Inflatables, dunk tanks, ice cream and face painting, to name but a few of the activities put on by the GSPA for this afternoon’s Fun Day. Great fun had by all, finished off with a colour run. Thank you Gordon's School Parents' Association.

Here's a short video from the afternoon:

Fascinating and diverse subjects studied by students, as part of their Extended Project Qualification (EPQ). Gordon’s wider curriculum requires all students to select a ‘plus one’. Some 70 students in Year 12 chose to study an EPQ, which challenges them to choose a subject of interest, carry out detailed research before producing a 5,000 word essay, reflective production log and perform a presentation to an audience.

They began the process in September and today submitted their project to their supervisor. Artificial intelligence in healthcare; ultra-processed foods; politics in Hong Kong; The Holodomor famine and the biggest impact in the lives of the Windrush generation, were just a few of dissertations handed in today. Pictured are some of the Sixth Form students and their dissertations with Head of Sixth Form Will Jones. For more information about Extended Project Qualification at Gordon's, please click here.

Two first places in international competitions for U20 discus thrower Teddy Gannon who now ranks number one in England and number 15 in Europe! The 18 year old, currently taking his A Levels, was competing for Great Britain in the Loughborough International Athletics followed by the Pickering Memorial Throws International, where he achieved a personal best with a throw of 55.82 metres.

A win against Eton College has secured Gordon’s a place in the SWIFTS HMC National Final – for the fifth time in the past six years! Team Gordon’s were playing a considerably stronger side (joint team handicaps before play were Gordon’s 39 shots over par v Eton College ten, giving a 29 shot difference in team handicaps to Eton College) at Worplesdon Golf Club. The first match, Ben and Sophie went to the 20th hole and the match was finally conceded having shot a joint one over par 72. Max and Lewy won on the 14th green shooting a joint 73, two over par. And Zach and Fraser shot a fantastic 74, three over par to win, having been three down after three holes! Congratulations all!

Commemorating 130 years since the opening of the School Chapel of St Edward the Confessor. The Chapel is dedicated to the Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the Prince of Wales’ eldest son and a supporter of the Gordon Boys’ Home, who died in a flu epidemic in 1892. The building  was instigated by Queen Victoria and among those attending the opening ceremony, led by the Bishop of Winchester on May 21^st 1894 was the Prince of Wales and General Gordon’s youngest sister Helen Moffitt. Today the School Chaplain, the Reverend Graham Wright held special commemorative Services in the Chapel for students. In which he spoke about the history of the chapel and boys’ home. As part of the commemorations, the plaque on the wall of the Chapel has been renovated.

Life in the Sixth Form annexe in one of the boarding Houses, depicted in a painting by Art Scholar Oluwatosin Osinibi, has been selected by the Royal Academy of Arts for their online Young Artists Exhibition this Summer. Oluwatosin’s A2 oil painting ‘Echoes of Presence’ shows three self portraits of the Year 12 student, socialising online, drawing, and working in her bedroom. Currently studying A Levels in Art, Physics and Maths, Oluwatosin created the painting during her 1:1 scholar sessions and it is one of 500 selected from 21,500 submissions. She said: “At that point in time I was doing a lot of self-portraits and I wanted to do something that explored my identity and who I am in one picture”.