Firstly, I would like to congratulate the cadets who
competed at the RAF Air Squadron Trophy Competition at the weekend. A few weeks ago they won the regional finals
gaining a place at the national finals as the best school from the South East. Sadly, they did not place overall but they
did come 3rd in the Knowledge section. Despite not placing the cadets should certainly
be very proud of their achievements, and thank you to Mr Moores and Mr Parish
for accompanying them.
Also, can I thank the many parents, staff, students and
friends of the school who took part in the Parents’ Association Quiz last
Friday. It was an enjoyable evening and
congratulations to Real Ale Madrid who won.
I particularly would like to thank the PA, Mrs Friend, Hayden of Year 11
and the Sixth Form Prefects who all helped support the evening. The PA raised over £1500. The next PA event is the Spring Fair on
Saturday 30th March starting at 10.30am. Do come along.
Congratulations to the Senior Rugby 7s Squad who won the
Kent 7s Plate last Wednesday beating Judd in the final. Well done lads and thank you Mr Hathaway for
your on-going support.
Yesterday four students from Year 11 competed in the
Mathematics Challenge Final and six students across different year groups took
part in the Kent Public Speaking Competition, both at Invicta Grammar
School. At the Public Speaking
Competition Matthew Wesson of College House came runner up in the Upper School
section, and Connor Anthonissen of Corpus Christi House won the Lower School
section. Well done to all of those
students for taking part.
Tonight we welcome parents of Year 13 to the Year 13 Parents’
Evening. Tonight is an opportunity for
those parents to hear from subject teachers and for the teachers to give the
students a last ‘push’ before they leave to begin their examinations in
May. Not long now.
Tomorrow we welcome some primary school students into MGS to
take part in our Primary Outreach Debating Event. We have run the event for the last few years
with great success; the special thing about it being it is predominantly run by
our sixth form debating students. We
look forward to welcoming the young students tomorrow.
This week there are two events for students looking at road
safety. On Thursday Year 7 take part in
the KCC Road Safety ‘Streetwise’ event and on Friday Year 12 take part in the
‘No Turning Back’ event. This latter
event is one of the best resources I have seen being used to educate young
drivers on the safety of driving. It is
hard-hitting and certainly encourages the students to think about the possible
dangers of driving.
And on Friday it is the annual Comic Relief Appeal. Like any MGS charity day, the usual fun will
be had, cakes will be sold, staff will make a fool of themselves, and for this
year Henry and Dan, the school captain and school vice-captain, will be going
round together in a ‘two-head hole’ jumper.
The usual non-uniform and a £1 contribution will also apply. Many thanks in advance for all of the
support.
