- 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.
As the school prepares to mark the centenary of the end of the Great War, I have found some items in the archive collections that recall the individuals who served and gave their lives.
One such person is OW Francis Bernard Roberts. Roberts was born in Nasnik, India, on 20 May 1882 where hisfather was a missionary. He attended MCS from 1894 to 1898 and made his mark as a very able athlete and cricketer.
He moved to Rossall School to take up a Senior Scholarship before obtaining a scholarship at Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1901. The Jesus College Society Annual Report obituary for Roberts states that ‘Besides being a good scholar he was an exceptionally good athlete’ (1916, p28).
Roberts played cricket professionally for Gloucestershire before taking a teaching position at Wellington College in 1910. At the outbreak of the war, Roberts applied for a commission, and became a Second Lieutenant in 9 Battalion, The Prince Consort’s Own Rifle Brigade (42 Brigade, 14th Division) in December 1914. Roberts spent his war in and out of the trenches at Ypres, where he was killed on 8 February 1916, aged 33.
The school archive catalogue describes ‘a small white and purple box containing the war medals and death plaque of Francis Bernard Roberts. The medals are the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. Collectively these awards were known as ‘Pip, Squeak and Wilfred’. The death plaque is a Dead Man’s Penny, which would have been sent to Roberts’ family after his death in the First World War. These effects are a moving reminder of the personal aspect of the Great War for this Old Waynflete.
Lindsay McCormack, School Archivist
