LGGS March Newsletter 2023

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WELCOME

community for their support.

When I started at LGGS in 2004 as Deputy Headteacher, I would never have thought that I would be retiring as Headteacher in 2023!

However LGGS is a very difficult school to leave. There is a very special combination of supportive

parents, hard working staff and of course the wonderful young people, whom it has been a privilege to work with. LGGS students really are a delight. It has been lovely to hear from former students who have been in touch on hearing of my retirement. I would like to give a special mention to one such student, Rebecca Sunter, as she embodies so much of LGGS. It was a pleasure to show Rebecca and her mum around LGGS recently. Rebecca was one of my first Head Girls, in 2008. As Head Girl she showed outstanding qualities of kindness and compassion and always knew how to have fun too!

Rebecca went on to study Geography at LSE and has worked with a range of UK charities and foundations to address inequality and injustice. She is currently working as a Portfolio

STAFF LEAVERS

Manager for the Guy & St Thomas Foundation and is currently Programme Director for the vitally important work on children’s health and food. In this role, she leads to ensure children and young people in Lambeth and Southwark and other urban areas have access to good nutrition. Rebecca is like so many present and former LGGS students who give back to their community and embody our values of care, contribute and challenge. I am sure LGGS will continue to develop and support young people who will make an impact on “the wider world.” It has been a pleasure to work at LGGS and I wish everybody connected with the school all the very best for the future.

Mrs J Cahalin, Headteacher

This Easter we are also saying goodbye to three key members of LGGS staff.

Mr Ian Jones, our IT manager and Head of Apprenticeship training is leaving to take up a new post as Head of the IT team for the Bay Learning Trust. Mr Jones has worked hard to ensure LGGS staff and students have had access to the very best IT provision. We wish him all the best in his new role.

Mrs Judith Ram Prasad who has been on secondment this year to study at Durham University has confirmed that she is leaving to focus on her Ph.D. Mrs Ram Prasad has taught languages at LGGS since 2008. We thank

her for all her hard work, her kind and caring work as a Year 7 tutor and the contribution she made to extra-curricular life both as Head of House and her support of music at LGGS.

Finally a heart felt thank you to Ms Jen Pardoe, Assistant Headteacher, who is leaving to take up a promotion as Vice Principal at Morecambe Bay Academy. Ms Pardoe has achieved so much in her time at LGGS. She has been an excellent senior leader with a wide range of responsibilities including safeguarding, the sixth form and personal development, as well as an outstanding teacher of Drama and Theatre. She has worked closely with students to foster equality and diversity at LGGS and leaves a legacy of greater inclusivity in the school. Ms Pardoe will be much missed. We wish her all the very best for the future.

Mrs Jackie Cahalin, Headteacher

After Easter we will be welcoming our new Sixth Form leaders and saying thank you to all the Year 13 students who have contributed to our school community.

SIXTH FORM LEADERSHIP TEAM 2023-2024

Head Student

Abi Smith

Leader: Academic

Audrey Brennand

Leader: Charity

Lali Atherton

Leader: Equality

Manal Faisal

Leader: Events

Emily Yates

Leader: Sixth Form Council

Siobhan Young

Leaders: Transition

Klaudia Bronis

Charlotte Mason

Fiyin Oladejo

Leader: Wellbeing

Grace Bateman

Aalborg Olivia Emsley

Perpignan Jessica Argall Grace Rose Emily

Abbey Rhodes Izzy Walling

Lublin Lucy Cashin Lucy Fisher Cate Matthew Jorja Collins

Thea Egan Ollie Walsh

Rendsburg Diya Sharma Faheema Dasu Thashmi Peries Kate Bloe Daisy Tao

SPORTS LEADERSHIP TEAM

Sports Captain: Lucy Smith

Deputy Sports Captain: Jessica Felton

Assistant Sports Captain (PE Council and Student Voice): Elizabeth Wareing

Assistant Sports Captain (Wellbeing and Mentoring): Honor Brown

Assistant Sports Captain (Year 7 and 8): Emma Dodsworth

Deputy Assistant (Year 7 and 8): Sacha Liver

Assistant Sports Captain (Dance and Gymnastics): Hannah Coldwell

Deputy Dance Captain Team: Jessica Rafaelli, Daisy Tao, Amelia Slaney, Paige Evans

Neve Clarke Hannah Coyle Lola Sears Ciara McCahon

Argall

LANCASHIRE EQUALITY MARK

their great work in bringing equalities to the

GARDENING CLUB UP & RUNNING

Great news! With the, hopefully, better weather approaching, our gardening club is now up and running. This year we are opening up the club to Years 7-12, and it will run on Tuesday and Thursday lunchtimes (weather permitting) in Pear Tree Gardens. Depending on interest, it may be necessary to have a weekly sign-up sheet.

