- About MCS
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2024, placed seventh nationally and third in the Southeast. - 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.
- Junior School
“The Junior School is a very busy and happy school and here, a smile goes a long way.”
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2024, placed seventh nationally and third in the Southeast.
- Senior School
39 of our pupils achieved 10 or more 8 or 9 grades in 2023. - Sixth Form
Over 25% of our Sixth Form pupils take up places at Oxford and Cambridge every year.
- Supporting MCS
Your donations contribute over £150,000 a year to bursaries as well as building an endowment to fund bursaries for the future.
39 of our pupils achieved 10 or more 8 or 9 grades in 2023.
Your donations contribute over £150,000 a year to bursaries as well as building an - About MCS
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2024, placed seventh nationally and third in the Southeast.
- 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.
- Junior School
“The Junior School is a very busy and happy school and here, a smile goes a long way.”
- Senior School
39 of our pupils achieved 10 or more 8 or 9 grades in 2023.
- Sixth Form
Over 25% of our Sixth Form pupils take up places at Oxford and Cambridge every year.
- Supporting MCS
Your donations contribute over £150,000 a year to bursaries as well as building an endowment to fund bursaries for the future.
(15 April 1941 – April 2023)
The Waynflete Office has been informed by OW Will Wyatt (1961) of the death of his friend John Davies. John, known as ‘Tich’ featured in Will’s book Oxford Boy and with permission we reproduce that excerpt here:
He had a big, round expressive face, a slight Welsh accent and loved an argument at which he was both passionate and eloquent. His father was the several times unsuccessful Liberal candidate for the Oxford parliamentary seat. Tich won the annual recitation competition more than once, memorably with Naming of Parts by Henry Reed. The poem alternates a military lecture on using a rifle with dreamy thoughts of nature and Tich found both the humour and the poignancy, shifting the direction of his stance as he moved between the two voices. He had to be Antony but there was a problem: Antony is a mighty general, a military hero, and Tich a spindly non-sporty boy. He began coming to school with large bags of nuts which he ate by the handful. He had, he told us, signed up for a Charles Atlas body building course. Advertisements for this were everywhere in the newspapers, magazines and comics. They showed the immense shiny torso of Charles Atlas gleaming with strength and wellbeing. Alongside was a drawing of a fearful looking skinny youth and the exhortation, “Don’t be a seven-stone weakling, don’t let them kick sand in your face” The answer was the secret of “Dynamic Tension” and, evidently, a nut filled diet. After several weeks of this regime the dress rehearsal arrived. Alas, when Tich slipped on his cardboard armour to play Antony “triple pillar of the world”, his arm stuck out as a broom handle through a port hole. It didn’t matter; few boys would have spoken the verse better. Tich went on to star in Oxford Union debates and in 1987 stood for Labour against Mrs Thatcher in her Finchley constituency, making a small dent in her majority.
An obituary for John written by his friend Robert Chesshyre was printed in The Guardian on 23 June 2023. You can read that here.
