The Bronze Duke of Edinburgh’s Award assessed expedition at the weekend took place in the beautiful Berkshire countryside. On a sunny Saturday morning, 24th June, fifty-nine eager explorers were dropped off at the start point of their 2-day hike. The drop-off point was in the unusually named village of Hampstead Norreys, which nestles in an […]
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A welcome return for GMS to the Reading Blue Coat stretch of river happened over the weekend. The event organisers had added 300m to make it a total of 800m, three-a-breast on a stretch of river that is not very wide. Steering is greatly important, which proved evident when the steering of the GMS crew […]
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What a rowing weekend! On Friday 23rd June, GMS’s top crews participated in the Henley Royal Regatta qualifiers. Our Boys’ Quad, of Rafa Quinn, Lucas Gray, Sal Dunn and Ethan Hunt, had already qualified for the Fawley Challenge Cup; a Boys’ Eight was going for Princess Elizabeth; our Girls’ Quad was trying for the Diamond […]
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