The club is designed to boost mental and physical wellbeing, along with learning new skills and enjoying time in the outdoors. Students will work alongside Sixth Formers and staff to plant a variety of flowers, fruit and vegetables, with opportunities to get involved in some inter-house competitions.

Last year a lot of our time focussed on clearing the overgrown space and planting some quick-growing crops. This year we have some new raised beds ready to install, which will need painting, lining, filling and planting up. We also hope to create an accessible bed for students with mobility issues and in time, to also extend the planting to include a mini orchard and a wildflower garden, working alongside the Conservation Club. We advise students attending to bring a change of shoes (comfy, sturdy shoes, such as walking boots or trainers) and perhaps jogging bottoms - just in case they get muddy! Seasonal attire such as a water-proof jacket

or sun hat are also recommended. Gardening gloves will be provided, although students may wish to provide their own.

Although we have a small budget towards plants and seeds, we would kindly welcome any donations of:

• Seeds and bulbs

• Small non-poisonous plants

• Fruit trees

• Outdoor wood paint (part tins that have been forgotten about at the back of sheds/ garages are welcomed)!

• Compost

• Empty compost bags or other plastic sheeting which could be used as raised bed liners

• Large plant pots (we already have a large stock of small plant pots and trays)

We hope to keep you up to date with pictures of our progress and details of the jobs we’ve been doing and what we’ve been planting. If you wish to get involved, make sure to get a parent/carer to complete the consent link on the letter that has been sent home about gardening club. If you have any questions, please come and find me.

Miss C. Hutton, Physics Teacher

school. Each month, our ambassadors work in their key stage teams to create book trailer videos for LGGS Books of the Month. These videos are shared in form time at the start of each month and are available to view under the Reading Ambassadors’ tab on the Library page of our website: www.lggs.org.uk/393/library

the battle for women s rights in recognition ] of International Women’s Month. Earlier this month, students watched the book review videos for April, which look at the work of Muslim writers, in celebration of Eid. You can check out our April selection on the following pages … holiday reading inspiration!

Our Ambassador Team, pictured above, are working on some exciting projects, such as a KS3 school magazine and establishing book clubs for any year groups which don’t already have them. Reading Ambassadors are there to help students in their year groups with any reading-related queries. Ambassadors wear purple badges - so you can easily identify them. They are always more than happy to offer recommendations and advice or to signpost students in the right direction for further help.

BOOK OF THE MONTH

Our book choices this month celebrate International Women’s History Day and our students have selected classic and contemporary writers which provides students with an opportunity to sample different eras and hopefully, satisfy everyone's taste.

KS3 BOOK OF THE MONTH: CLASSIC CHOICE

The Secret Garden

Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody says she is the most disagreeable looking child ever seen. It is true, too. Mary is pale, spoilt and quite contrary. But she is also horribly lonely. Then one day she hears about a garden in the grounds of the Manor that has been kept locked and hidden for years. And when a friendly robin helps Mary find the key, she discovers the most magical place anyone could imagine...

‘Mary is a tough feisty character, who manages to turn a whole household, and the lives of those in it, completely upside down ... The book is brim full of magic and joy.’

- Sunday Telegraph

KS3 BOOK OF THE MONTH: CONTEMPORARY CHOICE

The Secret Garden: From acclaimed performance poet, Sophia Thakur, comes a powerful first collection of poems exploring issues of identity, difference, faith, relationships, fear, loss and joy. Intricate, evocative and dazzling - these are poems that explore the experiences that connect people; they encourage readers to look within and explore the tendencies of the heart.

‘Sophia Thakur is one of the most brilliant and necessary voices from the UK. The power of her words will affect generations.’

- Angie Thomas

KS3 BOOK OF THE MONTH: CONTEMPORARY CHOICE

Things a Bright Girl can do: Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote.

