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5 unusual facts about Methodist Girls' School


Methodist Girls' School

Joscelin Yeo: Former national swimmer and Olympian; Multiple gold medalist at the biennial Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games)

Christel Bouvron: Former national swimmer and Olympian; Multiple gold medalist at the biennial Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games)

One of the few schools in Singapore offering the Music Elective Programme(MEP), Methodist Girls' School has gained recognition, both before and after starting, for producing musicians such as pianist Abigail Sin and violinist Kam Ning, amongst others.

Methodist Girls' School, Klang

The Methodist Girls' School (MGS) consists of a semi-government aided primary (Sekolah Kebangsaan Perempuan Methodist MGS) and secondary school (Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Perempuan Methodist MGS) in Jalan Raya Barat within the district of Klang.

Singapore Youth Festival

The SYF Art and Crafts Exhibition was introduced in 1968, and local compositions by youths were showcased, such as the composition by Cerise Lim, then a Secondary 3 Methodist Girls' School student which was performed in 1969.


Alan Duncan

Alan Duncan was educated at two independent schools: Beechwood Park School in Markyate, and Merchant Taylors' School in Northwood, at both of which he was 'Head Monitor' (head boy).

Brendan O'Dowda

O'Dowda was born in Dundalk, County Louth and was educated at the De la Salle Brothers' school in the town.

Celia Brayfield

She won a place at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, West London, an academic public school with a literary and political tradition; alumnae include the writers Monica Dickens, Selina Hastings, Flora Fraser; Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman; the actors Emily Mortimer, Jennifer Saunders, Joely Richardson and Rachel Weisz; and the politicians Harriet Harman and Shirley Williams.

Charlotte Ritchie

Educated at James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich South London, she took part as an uncredited extra in Harry Potter: The Goblet of Fire and went on to play the lead character in a short film The Open Doors with Michael Sheen and Cherie Lunghi.

Coloma Convent Girls' School

The school regards its founder as being the Very Reverend Canon Constant Van Crombrugghe, who founded the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary and Joseph in Belgium in 1817.

David Lidington

Lidington was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; he took an honours degree in History and a doctorate for research on Elizabethan history.

Early English dictionaries

Composed by Richard Mulcaster, headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School in London, The Elementarie is now viewed as an important forerunner of the first actual dictionary in English, although it was not an actual dictionary.

Edmund Spenser

As a young boy, he was educated in London at the Merchant Taylors' School and matriculated as a sizar at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Emma Tennant

Born in London, she was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and spent the World War II years and her childhood summers at the family's faux Gothic mansion The Glen in Peeblesshire.

Ernest Procter

Procter, like his father, attended school first in York at the Quaker Bootham Friends' School in York, New Yorkshire.

Eva Kwok

She spent her early life in Penang where she attended St. George's Girls' School.

George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave

He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, London and St John's College, Oxford.

George She

Some of his most remarkable jobs included barrister-at-law, magistrate, headmaster of Diocesan Boys' School (1955–1961), and honorary canon of St. John's Cathedral.

Henry Bristow Wilson

He entered Merchant Taylors' School in October 1809, and was elected to St John's College, Oxford, in 1821.

Herschel Girls' School

The property on which it stands belonged to V.A. Schonnberg who, when he sold the main estate in 1834 to Sir John Herschel, the astronomer, retained this portion and named it after his illustrious neighbour.

Holy Family Church

Holy Family Church, School, and Rectory, Mitchell, South Dakota, listed on the NRHP in South Dakota

Joe Ansolabehere

He was the executive producer for the movie Recess: School's Out and has recently been credited as a screenwriter on Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue.

John and Phyllis Murphy

Their commercial work included buildings for Fintona Girls' School, Caulfield Grammar School, commercial buildings including a television station in Shepparton, and a number of works in collaboration with other Architects.

Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School

Pupils are allotted to one of six houses within the school, named after famous female writers and poets: Austen, Brontë, Browning, Eliot, Potter, and Rossetti.

King's Norton Boys' School

Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton, Chancellor from 1969-97 of Cranfield University, and aeronautical engineer, being Managing Director from 1944-6 of Power Jets, and Director from 1946-8 of the National Gas Turbine Establishment

Kunwara Baap

The Sports Day, a major scene in the movie, is shot in Bishop Cotton Boys' School

Lady Nicholas Windsor

Paola Windsor speaks seven languages, and was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and at Wycombe Abbey, where she was William Johnston Yapp Scholar.

Leonidas Bott

Born in Adelaide, Bott was educated at Perth Boys' School and Christian Brothers' College, and later received a scholarship to study at the University of Adelaide.

