Great Times

Living With Purpose: Service, Leadership and the Power of Helping Others

April 16, 2026
Living With Purpose: Service, Leadership and the Power of Helping Others
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News

Galactic Challenge!

November 8, 2024
Year 7 and 8 Great Ballard students visit Churcher's College in Hampshire for the 2024 Galactic Challenge!
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Centenary Project Competition

August 29, 2024
To acknowledge 100 years of incredible history and our school's amazing story, we are launching a project competition.
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GB at the World Cup!

July 24, 2024
The Gothia Cup is an annual World Youth football tournament that has been running since 1975. This year saw over 1900 teams from 72 nations taking part, following the Olympic-style opening ceremony.Raheem and Maksym were delighted to be selected to play for the Prep School Pumas U14 team, representing Prep schools from Kent and Sussex. Despite a few warm up matches in the run up to the tournament, the first time the whole team could play together was once they had reached the tournament itself.
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Stories

But what is M.A.P?

April 9, 2025
You know there is something wrong in your school when sport is solely about winning at all costs and cookery is about bringing home cookies and cakes in a Tupperware box.
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REV: Representing Excellent Values - Podcast

March 21, 2025
"Once you get over yourself," says Matt King, headmaster of Great Ballard School, you can have "the joy of appointing people who are so much better than you."
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Get Outdoors!

February 24, 2025
Today the interim report from the Play Commission has been published and its findings are disheartening. Time spent playing outdoors has declined by 50% in a generation.
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