Evelyn is seventeen, and though she is rich and clever, she may never be allowed to follow her older brother to university. Enraged that she is expected to marry her childhood sweetheart rather than be educated, she joins the Suffragettes, and vows to pay the ultimate price for women's freedom.

May is fifteen, and already sworn to the cause, though she and her fellow Suffragists refuse violence. When she meets Nell, a girl who's grown up in hardship, she sees a kindred spirit. Together and in love, the two girls start to dream of a world where all kinds of women have their place. But the fight for freedom will challenge Evelyn, May and Nell more than they ever could believe. As war looms, just how much are they willing to sacrifice?

‘Nicholls has brought alive the young women of the past to empower the next generation.’

- Alex O'Connell, The Times

STAFF & SIXTH FORM KS5: CLASSIC CHOICE

Beloved: Set in the mid-1800’s in the aftermath of the American Civil War, Beloved chronicles the experiences of Sethe, abandoned by her sons and living with her youngest daughter in Cincinnati. Sethe’s is a house haunted by secrets; of the violent, traumatic memories of her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky and by shameful secrets that refuse to stay buried.

When another Sweet Home survivor, Paul D, appears at Sethe’s door, his arrival heralds the mysterious coming of a woman, calling herself only ‘Beloved’. As the revenant Beloved makes her home with Sethe, so her life becomes increasingly devoted both to her ever-increasing and contrary demands for love and her insatiable need for atonement.

This novel is ‘likely to mould or change a reader's sense of the world.’

- Jane Smiley, The Guardian

STAFF & SIXTH FORM KS5: CLASSIC CHOICE

The Sentence: A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store.

Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading 'with murderous attention,' must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation and furious reckoning.

The Sentence begins on All Souls' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020. Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written.

‘In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage and of a woman's relentless errors.’ - Waterstones

KS3 BOOK OF THE MONTH: CONTEMPORARY CHOICE

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again with these words a reader is swept up into a world of secrets and lies; one of the most passionate, psychologically twisting and complex stories of all-time.

Working as a lady's companion, the orphaned heroine, Rebecca, learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. Whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to his brooding estate, Manderley, on the Cornish Coast, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife, Rebecca, is forever kept alive by the forbidding Mrs Danvers ...

Never gone out of print since publication in 1938! In 2017, it was voted the nation’s favourite book from the past 225 years by WH Smith poll.

‘Her masterpiece ... seldom has a dead woman exercised such power beyond the grave. Rebecca will live for ever because du Maurier touches a fearful nerve, buried deep in the unconscious.’

- Kate Saunders, The Times

THE ROSE

The Rose, a termly-produced zine has been compiled by LGGS Sixth Form creative writers and artists.

Each issue has a theme which is then used as inspiration for our writers to produce short stories, flash fiction, and poetry. These pieces are shared with our artists - many of whom are from the sixth form art society - who interpret the theme, and produce illustrations to represent the writing. This form of collaboration - a creative blind date, of sortsallows both our writers and artists to come up with interesting new perspectives on the theme and each others’ work. Our first issue, ‘Another Dimension’, features artwork by Alice Bertrand,

Orla Graham, Faith Hodgson, Freya Kitchin, Sophie Round, Julia Trykowska, Alice White and Eshaal Zuberi, and explores alternate versions of our world, our lives, and ourselves. Read it now in the library, or on the library section of the LGGS website.

If you are in sixth form, and would be interested in getting involved in the making of the next issue, the theme is ‘New Worlds’. For more information on this theme, an inspiration board for this topic is available by email request.

If you have a short story, flash fiction or poetry submission, please find Miss Jackson in the library or email: s.jackson@lggs.lancs.sch.uk.

CURLING SUCCESS

I have been playing curling for nearly 2 years. I started to play at the Flowerbowl in July of 2021 as my friend and I were trying out winter sports at the time. I was lucky enough to be spotted by the former vice president of Preston Curling Club (the now President of the English Curling Association) who put me in contact with a team from Kent and Cambridge who were looking for a fourth player at the time. I went to Junior National Women's Championships in Kent in late March, the second competition I ever played in! My team came second, a great achievement considering I'd never even met the skip (captain of the team) until the start of the competition.

