Headmaster's Blog
- Published on 08/10/21 by Natalie Hunt
Trust is the glue of life
“Trust is the glue of life.” (Stephen Covey) Trust lies at the heart of all our relationships, between individuals in both family and school, and between home and school as we share the values which underpin our children’s upbringing and education. As with respect, trust...Read More - Published on 01/10/21 by Natalie Hunt
Building Back Better
I spent some time with other heads at our annual conference earlier this week, and it was refreshing to listen to inspiring speakers, to exchange good ideas and practice and to consider how we can positively influence the national educational agenda, working with our maintained school colleagues and...Read More - Published on 24/09/21 by Natalie Hunt
The Big Ask
You may have read earlier this week about the findings from the largest ever survey of children and young people anywhere in the world: The Big Ask. Over half a million 4-17 year-olds in England, including many from LGS, responded in the spring to a series of questions about all aspects of their liv...Read More - Published on 17/09/21 by Natalie Hunt
Confident but not arrogant
I imagine you were as struck as I was by the down-to-earth charm of 18-year-old Emma Raducanu last week. She was as incredulous as the rest of us over her spectacular and unprecedented rise to fame in the US Open, and equally remarkable was her natural poise in front of the camera. She comes across...Read More - Published on 10/09/21 by Natalie Hunt
Education for Life
The Leicester Grammar School Trust seeks to be an inspiring centre for co-educational excellence in academic and personal development, within a Christian ethos. In order to fulfil this mission, the school aims to: Promote intellectual curiosity and academic excellence. Provid...Read More - Published on 03/09/21 by Natalie Hunt
Being the best we can be - together
We have been delighted to see so many happy faces over the last two days, as pupils new and old begin the Advent Term. We met as a school community for the first time in eighteen months for assembly in St Nicholas’ yesterday, and it was a special moment. We enjoyed some inspirational highli...Read More - Published on 25/06/21 by Natalie Hunt
A bright and inclusive future
Wednesday was our first LGS ‘Heritage Day - What’s Your Story?’. We celebrated the diversity of our school community; aimed for better mutual understanding as we learned from each other’s stories; and pledged to stamp out racism in our school and to strive for inclusion and e...Read More - Published on 18/06/21 by Natalie Hunt
Subjective options
The majority of our pupils have this week been receiving feedback from end-of-year examinations, and I hope they have treated this as a positive learning experience at the culmination of an extraordinary and challenging year. Regardless of whether they are continuing with all their subjects next yea...Read More - Published on 28/05/21 by Natalie Hunt
Resilience and empathy
We have just finished our assessment series for Years 11 and 13, and our pupils can now breathe a huge sigh of relief as we begin the grading process. They have prepared well and we have been impressed by their dedication and focus as they have sought to give the best account of themselves at the cu...Read More - Published on 21/05/21 by Natalie Hunt
Human and resourceful
I have always had mixed feelings about the term ‘human resources’. On the one hand, it recognises the importance of humans in an organisation, yet on the other, it aligns those humans with other more tangible and non-sentient resources at that organisation’s disposal.Read More - Published on 14/05/21 by Natalie Hunt
Faith and Hope
We have needed large doses of faith and hope over the last fourteen months – and we seem at last to be reaping the rewards of our patience. You may already be aware, but, as a classicist, I shall point out that ‘patience’ comes from the Latin verb ‘pati’, to suffer...Read More - Published on 07/05/21 by Natalie Hunt
Far better respect
I have just read about a recent piece of research conducted amongst 13,000 teenagers in England, the Netherlands and Sweden, regarding the relationship between a child’s popularity and their age-position in their class.Read More