Two home wins for the First and Second VII netball teams, competing in the first rounds of national competitions. In the Independent Schools Netball Cup against Putney High the First Team scored 38-32. For the Second VII against Downe House in Sister n Sport, the score was 39-27. Congratulations both.
A clean sweep in four national golf events for Gordon’s golfers. The B Team won 3-0 in the first round of the national Independent School Golf Association (ISGA) Singles Knockout against Hurtwood House. In the National Schools Golf competition, competing against 70 golfers from across the South of England yesterday, four golfers were in the top ten of the scratch event with victories in the individual scratch and stableford competitions and the Team event. Congratulations all – a great start to the season!
For the third year in a row, Khartoum House has clinched the boys' cross country running. The event, the first of this year's Inter-House challenges, saw the boys in burgundy make the top three of every year group running with first places achieved by Year 8s, 9s and 11s. Tomorrow the girls take to the Back Field for their cross country event.
Her compelling story of a child experiencing the Ukrainian War, made it to the top 60 out of 600, in the BBC Young Writers’ Award with Cambridge University. Kate Brazendale (pictured above in her role as Mary Poppins in the school production) said: “I chose the topic of the Ukrainian war because I wanted to put myself in the shoes of a child growing up in such a tragic situation. I wrote this in the mist of the war in March when the news was full of headlines about it and I thought it would be a great topic to research". To read her story, please click here.
Congratulations to the U14 cricket team, winners of the Surrey Schools’ Cricket Association Cup Final - for the second year in a row! Gordon’s scored 101/6 in the final against Kingsdale’s 99/7.
The importance Gordon’s places on oracy in the curriculum has led to a national award from the English Speaking Union. The School has been Highly Commended for the Oracy Culture Award. New Year 7 students are currently taking part in a Talk The Talk Workshop to develop their oracy skills and academic activities such as LAMDA, MUN (Model United Nations); debating and public speaking have grown in popularity and success.
Silver for Alex Platt in the English Swimming Championships in the 50 metre freestyle event and an 11th place in the 100 metre freestyle in the U13 age group. She and her brother Ben, were also selected to race in the Surrey County relays this month and Alex will represent Surrey in the Swim England National County Team Championships in October. Congratulations both!
Honoured to have taken part in the Memorial Service at RAF Lakenheath for those that lost their lives in the events of 9/11. Members of the Pipes and Drums, invited and hosted by 494 Fighter Squadron, were humbled to have taken part in their poignant commemorations. Students were also given the opportunity to tour around the aircraft and watch them take off, as well as learning about what goes on in the control room.
The chance watching of a documentary on Mormonism has led to the winning of a national competition for Sixth Form student Zoe Legge.
Zoe has long-maintained an interest in religion and social anthropology, developing a fascination for the Mormon Church after watching ‘Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey’. And when she heard about the Massolit video essay competition, in association with Brasenose College, Oxford, she decided to enter, using Mormonism as her subject.
Over 200 students in Years 10, 11 and 12 from across the UK took part in the competition to produce a video lecture of around eight to 12 minutes on any academic topic. Zoe’s video was picked as the winner by the judges and she will travel to Oxford University this month to be presented with £200 in vouchers as well as the opportunity for her video essay to be professionally filmed, edited and featured on massolit.io as a teaching resource.
Last year Zoe was in the top 100 entrants from across the world for Foyle’s Young Poets of the Year Award and won first place in the Rotary Young Writer competition. A passionate champion of and participant in the creative arts, she played one of the leading roles in the school’s production of Made in Dagenham and is keen to audition for the next whole school musical as well as provide her expertise in the up-coming lower school productions.
Currently studying for four A Levels, she hopes for a career in investigative journalism and said of Mormonism: “It is really important to spread knowledge about the Mormon Church.
“It’s so easy to get misinformation these days. TicToc spreads a lot of false information and we need to start looking at the facts”.
Welcome to our new Residential Boarders beginning their journey at Gordon’s today. Tomorrow our new Year 12 and Year 7 Day Boarders arrive with lessons beginning on Thursday for all students. If you’re new to Gordon’s, perhaps worried about how you will fit in, here’s a short video showing how we’re all equally different but all part of Gordon’s. Best of luck to all our returning and new students for the new academic year.
A summer of sailing for Kaitlyn Wyatt, who has travelled across Europe since breaking up from school, to compete in international sailing competitions.
The Gordon’s Sixth Form student headed to Poland to take part in the ILCA6 Youth European Championships, in the Women’s Olympic Class dinghy. This was only her third regatta at this level, finishing fourth amongst the GB team.
Two weeks later, she was flying to Greece for the ILCA4 Youth World Championships with little wind, wild fires, and a smaller sail! There, Kaitlyn finished third amongst the GB female competitors.
Kaitlyn, who has only been sailing for five years, returned to the UK and Hayling Island for the ILCA National Championships, back in the ILCA6 the Olympic dinghy, she was up against all age groups in mixed gender racing over six days, finishing fifth female overall and second U19.