Since the National Championships I have been non-stop curling training and competing in bonspiels (bonspiel is what we call some curling competitions, it literally translates to good play), with several different teams, Team McLoughlin, Team Wodmak (the team I played in for nationals, it's called Wodmak to promote equality within the team as it's all of our surnames together: Ward, Opel, Davies, MacDougall, Kiggel), and other teams that were randomly put together for the competitions. In January 2023, I competed in the Mixed Doubles Adults Championships for 2023 with a boy from Lancaster Royal Grammar School. It was a great experience and I got to play on new ice in Dumfries, and my friend who also plays in the same team as me, won the competition and she is now going to World Championships in South Korea.

At the same time the entries for this year's

31st of March to the 2nd of April. Meanwhile in the Women's section only one team entered which was my team! Therefore, no National Championships are being held and instead we are going straight to World B Championships in Lojha, Finland, in either December this year or January next year. I have been training more and more ever since we found out, but it is extremely difficult for the rest of my team to train now as the Flowerbowl is currently the only dedicated curling rink in the entirety of England.

Recently, in the half term, I competed in Preston Curling Club's Novice Bonspiel at the Flowerbowl with a randomly selected team. The weekend was very tough but we pushed through and won all but one of the matches, putting us in second place overall. We won a hamper each provided by Barton Grange. There were also separate competitions, things like crazy golf, bowling, a quiz, and there's sometimes even karaoke included, along with a meal, so it's always great fun. I also competed in another bonspiel in early December called the Christmas Bonspiel with one of the teams I am part of, Team Mcloughlin. For that bonspiel we all dressed up in fancy dress! The competitions are always fun and friendly and there are lots of juniors and adults alike all enjoying a sport and being sociable.

Marianne Ward, Year 10

WORLD BOOK DAY BEST BITS

World Book Day is always a highlight of the LGGS calendar and for 2023 we went large! Our chosen theme at LGGS was ‘Back in Time’ to celebrate fiction set in different historical time periods.

LGGS Library organised a jam-packed week of events and activities at break and lunchtimes, from Monday 27th February to Friday 3rd March. Students each received a Time Traveller’s Passport the week before, which included a host of exciting book-related activities to complete both in the booklet and around school. Students collected stamps for activities such as the Staff Guess Who? And the book hunt and prizes were awarded to participants and winners.

On Thursday 2nd March, students and staff were encouraged to dress up as their favourite character from historical fiction (Dickens, Austen, The Roman Mysteries, the Percy Jackson books, The Great Gatsby… the possibilities were endless!). We raised a total of £585 for BookTrust, a wonderful charity that works to improve access to reading across the UK. www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/programmes-and-campaigns/

WE’VE PICKED OUT THE BEST BITS OF THE WEEK FOR YOU TO PERUSE BELOW!

MRS LOVETT’S BAKE OFF AND BIG BAKE SALE

We had 22 outstanding Back in Time bakes, raising an impressive £220 for BookTrust charity. Our winning bake was 'Life on the Frontline' by Gaia Romito Year 7 and runners-up were 'The Secret Cake Garden' by Imogen Healey Year 7 and 'Madhatter's Tea Party' by Mary Wiener and Kate Spavin Year 7. A huge thank you to all our bakers and to Miss Jackson for organizing the charity event.

STAFF PLAY ‘COPS AND ROBBERS’

Students were treated to a hilarious performance of ‘Cops and Robbers’ by Janet and Allan Alberg, directed by Mr Grundy and featuring an all-star cast of LGGS teachers. For those who didn’t manage to get tickets this year, the performance has been filmed and is available on the school website.

KATHERINE WOODFINE AUTHOR VISIT FOR YEAR 7

Year 7 enjoyed a fun and inspiring day meeting a nationally acclaimed children's writer of historical detective fiction, getting their books signed, grilling our author in the Q&A and participating in creative writing workshops afterwards. Come and reserve Katherine's books from the Library - they are fantastic! Here’s what our Year 7’s took away from the sessions: ‘That a writer gets inspiration from everywhere and they do not get their book right every time as they have to do a lot of drafts. It doesn't have to be perfect, just get your ideas down on paper.’

‘I learned that Katherine was actually a student at LGGS and I learnt about the process that she uses to write books, which has really made me think how much skill it takes to write a good book.’

‘She was greatly influenced by her teachers and lessons at LGGS.’

