Outstanding in every category! The OFSTED Boarding Report from their inspection last month, found:

*Students are exemplary, and they are a credit to this boarding school.

*Students thrive and make excellent progress because of the genuine and nurturing relationships they have with boarding staff.

*Staff encourage students to develop new talents and skills and to participate in invigorating opportunities.

*The boarding accommodation is of a very high standard and provides a homely feel.

The OFSTED team also quoted one student as saying:  ‘It is like home from home.’

This latest OFSTED report marks at least the seventh time in a row that the school - winner of the Times Educational Supplement (Tes) Boarding School of the Year Award in 2022 - has been judged to be outstanding.

Headmaster Andrew Moss commented: “We are delighted to have achieved ‘outstanding’ once again. This is testament to the hard work of staff and students and the support of the whole school community".

To read the full report, please click here.

He last ran the London Marathon in 2016. Now Director of Sport Jamie Harrison is in training for his next and will pound the streets of London on Sunday 21^st of April to raise money for Bowel Cancer UK, as a tribute to his mother, who died of the disease in 2019. Today Mr Harrison launched his fundraising page, on what would have been his mother’s 69^th birthday. Mr Harrison (pictured here in the 2016 marathon) would welcome any donations, which can be made here. Bowel Cancer UK: Jamie's page (enthuse.com)

For his poem on the war in Gaza, Franklyn French-Flynn has won the Woking Rotary Club’s Young Writer’s Competition on the theme of ‘Rebuilding’. The 12 year old will now go forward to the District final. “I thought about the rebuilding they will have to do after the war because there is a lot of damage being done to people's lives”, said Franklyn.
Though he “loves sport”, Franklyn also enjoys English and wants any future career to feature writing. Last year, in the same competition, Gordon’s students took first, second and third places. This year the Young Writer’s Competition also feature three Gordon’s students in the top three with Daniella Tinegate taking second equal place and Alice Odam and Tara Udassi third equal.

Please see below for Franklyn's entry:

Two Gordonians, both working for Evelyn Partners, both studying to be Associate Chartered Accountants but arriving there on different pathways. Abigail Jones and Inaara Oliver came back to school today as part of National Apprenticeship Week to talk to students about their journeys to the UK's seventh largest accountancy firm. Inaara obtained a first class degree in Accounting and Finance at Royal Holloway. Abi, who left Gordon’s with three A*s in Maths, Business Studies and Psychology, embarked on a Level 7 apprenticeship with Evelyn Partners. The two, who sit next to each other in the firm’s Guildford office, discovered by chance that they were both Gordonians! Today as well as providing students with an insight into their jobs and pathways into them, they reconnected with their former teachers Mark Eaden, Head of Maths and James Hamilton, Head of Business Studies and Economics.

For a full list of events for National Apprenticeship Week, please click here.

The First World War Battlefields for students in Year 9 today, who are visiting the Thiepval Memorial to missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme, and Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery as well as museums at Passchendaele and Ypres Salient.