Tuesday 13th November 2018

 I cannot start this week’s blog without first acknowledging the conduct of every single MGS student at last Friday’s Remembrance Service.  Standing in front of the entire school community at this year’s special service was a very humbling experience.  I felt very proud to be able to call myself a Maidstonian.  Thank you to everyone - it was a very important day for Maidstone Grammar School.  This feeling was again felt at Sunday’s Remembrance Service in Maidstone when the entire CCF paraded past the town’s memorial.  78 members of the CCF paraded in Maidstone to commemorate the centenary of the end of WWI.  Flight Sargent Ben Roffe, Head of RAF section, laid a wreath on behalf of the Contingent. The wreath bore the inscription 'forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit'; and CSM William Hulme, Head of Army section, acted as assistant to The Lord-Lieutenant of Kent, accompanying him at the St George Memorial.

 

Also at the weekend the rugby squads were out in force this time against Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School.  There were three home wins from the U15 and U12A & B teams and one away win from the 1^st XV.  The boys responded extremely well following last week’s results against Dartford Grammar.  Well done boys.  

 

This week should a relatively quiet one.  Tomorrow, parents of year 12 students are invited in to attend the GCSE Certificate Presentation Afternoon.  Year 12 students, who attended MGS last year, will be presented with their GCSE certificates at a special presentation ceremony.  It is so important that their success is acknowledged, and it is pleasing that their parents will be present.

 

This Friday is the first whole school charity day in aid of BBC Children in Need.  The usual non-uniform arrangements will be in place, as well as the selling of cakes, but this year the sixth form students are planning a 12-hour non-stop game of cross bar football.  There will be tired legs on Saturday!  Thank you to everyone who has already helped organise the day.