Category Archives: Senior Girls News
Girls become County Champions at Merseyside Cross Country Championships
Pupils at Merchant Taylors’ continue to thrive both inside and out of the classroom, with many achieving great success in their sporting endeavours alongside their academics. For the girls’ cross country teams last week, this was no different, with both
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Sibling Duo Alumni to Produce Legally Blonde Production
Since leaving Merchant Taylors’ Girls and Boys school, brother and sister duo, Laura and Mark McLaughlin, have been running stage school Plastersine Performing Arts Company. Laura graduated in 2006 from LIPA – Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, and opened Plastersine
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Oxbridge Candidates 2017
Merchant Taylors’ are delighted with this year’s successful students who have recently received offers to study at Oxford or Cambridge University from September 2017. Leon Reason, a student from Aintree has been offered a place to read History at Fitzwilliam
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Chess Success at Northern Semi Finals
Last Saturday three teams of three girls attended the Girls English Chess Federation U19 Northern semi final held at Bridgewater School in Worsley, Manchester. The girls performed well and we came back with 4th,6th and 8th in the North of England.
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Merchant Taylors’ Doctors’ Dinner
The Heads of School enjoyed a wonderful evening last night at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London at the annual Doctors’ Dinner. The Guest Speaker for the evening was Old Boy Simon Jack – business editor for the BBC.
Debut Author Visit
Five debut authors visited MTGS last week as part of their Lost and Found national tour. Author, Kathryn Jenkins, gave her thanks to our ‘amazing’ girls for a ‘wonderful afternoon’. Lots of students bought books. I am sure others will
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International Gymnastic Success for Caitlyn
Caitlyn Kavanagh has been achieving fantastic success with her gymnastics this year and has recently returned from 2016 Gymstars International Competition where she medalled both individually and within her team. Caitlyn started gymnastics at 5 years old and began doing
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MTGS China Trip 2016
At the start of October half term 35 girls and staff headed off to China, on a much anticipated cultural trip to Beijing, Xi’an and Shanghai. Only Mrs Blagbrough and a couple of our girls had been to China before
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MTGS Prize Giving 2016
Merchant Taylors’ Girls’ School enjoyed a fabulous celebration of the previous academic year’s achievements at the annual Prize Giving Ceremony hosted at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Friday 18th November. Commemorating a fantastic year academically, the girls were congratulated on outstanding performances at both
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Senior Chamber Choir sing at St George’s Hall
Yesterday the Girls’ School Senior Chamber Choir sang at St George’s Hall during the Service of Remembrance for Road Crash Victims. This year marks the 23rd anniversary of the adoption of this day as World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic
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