University of Oxford

W E L C O M E

Dear parents and students I hope you enjoy reading about this half term’s events in our first newsletter of the academic year.

A highlight of the half term was International Week. A huge number of students participated in the week, with many running workshops or organising events themselves. Two new features, the decorated door competition and the fashion show, were fantastic successes. Special thanks to Miss Whitehouse for all her hard work in organising the week. Thank you to also to those parents who joined us for the International Food Fair on Friday. The week’s events were captured in a short film, which has been shown to all forms. Well done to sixth former Izzy Street for her work on this. All of our extra curricular activities are now running with a wide range of activities for the students to take part in. More information is available on our website. Please do encourage your child to take part. There is something for every interest. We welcomed a number of new staff in September. In Maths we have been joined by Mr Drulia, Miss Shepherd and Mrs Emsley, who also teaches Business Studies. In MFL we welcome Mrs Fuller and Ms Cotarelo-Jimenez. In Geography we are joined by Miss Lewis, in Science Mr Rogers and English Mrs Monroe. We also welcome two new Heads of Department Miss Sparrow RS and Miss Woodhouse Drama. A number of support staff have also joined LGGS, Miss Browne Senior Admin Assistant, Mrs Halstead Receptionist, Miss Jackson Library Assistant and Miss Plowman Departmental Support Assistant

YEAR 13 LEAVERS We hope all our leavers are settling into university life or whatever next steps they are taking. We congratulate them again on their amazing results this summer.

Over 80% of grades were at A*-B placing LGGS as the best performing school locally. A large number of subjects achieved over 80% of their grades at A*-B including:

Art Biology Business Studies Computing English Language English Literature French Geography German RS Spanish (100% A*-B) Theatre Studies (100% A*-B)

As is the case at LGGS, students have gone on to a wide variety of courses and universities, all over the country. Our most popular course was Medicine with a