Teaching Staff

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…

Charles Walter Merryweather and Charles Edward Fry both taught at Manchester Grammar School under High Master Paton in the early decades of the twentieth century. What is remarkable about these two m…

Whole staff photographs seem to have been taken at least once a decade at MGS One of our earliest whole staff photographs dates from the time of High Master John Edward King, taken around 1895: c. 1…

Today our staff have been busking in the main stairwell and outside the Memorial Hall to raise money for the charity The Wellspring, which helps homeless, those at risk of becoming homeless, and disa…

Teachers from MGS have contributed to the current edition of Impact, the journal published by The Chartered College of Teaching. Dr Susan Graham, Dr Rachel Stenhouse and Anna Wicking contributed to a…

Great to welcome the next generation of Old Mancunians today, as our new Year 7 boys had their first Assembly in the Theatre this afternoon. 30 years ago to this day, aged 11, MGS Director of Develop…

Last year, everyone at MGS was saddened to hear of the passing of Paul Ponder, who was extremely fondly remembered by all who knew him. His legacy at MGS will live on, as his wish was to be a benefac…

2016 marked 100 years since the Battle of the Somme. The huge loss of life that occurred during those five months has been well documented. The school lost at least 100 Old Mancunians to the Somme in…

In January the archive received a filing cabinet from the Common Room filled with material relating to the teaching staff. Alongside the minutes and correspondence (worth keeping) and paperclips and …

t may not seem polite to treat Ian as an ‘object’, but we hope that you will forgive us as he holds iconic status for generations of MGS pupils and staff. Ian was born in Glasgow in 1913 and, after h…

  Ian Bailey attended MGS between 1927 and 32. He later returned to teach History in 1949, and later created and curated the MGS Archive. The Archive Library is named after Ian in recognition of his …