Methodist High School, Kanpur

The school is run and managed by the Methodist Church in India, which also runs a number of schools and colleges in India such as the I T College, Lucknow UP, the Lucknow Christian College, the Calcutta Boys' School and the Calcutta Girls' High School, Kolkata and the Baldwin Boys High School and Baldwin Girls High School, Bangalore, to name a few.

Michael Wills

He went to the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree, Hertfordshire and studied at Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a double first in History (BA).

Murray Halberg

Halberg House of Hutt International Boys' School is named after Sir Murray Halberg, and students in the house earn what are called "meter points" which relates to Sir Murray Halberg and his running career.

N. Ahmed

Alumnus of the Bishop Cotton Boys' School; received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, India in 1961;

Neil Lawson Baker

Baker attended the Merchant Taylors' School in Northwood, Middlesex as a day boy and then went on to Guy's Hospital in London where he qualified as a dental surgeon.

No. 196 Squadron RAF

The Windsor Boys' School's Burgess house uses the 196 squadrons badge and motto.

Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School

Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School (Singapore) is split into two sections (the primary school and the secondary school).

Peter Mews

Mews was born at Caundle Purse in Dorset, and was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, London, and at St John's College, Oxford, of which he was scholar and fellow.

Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin

He attended Methodist Boys' School, Kuala Lumpur and later Victoria Institution before studying at the Royal Military College.

Rebecca Lim

Rebecca was born to a Hokkien family.The second child of three children, Rebecca studied at CHIJ Saint Nicholas Girls' School (Primary and Secondary), Victoria Junior College and Singapore Management University (SMU).

Robert Cyril Layton Perkins

Perkins was born on 15 November 1866 at Badminton, Gloucestershire and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, St. Albans – his father, Rev Charles Perkins, was the headmaster – and at Merchant Taylors' School before obtaining a scholarship in classics to Jesus College, Oxford in 1885.

Rugby Group

Five of the Rugby Group schools, Charterhouse School, Harrow School, Winchester College, Rugby School and Shrewsbury School are members of the original nine 'Clarendon' public schools defined under the Public Schools Act 1868, with the other Clarendon schools (Eton College, St Paul's School, Merchant Taylor's School and Westminster School) having other affiliations.

Ruyton Girls' School

Middle School Plays are also done in conjunction with Scotch College.

Ruyton Girls' School (commonly referred to simply as Ruyton), is a non-denominational, independent, day school for girls, located in Selbourne Road, Kew, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

School's Out

Recess: School's Out, a 2001 animated film based on the TV series Recess

Sir William Dawes, 3rd Baronet

From the age of nine, William Dawes studied at the Merchant Taylors' School in London.

Song Ong Siang

He also found the Singapore Chinese Girls' School together with Dr Lim and other prominent Straits Chinese gentlemen, in July 1899 on Hill Street.

St Mary's Anglican Girls' School

In 2005, the St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School Foundation purchased 100 acres of land in the Margaret River Wine Region.

Stephen Grey

Grey was educated at the British School of Brussels, St Alban's School, and Windsor Boys School, and then studied politics, philosophy, and economics at Oxford University.

Substitute teacher

The remaining three starred Treat Williams, and were The Substitute 2: School's Out, The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All, and The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option.

The Gifted Students' School-Iraq

The school's original location was in Hayy Al-Jami'a, Baghdad, but it was relocated with Al-Mansor High School in Al-Mansor, Baghdad after being targeted by Al-Qaeda.Now the school has three other campuses in Iraq in An-Najaf, Al-Basrah, and Mosul.

Timothy Ha

Timothy Ha received his early education in Munsang College and Diocesan Boys' School (DBS).

William Croone

He was born in London on 15 September 1633, and admitted to Merchant Taylors' School on 11 December 1642.

William Paddy

He was born in London, and entered Merchant Taylors' School in 1569, with schoolfellows Lancelot Andrewes, Giles Tomson, and Thomas Dove.

Worshipful Company of Skinners

It has evolved into an educational and charitable institution, supporting schools such as Tonbridge School in Tonbridge, Kent; The Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells Kent; The Judd School (also in Tonbridge) and Skinners' Academy in Hackney, London.

Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School

In 2008 it emerged that nine pupils had refused to sit a Key Stage 3 Shakespeare test on The Merchant of Venice because they felt the character of Shylock was antisemitic.


see also

Kwa Geok Choo

She had three sisters, Mrs Cheah, who was a teacher at Methodist Girls School; Mrs. Yong Nyuk Lin (wife of retired cabinet minister Yong Nyuk Lin); and the late Mrs. Earnest Lau, who was also for a time a teacher at Methodist Girls School.