One of the advantages of living in the tropics is the ability to go diving at one of the many beach locations across South East Asia for the weekend! In order to open this door of opportunity to our boarding community the Prep boarding houses, Taylor and Iskandar, commenced a PADI Open Water Diving course. […]
On Saturday, 2nd February 2019, five beaks and 38 MCM pupils from Year 7 to Remove travelled to the Aosta Valley, Italy, for a week full of snow-filled adventure. The excitement began as we flew over northern Italy and saw (for many for the first time in their lives) the snow-capped mountains of the Alps. A picturesque coach journey […]
On Friday, 25th January, a group of 15 climbers from the Prep and Senior Schools headed to Kuala Lumpur to compete in the first climbing competition of 2019. The pupils have been practising their climbing techniques during Activities all term, and this paid off with some excellent results – particularly for the Prep School. Yao […]
The weather has not been our friend over the past weeks and House matches have been adversely affected. However, we have persevered and found a way around this and the scores are in! In Year 4, Merlin came out on top for the boys’ rugby and second in the girls’ competition with Chichester just pipping […]
On Monday, 10th December, MCM hosted RAS, EIS, and CHIS in a JSAC swim meet. Fifty-five swimmers represented MCM against solid competition, and we produced some excellent swimming with plenty of personal best times. This was the final event for the swimming team this term, and we look forward to travelling to other schools next […]
On the 8th December, we hosted our prestigious Straits Cup Rugby Sevens at U16 and U18 levels. Teams from all over the region entered the tournament, making it one of the biggest school boy competitions in Southeast Asia. Our new look 1st team displayed great perseverance and commitment to the Marlborough cause, even though they […]
This weekend we invited 40 teams to the Marlborough College Straits. The day was a huge success with Marlborough entering a record nine teams into the tournament. Notable mentions should go the U16s who finished runners-up in the Cup after a fantastic performance in the semi-final, beating UWC East 2-1. The 2nd team won the […]
On Friday, 30th November, the MCM U18 basketball team took on our neighbours, Raffles American School, in a ‘Friday Night Lights’ event. Although the team have had some preseason friendlies, this was the first official match of the season and the U18s took the opportunity by the reigns. Marlborough started off with the defensive rigour that […]
On the Exeat weekend, 37 Prep pupils left Malaysia for the biggest school football tournament in South East Asia. As we boarded the plane to Phuket the excitement was obvious and the nerves started to jangle. As we arrived at BISP on the morning of the tournament we were anxious to perform. U11 Boys The […]
On Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th November, the U14, U16 and 1st XI teams travelled over the border to play in the Pan Pacific Touch Tournament which is one of the biggest tournaments of the season. The U14s competition was great – in the pool games, there was some tough competition including from ACS International […]