Our drummers and pipers, on tour in Scotland, visited the National Piping Centre's bagpipe museum followed by a bespoke workshop with the world's leading piping and drumming experts. Today it’s the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming to work alongside military pipers.
The National Piping Centre is the first stop for some of our Pipes and Drums Band who have headed to Scotland on a five day tour. The visit will include a bespoke workshop with the world's leading piping and drumming experts as well as the opportunity to work alongside military pipers at the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming. The group will also watch a Beating Retreat performed by Robert Gordon's College at Holyrood Palace and play alongside Robert Gordon's College Pipe Band.
Inspired by the London Marathon fundraising run achieved by Buckingham Head of House Jamie Sinclair, the Bethune family have set themselves a challenge to raise £3,000 to equip the new sports hub and all-weather pitch for Gordon’s School and the local community. The family of five will undertake a sponsored cycle ride from Gordon’s to Brighton – just under 90 kilometres on Saturday 15th June. Isla, aged 14 and her brother Lachlan, aged 12 – both boarders at Gordon’s - will attempt the feat with their parents Gavin and Celia and younger sister Bea, aged 8. Please support them. Visit their fundraising page: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/BethuneCycleRide. For more information on the new sports hub and all-weather pitch, please click here.
Viennese whirls were the order of the day for the coveted Inter-House Baking award for Years 7-10. Each had to produce at least six identical creations and the results were delicious! Windsor House made the winning combination of taste, looks and texture. In congratulating them, competition judge Paul Hopkins, Gordon’s Head of Catering said that theirs were as good as, if not better than any he’d sampled before.
Pictures of the Colour Run are available to view and buy from the website. Please click here.
As the National Memorial to General Charles Gordon and reflecting a proud association with the Royal Engineers, the Gordon’s entry into the RHS Garden Wisley Scarecrow Competition features a ‘Lest we Forget’ theme. The Gardening Club has been busy growing poppies (and borrowing a CCF uniform!) for their scarecrow which will be on display at Wisley in the event which runs from Saturday 25th May to Sunday 5th June.
It’s another gold for our PE and Sports Department! For the fifth consecutive year the department has been awarded the Gold Mark – making Gordon’s the only school in the county to have done so. This Government-led award recognises a school’s commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community. Gordon’s currently offers dozens of different sporting and adventurous pursuits and has a proud heritage for producing sportsmen and women at county; national and international levels. Students compete in a range of competitions and events in many sporting disciplines including equestrian; rowing and karting. The new sports hub planned for 2020 will enable students to take part in even more competitive events and extend the range on offer.
Colourful, messy and the best of fun! Over 200 students took part in today’s colour run raising almost £1,000 for local charities including Eikon and Pride in Surrey.
Athletics gets off to a running start with a 37 year old school record for the 1500 metres smashed by Year 8 student L Hewson. The same student who holds the Year 7 records for 800; 1500 and 3000 metres shaved 13 seconds off Gordonian S Jee’s school record set in 1982. Congratulations! To view all Girls’ and Boys’ Athletics Records, please click here.
The Bishop of Guildford, The Right Reverend Andrew Watson visited for a double celebration in the school’s beautiful Victorian Chapel – the 125th Dedication Anniversary and the restoration of its stained glass windows. The Bishop, who is Vice-President of the Gordon Foundation, the charitable arm of the school, addressed a congregation of staff, students, parents and Gordonians. The Chapel, a Grade II Listed building was erected at the insistence of Queen Victoria in memory of her grandson the Duke of Clarence and Avondale. Two years ago it was found that conservation work needed to be carried out on the windows and a fundraising target of £28,000 was set. Thanks to contributions from parents, staff, Gordonians; the collection from the retiring Chaplain the Reverend Denis Robinson and donations from the Rowan Bentall Charitable Trust and Allchurches Trust Limited, the windows have been restored. Pictured outside the St Edward the Confessor Chapel after the Service are (left to right): Susan Meikle Gordon’s Bursar; The Reverend Sarah Norbron, Gordon’s School Chaplain; The Bishop of Guildford and Vice President of the Gordon Foundation The Right Reverend Andrew Watson and Head Teacher Andrew Moss. For more information on the Chapel, please click here.
Our two teams completed their 35 mile trek across Dartmoor in excellent times, all qualifying for the Ten Tors Bronze Award. The challenge, which is the nation’s largest outdoor youth engagement event saw 400 teams of six teenagers spending two days on the moor. Gordon’s was represented by two teams of boys and girls who completed the challenge in 18 hours 34 minutes and 19 hours 11 minutes. Congratulations all 12. For full report and further pictures, please click here.
It’s back! The colour run is returning this Friday. This paint-filled, messy, carnival of fun is open to all students for an entry fee of £4 which will be given to local charities including Eikon and Surrey Pride. See Box Office for further details and to enter.
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