A huge thank you to the parents, staff and students who helped support the MGS Parents’ Association Summer Fair on Saturday. The weather held for a glorious day of fun and food, with many attendees going home with a souvenir of their day. Thank you all very much for coming along.
Even though many of our year 11 and year 13 students finished their exams last week, yesterday marked the official end of them. Well done to all the students and thank you to the huge staff team that supported the students along the way. Now they can all have a good rest.
Yesterday we welcomed over 200 students to MGS to take part in our Sixth Form Induction Week. Throughout this week students thinking of joining the MGS Sixth Form will experience what it is like being a sixth from student. They will have lessons in their chosen subjects, opportunities to use the library and sixth form common room, and take part in a few ‘getting to know’ you activities. We hope they have a good week.
On Thursday we are looking forward to the Summer Showcase which will include a number of music and drama performances including extracts from Aladdin. Do come along. It starts at 6.30pm in the Big Hall.
On Friday we acknowledge the end of Pride Month with an MGS BBQ in the Quad and a performance from The Madam, a local cabaret drag act, who will sing a few songs and talk about her life.
Congratulations to Lucas of Tonbridge House who won this year’s Year 7-9 Spelling Bee Competition. He won a £20 Amazon voucher and 120 points for his house. The runner-up was Mark of Barton House. Well done to both of them, and thank you to Miss Wilson, Mr Highsted and Mr Amin for their help.
Congratulations must also go to Theo R of Corpus Christi House who won the Kent Schools U15 800m race two weeks ago and won the Inter County Schools 800m last Saturday. He has been selected to run at the English Schools Athletics Competition in Manchester in a couple of weeks. Well done Theo.
Finally, from Icarus in the Archives, did you know in 1932, the year that the Sydney Harbour Bridge was opened, the first Mars bar was sold and the first Christmas broadcast was made by the monarch, the MGS swimming pool was opened? Sadly, the swimming pool was replaced many years ago with two tennis courts.
