Sixth Form

16-18 Years

News

Wildcats F.C. are crowned the victors!

Wildcats F.C. are crowned the victors!

IT was the Lower Sixth Form team Wildcats F.C. versus the Upper Sixth Form team Globo Gym Cobras in the final of King’s lunchtime football tournament! The final score was 1-1 which led to a penalty shoot out when Wildcats clinched the glory! ......

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Pasqualin and Graulich to meet in Championship

Pasqualin and Graulich to meet in Championship

CHAMPIONSHIP side Cornish Pirates have announced that former student and Gloucester Rugby's Academy second row, Will Graulich, will be moving to the Mennaye Field next season. While Newcastle Falcons player and former student, Jordi Pasqualin, 23,......

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Bedwell secures third for Gloucestershire

Bedwell secures third for Gloucestershire

LOWER SIXTH pupil Matt Bedwell helped to secure a third place for Gloucestershire when he played in the Under 19 Inter County Squash Finals on the weekend of Saturday April 20 & 21. Matt punched well above his weight in the age category higher,......

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Tickets for this year's Summer Ball are now on sale

Tickets for this year's Summer Ball are now on sale

Tickets for this year's Summer Ball, the end of school year celebration for sixth form pupils, staff, parents, former pupils, former parents and guests, are now on sale. The theme is James Bond. Further details are available......

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Golf Day 2013

Details of this year's Golf Day can be found below. Select the image to go to the main Golf Day page and dowload a team form.

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A fantastic musical night

A fantastic musical night

There was a nervous excitement in the hall last night as a packed audience eagerly awaited the start of the annual House Music competition. House Captains from Laud, Serlo and Wheeler have spent the past few weeks persuading and cajoling pupils......

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Sixth Former Cassius Smith-Fraser wins Fendick

Sixth Former Cassius Smith-Fraser wins Fendick

ELEVEN members of the Lower Sixth entered this annual school competition compiling presentations on a topic related to their AS studies using PowerPoint or other media resources. From the preliminary round 6 finalists emerged, covering Science,......

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Great donations from pupils for Gloucester Food Bank

Great donations from pupils for Gloucester Food Bank

THE Lent Eucharist took place in the Cathedral on the morning of Wednesday February 27, when as part of the service pupils donated large crates of food to Gloucester Food Bank. Each tutor group has been collecting various items of produce from tins ......

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Open Day March 2013

Considering where to send your child to school in September 2013? Not happy with the school you've been allocated or just wanting to see what a different environment might offer your child? Then come along to our Open Day on Saturday 9 March between ......

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Off to the debating final!

Off  to the debating final!

SIXTH FORM pupils Chris Tyer and Rosie Foulger have qualified for the National Debating Final at the Oxford University Union, due to take place on Saturday 9 March. The pair debated in the regional round of the Oxford Schools Competition last......

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Business students take part in national competition

On Thursday 20 February 2013, six L6 Business Studies students (Millie Boughton, Faye Castelein, Catie Fitzpatrick, Marcus Cole, Louis Maltby and Edward Girling) attended the ICAEW National Business Accounting and Skills Education (BASE) competition ......

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Cookery Survival!

Cookery Survival!

SIXTH FORM pupils had great fun when they took part in a survival cooking session in the school’s brand new Cookery Centre on Friday February 1. Head of Sixth Form David Griffiths said: “They cooked vegetable curry and spicy chicken......

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All the World's a Stage at King's

Children aged between 10 and 18 years of age are being encouraged to sign up to the Stage School at The King’s School Gloucester. Stage School is a dedicated fun and educational forum for children to learn additional skills from those learnt......

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Vernon was final victor

Vernon was final victor

THE final of the Politics and Current Affairs forum took place on Monday January 28 in the School Library, consisting of a ‘Question Time’ in which a panel of pupils discussed a range of questions: from the ......

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On Your Marks Get Set Cook!

On Your Marks Get Set Cook!

HEADMASTER Alistair Macnaughton will go head-to-head with the Headmaster of Junior School, Cameron Dickie, in a charity cooking challenge on February 1, run by catering company Chartwells. Mr Macnaughton accompanied by two Year 7 pupils will......

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Chefs at the ready as brand new Cookery Centre is completed!

Chefs at the ready as brand new Cookery Centre is completed!

PUPILS at The King’s School are delighted to now be able to use their brand new refurbished Cookery Centre. Headmaster Alistair Macnaughton said: “I am delighted that we are at last able to have a space at King’s for ......

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Charity Concert is a pleasing success!

Charity Concert is a pleasing success!

Report by Upper Sixth Pupil, Christian Smith “A gig? In Finch’s Hall? Will there be chairs?” “No sir there will not be chairs!” "The initial discussions with Mr Griffiths about the organisation of a charity......

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King's Chamber Choir meet TV star!

King's Chamber Choir meet TV star!

THE King’s Chamber Choir met television presenter and Countryfile star, Adam Henson before performing at the Christmas Concert for Maggie's, held in Cheltenham on Thursday December 13. Adam gave a talk on ‘his life on the land’......

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Harmonists hit the high notes with shoppers

Harmonists hit the high notes with shoppers

ON Thursday December 6 the King’s Harmonists sang at the switch on of The Rotary Club of Gloucester's Tree of Light. Director of Music John Pennington said: “The King’s Harmonists entertained shoppers at the turn on of the lights......

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Venas in Vegas is a hit!

Venas in Vegas is a hit!

A MODERN twist on a Shakespeare classic proved a great success for King's Senior School drama pupils. The Merchant of Venice was given a Las Vegas theme for the production at The Picturedrome Theatre and was delivered with simplified and modernised ......

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