Our Choristers sounded lovely this morning as the choir sang out Hymnus Eucharisticus for
#MayMorning
🎶
We hope everyone enjoyed the May Day celebrations!
We're National Hockey
#Champions
!🏆🏑
The 1st XI
@MCSHockey
boys have won the
@EnglandHockey
National Cup final 4-3 with a goal scored in the last minute of the game!
Many thanks to
@BradfieldCol
for a great game of hockey 🤝
Congratulations to our Upper Sixth pupils on their A Level and Pre-U results this year! 👏
Their success is all the more remarkable considering the cancellation of their GCSE exams in 2020. Well done everyone! 🎉🎓🙌
@TheOxfordMail
@HMC_Org
@ISC_schools
Many congratulations to our pupils who are celebrating an excellent set of A Level results🎉
We're delighted to report that 97% of grades were awarded at A*-B, 84% at A*-A and 44% at A*.
25% of the year group attained 3 A*s or more and 20 pupils achieved 4 A*s or more🎓
Thanks to the incredible generosity of
@OldWaynfletes
and the entire school community, MCS has equipped families in need from 3 East Oxford primary schools with 50 laptops and data access to tackle
#digitalpoverty
exacerbated by Covid19 👏👏 (1/3)
Congratulations to all our pupils who are celebrating an excellent set of A Level results today 🎉
We are delighted to report that 95% of grades were awarded at A*-B, with 81% at A*-A and 42% at A* 👏
👏🏏Congratulations to pupil James Coles who has been selected for the upcoming England Young Lions series in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 - an incredible achievement
@MCSSportOxford
@mcscricket
Good luck, James!
Congratulations to our pupils who are celebrating another excellent set of GCSE results 🎉👏
We're delighted to report that 52% of all grades were a 9 and 80% grades 9-8. 29 pupils achieved straight 9-8 grades, almost 30% of the cohort 🙌
We are delighted that Master
@HelenLPike
has won ‘Best Head of a Public School’ at the
@SchoolsTatler
Awards 2024.
Many congratulations to our Oxfordshire neighbours
@RadleyCollege
and
@sthughs
, who were crowned best Public and best Prep Schools of the Year respectively.
Somebody get Attenborough on the phone!
@hedgehoghugh
captured these stunning images of wildlife near our white bridges.
@OBGHA
and
@magdalenoxford
, have you spotted these magnificent creatures?
Rehearsals are well underway at Birmingham Symphony Hall for this evening's Coronation Concert 🎼
Nearly 900 MCS pupils and staff have made the journey to Birmingham today - it's certainly a full house! 👏
Well done to twins Tristan and Kasper, achieving seventeen 8 and 9 grades between them🙌 Kasper continued his studies while undergoing radiotherapy.
Congratulations boys 👏
Congratulations to the U16A hockey team, who have won their National Semi-final! 🙌
The game v
@MillfieldSenior
finished 1-1 so went to penalty shuffles... and
@MCSOxford
won 3-2! They join the 1st XI in the National Finals at Lee Valley on 26th April. Well done boys! 🏆🏑
Excited for
#MayMorning
tomorrow? ⏰This is an account of the celebrations by a Junior School pupil from 1943. "Suddenly there was dead silence, for the traffic had been stopped and on the stroke of seven the choir began to sing in Latin...."
@magdalenoxford
Many congratulations to Yichen (Fifth Form), who was granted the title of International Master by
@FIDE_chess
in August👏
Pictured at the 109th British Chess Championship in Leicester (where he was crowned as the British U21 and U18 Champion), he is the only full-time schoolboy
So our grounds team can take some well-deserved time off over the Easter holidays, we are allowing local sheep to graze on School Field instead of mowing the grass.
Read more here 👉
Yesterday our boys got to play their last game of Kingball for a little while. Unique to MCS, the game has been played by generations of pupils and there has been a court in use since at least as early as 1871. We're sure many
@OldWaynfletes
remember it fondly!
We were delighted to welcome Clare Balding and her
@BBC
crew to the school earlier today to film build-up footage for this year's coverage of The Boat Race.
Since September, the school has hosted
@OUWBCsquad
for training sessions. We wish them the best of luck on Sunday 7 April!
Many congratulations to our 2020/2021 Heads of School Gabe and Oyinda on their A Level results.
Oyinda is going to Brasenose College, Oxford to read Economics & Management and Gabe is reading Medicine at Imperial 🙌 (1/3)
This Wednesday sees our 1st XI and U16 hockey teams head to London for the final of the National Schools Hockey Championships 🏑🏆
We spoke with the coaches and players to hear what this impressive feat means to them 🎤👇
@MCSSportOxford
@MCSHockey
@EnglandHockey
@LeeValleyHTC
Who watched Archie (Lower Fourth) perform on BBC1 Young Chorister of the Year yesterday?
A beautiful performance, and what an achievement to rank among the top 5 boy choristers in the UK.
Well done Archie 👏👏
Children of
#keyworkers
have been enjoying the sunshine today ☀️ Here are pupils Alec and Anders sketching
@magdalenoxford
and
@OBGHA
from the grounds this afternoon.
Congratulations to all our Upper Sixth pupils on their A Level results this year! 👏
At the end of a challenging two years of Sixth Form, our pupils have once again achieved strong A Level and Pre U results.
Many congratulations to the 1st XI boys hockey team, who won the semi-final of the National Cup against
@TrinityCroydon
👏
Onwards to the final at the Olympic Park in April!
