Headmaster's Blog
- 17/09/19
On purpose
Great teaching doesn’t happen by accident. Nor does excellent pastoral care, or a great boarding community. Instead, successful schools have a strong shared purpose. A group of staff, parents, governors and students was challenged recently to define that shared purpose for LRGS...Read Full Story - 01/04/19
The Set Run
The Set Run is at the centre of our Lenten Charity fundraising. In the last week of term the whole school runs an undulating four mile course, starting on the Memo Fields and ending outside Ashton House. It may be character-building, but the atmosphere is always cheerful!Read Full Story - 29/03/19
Northern Lights
Frank Cottrell Boyce is the successful children’s writer (Cosmic, Millions, Framed) who scripted the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.Read Full Story - 23/12/18
Reece Holt 2005-2019
It is with much sorrow that we are marking the death of Reece Holt at the age of 13. “I can’t believe I’m writing this now,” one of his friends wrote in the book of memories for Reece, “and not in 80 years’ time.”Read Full Story - 21/12/18
Our Lancaster Story
A fascinating presentation evening recently brought together key figures from business, arts, the City Council, Lancaster University and – most excitingly – the Eden Project, with their spectacular plans for Eden North. Together they painted this inspiring picture of our city...Read Full Story - 14/12/18
Cultural intelligence
Cultural intelligence (“CQ”) describes our ability to connect amidst cultural diversity: our thirst to learn from those different from ourselves.Read Full Story - 12/12/18
Our coeducational Sixth Form
We are very much looking forward to welcoming Sixth Form girls to LRGS next September.Read Full Story - 10/12/18
Not the "Great Unknown"!
September is exciting, especially for day pupils and boarders new to the school. Like any major step in life, though, starting a new year and new school may bring some healthy trepidation.Read Full Story - 09/12/18
Fifty years on!
LRGS is all about the best of the old and the new. It was excellent last weekend to host a reunion for former pupils who left school fifty years ago – and wonderfully for some of their teachers as well.Read Full Story - 09/12/18
First weekend
It never eases you in gently. No matter how well prepared you are, the start of September is always nought-to-sixty! The first weekend of term looked like this.Read Full Story - 07/12/18
Les Misérables: The power of performance
Les Misérables sings the turbulent stories of those caught up in the uprisings of nineteenth century France. Here is betrayal, loss and unrequited love – and redemption, forgiveness and hope. Each character struggles with the brokenness of a life far from the purity of their d...Read Full Story - 05/12/18
Snow days
Snow days are different here. We often see the Lake District turn white, but we’re close to the coast and snow rarely settles in Lancaster.Read Full Story