Yearly Archive: 2020
Merchant Taylors’ bids farewell to two long-serving staff this Christmas.
Merchant Taylors’ bids farewell to two long-serving and much valued staff this Christmas. Helen Irwin, Head of Business and Economics at MTGS retires after 23 years at school. She has also been our first female Contingent Commander of the CCF.
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Speech Day 2020
Yesterday marked the first ever Virtual Speech Day for both the Boys’ and Girls’ schools. We have missed our annual trip to the Philharmonic this year due to Covid19 restrictions, and look forward to returning when it is safe to
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Christmas Jumper/Lunch Day
On Thursday 10th December pupils from across the entire school enjoyed a very special Christmas Lunch. This year was extra-special as it saw pupils in the Senior Boys’ and Girls’ school have lunch in the dining room! In any other
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Merchant Taylors’ becomes Lancashire Cricket training hub
Merchant Taylors’ School has entered an exciting new partnership with Lancashire Cricket. The agreement will see the school become a Regional Development Centre, designed to create a new pathway for talented young cricketers to develop their skills and learn to
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Stanfield Christmas Bauble Competition
Thank you for all the fabulous, inventive and creative baubles, making this a very difficult competition to judge! Here are the winners:- Rec – George & Amelia Y1- Thomas & Fearne Y2- George& Elissia Y3 – Thomas & Lillia Y4
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Popular groundsman Dave leaves school after 41 years
Head groundsman Dave Bradshaw is retiring from his role after 41 years’ service to Merchant Taylors’ Boys’ School. Having joined the school on 5 March 1979, Dave has worked diligently for four decades to maintain the school estate and prepare
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New Governors Appointed
As you may recall, we wrote to you earlier in the year to outline our plans to recruit new members to the Board of Governors. We subsequently received a large volume of high-calibre applications and we are extremely grateful to
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Year 6 Evacuee Day
Last week our Year 6 girls were WW2 evacuees for the day! The girls arrived at school in their costumes and were equipped with a gas mask box as well as snacks and toys for their long journey ahead. After
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Merchant Taylors’ x Sevenstore
During the October half term we welcomed some of the team from independent Liverpool retailer, Sevenstore to Merchant Taylors’ for the release of the new Adidas Barcelona trainer. After discovering the history between the school and the founding of FC
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400th Celebrations
2020 is the 400th anniversary of our wonderful school, unfortunately due to the Covid19 crisis we haven’t quite been able to celebrate how we had intended to. A whole host of events have had to be cancelled, such as a
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