Headmaster's Blog

November 2024

  • Published on 29/11/24 by Natalie Hunt

    We all belong here

    I walked out after school yesterday in the hope of watching some girls’ hockey - only to discover that the games were unsurprisingly cancelled due to frozen pitches! Boys, though, were out training for rugby under the floodlights and the sports centre was a hive of activity, with a busy badmin...
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  • Published on 22/11/24 by Natalie Hunt

    Practising common courtesy

    We are blessed at LGS to educate children who are generally keen to learn and who readily comply with reasonable expectations of behaviour. They are young and most will therefore ‘push at the boundaries’ from time to time, but that’s part of growing up and learning where those para...
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  • Published on 15/11/24 by Natalie Hunt

    Choose Respect

    We are all unique and children should be entitled to be themselves and free from bullying. Such is the message from the Anti-bullying Alliance, with our individuality celebrated every year on Odd Socks Day. I was delighted on Tuesday to see so many pupils wearing odd socks in support of that message...
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  • Published on 08/11/24 by Natalie Hunt

    Shaping the news

    I hope you were able to spend some time together as a family over half-term, and that many in our school community enjoyed Diwali celebrations. “2024 is not just an election year. It’s perhaps the election year.” So said Time magazine last December when observing that an unprece...
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November 2024