- About MCS
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools, and in 2024 was awarded Independent School of the Year for our contribution to social mobility. - Admissions
Approximately 1 in 10 pupils receive a bursary or scholarship. We are committed to ensuring an MCS education is open to the brightest pupils, no matter their personal circumstances.
- Supporting MCS
In 2024-25, MCS received over £1.2 million in donated funds.
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools, and in 2024 was awarded Independent School of the Year for our contribution to social mobility.
In 2024-25, MCS received over £1.2 million in donated funds.- Junior School
“The Junior School is a very busy and happy school and here, a smile goes a long way.”
- Senior School
“His experience at MCS has been extraordinary.” – Senior School parent
- Sixth Form
About a quarter of our Sixth Form pupils take up places at Oxford, Cambridge and Ivy League Universities.
“His experience at MCS has been extraordinary.” – Senior School parent
- About MCS
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools, and in 2024 was awarded Independent School of the Year for our contribution to social mobility.
- Admissions
Approximately 1 in 10 pupils receive a bursary or scholarship. We are committed to ensuring an MCS education is open to the brightest pupils, no matter their personal circumstances.
- Supporting MCS
In 2024-25, MCS received over £1.2 million in donated funds.
- Junior School
“The Junior School is a very busy and happy school and here, a smile goes a long way.”
- Senior School
“His experience at MCS has been extraordinary.” – Senior School parent
- Sixth Form
About a quarter of our Sixth Form pupils take up places at Oxford, Cambridge and Ivy League Universities.
Yesterday, J4 visited the Oxford University Museum of Natural History to discover more about how animals have evolved and adapted through time. This award-winning Museum was established in 1860 and continues to be a place of scientific research, collecting and fieldwork to this today, playing host to highlights such as the world’s first scientifically described dinosaur – Megalosaurus bucklandii – and the world-famous Oxford Dodo, the only soft tissue remains of the extinct dodo.
The pupils are studying evolution and adaptation as their topic in science this term, and started their visit off with a workshop session called ‘Evolve, Adapt, Survive!’, where they handled real museum specimens and explored the evolution of terrestrial vertebrates from the first amphibians to today’s huge variety of life on land. The boys then investigated how Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace unpicked how natural selection drives evolution.
After the session, J4 then split up into small groups for an iPad trail around the Museum. This activity, led by TV presenter Steve Backshall, encouraged pupils to delve deeper into the subject by helping Steve find evidence for evolution in a scavenger hunt across the exhibits, linking inherited characteristics, variations and adaptations wee see in animals today to that of their ancestors.
It was a hugely enjoyable morning for all – the boys will certainly take back to School House a new-found appreciation for the huge variety of life that exists (and has previously existed) on the planet!
