heathcote’s Comedy Club. The evening will feature the award winning comedy of Dinesh Nathan; Ben Norris; Max Fulham; and Maff Brown. Tickets are £15 (over 18s only) and available from the Box Office on the school website. Please click here for more information and to book.
‘You’re not invincible’ was the message from #EpicFail, to Year 11 students this afternoon about car safety. The hard-hitting talk, funded by Surrey County Council, included messages from parents of children killed on Surrey roads. The talk is a prelude to one given to students in Year 12 on ‘Safe Drive, Stay Alive’.
Congratulations to our Sixth Formers, the majority of whom have received offers at Russell Group universities. Four have received Oxbridge offers – three to read Maths; Economics and Land Economy at Cambridge and one to read Physics at Oxford. For more information about our Sixth Form and to apply, please click here.
Memorial weekend marked the start of the Head Boy Jack Bodell and Head Girl Emily Jones taking over the reins from Oliver Henderson and Abi White, who have been fantastic ambassadors for the school over the past year. Thank you to both of them and best of luck to the new incumbents.
The Gordon Memorial Service took place in Guildford Cathedral on Sunday. The service was led by the Reverend Canon Dr Paul Smith and Canon Liturgist Paul Thompson delivered the annual Gordon Sermon.
Bringing Whitehall to a standstill, some 250 students together with the Pipes and Drums marched to the statue of General Gordon on the banks of the Thames for the start of Memorial Weekend. Please click here to view and buy pictures from this historic event. For a video snapshot, please see below.
Beautiful, crisp morning for the start of Memorial Weekend in which the school, founded as the national memorial to General Gordon, commemorates his life. Students will leave his statue overlooking the Front Field in West End, Woking for his statue on the banks of the Thames. Those not involved in the Parade have netball and football matches against Lancing College; Reading School and Claremont Fan Court. Tomorrow the annual General Gordon Memorial Service will be held in Guildford Cathedral.
Yes Chef! When you’re entering a young chef’s competition held on Burn’s Night and your school is the national memorial to General Gordon (and your sister plays the bagpipes!) it has to be a Scottish-themed menu. Oscar, taking part in the Rotary Young Chef competition practised this morning with Head of Catering Paul Hopkins. He will be serving up a three course menu for two people in two hours of homemade blinis with smoked salmon; a chicken and haggis ballotine with tatties and a whiskey and mustard sauce topped off with a raspberry and crème brulee. Best of luck to him next week as he puts his culinary skills to the test by leading industry professionals at Merton College.
Tickets for Dr Faustus at Gordon's on 27th, 28th and 29th January are now available from the school box office (click here to be directed). For a sneak preview, please see below!
Top tips for Pippa, currently playing for Saracens Mavericks U17s from Gordonian and England and Bath netballer Eboni Usoro-Brown (nee Beckford-Chambers). The two bumped into each other at the weekend.
With the Whitehall Parade just over a week away, students were practicing in earnest today. The Parade along the iconic central London venue to General Gordon’s statue on the Thames marks the start of Memorial Weekend and will involve around 250 students in Years 9 and 11 as well as the members of the Pipes and Drums.
