Introduced to swimming when she was just three months old, Sophia Bastajian, now 11 years old, is making waves in artistic swimming (formerly known as synchronised swimming). She and her twin sister Katie train eight hours every week either on land for flexibility and core strength or in the water, where they work on figures and routine. They are both heading towards competing in the National Age groups this season. Sophia has recently achieved Grade 2 in both figures and routine and was awarded the Barbara Field Award by her club, the Rushmoor Artistic Swimming Club. She says: “The big dream is to compete at the Olympic Games. You have to be committed to doing it and put the time and effort into it”.

Sixth place in the IWWF World Cable Wakeboard and Wakeskate Championships in France for Marley O’Toole (pictured in action, courtesy of IWWF), to finish off a fantastic season. Marley, who competes in both the GB Boat and Cable teams has also achieved Gold in the Nautique Wake Open, UK Boat Nationals and UK Cable Nationals and silver in the European Boat Championships. Congratulations Marley!

Making his debut for the Gordon’s Golf Team, Jonnie Summerfield beat his closest rivals in the National ISGA Schools Cup to become the individual gross winner by one shot! Jonnie, playing off a handicap of three, had five birdies in his one under par round of 69. In the Scratch/Gross Team Competition, Gordon’s A Team finished third, just three shots off the first placed team and Gordon’s B Team were placed tenth. Congratulations all!

 

 

A day of getting to know each other through team building exercises for students in Year 7 today, who headed to the Surrey Hills for some high ropes, rock climbing and adventure. The Year 12 intake have also been put through their paces as part of their induction day.

PLEASE NOTE: THE YEAR 7 STUDENTS ARE NOW EXPECTED TO RETURN TO SCHOOL AT 17.40.

Delighted GCSE students learned of their results today, with four fifths achieving a ‘strong’ pass of five or better.

The historic ‘gold standard’ of five or more GCSE grades, including English and maths were attained by nine out of ten students, with over half graded 9-7 and 84 per cent were graded 9-5.

Almost half the year group achieved the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), with the average point score (EBacc, APS) of 5.94.

Among the delighted students was the school’s Head of Modern Foreign Languages, Simon Depoix who achieved a 9 in his Mandarin GCSE!

Last week A Level students at the non-selective, co-educational day and boarding school learned that they had excelled with nearly 90% achieving A*-C.

For full results, please click here.

A return to the hallowed turf at Lord’s cricket ground for Izzy Moors and Abi Shaw-Hales, two leading lights of the Gordon’s girls’ cricket team and Valley End Cricket Club, who also turn out for the MCC Foundation Guildford Hub.

The Guildford Hub, one of 126 hubs in the UK to take part in the MCC National Hub Competition, once again reached the finals at Lord’s with Abi Shaw-Hales captaining the side once more.

After a thrilling encounter, Guildford beat Bradford by four wickets, becoming the first team in the history of the competition to win two consecutive finals! The girls were presented with their medals by England Captain Heather Knight.

Reflecting on the lead up to the finals, Abi said: “We had a strong team again this year, and were hopeful that we could do it.  Due to rain and concessions, we didn't play as many game as in previous years though”. 

She paid tribute to Izzy’s contribution to the final score, for her “great bowling” which kept the opposition’s run rate low and described captaining a “great team” as the “highlight”.

She added: “There is always an excitement about walking out onto the pitch at Lords - something you never forget.  It was nerve wracking as we were going in as defending champions.  Our opposition had won the competition in 2021, so we knew it would be a tough match.  We wanted to be the first team to win it in two consecutive years!”