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Silver & Bronze at National Long Distance Championships: Rowing

Posted on 23 Mar, 2023 in About GMS, Clubs, Events, General News, Trips

Over the last couple of school days, GMSBC has been competing at the National Long Distance ( Head) races. On Friday 17th March, the club entered three crews in the Schools Head, raced over the Championship Course from Chiswick Bridge to Putney (4 ¼ Miles). Our ‘upbeat’ senor girls crew of Erin...

Learn to Row: Sign Today

Posted on 23 Mar, 2023 in About GMS, Clubs, General News, Rowing, Trips

The very successful Learn to Row initiative is happening this Easter. Letters have been dispatched to all year groups and there is great hope that the uptake is as good and maybe exceeds that of previous years. If you would like your child to attend any of these afternoons at Longridge from April 13th...

Keep Britain Tidy Week

Posted on 20 Mar, 2023 in About GMS, Eco-School, Extra Curricular, General News, Trips

The Great British Spring Clean and Great Big School Clean 2023 is this week from 17 March to 2 April. Everyone can play their part: collect rubbish and bin it. Pick up litter on the school site; litter on the way to and from school; litter in the street of the area in which you live. GMS calls on all in the...

Eco-Warrior Writing Competition

Posted on 20 Mar, 2023 in About GMS, Eco-School, Extra Curricular, General News

A recent writing competition to promote ways of making Marlow more Eco-Friendly had a number of interesting entries, which we are pleased to showcase below. Well done to the students whose work is published here for engaging with the task and for having such good ideas, or for finding ideas that chimed with...

Poetry Live

Posted on 17 Mar, 2023 in About GMS, Curriculum, English, Events, General News, Key Stage 4, Trips, Trips Reviews

Poetry Live Reviews. On 28th February, 70 Year 11 students travelled to Oxford for the annual Poetry Live event. The website is delighted that two students have reviewed the event for us because it gives us all a flavour of what they experienced. “At Poetry Live we were able to experience readings...