Headmaster's Blog
- Published on 14/02/25 by Natalie Hunt
Love is in the air
Happy Valentine’s Day! Dukes House has been raising money for charity, including a raffle for an enormous and very soft teddy bear. If your child is fortunate to win said bear, it will certainly need its own chair if not its own bedroom!Read More - Published on 07/02/25 by Natalie Hunt
Know yourself, grow yourself
You may be aware that it is Children’s Mental Health Week, and we have been holding various events in school to support our pupils’ wellbeing: an assembly led by pupils in our Change Group; mindfulness colouring; stress ball making; very popular cupcake decorating; clay modelling of...Read More - Published on 31/01/25 by Natalie Hunt
A School for Emerging Thought
You will not be surprised that we are currently discussing the use of AI in education, with a few staff having recently visited BETT, the world’s biggest EdTech event, held in London. The impact of AI is schools is likely to impact three key areas, by: reducing the time and effort teache...Read More - Published on 17/01/25 by Natalie Hunt
Cherish the moment
I am sure, like me, that you have been stunned by the devastation wrought by wildfires in the Los Angeles region. They have occurred in a highly developed and wealthy part of our planet and have not discriminated between rich or poor. 5998 structures have been confirmed as destroyed, with 27 confirm...Read More - Published on 10/01/25 by Natalie Hunt
Kind people are our kind of people
I wish you and family a very Happy New Year and hope that you benefited from both relaxation and celebration over the festive period. I hope too that you have remained warm and dry, and unaffected personally by Monday’s flooding.Read More - Published on 13/12/24 by Natalie Hunt
Our future in their hands
In the run-up to the US Presidential elections, I listened to an interview in which a commentator described the polarisation of American society along the lines of those who were university graduates and those who weren’t.Read More - Published on 06/12/24 by Natalie Hunt
Time to take a different tack
Outside my office, Year 11 pupils are sitting in preparation for their GCSE modern language oral mocks. Elsewhere in the building, others have been completing their Art or Ceramics mocks (ten hours at GCSE and fifteen at A-level), while all of Years 11 and 13 will return to school after Christmas to...Read More - Published on 29/11/24 by Natalie Hunt
We all belong here
I walked out after school yesterday in the hope of watching some girls’ hockey - only to discover that the games were unsurprisingly cancelled due to frozen pitches! Boys, though, were out training for rugby under the floodlights and the sports centre was a hive of activity, with a busy badmin...Read More - Published on 22/11/24 by Natalie Hunt
Practising common courtesy
We are blessed at LGS to educate children who are generally keen to learn and who readily comply with reasonable expectations of behaviour. They are young and most will therefore ‘push at the boundaries’ from time to time, but that’s part of growing up and learning where those para...Read More - Published on 15/11/24 by Natalie Hunt
Choose Respect
We are all unique and children should be entitled to be themselves and free from bullying. Such is the message from the Anti-bullying Alliance, with our individuality celebrated every year on Odd Socks Day. I was delighted on Tuesday to see so many pupils wearing odd socks in support of that message...Read More - Published on 08/11/24 by Natalie Hunt
Shaping the news
I hope you were able to spend some time together as a family over half-term, and that many in our school community enjoyed Diwali celebrations. “2024 is not just an election year. It’s perhaps the election year.” So said Time magazine last December when observing that an unprece...Read More - Published on 18/10/24 by Natalie Hunt
Journeying together
This afternoon, we meet as a community to celebrate our annual Foundation Day and to give thanks for those who had the vision to dream of the remarkable opportunities from which we all benefit today. Little did that small group of pioneers, reacting to the demise of state grammar schools in Leice...Read More