Category: Academics
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Back to School Tips for All
The summer holidays are a very distant memory and everyone is back at school – ready for a new year and a fresh start. New books. New Teachers. And perhaps some more new friends! If you want a good academic year, you’ve come to the right place. Here are some tips and advice to excel. · Make a good first impression on your new…
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The Science Behind Reading
On our journey of researching and preparing for the science behind reading presentation for the Academic Scholars programme, we learnt about a lot of things to do with the science, and specifically the neuroscience of reading. Emily and I were really interested in this topic, mainly because of the fact that throughout our whole lives, Emily and I have both loved reading. Whether it…
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Epsom Symposium: A Day of Fruitful Debate and Discussion
The Epsom Symposium is an annual event that occurs at Epsom College, bringing together students from schools in the surrounding areas, such as Gordon’s, Blenheim and Teddington. The purpose of a symposium is to present a speech on a topic based on an article or essay-style source and debate the different perspectives of the question in order to come to a conclusion. Then students…
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Shakespeare Competition Winners
Over the first half of the summer term some of our students had been working away behind the scenes outside of lessons on their entries for the new Shakespeare Competition that asked students to design either a graphic novel page or a book cover inspired by a Shakespeare play. The standard of entries was exceptional across both KS3 and KS4 with students getting creative…
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MUN Heaven at Haberdashers’
A truly amazing, fun-filled weekend it was at HabsMUN 2026! Friday, 13th March. Heralding the trip, the weather had already adjusted to our needs; a bright, beautiful spring’s day set the scene as we gathered around the Wynter Bee Theatre, ready to conquer the world. We carefully piled luggage into the back of the minibus, exchanged excited remarks about our plans, and momentarily discussed who’d potentially get…
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Gordon’s MUN 2026
By James On the weekend of 28th February – 1st March, Gordon’s School hosted the annual Model United Nations conference. This year, we hosted around 155 delegates from schools such as Reading Blue Coat, Blenheim, Beaconsfield, Prior’s Field, Ibstock, Marist and Hurst Point. The weekend was opened with a speech from Dr Al Pinkerton, our MP for Surrey Heath, and debating began after lobbying…
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GMUN Preview
By James On the 28th of February – 1st March, Gordon’s School is hosting its annual Model United Nations conference. This event will be attended by around 150 delegates from schools such as Reading Blue Coat, Blenheim, Beaconsfield, Ibstock, Priors Field, and Gordon’s itself. The two day long conference will see students debate heavy-hitting relevant topics such as the American intervention in Venezuela, refugee…
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Flags Fly at LEHMUN!
As we got into the minibus for the first official day of Lady Eleanor Holles’ MUN conference, I must say I was quite curious as to see how a three-day weekend conference would end up playing out. Gordon’s had been allocated the countries of Kazakhstan, Japan and Pakistan, and we had made sure to thoroughly carry out our research beforehand. All throughout the journey, we were very excited, and certainly well-prepared for what we hoped would be a very fruitful debate. And fruitful it was indeed! …
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REIGATE JUNIOR MUN
By Ella The Reigate junior MUN conference recently took place on the 10th of May. The conference brought together 6 schools and most of the delegates present were completely new to MUN or had very little experience. The conference had many of the standard committee’s that you would see at your average conference, however, the names were changed to make it more simple for…