Gold for Joshua Thompson, who won the 100m breaststroke for Gordon’s in the Surrey Schools Individual Swimming Championships recently. The Sixth Form student, who trains five times a week and is a member of Woking Swimming Club, is hoping for place in the Nationals. Congratulations and best of luck!
A major three year charity initiative was launched at Gordon’s this week, linking the school with the Camelthorn Foundation, a UK-based charity which supports global community and conservation projects including one based in Zimbabwe, Southern Africa. Gordon's School has pledged to fundraise for building a boarding block for girls at Ngamo School, to be called Gordon's House, so these children no longer have to sleep on the floor of accommodation provided for teachers. The initiative is part of the Gordon's Vision 2025, which calls for the school to be a symbol of what can be achieved by a community united in making an outstanding contribution for the good of global society. Please click here to read more about this exciting project.
Congratulations to Jayda and Pippa, picked for the Roses Invitational side at the Europe Netball U17 Championship. Jayda, who will captain the side and Pippa will play at the competition in Newcastle next month.
Congratulations to our U15 girls' cricket team, champions of the North West Surrey Indoor Cricket Tournament, after winning all three of their games. The girls, from Years 9 and 10 played eight overs in each game, putting on a talented display of both bowling and batting.
The Disney classic Beauty and the Beast arrives at Gordon’s tonight for the first of three sell-out performances. The whole school musical production, complete with outsized teapots and talking clocks and candles comes just a month after the lower school’s Matilda Jr and is a magical celebration of the talented students in the Drama Department, both on the stage and in the production team.
Gordon’s School returned to Whitehall today for the annual Parade in memory of General Charles Gordon in whose honour the school was founded. The Parade, along one of London’s most iconic streets, was cancelled due to the pandemic last year, for the first time in living memory. But the 200 students together with the Pipes and Drums, more than made up for the missed event as they made their way along Whitehall to the General Gordon statue on the banks of the Thames. There, wreaths were laid on behalf of the Gordon family; the Gordonians and Governors, Trustees; staff and students.
A perennial problem for some, putting on extra pounds after Christmas. But for Sixth Former Jake Wright, his post-Christmas weight has increased by 20 kilos! Jake started wearing a 20kg weighted vest on 1st January and will continue until the end of the month in a bid to raise as much money as he can for the men’s mental health charity ManUp? The teenager, who wears the vest all the time, except when sleeping and showering, researched a number of charities before picking ManUp?, which aims to change minds about men’s mental health. Jake says the extra weight has caused him some pain in his calves, shoulders and lower back but “I wanted to put myself through something difficult because of what other guys are going through”. To support Jake’s fundraising appeal please click here.
Twenty four students from Woking schools received awards recently from the Institute of Leadership and Management.
Gordon’s School and Woking High School, both members of the Arete Partnership of schools, collaborated on the training which is designed to develop leadership and management skills for a recognised qualification. The ILM Level 2 Leadership and Team Skills certificates were presented to students from the two schools at an awards ceremony at Gordon’s, attended by the Headteacher of Gordon’s, Andrew Moss and Woking High School’s Headteacher Maiken Walter.
Mr Moss described the group as the “next aspiring leaders” and said that the ethos behind the awards was “leading for a reason, not just for yourself but to try and serve other people”.
Congratulations all on your awards!
Top shots James West, Zoe and Henry Chedd, have made their way to the national finals of the British Shooting Schools competition. Team Gordon’s achieved the best school score in the South East Region when they competed in the 10m air rifles with James’s individual score topping the South East region’s intermediate category and Zoe’s best in the region’s Junior category. Congratulations all and much luck for the finals next month in Staffordshire!
Congratulations to Gordonian Hannah Russell, awarded an OBE in the New Years Honours List. The 24 year old was recognised after achieving a gold medal at last year's Paralympic Games in Tokyo as she defended her 100m backstroke title. Hannah is pictured here with her former PE teachers Paul King and Jamie Harrison during a recent visit to the school.
