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Posted on 16 Aug, 2019 | Comments Off

GCSE Results’ Day: ...

GCSE Results’ Day is Thursday 22nd August. All our GCSE students can collect their results papers in the Sixth Form Centre from 9.30am until 11.30am. Results will not be given over the telephone under any circumstances. Students wishing for a relative or friend to collect their results must send a signed letter of authorisation with the collector or alternatively,...

Posted on 15 Aug, 2019 | Comments Off

Superb Outcomes: A-level ...

Congratulations to Great Marlow School (GMS) students on a fantastic set of results, in their A-levels and Vocational courses, at the end of Year 13. Celebrations have been in full flow at GMS today as students received their results. There were scenes of great excitement as nearly three quarters of students achieved grades A*-C in their A2 examinations and well over...

Posted on 1 Aug, 2019 | Comments Off

Yr 8 Tanzania Charity

The Tanzania charity have been proactive in their work this summer. In July two volunteers travelled out to Ifunda, where they visited Kelvin and Martha at their school. These two students are the children that GMS sponsor, enabling them to have an education. The volunteers report that both students are well, which cannot be taken for granted in Tanzania, and both...

Posted on 28 Jul, 2019 | Comments Off

UCAS Drop Down Day for Ye...

An article for the website written by Freddie Sheppard in Year 12. All sixth form students took place in a ‘drop-down’ UCAS day. Students were given information regarding the next steps after formal education at school, as the sun begins to set on our time in compulsory education. The day began with a group session where the heads of sixth form, Mr Hollyman and...

Posted on 28 Jul, 2019 | Comments Off

Music Summer Concert

A Year 7 student, Abiha Khurram,writes about the Summer Concert. The summer concert was amazing! It was a concert where students from GMS were able to show off their musical skills: singing and playing instruments. I sang ‘Flashlight’ by Jessie J. It was extremely terrifying on stage, but Mr Beveridge calmed me down. Thankfully, as soon as I began singing...

Posted on 28 Jul, 2019 | Comments Off

Music & Final Assemb...

Music has provided much pleasure this academic year in GMS. As a finale students from all year groups played to assemblies: a huge thank you goes to all the musicians concerned. In Year 7, Nina Rasmussen, Joseph Windal and Leo Hazlem; from Year 8 Arther McDonald and Blossom Martin; from Year 9 Ben Coles, Liam Vass, Oliver Webb and Rocco Di Monda; from Year 10 Aidan...

Posted on 28 Jul, 2019 | Comments Off

Vaccination in Secondary ...

The Buckinghamshire School’s Immunisation Team, part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, has informed parents and carers that there is to be change in the delivery of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination in all secondary schools. The childhood immunisation schedule is changing in the way it’s delivered from September 2019. From that date the HPV...

Posted on 24 Jul, 2019 | Comments Off

French Day: Holy Trinity ...

At the end of June, the MFL Department was asked to go and help at Holy Trinity’s French day for their Year 6. Miss King and Miss Zuccarello took along three Year 11 pupils, Jack Britnell, Cariad Lucas and Anna Bradley, who eagerly volunteered to put their school uniform back on after finishing their GCSE exams, to help out on the day. They were also accompanied by...

Posted on 21 Jul, 2019 | Comments Off

July 100 Club Winner

Congratulations goes to Jill Hickey who has won the final 100 Club draw for this school year. A cheque for £139.00 has been sent. This is the final draw for the 100 Club this academic year. The Friends of Great Marlow, along with the grateful recipients of the school, thanks all those who joined the 100 Club: all the money raised has been an invaluable help in...

Posted on 19 Jul, 2019 | Comments Off

Yr8 Hat Show

Johnny Green has written for the website. The Hat Show was a great end of year task for the Year 8s. It brought out confidence, team work and resilience in pupils who are normally shy, as they were allowed to work on a group project with their friends. My job was team leader, as group leader I took control of organising all that needed to be done. Luckily, as there...