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The Manchester Grammar School has developed a wide range of free-to-access online academic courses for pupils both within the school and beyond. Drawing on experience from remote learning during the …

It is with great sadness that we have to share the news that Harry Bardsley, our former Head Porter who was adored by everyone at MGS, has passed away. Harry joined MGS in 1982 originally as the Pool…

Everyone at MGS would like to thank our Catering Manager Richard Palombella, and all of his team in the Catering Department, for everything they done over the past 12 months to keep our boys, and sta…

MGS held its annual fundraising football match for Macmillan Cancer Support, on a rather overcast but dry Friday afternoon, April 28.  Every year, eager football players gather at the school to compe…

Mr Dobson has been a member of staff at MGS since 1980, as well as being a pupil at the school between 1962-1970. Mr Dobson is a German teacher and also looks after the folk music option for pupils, …

MGS held its annual fundraising football match for Macmillan Cancer Support, after two years of cancellations due to the covid-19 pandemic.  Every year, eager football players gather at the school to…

It is with deep sadness that I have to inform the MGS Community of the death of Maurice Watkins CBE, Old Mancunian and  Chair of the School’s Governing Body. Maurice chaired the first Bursary Appeal …

In pre-Covid times, this coming weekend would see the gathering of members of the South West section of the Old Mancunian’s Association to lay a wreath at the tomb of Hugh Oldham in Exeter Cathedral.…

MGS’s volunteer archivist Jeremy Ward, who taught at MGS from 1974 to 1997 and who has been volunteering with our Archives Team ever since, has published his first ever book. A two-year labour of lov…

We are absolutely delighted to welcome Ms Eleanor Losse as our new Head of the Junior School. Ms Losse started in January and has been working right throughout this latest lockdown, but is thrilled t…

High profile sporting and media figures, theatre directors, leading businessmen and members of Church were among the 1,000 guests who gathered for the biggest ever reunion in the history of The Manch…

Hugh Oldham was born in 1452 to Roger and Margery Oldham. Early sources are unclear as to whether he was born in Oldham or in Manchester, but either way his family’s roots were strongly Lancastrian. …