Easter and Summer Holiday Camps return to Gordon's offering Easter and Summer Holiday Camps return to Gordon's offering sport (football, netball, rugby) and performing arts to children aged between 9 and 16 years old. For further information and to book, click here.
Through to the national finals of the Springboard Future Chef competition, Matilda Spink whose sea bass tortellini with rocket pesto and her deconstructed lemon meringue pie catapulted her to the top spot in the regional final today in Brighton. Matilda will now take on the best of the rest of the UK in March at Westminster Catering College.
Senior Prefects from Gordon’s and Blenheim High joining forces for the second of two days of their ILM (Institute of Leadership and Management) Level 3 Award. The students must complete the two units of problem solving and decision making and developing yourself and others for the industry -recognised leadership and management award.
Fourteen diverse careers represented for the Year 10 Careers Speed Networking event in which they had just four minutes in which to guess the profession of the person sitting in front of them! Alongside a general practitioner and physiotherapist were a range of professions including an environmental health officer, head of health economics and global benefits and wellbeing director. A further four minutes with each visitor allowed students the chance for more quizzing. Thank you to all our parent volunteers for giving up their time for this popular careers event.
Next week sees National Apprenticeship Week at Gordon's with a host of events and opportunities for students including speakers as well as the Careers Fair. Please click here for the full line up.
For Ned Hewson his 18th birthday means just one thing – he will then be able to run in marathons!
The A Level student has already signed up to the Brighton Marathon, which takes place soon after his milestone birthday. So, between now and April 6th he’s grasping any opportunity to train, venturing out on 5km, 10km and now 15km runs. No mean feat when he has also been performing his duties as Head Boy, House Captain, Deputy Head of House; as well as learning lines and rehearsing for one of the lead roles in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and studying for his A Levels in PE, economics and drama!
Ned’s determination to run the marathon is to raise money and awareness for the mental health charity MIND. He says: “I have chosen this mental health charity 'Mind' due to the difficulties I have been exposed to throughout my life. Just like everyone in the world, I have had my share of ups and downs but I believe that the ups are often spoken about more than the downs; when actually both are just as important in making someone the person they are today. I have decided to embark on this journey to prove to myself and all of you that we are capable of overcoming any challenge we face and that sometimes you need to have moments of pain to experience the times of glory and greatness."
"I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported me with my struggles with mental health and everyone who will be supporting Mind through my journey for this marathon.”
As well as setting himself the target of raising £2,025, Ned is also hoping to finish the marathon in under four hours!
Ned can be sponsored using this link.
Lessons in history and maths as Year 12 A Level students visited Bletchley Park, the centre of allied code breaking during the Second World War. The maths students learned about the history of the code breakers such as the founder of modern computing Alan Turing, and how they cracked the Enigma, which played a crucial part in ending the war against Germany.
The Pipes and Drums taking part in the Last Post Association service at the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Belgium on Saturday evening. Earlier on the students visited St George's Memorial Chapel (below) for a service conducted by the school Chaplain, the Reverend Graham Wright to remember the 156 Gordonians who died during World War One.
The school's character values represented in cakes and biscuits! That was the task facing some students in Years 8 and 9 today in the Arete baking competition. The group produced some imaginative and delicious results, winning both their categories, with Year 9 girls also seizing victory with their biscuits!
Privileged to welcome Baron Robert Winston for a fascinating talk and question and answer session with Sixth Form students. The professor, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter and Labour peer answered wide ranging questions from a mixture of psychology, sociology and biology students on ethics, epigenetics, genetics and gene editing. Head of Psychology Gurdeep Bilkhu, pictured (left) with Baron Winston said: “What makes today even more special is that Lord Winston is generously sharing his time and expertise with us out of his own good will. We are deeply humbled by his unwavering commitment to advancing science and education”. Also pictured is sociology teacher Bethan Sage and students.
A sweet treat for January with the school's production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory playing to capacity audiences over three nights at the Rhoda McGaw Theatre in Woking. Audiences have been blown away by the professionalism of the cast of student actors. Thanks to West End Garage Kia a further treat for theatre-goers in the form of WonKIA bars. Who has won the golden ticket?
From St Paul’s Cathedral to the Front Field at Gordon’s. Today piper Amber Wright performed the lament and the School Chaplain, the Reverend Graham Wright conducted a short service on what would have been General Gordon’s 192nd birthday. A wreath was laid at the foot of the Gordon Statue, by Gordonian Officer Harriet Turk. The quiet, intimate service follows similar ones held in the past two weeks at the Gordon Statue on the Thames Embankment; the memorial at Westminster Abbey and monument at St Paul’s Cathedral for the Pipes and Drums Tour marking 140 years of the school as the National Memorial to the war hero and philanthropist.