‘We worked together as a class to form a story and we could be creative during the session as well. Also, we were given the things to create our OWN story as well, which I did at home and found very fun.’

COSTUMES, DOOR DECORATIONS AND BOOKMARK COMPETITION

Back in Time proved a popular theme for student and staff dress up. Highlights from staff were The Raven from Edgar Allan Poe’s narrative poem, Blind Pew from Treasure Island and Philias Fogg from Around the World in Eighty Days.

Student costume awards went to a very convincing Catherine of Aragon from Wolf Hall, a stunning Marie Antoinette from various works of fiction and a brilliant Pippi Longstocking from Astrid Lindgren’s books, among many, many others!

This year, WBD at LGGS played host to a form room door decoration competition. The challenge was for form groups to decorate their doors as historical book covers. The winners were 11.4 with The Great Gatsby and 9.1 with Arabian Nights!

Our annual bookmark design competition showcased the artistic talent of our KS3 students. Winners were Olivia Corvi in Year 7 and Lydia Coulton and Heloise Rebuschat from Year 7.

CARNEGIE BOOK AWARDS SHADOWING GROUP

This year, LGGS Library are once again shadowing the prestigious Carnegie Book Awards. A group of students from Years 7 to 10 are about to get stuck into the Shortlist of 8 of the best books for Young Adults published in the past year, as voted for by members of the Chartered Institute of Librarians.

Our student judges will read and engage with the shortlists critically and creatively, through group participation and digitally: posting online reviews, artworks, videos and taking part in creative activities and online events. Each member of our shadowing group will vote for their favourite book to receive the Shadowers’ Choice Award at the winners’ ceremony in June 2023.

Shortlisted books and the 2023 winner will be available to borrow from the school Library once judging has finished at the end of June. For now, check out our reviews and artwork via the LGGS Shadow Questers group page at: yotocarnegies.co.uk/reading-group/lggsshadow-questers/

LANCASHIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR YOUNG JUDGES 2023

This year, LGGS was chosen as one of just a number of judging schools in the prestigious Lancashire Book of the Year Awards (LBOY).

LBOY is the longest-running regional book award in the country, celebrating young adult fiction from Lancashire-born or Lancashireresiding writers published in the past year. It is also one of the only book awards in the country to be judged entirely by students!

Longlisted books arrived in our school Library in early November. Since then, our 10 student

longlist made the shortlist, which is testament to the professionalism and discernment of our student judges!

Our judges will now continue to caste their critical eyes over the shortlisted books before voting opens in June to decide the winner. The Awards will culminate with a celebration event in July where all judging schools gather to share their experiences of the process and chat with all the 2023 shortlisted authors!

Longlisted books are now available in the school library for all students to borrow. Shortlisted books will be available for all students to enjoy after the judging process has concluded in July.

‘I really enjoyed the LBOY workshop – talking about the books we have read was very interesting and engaging. I also loved hearing the other judges’ opinions.’

- Erin Munford, Year 8.

judges in Years 8 9 have been making their way through and discussing their thoughts on each book. In February, we held an in-school workshop to finalise our opinions before submitting our votes on the shortlist. We were delighted that 5 of our top 6 books from the

‘I really enjoyed the LBOY workshop because I found it opened my eyes to the books on the longlist that I haven’t read yet!’

- Darcey Gibson, Year 8.

You can check out our shortlisted books here: www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/ libraries/lancashires-book-of-the-year/

BLIND DATE WITH A BOOK

LGGS Library gave students the chance to pick a Blind Date with a Book for Valentine's Day! Our Student Librarian Team were busy wrapping and decorating piles of mystery books for the display. Students in all years could read the clues on the wrapping and choose their blind book date to take home. The mystery books included junior and young adult fiction, senior fiction, graphic novels, non-fiction and poetry. Aside from sparking much excitement at taking home a beautifully-wrapped mystery book, the aim was to encourage students not to judge a book solely by its cover and to perhaps discover new genres and authors. Students were then encouraged to rate their date by leaving a book review on the library web app!

EXTENDED READING PROJECT

I have made a model of the Hound from the Hound of the Baskervilles, which I chose for my extended reading project in English. The Hound is sculpted from clay with a wire frame to give it a stronger and more specific shape, however, it is still quite fragile! For the extended reading project, we have to make an artefact and a presentation focusing on an area of the book that we have chosen. I thought that a model of the Hound would hopefully clearly demonstrate the ferocity and aggressiveness with which it is described. The hound is described as having ‘blazing red eyes’ and I have tried to make the model look just as it is described in the story. It took several hours of intense concentration but I found it very enjoyable to make.

