The end of another fantastic school year. We wish all our students and their families safe travels and happy holidays. For our touring sides - the rugby team to South Africa and netballers to Liverpool the best of luck.
Enrichment Week culminates today with 'Making a Difference Day' - an opportunity for students to make a difference in the local community and further afield. Activites include gardening at a nearby infant school; beach cleaning in Portsmouth; little picking and visiting the elderly residents of Gracewell care home in West End (pictured). We look forward to welcoming nearby residents and friends this afternoon for a tea party with delicious cakes that have been made by the students.
In just one hour, our Year 9 students had to come up with a concept/product find its USP and produce marketing for it before giving a presentation to two judges – Dragons’ Den-style! Gordon’s Business Breakfast regulars David Goodman of Swift Motors and Thomas Prout of Workflow Document Solutions judged the teams, crowning the best to be the team who struck on the idea of a biodegradable water holder. Special mention was made of Angel Lowe for her contribution to the team. Earlier in the day the Year 9 cohort had learned the art of putting together a CV; honed their interview techniques and taken part in team building exercises.
Students from Year 9 lay a wreath at the Menin Gate Memorial during last night’s Remembrance Ceremony. Since 1929 the Last Post has been sounded at the Menin Gate Memorial every night. The only exception was during the four years of the German occupation of Ypres from 1940 to 1944. During that time the ceremony was held at Brookwood Military Cemetery, where Pipe Major Edward Lee played the Last Post on Sunday at their monthly Remembrance Service.
Day 1 of the Year 7 camp to High Ashurst and our students are making the most of every second. Camp fires; shelters; high rise jumps and tackling a climbing tower and that’s just for starters. Even more adventurous activities are planned for tonight!
A Midsummer Night's Dream is performed by Year 8 students to their peers in the amphitheatre outside the Chapel. The popular Shakespearean comedy was much enjoyed and forms part of Enrichment Week.
Proud to be a part of the Brookwood Last Post Association's Remembrance Service at Brookwood Military Cemetery yesterday. The service is held on the first Sunday of every month and while the school used to send the Pipe Major to play a Lament, this sadly dwindled out. Now this has been rekindled and our Pipe Major Ed Lee played the Lament during the service. Not only was this the last engagement of the year for the Pipes and Drums, it was the Pipe Major's final event with the Pipes and Drums after a seven year career at Gordon's and in the Band.
Even the weather performed brilliantly for last night’s Summer Arts Evening! The balmy evening on the Front Field saw hundreds arriving with picnic blankets to enjoy a feast of entertainment covering a wealth of talented singing, dancing and drama performances. The event began with Pipe Major Ed Lee playing the bagpipes from the roof of the Rec!
Keeping up the tradition of wacky and wonderful, the Year 11 Leavers were stylish to the end as each made their entrance onto the red carpet on the Parade Square. Another evening of unforgettable entrances.
Congratulations to the Year 9 team for winning £1,000 for their chosen charity WAY Widowed and Young. The team (pictured in blue) were one of four taking part in the First Give event in which students choose a charity and raise money and awareness about it before giving a presentation on it to a panel of judges. The winning team were given £1,000 by First Give, an organisation that aims to engage students in social action. They were delighted to present the cheque to Joanna Sedley-Burke of WAY Widowed and Young.
Team building for our September intake of Year 7s who are here for their ‘Moving On Day’. We are welcoming over 100 students from 42 primary schools both in the UK and overseas who will be joining both as residential and day boarders in the new school year.
Students looking to join our Sixth Form in September are here for an Induction Day designed to give them a better understanding of their A Level journey at Gordon's. DfE results for Surrey show that our students are more likely to get into a top university than from any other state school. Please click here to find out more about the Sixth Form and to book your Open Event place.
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