Today, at Marlborough College Malaysia we celebrated Shrove Tuesday across all three schools with our annual Pancake Race. The highly contested event did not disappoint with examples of healthy competition and good sportsmanship. The 2020 Pancake Race trophies went to: Pre-Prep – Seymour Preparatory School – Hunt Senior School Boys – Munawir Hill Senior School […]
On Saturday 18th January, the College welcomed 45 ‘Touch Rugby’ teams to the sixth annual Straits Touch Tournament. The tournament was played in great spirits across five age groups (U10, U12, U14, U16 & U18) with 16 pitches in action. The addition of four newly laid pitches created the opportunity to increase the numbers and […]
The whole of MCM has been abuzz with activities and performances to welcome the Chinese New Year (Year of the Rat). The Prep pupils enjoyed many activities such as paper cutting, lantern making, singing Chinese songs and Chinese legend stories. In a cross-curriculum programme with Art, they made blue and white porcelain paper plates and […]
On Sunday 8th December, the Wykeham Hall assumed a festive air with traditional decorations, mince pies and mulled wine. A congregation joined over 90 boys and girls from the College’s choirs with accompanists as Marlborough College Malaysia celebrated its Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. Following a welcome from the Master and opened by Ven. […]
On Saturday, 7th December 2019, the final Straits Rugby tournament of the year took place. Two senior year groups were in action, in what was set to be a fantastic day of Rugby Sevens. The U16s, captained expertly by Derek Lee, started the defence of their 2018 title against SAIS with a comfortable 43-5 win. […]
This year’s Senior School Remembrance Assembly was led by Mr Jarrett and a group of history pupils selected from across the year groups. Students and beaks heard a number of poignant stories which covered different styles of remembering and commemorating those who gave their lives in war; from poetry and song to the history of […]
This year the Marlborough Straits Football was adapted to 7 a-side with great success. We saw over forty teams competing in multiple age groups across sixteen pitches. The event was a great spectacle for the College and the noise and cheers in the knockout stages were infectious across each age group. U11 Boys & […]
On Friday night we hosted the Marlborough Straits Hockey Sevens. Teams competed at U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18 levels throughout the afternoon and evening. The annual ‘Friday Night Lights’ event saw over 30 teams competing in both Cup and Plate competitions. The U10s welcomed Johor Hockey Club for a mini-festival in a round-robin format. […]
Lectern Club – Friday 11th October 2019 ‘Licence to kill’ was the rather chilling theme of the first Lectern Club of the academic year, eagerly anticipated by members of the Sixth Form keen to hone their public speaking skills at the Master’s Lodge in return for the excellent company of a small number of invited […]
On Saturday we saw the inaugural Straits Cross Country event take place with SAS, ISKL and UWC Dover all competing. Saturday’s performance by Marlborough was astounding – everyone pushed themselves to the limit in the blistering heat. There were multiple pupils representing each age group and the event showed the College’s full sporting potential and […]
On Friday, 6th September, the first Sixth Form social event of the MCM calendar took place. The Marlburian Committee worked tirelessly to present ‘A Night in Hawaii’ for what has traditionally become known as the ‘Ice Breaker Social’. This event is purposefully timed at the very start of the academic year so that both the […]
The Lower 6th core weekend has evolved over recent years into an action-packed three days of immersive activities to kick-start both the IB and the Sixth Form experience at MCM. The challenge of taking 83 new Sixth Formers away on the first weekend of the year requires careful planning and consideration. The purpose of the […]
On Friday, 30th August 2019, the boarding community came together for a 5 km run in the plantation opposite Marlborough. Pupils and beaks were tasked with navigating their way back to Marlborough from the starting point, following paper signs that posted the way. Boarders endured steep inclines and battled through thick vegetation, but the sense of […]
Over the penultimate weekend of the summer break, the first Summer Cricket Course was run at MCM. Over two days, children from 7-17 years old were developed in a multitude of cricket-based activities ranging from middle practices to stroke development. This has run on from a promising year within the College where interest in cricket […]
All it took was a couple of hours for new friendships to be formed and some serious learning to take place. By the end of the week, we felt like a family and it was hard to say goodbye. This year’s second Marlborough Language Summer School was a big success. There were 35 participants from four different […]
On Thursday 22nd August around 30 Old Marlburians gathered at the 1880 Club in Singapore at the invitation of HY Lau (C2 1970-75), Marlburian Club Secretary for Singapore, and Alan Stevens, Master of Marlborough College Malaysia. For the first time at a Club gathering, OMs from Marlborough Malaysia actually outnumbered those from Wiltshire. However, of […]
On Saturday 29th June the Wykeham Hall was full to capacity with almost 800 people attending this year’s Prize Day. As a celebration of the academic year with a little glimpse of the future, the morning kicked off with some magnificent exhibitions of Art, Design Technology, Outreach and CAS on the approach to the hall. The […]
Last Saturday saw the inaugural straits hockey tournament take place here at Marlborough. Interest and participation in hockey has been growing at the College over the last couple of years, and over the past twelve months, in particular. Hockey officially launched as a Performance sport at Marlborough College this year and has enjoyed great success […]
A beautiful marbled red sky set over Marlborough College Malaysia on the evening of 1st May, an evening that by tradition in England is celebrated with singing and dancing at the end of a day-long May Day Spring holiday. The beauty of the Malaysian sky was an appropriate accompaniment to our own May Day […]
Design and Technology (DT) Exhibitions are an opportunity for pupils to celebrate their creativity and innovation with family, friends and the College community. They are particularly precious for exam pupils, who share portfolios and prototypes publicly for the first time after months of work. This year’s exhibition was stunning, and guests were impressed by the […]