The Computer Science department is excited to announce that our students have achieved outstanding success in this year’s Bebras Challenge (10th - 21st November 2025), an international competition introducing computational thinking to students aged 6 to 19.

The penultimate week of term marked the busiest Christmas period the BGS Music Department has experienced for many years, with three concerts taking place across three consecutive days. These included the annual Christmas Carol Concert, the second lunchtime concert of the 2025–2026 series, and the Community Carol Service, held in collaboration with other local schools and musical ensembles from across Bourne.

I am delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s Winter Card Competition is Maija Ozola (Year 8).

Year 12 student, Amelia Kearns, recently represented BGS at the British Schools Gymnastics Championships, where she achieved an outstanding result—taking home the gold medal.

Written by Zack Browne, Year 10

A-Level Media students recently visited Warners PLC in Bourne, a major-local print publishing and marketing company, to gain insight into real-world media production.

Expertly decorated by a team of Year 11 students.

Huge congratulations to Oliver who has recently completed his Gold DofE Award. This is a remarkable achievement and sees Oliver complete all 3 levels of the scheme.

Wednesday - 15 of our Year 7s headed to Oundle for their first ever rugby match for the School. It proved to be as much about character and camaraderie as it was about tries and tackles. Badminton week - The Senior teams have all been in

The Children in Need bake sale raised over £500 last week - an excellent contribution by all!

Every year, the Geography Department take our Y10 Geographers to Cambridge City Centre to undertake their human fieldwork that they will use in their Y11 summer exams, exploring inequalities, challenges, sustainability and what it is like to live in Cambridge.

On Sunday 12th October, twelve members of our Chamber Choir performed in the Grantham Music Festival Fundraising Concert at St John’s Church in Grantham.

The annual junior Badminton Doubles tournament was held on Monday 13 October with our biggest ever entry of students. We had 26 boys and 14 girls all extremely excited to compete and of varying levels of experience.

Monday 6 October – Giardini Naxos and Letojanni. Around 2.30am, forty bleary-eyed Year 11 students arrived at School, said their goodbyes to parents (who seemed happy to be waving their teenage children off for a week) and boarded the coach for

Following on from strong performances at the first round of the Fenland Cross Country League, four teams from the school again visited Crowland, but this time for the first round of the English Schools Cross Country Cup.