Jennifer Hayes

HISTORY SOCIETY

LGGS History Society has enjoyed a busy time recently. In February, one of our own Year 12 historians, Ella Rose, held a lunchtime talk and presentation focused on 'Rationing in the Second World War'. Ella's knowledge and understanding of this topic had been captured and developed by her involvement with a production and project with The Dukes theatre in Lancaster and further developed by her own independent research.

Students also enjoyed a talk from Dr Robert Godwin, University College of London, who visited us in March and delivered a lunchtime lecture about his book 'Spain: the Centre of the World, 1519-1682' (2015). This lecture was a particular compliment to A-level historians who study 'Spain, 1469-1598: a Golden Age?' as part of their A-level History course.

Most recently on the 22nd of March, Dr Selina Patel Nascimento, Lancaster University, visited us to deliver a thoughtprovoking talk on her specialist area of research and expertise on the Aztec Empire, 'Encounters or eradication? Azteca perspectives on the Spanish Conquest of Mesoamerica'. Dr Patel Nascimento will

hopefully also shortly be working with LGGS Personal Development & Citizenship Department on an exciting and innovative project, looking at incorporating historic perspectives and context into the teaching of contemporary issues such as gender inequality, prejudice and violence. Mr Harry Yearnshire, Head of History

The History department is currently part way through the process of selecting the new LGGS History Society leadership roles for 2023-4. Year 12 historians can apply for these roles and have been given details of the process recently. We will update you with the details of our new team in the next newsletter.

CHARITY EVENT

The recent LGGS production of Macbeth was set in the 1970’s. The performances were directed and produced by three Year 11 students, Olivia Harrison-Davies, Jayden Curtis and Gloria Goncalves Almeida and all

CHARITY EVENT

the actors were selected from Year 7-9 students. The play was repeated on two consecutive evenings, to allow more people to attend. The one hour long performance was a condensed version of the

original Shakespearean play, with music and lighting also organised by LGGS students. The charity they chose to support was Lottie's Fund, which is very personal to our school and our students. You can find out more about Lottie’s Fund via the Dukes website. The initiative supports bursary places at the Dukes Youth Theatre and is something that is closely affiliated with our school. Our students felt strongly that they wanted to support this bursary initiative and we have raised £262.20 towards the bursary.

Alina Wodehouse, Head of Drama

We're sure everyone is familiar with Oliver!, the classic story of a young orphan boy who becomes involved with a gang of outlaws and pickpockets on the streets of Victorian London. Its broad appeal, well-loved songs and uplifting themes of belonging and redemption all contributed to why we chose it to be our final drama club production. What tipped it over the edge for us and put it above all other options was its wide cast of characters and colourful ensemble, which allowed us to display the full range of incredible talent in the club. Crafting this production from the ground up has been a lot of fun for both of us, from Zoë writing an abridged version of the original script and choreographing the musical numbers to myself working on the acting scenes and operating the sound system. We hope it's been just as fun for all of our members! They have never failed to impress us with their enthusiasm, amazing performance skills and dead-on cockney accents. We're so glad to be working with them- as well as our chosen charity, St. John's Hospice. Working in the North Lancashire, South Lakes and North Yorkshire area, they provide free palliative care to those with life-shortening conditions. Being able to help them, through the means of theatre, is such a fantastic opportunity and we couldn't be more grateful to our club members (and the LGGS theatre department!) for making it happen.

Zoe Storier

GET RUNNING

It’s time to get your trainers out ready for the 2023 Midsummer Supper Fun Run. More details on the school’s website or Register here

WE HOPE YOU HAVE A RELAXING EASTER BREAK

‘Wishing you joy, health and happiness as you embark on the next chapter in your life.

‘Best wishes for a well earned and happy retirement. Your kindness, care and compassion for all staff and students has been exceptional.’ Sharron Hutchinson

‘Wishing you a happy and healthy retirement. LGGS will miss you.’ Sarah Bellin

‘We’ll miss your compassion, understanding and patience with all staff and students.’ David Green

’ Jen Pardoe