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- 25/04/23
Global recognition for Agripod
Congratulations to our Year 13 students, Ali, Lucas and Aditya who have just been named one of three runner-up teams from 1,150 schools in 116 countries in The Earth Prize 2023 - an amazing achievement. Their solution, Agripod, is advisory system aiming to reduce fertilizer...Read Full Story - 17/03/23
Friends of LGS generous donation
Many thanks to the Friends of LGS for funding the 1st XI cricket caps. Our cricket captain, Fergus, & fellow 1st team cricketer & sports scholar, Kavir, were presented with them today by Varsha, Friends' Chair. The official presentation will take place at the MCC game in June.Read Full Story - 09/03/23
Celebrating International Women's Day
To celebrate International Women’s Day and National Careers Week 2023, pupils were invited by our Careers Leader, Mrs Scott, to watch a webinar at lunchtime hearing from employers including Transport for London and the RAF, about their plans to increase female participation in their apprentice...Read Full Story - 08/03/23
British millionaire pledges to pay fees for bright children to attend top schools
Neil Record, a pioneer of currency risk management, made his fortune in the city. He believes that attending an academic school was, for him, and many like him, the best foundation for his later success. Now he wants to give back by providing scholarships for bright children to attend selective inde...Read Full Story - 28/02/23
The Earth Prize: Top 10
Further to the previous news story about The Earth Prize shortlist, we are delighted that our Year 13 students Lucas Hoffman, Ali Kamel and Aditya Mathur, have been selected as one of only ten global finalists for their Agripod. AgriPod is an innovative agricultural sensor. Designed to tac...Read Full Story - 17/02/23
More success for our Upper Sixth - 10 places offered at Oxford and Cambridge
It's been a challenging few years for our current Upper Sixth (Year 13). Like all pupils their age they have lived through the disruption of Covid and the restrictions this has placed on the many activities they would normally enjoy. But with Covid (almost) behind them, this year group has ab...Read Full Story - 30/01/23
Chef success!
Congratulations to our Year 7 pupil, Lucy, on reaching the the final of the 'Inspiring Culinary Generations' National competition, which took place in Bournmouth last Friday.Read Full Story - 09/12/22
Honouring our founders
On Monday 5 December, we were delighted that our Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Steven Gasztowicz, KC, unveiled a board to recognise the school's founders.Read Full Story - 30/11/22
Grounds Team Recognition
We are very proud that our brilliant Grounds Team have been recognised with an industry award. The Grounds Management Association holds a national industry awards ceremony every year covering categories in all types of grounds work e.g. football and rugby pitches, golf courses, c...Read Full Story - 20/09/22
Topping the charts for affordable excellence in education
LGS pupils recently celebrated outstanding examination results, with the school comfortably in pole academic position in Leicestershire, based on A*/A grades at A-level (72%) and 9-7 (old A*/A) at GCSE (81%). In the Daily Telegraph national league tables of independent schools, this led to a ranking...Read Full Story - 25/08/22
Marvellous!
Following last week’s outstanding A-level results (72% A*/A), our GCSE cohort has also performed exceptionally well, despite the many challenges of the pandemic. 81% of all grades were at 7 – 9 (the old A*/A equivalent). Nine pupils from a cohort of 119 were rewarded with the coveted...Read Full Story - 18/08/22
Awesome!
We are in absolute awe of our A level students! Not only have they defied the odds to achieve outstanding results, but they also leave us as very generous human beings, with personal skills and qualities in abundance. This was a year group who sat no GCSE examinations in 2020 and who rose admirab...Read Full Story