🏑🏆
Drumroll please.... 🥁
Our chosen charity this year is
@AsylumWelcome
- a fantastic organisation offering advice, support and solidarity to asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants in Oxfordshire.
We look forward to supporting you this year!
"Ask your mother, sisters, female friends and others what their experiences are. I’ll wager you’ll find it eye-opening, and I am confident that you’ll want to be part of the solution.”
- The Master
@HelenLPike
speaking to
@thetimes
yesterday.
Thanks to the efforts of teachers Mr Hunter and Mr Hlaing, we've been able to supply several Oxford GP practices and nursing homes with much-needed PPE this week 👏👏
#PPEforNHS
#PPEshortage
@ISC_Schools
Full time here at
@LeeValleyHTC
and it's finished 4-1 to
@agsb_official
🏑🏆
Well done boys on a great performance and congratulations to Altrincham on a fantastic achievement 👏
Many congratulations to our Fifth Form pupils on their GCSE results! 👏
They have shown real resilience over the last three years to achieve their success. We look forward to welcoming our new Lower Sixth to school in September! 🎉🥳🙌
@TheOxfordMail
@HMC_Org
@ISC_schools
Congratulations to James (Upper Sixth) for the highest individual score by a
@MCSOxford
pupil on Saturday - 275* 👏
This impressive achievement also helped the 1st XI break the
@MCSCricket
record for the highest team score over 50 overs🏏
📽Watch James complete his 200 👇
Congratulations to all our pupils who are celebrating an excellent set of GCSE results today 🎉
We are delighted to report that 53% of all grades were a 9, 78% grades 9-8 and 98% grades 9-6. 28 pupils were awarded straight 9-8 grades, which is just shy of 30% of the cohort 👏
Eight of our pupils achieved 5 A*/D1 grades this year.
Well done to Amy who is off to Trinity College, Cambridge to read Engineering 👏👏
@TrinCollCam
(1/4)
"We look forward to singing together again before too long" - our Choristers taking part in
#hymnflashmob
this morning🎶 Thank you, boys and
@MagdCollChoir
.
"I have still never found anyone who does not love a crumble"
We're excited to welcome a new Head Chef, Will Tinkler, to MCS👋
Find out more about him and his big plans for MCS food 👇
We have now raised funds for⭐️100 ⭐️ laptops for those in need in our community.
Here is Jon Gray, Head at
@larkriseprimary
, taking receipt of devices for his pupils.
A huge thank you to the MCS community and
@OldWanfletes
for your fundraising efforts 👏
#schoolstogether
Congratulations to James (5th Form), who has recently been selected to join the U17
@GBTaekwondo
Squad.
Selection was very competitive, with James being among the few athletes selected from the 300 total candidates at the start of the process. A fantastic achievement 👏👏
A lot of hard work and planning has made it possible to welcome some of our pupils back on-site today, including the efforts of our excellent Grounds Team 👏
#welcomeback
#socialdistancing
Something looks a little different about Big School...🤔
Welcome to our new Testing Centre. We can't wait to have pupils back to school next week 👋
#CovidTesting
#BackToSchool
The festive season has officially started at school, as the
@MCSOxford
Christmas trees light up the Rose Garden and Big School!🎄
Many thanks to the maintenance team for arranging these lovely decorations. How many sleeps until Christmas is it now?
MCS has been named one of the top 100 secondary schools for cricket in the country in
@TheCricketerMag
's Good Schools Guide! This is a fantastic achievement which reflects the amazing work and commitment our staff and teams have. For more info see:
Great A level results today! 96% A*-B with over 42% A* and over 82% A*-A. 15 pupils have 4A*s or more and 39 have 3 or more A*s. Over 40 Oxbridge places and over 25 Med School places. Well done to a great Sixth Form cohort.
As a leaving gift for our outgoing Director of Sport, Mr Watts, the very talented Mr Hunter painted this based on a photo taken of the boys out on cross country👏👏
The Biology Department has a new recruit this term.... Monty, the Royal Python 🐍
Monty is very tame and easy to handle - here he is meeting the Master
@HelenLPike
👋
Wishing the very best to all of our pupils receiving their A Level results tomorrow. We look forward to welcoming the outgoing Upper Sixth back onsite at 8.30am to collect their results 🍀
This weekend we offered up our car park to help
@stjohnambulance
train their Vaccinator Volunteers 💉across the road at St Hilda's
@hilda_beastoxf
Well done to all the volunteers💪
Another
#ThankYouFromMCS
to share with you all 👏This is Joe Wilson (OW 2016), a fourth-year medical student currently volunteering at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Well done, Joe!
@OldWaynfletes
Happy 2022! We hope you all had a restful and relaxing break. Looking forward to welcoming everyone
#backtoschool
tomorrow for the start of the Hilary term! 😃📚
Waste not, want not! ♻️
Snacks and drinks from the school tuck shop have been distributed at our partnerships project Rose Hill Community Larder to avoid wastage over the summer.
(Pupils, we promise to re-stock all your favourites before September 😉)
We're delighted to announce that Magdalen College School has been selected as a Finalist in the
@isotyawards
for the Contribution to Social Mobility category! 🎉🤝
The winners of each category will be announced at the awards ceremony on Tuesday 10th October 🏆
The construction of our new partner primary school in
#Uganda
is progressing fast 🛠️It even has windows! Can you believe it was just last term that the Master
@HelenLPike
visited?
MCS is delighted to announce the acquisition of 'Snow Flakes', a 'scrapbook' by former pupils Noel Chavasse V.C & Bar, M.C and twin brother Christopher for the school's newly accredited archive 👏Full story here: (1/3)