- About MCS
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2024, placed seventh nationally and third in the Southeast. - Admissions
Approximately 1 in 10 pupils receive a bursary or scholarship. We are committed to ensuring an MCS education is open to the brightest pupils, no matter their personal circumstances.
- Junior School
“The Junior School is a very busy and happy school and here, a smile goes a long way.”
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2024, placed seventh nationally and third in the Southeast.
- Senior School
28 of our pupils achieved 10 or more 8 or 9 grades in 2024. - Sixth Form
Over 25% of our Sixth Form pupils take up places at Oxford and Cambridge every year.
- Supporting MCS
Your donations contribute over £150,000 a year to bursaries as well as building an endowment to fund bursaries for the future.
28 of our pupils achieved 10 or more 8 or 9 grades in 2024.
Your donations contribute over £150,000 a year to bursaries as well as building an - About MCS
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2024, placed seventh nationally and third in the Southeast.
- Admissions
Approximately 1 in 10 pupils receive a bursary or scholarship. We are committed to ensuring an MCS education is open to the brightest pupils, no matter their personal circumstances.
- Junior School
“The Junior School is a very busy and happy school and here, a smile goes a long way.”
- Senior School
28 of our pupils achieved 10 or more 8 or 9 grades in 2024.
- Sixth Form
Over 25% of our Sixth Form pupils take up places at Oxford and Cambridge every year.
- Supporting MCS
Your donations contribute over £150,000 a year to bursaries as well as building an endowment to fund bursaries for the future.
(21st December 1957 – 23rd September 2021)
Provided by Adam Hodgkins OW 1976
Friends family and OW classmates were saddened and shocked to learn of the sudden and unexpected passing of our dear friend Andre Tansley on 23 September 2021.
My MCS memories of Andre revolve mostly around our time in the RAF Cadets with Flt Lt. Barrett. Saluting with the wrong hand at RAF Valley to a passing officer in a car who screeched to a halt and tore a huge strip off us. The summer camps that followed at RAF Fleet and RAF Lossiemouth were legend.
We shared a love of Oxford Rebels Speedway attending the weekly meetings in Blackbird Leys with David Barrett and Keith Frewin. We kept in touch during University but life got in the way and we saw less of each other. Indeed Andre became my parent’s third son at times in his twenties spending more time with them in Stadhampton than I did.
We recently met up again on one of my trips back from Singapore to the UK, both of us with our adult lives to look back on. Thirty years had passed but it was as if we had never missed a beat. He was full of great stories and we reminisced about our time at MCS with great fondness.
Andre was devoted to his lovely wife Cindy and I am sure you will join me in sending our deepest sympathies to her. I am still coming to terms with his passing; I will miss him.
