The Bridge 2021 – cover collage

The Bridge 2020-21 is out!

This year’s cover of The Bridge illustrates some of the ways in which our MCS family has continued to flourish and make an impact in these trying times.

Bridge cover photographs. All photographs from left to right.

Front Cover

Top Row:

Classics Teacher Anne Kenyon, CSO lead, at the Rose Hill Community Larder

Livvy Hitch (OW 2013), Foundation Doctor in Dundee

A Level results day, August 2020

Will Wynell-Mayow (OW 2009), Orthopaedic Registrar at West Middlesex Hospital

Second Row:

J4 pupils in the Rose Garden, Trinity term 2020

Bob Stanier Society biscuits and coaster, sent to Stanier Society members ahead of our virtual ‘In Conversation with the Master’ virtual event, October 2020

Sixth Form play Romeo and Juliet, Michaelmas term 2020

MCS maths teacher Dr Paul Shrimpton teaching from home, Hilary term 2021

Third Row:

The fruits of a Founders’ Day challenge – drawing nonstop for 14.80 hours – in aid of Mustardseed School by a current pupil, June 2020

Ken Barnes (OW 1950) and his wife Vera, at home

Adam Sullivan (OW 2009), who worked on a COVID ward at Whipps Cross hospital

The Baker family, including Susie Baker (Director of the Waynflete Office), Lizzie Baker (former member of the Junior School teaching staff) and Charlie Baker (OW 2015) at the Rose Hill Community Larder

Fourth Row:

Miranda Rogers (OW 2014), medic at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford

Jack Harberd (2014), choral scholar at St Martin-in-the-Fields and Tesco delivery driver during lockdown

A Level results day, August 2020

Annie Robinson (OW 2012), teacher in Nottingham

Bottom Row:

Tom Sullivan (OW 2011), working in intensive care at Royal London Hospital

MCS chemistry teacher Dr Claire Bell, teaching from home, Trinity term 2020

Zac Bischoff (2018) with MCS brownies received during student isolation in Cambridge, Michaelmas term 2020

Aerial view of School Field in lockdown, Trinity term 2020

Back Cover

Top Row:

Master Helen Pike with Head of School James Bridson (OW 2020) on A Level results day, August 2020

Will Graydon, aka 220Kid (OW 2007), cycled for 22 continuous hours in aid of Fair Share UK, May 2020

PPE made by the MCS DT department in use at Beaumont Street GP Surgery, April 2020

Bill Morris (OW 1963) with classics teacher Anne Kenyon at the Rose Hill Community Larder

Second Row:

Tom Boyles (OW 1990), infectious diseases consultant in Johannesburg, South Africa

Joe Wilson (OW 2016), medical student

Alex Black (OW 2011), on a COVID ward in Bristol’s Royal Infirmary

A Founders’ Day challenge – staying off of technology for 14.80 hours – in aid of Mustardseed School by a current pupil, June 2020

Third Row:

J4 pupils on School field, Trinity term 2020

A pupil learning from home during lockdown

Jules Marshall (OW 1990), transport engineer

Lizzie Battrum, nee Reavely (OW 2012), teacher in London

Fourth Row:

Matt Field (OW 1995), British Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Building work on the Mustardseed School in Uganda

Socially distant J4 in the Dining Hall, Trinity term 2020

Waynflete Studies presentations, Michaelmas term 2020

Bottom row:

A Founders’ Day cycling challenge in aid of Mustardseed School by MCS maths teacher Claire Lewis and MCS chemistry teacher Hayler Parry, June 2020

Virtual 2020 Leavers Service with the Usher, Toby Beaumont, and Master Helen Pike

“Cake”, a snapshot of lockdown, copyright Douglas Fry/Piranha Photography www.piranhaphotography.com

School Field with circles for social distancing, Trinity term 2020