Sports’ Awards: Fri 6th Nov

Annually, the PE Department host a Sports’ Award Evening to celebrate all the fantastic effort, commitment and successes of our GMS students. This year, due to Covid19, the award ceremony will be presented virtually and include a series of memorable video montages, photos, and citations. All the features will be available for viewing on the school website from Friday 6th November. Those producing the media for this special virtual sports award have worked hard to include as many of the traditional...

Posted on 16 Sep, 2020 in About GMS, Events, Featured

GMS’s Virtual Open Evening

Click image to view our Virtual Open Evening Great Marlow School (GMS) are delighted to announce that their 2020 Virtual Open Evening is now live! This is an exciting opportunity to visit our popular school in a new and accessible way that offsets the restrictions of Covid-19. Of course, touring the school is a vital part of Open Evening, so we are delighted to offer a virtual tour of the school to give prospective parents, carers and students an insight into the areas where learning happens: our...

Posted on 20 Oct, 2020 | Comments Off

Year 12 & 13 Parents...

Mr Hollyman invites all Year 12 and Year 13 parents and carers to a virtual online Parents’ Evening on Wednesday 4th November 2020. In keeping with the hours of other parent/carers evenings it will run from 4.30pm until 7.30pm. Booking can be made from 6.00pm on Tuesday 20th October. Especially, in this time of restricted access to school, this is an important...

Posted on 25 Oct, 2020 | Comments Off

100% Pass: DoE Celebrated

GMS have a thriving Duke of Edinburgh scheme, which has resulted in students acquiring leadership qualities alongside achievement, success and pride at achievement, in the expedition section of this prestigious award. This year, the Bronze award cohort completed their expedition training in March, just before lockdown. After a decision to restart expedition...

Posted on 25 Oct, 2020 | Comments Off

Book Fair 3/11-14/11 Libr...

GMS are committed to promoting reading, research in a government published document stated, “A growing number of studies show that promoting reading can have a major impact on children and adults and their future.” From the 3rd November until 14th November 2020, the annual GMS Library Book Fair will be held in the library. Year 7 and Year 8 students...

Posted on 21 Oct, 2020 | Comments Off

Year 9 DoE Deadline 6/11

Year 9 are invited to join the Duke of Edinburgh scheme. This award is internationally recognised; it is a voluntary, non-competitive programme of activities which gives young people the opportunity to experience new activities, or develop existing skills. Participating in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award at GMS enables our students to develop the skills and attitudes...

Posted on 21 Oct, 2020 | Comments Off

Winners: Head of Charles ...

The Head of the Charles is one of the most prestigious Head Races in the world, taking place every October in Boston, over 4750m down stream. This year the event was unable to run due to Covid, so they held a virtual race with all entries rowing 5 kilometres and entering their time as recorded on a SpeedCoach. A SpeedCoach is a sophisticated GPS enabled stopwatch,...

Posted on 21 Oct, 2020 | Comments Off

Year 7 Flu Vaccinations 4...

To assist GMS facilitating the Year 7 vaccinations on Wednesday 4th November (just after half term), we ask you to complete the online consent form. To make the process easy, the consent form can be accessed via any online device. Please click on the following link to go directly to the site https://www.buckschildimmunisations.co.uk/Forms/Flu GMS thanks you for your...

Posted on 20 Oct, 2020 | Comments Off

NEW 300 Club

FoGMS would like to invite all its members to join the NEW 300 Club Lottery! Over the years, as this has been such a successful initiative, FoGMS has decided to extend it to allow more members of our community to participate. The club is open to all families, friends, staff and governors past and present. All you need to do is choose your lucky number between 151 and...

Posted on 19 Oct, 2020 | Comments Off

Head of the River Success...

On 17th October, GMSBC took part in a Head of the River race with Borlase and The Royal Grammar School. The event was spread over three divisions to accommodate the 77 entries in different classes. With all the trials and tribulations of 2019/20 season, this was the first race against our local opposition for 18 months for the older rowers, and first race of any kind...