Headteachers Blog

3 October 2024

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rhieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr National Teaching Assistant Day! On Friday 27th September, schools across the nation celebrated the invaluable work that teaching assistants do. Our teaching assistants are without doubt the unsung heroes of LHS. We really do have the best. We are not biased. It is actually true. Our […]

26 September 2024

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rhieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr This week, we are featuring just some of opportunities that our students have had in the first fortnight back to get out into the local and wider community to enhance their learning experiences. We love these opportunities that enrich their studies and their relationships with peers […]

19 September 2024

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rhieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr Healthy Body supports Healthy Mind If any parents reading this have ever experienced the panic of your children giving you a couple of hours notice of the ingredients they need for a food lesson in school, then be assured that we are sowing and harvesting to […]

12 September 2024

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rhieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr A warm welcome to Year 7! This week we would like to congratulate Year 7 on conquering their first two weeks of high school.  That means they have lived through a Week A and a Week B.  They have now met all of their new teachers […]

5 September 2024

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rhieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr The baton passes from one academic year to the next… So, where did we leave things at the end of the summer term 2024? We finished the last week of the summer term in style!  That included our legendary LHS Sports Day. It has become legendary […]

22 August 2024

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rhieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr Congratulations to all of our Key Stage 4 students on their amazing achievements! Balloon arch up….lights…desks….envelopes….camera….8am doors open, and action. This morning, it was the turn of our Year 10 and 11 students to make the nervous journey to school to receive their exam results. If […]

15 August 2024

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rhieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr LHS Alumni Olympic success in Paris! I couldn’t launch the mid-summer blog without paying tribute to our amazing LHS alumni Olympians whose luggage will weigh so much more on the way back from Paris than it did on the way over… Because those medals are heavy!!!!!!!!! […]

19 July 2024

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rhieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr Fond Farewells It is that time of year when we bid farewell to departing colleagues who have hatched escape routes into retirement or pastures new. This time of year is tinged with sadness. We are so sad to say goodbye to valued colleagues. However, we wish […]

18 July 2024

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rhieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr There have been so many different and inspiring activities taking place in the last fortnight that I need to cover events across multiple blogs this week!  Starting with some problem solving!  This first update come to us courtesy of Mr Denison-Kurg…. London Maths trip We started […]

17 July 2024

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rhieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr LHS goes Footloose! In the last few weeks, students across Wales will have taken to their school stages to perform in their summer productions. I would like to congratulate everyone who came to see LHS stage a stunning, vibrant and inclusive performance of Footloose over 3 […]