Category Archives: Senior Girls News
Mental Toughness Week
Over the next few weeks leading up to half term the Schools have dedicated two weeks to assemblies, activities, lunchtime meetings and visitor presentations for pupils, staff and parents that address issues relating to Mental Toughness. For example, yesterday’s assembly at
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Mental Toughness Fortnight – Parental Talk, Centenary Hall MTGS – Thursday 12th October 7-8pm
Steve Oakes is the Director of Education at AQR International, where he leads the work on mental toughness in education. Steve has 17 years teaching experience, prior to which, he spent six years in the Armed Forces. He successfully completed
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Merchant Taylors’ Girls’ School Awarded British Chess Educational Trust Award
The British Chess Educational Trust (BCET) is a registered charity set up over 50 years ago for the purposes of ‘The teaching, development and supervision of chess by young chess players in educational establishments’ and provides grants for awards to
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Head Girls 2017-18
We are delighted to introduce our new Head Girl Team 2017-18. Welcome Catherine Magennis (Head Girl), Sarah Tobin (Deputy Head Girl), Saoirse McGeown (Deputy Head Girl), Ellen Murgatroyd (Sports Captain) Ellie Morris (Deputy Sports Captain) and Sophie Ellis (Music Captain).
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Head Girls Supper 2017
Mrs Robinson welcomed back Old Head Girls from the past eleven years to join her for the annual Head Girls’ Supper. The supper had added poignancy this year, as Mrs Robinson enters her final year as Headmistress of MTGS. She
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BBC Young Composers Competition Success
Congratulations to Rachel Burnett who was entered and shortlisted for the Final of the BBC Young Composers Competition. This is a great achievement and Rachel should be immensely proud of her success. Although just missing out on the winning spot, the
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School Photographs
Please note that individual school photographs will be taking place for Year 7, Year 10 and Lower Sixth on the morning of the 12th September 2017. At the end of the academic year we had a number of calls from
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“E Safety for Parents” Deana Puccio and Allison Havey: Tuesday 12th September 2017
Come and join us for our E Safety for Parents talk on the 12th September. Deana and Allison co-founded the Raising Awareness and Prevention (RAP) Project to raise awareness to pre-teens, teenagers, young adults, teachers and parents about personal safety
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Rowing Success
Congratulations to Sophie Gillbanks of MTGS and her partner Georgia Shirley (St Mary’s School, Northwich RC) for their outstanding achievement upon winning their seventh national rowing title together last month in Nottingham, at the British Rowing Junior Championships 2017. Sophie
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Merchants’ Students on Cloud Nine with GCSE Results
New Government reforms at GCSE, designed to toughen up specifications and cut down on the number of students achieving A* grades, have reinforced Merchant Taylors’ position as the top performing school in the area. Over two thirds of all GCSE
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