- 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.
The School has learned that David Foster sadly passed away in December 2017. The Aberdeen Evening Express published the following obituary:
A man who helped transform health and safety in the oil industry after the Piper Alpha tragedy has died at the age of 79. David Foster worked as station manager for the coastguard service and held the oil and gas liaison officer post for the UK and the North Sea. Mr Foster was called out to help co-ordinate the rescues of the stricken oil workers on the day the disaster struck in 1988. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Mr Foster worked hard to change the system in place after realising there was little contact between the coastguard service and oil companies. He developed the triangle of operations now in place between offshore units, onshore company response centres and the coastguard service. After giving evidence at the Cullen Inquiry, he gave presentations to the Health and Safety Executive and ran 70 training exercises, as well as going on field visits.
Born in Oxford in 1938, Mr Foster started his education at Magdalen College School and went on to study marine electronics at Southampton University. It was there he met the love of his life, wife Dee. Mr Foster travelled a lot while working in his first job with the Merchant Navy. After 10 years’ service he took up employment with the coastguard.
By 1983 the couple had moved to Aberdeen where they finally settled with their two children, Nick and Claire.
