This week to celebrate World Book Day the Senior School Library ran it’s annual Great British MCM House Plasticine Challenge. All the Senior Houses took part with the only prerequisite that entries were book related and of course, as the name suggests, made out of plasticine. Each House produced the most amazing creations ranging from […]
On the weekend of the 1st to the 3rd of March a team of three pupils from Shell represented Marlborough College Malaysia in the World Mathematics Championships qualifier for South East Asia. The event was held in Singapore at the Institute of Management and our team were supervised by Miss Hughes. The event allowed 180 keen mathematicians […]
Seventy-two pupils made the journey up to Kuala Lumpur on the 2nd March, to take part in the regional round of the World Scholar’s Cup. Well over 500 scholars had gathered to put their academic mettle to the test in four different events: debating, essay writing, the Scholar’s Challenge, and the Scholar’s Bowl. After […]
What better way to start the second half of the spring term with an excursion? On what turned out to be an boiling-hot morning: Mr Fuller, Mr Ogilivie, Miss Taylor and Miss TV took the IGCSE Geography Hundred on two site visits to study urban and rural development. First to Sungai Melayu, a fishing village on the […]
At the end of last term the Senior Library and English department launched the MCM Kinabalu Reading Challenge for Shell and Remove pupils, the aim being to encourage reluctant readers to become confident and enthusiastic book lovers. J.K. Rowling once said “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book”. It is certainly true […]
On January 23rd, the Senior School assembly celebrated Chinese New Year. The pupils participated in a range of Chinese cultural performances. To open the assembly a traditional Chinese instrument, a Guzheng, was played by Annca Zhang (Remove). Six Shell girls performed a song called “Dong Xi” followed by an uplifting performance of The Kungfu Fan […]
One of my favourite occasions is having a very traditional Afternoon Tea with a three-tiered cake stand laden with tempting goodies washed down with refreshing cups of hot tea. So, it was with great pleasure that the Master and I welcomed our hard-working College Prefects on Friday, 7th December, and our well-deserving Prep School Merit […]
The first Biology Olympiad for Shell was held on the 6th December and was a great success. Four of us attended the competition, looking forward to participating in such a wonderful event. We left the College at 5:30am, along with 2 accompanying staff: Mr Dempster and Ms T-V, arriving at Epsom College for the start […]
On Monday, 19th November, 27 pupils from MCM set out for this year’s much-anticipated THIMUN Singapore Conference, hosted by the Hwa Chong Institution. A most prestigious event organised by The Hague International Model United Nations (THIMUN), this year’s conference saw MCM represent five nations in a simulation of the United Nations, including Afghanistan, the Czech […]
Mr Eatough accompanied three of our current Sixth Form pupils on a journey to the Le Meridien hotel in Kuala Lumpur on 22nd November. The purpose was to attend the awards ceremony organised by the Pearson group, which runs the Edexcel IGCSE examinations. It was a splendid occasion with hundreds of pupils from across Malaysia in attendance. James […]