Update on Awarding of Grades Summer 2021 for Year 11 & 13 Students

Update 20-1-21 On the ‘Parent & Carers’ –> Letters Home page we have uploaded the latest letter, which was emailed to Year 11 & 13 parent/carers and students on the 20th January. This details the government’s current plans for the awarding of grades this summer. Following the announcement regarding the cancellation of the summer 2021 examinations for GCSE and A-level subjects, Ofqual and the DfE has now released a joint consultation on how grades should be awarded this...

Posted on 20 Jan, 2021 | Comments Off

Thought for the Week TFTW

Thought for the Week is an important part of the school’s moral and ethical teaching framework. In this lockdown, this feature of school life continues. Every week the website is pleased to be part of delivering this to you, via a post with a link to the Working from Home site, where TFTW can be found. You can view the TFTW...

Posted on 8 Jan, 2021 | Comments Off

New Mental Health Resourc...

A prominent mental health practitioner, Dr Lucy Russell (Everlief’s clinical lead), has developed some brand new self-help resources to support parents and carers with children who are struggling. The resources below offer strategies to support a child, at a time when the demand on local mental health services is stretched. For all Ages Theyarethefuture is a...

Posted on 4 Jan, 2021 | Comments Off

Christmas Bakes from Food...

In the run-up to Christmas, there was some festive fun over in the Food & Nutrition Department preparing some delicious seasonal bakes. Here are a few of their delicious looking outcomes. Marley McCann Yr10 – Chocolate Yule Log Richard Walker Yr11- Stained glass window star biscuits Lewis Wragg Yr10 – Chocolate Yule Log Fynn Horner...

Posted on 29 Dec, 2020 | Comments Off

Bronze DofE

GMS and the Duke of Edinburgh promoters are delighted with the progress of the award so far: it is well underway, and students are participating in the weekly volunteering, physical and skills activities they have chosen for themselves. Many thanks to all parents and carers who have supported this in order for it to have happened so successfully. Helen Murray asks...

Posted on 29 Dec, 2020 | Comments Off

12 Online Safety Tips: Na...

The 12 Online Safety Tips. The attachment here gives 12 welcome safety ideas for keeping our children safe online. It focuses on Christmas, but the advice is true at all times. 12 Online Safety Tips NOS. More valuable ideas can be viewed from the shared National Online Safety website that GMS subscribes to. Take time to read how to help our children stay safe...

Posted on 14 Dec, 2020 | Comments Off

Bikes: Appeal for Bikes

As part of their continued effort to provide a PE curriculum that best suits the needs of all students, the PE Department have taken the decision to include mountain-biking as part of the Year 9 and 10 PE core curriculum. Once underway (planned for January 2021), the activity will be developed further by offering an extra-curricular mountain-biking club as well. The...

Posted on 14 Dec, 2020 | Comments Off

GMS, Borlase and RGS Race

On Saturday 12th December the three local rowing schools gathered at Longridge for another local derby. Of the five events where there was direct competition, GMS won three, by an average winning margin of around 14 seconds. We came second in the Year 11 Boys’ Quads, by far the closest race of the day: just 1.5 seconds, between first and second place. The boat...