Here are the some recent items of school news.
More items can be found by clicking the Archive link below.
On the 13th September 2018, we had the privilege of attending a full-day workshop, hosted by Rich Cottell, a passionate, talented musician, and a great teacher. He has over 29,000 subscribers on Youtube, and has many popular songs such as Union, More than just a Geek and many others.
A group of Year 13 students recently returned from their very successful DofE Gold expedition to north Wales.
On 1st July 2018, members of Langley Grammar School’s very own Orchestra walked into the Royal Albert Hall as performers rather than spectators to perform Dvorak’s Slavonic Dance No. 1 as part of a 200-strong orchestra of students from Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.
On the 17th May, some year 8 students were selected to be a part of the Cut Films Project. Janna Nabih (now in 9H) explains more below.
On Thursday 17 May I had the great pleasure of attending the Gold award presentation ceremony of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award that took place in the gardens at Buckingham Palace.
On Monday 2nd July 2018, ‘Bang On!’ a percussion duo, came to Langley Grammar School to perform and to teach us how recycling materials can be used to make music.
On Friday 6th July, the Year 9 Girls set out on a gruelling 20-minutes’ walk in the blistering sun to the offices of CA Technologies, Ditton Park to take part in a morning of STEM related problem solving activities.
On Monday 2 July 2018, 6 year 12 students were lucky enough to participate in the ICMA Stock Market Challenge at Henley Business School, Reading University. This was the first year our school entered the competition so we had no prior insight as to how things would go - but we ended up as the second best team overall!
On the 26th June, year 10 students that are working towards their Sports Leaders qualification went to Ryvers Primary School to deliver a session on a sport to the pupils there.
On Wednesday 20th June, 40 students left to visit Cologne, Germany. They had a great time visiting Cologne, Boppard, Marksburg Castle, Phantasialand and many other amazing places, and vastly improved their German language skills and understanding of the German culture.
On Tuesday 19th June 2018, the whole of year 9 were engaged in 'Future Gold', an activity focused on business and enterprise, as part of our whole school Focus Day.