Sunday 13th November saw the annual Kranji Remembrance Service held in Singapore, attended by boarders and beaks of MCM. Despite the need for a very early start, the Marlborough community arrived at the Kranji War Memorial to see the combined choirs of Dulwich, Tanglin and Marlborough College, accompanied by the Marlborough string quartet, sing at […]
This term’s Music Recital took place under sunny skies as pupils, parents and beaks gathered at the Drama Hall Courtyard for an afternoon of choral music, violin duets, drum and bass rhythms and more. The Melbourne Tour Choir, back from the Music Tour over the half term holiday, opened the first half of the recital […]
The Prep School embarked on its inaugural Music tour to Melbourne over the half term break last month. It was a 5-day itinerary of performing and sight-seeing, and the group was made up of 36 singers and instrumentalists ranging from Year 5 to Shell. Over the course of the tour, the Choir performed at St […]
On Monday 10th October, we were lucky enough to have 20 pupils from Sungai Melayu School join our Year 7 classes for some Science workshops. Mrs Tomlinson and the other Science beaks organised the session so that the MCM pupils were able to become teachers for the morning. Our pupils taught the visiting pupils skills […]
Saturday 1st October saw the second MCM Rocks! concert take to the stage. The Beatles themed concert was a great success, with over fifty pupils performing to a packed Drama Hall. The concert began with an arrangement of ‘Help!’ sung by the College Choir and accompanied by the College Orchestra, who then went on to […]
Five Marlborough teams attended the annual Clifford Chance Touch Trophy on Sunday 25th September, during the Exeat weekend. The U10 girls finished 2nd in a closely matched final against SCC; the U12s secured 3rd place and the bronze medals in a category with 9 teams; the U14 girls also finished 3rd and received medals in […]
On Saturday 17th September we hosted our first Swimming meet of the year with the Australian International School, Singapore and Educity Swimming Club, Iskandar Puteri, joining us for a full day of both long and short course events. Our swimmers embraced the challenge of the 400m and 200m races, and pushed themselves to their limits. […]
On Saturday we hosted the inaugural U14 and U12 Straits Rugby Sevens Tournament. The event saw 22 teams from Johor and Kuala Lumpur come together across two age groups. The standard of rugby on the day was exceptional and the eventual winners in both categories combined technical excellence with amazing athleticism. The U14 category was […]
The annual Marlborough College Malaysia Prize Day took place on Saturday 2nd July. Zachary See began proceedings with an outstanding rendition of Chopin’s Étude Opus 10, no 1 which set the tone for the morning. HRH Tunku Ali Redhauddin ibni Tuanku Muhriz gave his first speech as Chairman of Council not only suggesting, in reference […]
Over the final week of term, our Upper Prep pupils ended the academic year with an ambitious musical project with the aim of putting on a showcase for their end-of-year celebration assembly. This was done under the guidance of workshop leader Filipe Sousa, who visited from London and was previously at MCM in January carrying […]