For the last fifteen years, the InspirUs classroom has been welcoming pupils from many local primary schools to help children be the best they can be; to love their learning and be hungry for more.

This year, Miss Helen Booth is leading InspirUs with her assistant Miss Lizzie Jackson. Together with their team of sixth form helpers, they continue to run the pioneering programme that was set up in 2010, thanks to donations from alumni and orchestrated by Mrs Page, who retired earlier this year as Head of Year 7.  

InspirUs is our outreach programme for girls and boys attending Lancaster and Morecambe primary schools.  It aims to raise aspirations and to encourage Year 4 pupils to explore avenues well beyond the confines of the curriculum.  The programme covers maths, science, literacy, design and technology and art. 

Pupils are collected from their school by coach and are welcomed into the classroom to spend one afternoon a week for six weeks where they experience an exciting, varied and challenging programme of study. Each week has an exciting theme from ‘To infinity and beyond …’ to ‘Christmas Around the World’ and offers activities such as crafting and code cracking to painting and poetry. There is a strong focus on art and creativity as we want to encourage children to discover alternative ways of thinking, working and learning.

It is a full circle moment when the children that visit us in Year 4/5 then appear in the classroom as InspirUs helpers in LRGS Sixth Form. Current sixth form student, Edward,  participated in the InspirUs programme when he was in primary school and is currently back in the classroom as a Prefect.  Edward said: “InspirUs is one of my fondest memories of primary school, and I remember enjoying every second of my time there.  I am very grateful for the opportunity to be able to give back to the InspirUs program, and make it as enjoyable as possible for everyone involved, because I know how valuable of an opportunity it is”.

Miss Jackson, InspiUs Administrator (and alumnus of InspirUs herself!) said: “Edward is a really valuable InspirUS volunteer - he engages the children really well and explains the activities so carefully, helping them whenever they ask”.

LRGS can only continue to run this incredible project thanks to the generosity of some former pupils of the school. We would particularly like to thank Kevin Roberts and Christopher Wright for their support over the last 15 years.