- 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.
The Bridge 2020-21 is out!
This year’s cover of The Bridge illustrates some of the ways in which our MCS family has continued to flourish and make an impact in these trying times.
Bridge cover photographs. All photographs from left to right.
Front Cover
Top Row:
Classics Teacher Anne Kenyon, CSO lead, at the Rose Hill Community Larder
Livvy Hitch (OW 2013), Foundation Doctor in Dundee
A Level results day, August 2020
Will Wynell-Mayow (OW 2009), Orthopaedic Registrar at West Middlesex Hospital
Second Row:
J4 pupils in the Rose Garden, Trinity term 2020
Bob Stanier Society biscuits and coaster, sent to Stanier Society members ahead of our virtual ‘In Conversation with the Master’ virtual event, October 2020
Sixth Form play Romeo and Juliet, Michaelmas term 2020
MCS maths teacher Dr Paul Shrimpton teaching from home, Hilary term 2021
Third Row:
The fruits of a Founders’ Day challenge – drawing nonstop for 14.80 hours – in aid of Mustardseed School by a current pupil, June 2020
Ken Barnes (OW 1950) and his wife Vera, at home
Adam Sullivan (OW 2009), who worked on a COVID ward at Whipps Cross hospital
The Baker family, including Susie Baker (Director of the Waynflete Office), Lizzie Baker (former member of the Junior School teaching staff) and Charlie Baker (OW 2015) at the Rose Hill Community Larder
Fourth Row:
Miranda Rogers (OW 2014), medic at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford
Jack Harberd (2014), choral scholar at St Martin-in-the-Fields and Tesco delivery driver during lockdown
A Level results day, August 2020
Annie Robinson (OW 2012), teacher in Nottingham
Bottom Row:
Tom Sullivan (OW 2011), working in intensive care at Royal London Hospital
MCS chemistry teacher Dr Claire Bell, teaching from home, Trinity term 2020
Zac Bischoff (2018) with MCS brownies received during student isolation in Cambridge, Michaelmas term 2020
Aerial view of School Field in lockdown, Trinity term 2020
Back Cover
Top Row:
Master Helen Pike with Head of School James Bridson (OW 2020) on A Level results day, August 2020
Will Graydon, aka 220Kid (OW 2007), cycled for 22 continuous hours in aid of Fair Share UK, May 2020
PPE made by the MCS DT department in use at Beaumont Street GP Surgery, April 2020
Bill Morris (OW 1963) with classics teacher Anne Kenyon at the Rose Hill Community Larder
Second Row:
Tom Boyles (OW 1990), infectious diseases consultant in Johannesburg, South Africa
Joe Wilson (OW 2016), medical student
Alex Black (OW 2011), on a COVID ward in Bristol’s Royal Infirmary
A Founders’ Day challenge – staying off of technology for 14.80 hours – in aid of Mustardseed School by a current pupil, June 2020
Third Row:
J4 pupils on School field, Trinity term 2020
A pupil learning from home during lockdown
Jules Marshall (OW 1990), transport engineer
Lizzie Battrum, nee Reavely (OW 2012), teacher in London
Fourth Row:
Matt Field (OW 1995), British Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Building work on the Mustardseed School in Uganda
Socially distant J4 in the Dining Hall, Trinity term 2020
Waynflete Studies presentations, Michaelmas term 2020
Bottom row:
A Founders’ Day cycling challenge in aid of Mustardseed School by MCS maths teacher Claire Lewis and MCS chemistry teacher Hayler Parry, June 2020
Virtual 2020 Leavers Service with the Usher, Toby Beaumont, and Master Helen Pike
“Cake”, a snapshot of lockdown, copyright Douglas Fry/Piranha Photography www.piranhaphotography.com
School Field with circles for social distancing, Trinity term 2020
