Headmaster's Blog
06.09.10
Getting in the swing with Jazz Night
Term started last Thursday, and after a couple of days of pretty frantic organisation, things are now in full swing.In addition to the flurry of early season rugby practice, there are two cricket finals (held over from July) to be played this week. Let...
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24.08.10
GCSE results look bright
More happy faces this morning as the GCSE results arrived! As a cohort, this was the second best year ever, with 71.5% of over 1500 entries gaining A* or A grades. There were some brilliant performances at the top end, and it is very encouraging...
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19.08.10
Smiling faces on A-level day
The A-level results were available today and I’m happy to say that there were plenty of smiling faces in the Assembly Hall as the boys picked up their grades. There were individual successes across the academic spectrum, with Ryan Robinson being...
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09.07.10
Farewell
A bitter sweet day of thanks, congratulations, and farewells. We said “au revoir” to Shaun Corrigan, off to run the English speaking section of a Lycee in Fontainebleu, France. There were also three retirements: Sheila Wolfendale...
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06.07.10
Challenge 120
The final presentations for “Challenge 120” were imaginative, clever and original. What talent these youngsters have given a new opportunity.
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05.07.10
L6th Conference with LGGS
The first day of the L6th conference held jointly with LGGS, this year given a new slant to encourage the boys and girls to get involved in a charitable fund-raising project. “Challenge 120” requires teams to construct a Dragons-Den type...
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03.07.10
Founders’ Day
A busy day started with the traditional Founders’ Day service at the Priory Church, with the boys resplendent with red rose buttonholes. Choir, reader (the new Head of School – Ed Phillips) and preacher (Bishop Lindsay Urwin) were all...
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02.07.10
Reminiscence and fellowship
It is often said that a good schoolmaster can influence a career decision, perhaps even the career, of a pupil. It takes a truly great schoolmaster to have that effect on generations of pupils. Tonight’s Sports Celebration Dinner provided the...
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30.06.10
Final farewells
The final farewell to this year’s Upper Sixth. With only a handful of early holiday leavers, virtually the whole year group were back for the last lunch and assembly. We now have another 100+ members of the OL Club and I hope they will all...
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27.06.10
Tribute to Dougie
Another glorious day, this time on the Douthwaite cricket field to celebrate the 80th birthday of ex-Second Master and Governor Douglas Cameron. A team of Old Lancastrians proved to be (just) too strong for the schools first eleven. Glowing...
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26.06.10
Lake District splendour
An early start this morning saw me on the M6 by 6am and breakfasting with the Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award groups on a camp-site near Keswick an hour later.There followed a great day in glorious Lake District splendour, over High Spy and Cat Bells with...
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25.06.10
Proceed with due caution
Some significant decisions were made at the Governors’ meeting this morning. Usually, the termly board meeting is fairly formulaic, with most of the decisions and strategy having already occurred at the various sub-committees: Finance, Buildings,...
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23.06.10
World cup fever
England are playing Slovenia in the World Cup with kick off at 3.00 pm. Don’t the organisers ever consider what will happen in schools with such a daft start time? The message to staff and boys is that they can watch the match if they want,...
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19.06.10
Open doors at LRGS
The school was at its best for the annual Open Day. We had over 800 guests through the door and there were some excited nine and ten year olds making their first steps towards “big school”.
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17.06.10
Leap of faith
Today was a “breath of fresh air”, in all senses. It has long been part of our First Year extended curriculum to take the boys, form by form, to Glenridding in the Lake District, for three days of outdoor education. I was delighted to...
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10.06.10
Cricketing giant visits school
It was a pleasure this evening to meet the greatest ever living cricketer, Sir Garfield Sobers. He came to Lancaster to launch the plan to tour Barbados once again next summer 2011. This will be our fourth appearance in his annual schools cricket...
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08.06.10
Thank you to parents
We hosted a very pleasant evening to say thank-you to the parents who were contributing to the Appeal fund-raising. There was plenty of interest in the Masterplan and the phase Oa building.
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