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12 December 2025

In our last blog, we talked about attendance and why every lesson plays a part in your progress and your future. But we also recognised that attendance isn’t just about routines or early mornings. For many young people, the harder part is what happens before the school day even starts. We hear from many of […]

12 December 2025

12th December 2025 Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr The official start of Christmas in Llanishen Village! Last year, the planned celebrations in Llanishen Village to mark the start of Christmas were rained off by storm Bert.  So, it was a pleasure to be back on again for 2025. This year, the […]

5 December 2025

5th December 2025 Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr It’s officially December! So, Mariah is defrosting, Mr Grimstead is conducting the choir from a plastic chair (although he hasn’t had his Christmas haircut yet) and the junior and senior choirs are in sublime voice! Let’s go behind the scenes as the choirs […]

27 November 2025

27th November 2025 Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr Meet the newest member of our Wellbeing team! This is Koda! Last week, Koda successfully passed his assessment and supported his owner, Mr Hurford, in the process! Over the coming months, we’ll share more about Koda’s role and responsibilities in the school.  We […]

21 November 2025

21st November 2025 Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr Social Enterprise and Children in Need – the full story! A big well done to everyone who contributed to our fundraising efforts for Children in Need.  On Friday 14th November our Sixth Form Team did execute a cake sale, even if the Soak […]

14 November 2025

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr In the top 25% of schools nationally for A-Level results 2025! Today, we’re delighted to share we’ve achieved a top 25% position nationally in the ALPS A-Level benchmarks for 2025. ALPS is the data collation that benchmarks the performance of schools and 6th form providers nationally. […]

7 November 2025

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr The Chemistry behind Bonfire Night! If you have ever been taught by Mr Jayne, Head of Chemistry, you will know that he is at his happiest when he is teaching any aspect of Chemistry that requires a Bunsen burner. Just look at the delight on his […]

24 October 2025

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr Ghostly goings on at LHS this week… Spooky times call for social enterprise and we never miss an opportunity for creativity. As you can see from this priceless reaction below (!), the students of the Den baked and decorated some frightening treats and got arty with […]

17 October 2025

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr Welcome to Autumn at LHS! For many of us, this week has definitely called for an additional layer of clothing.  However, this is not a sentiment shared by all of our young people who seem to have some form of invisible defence shield that the colder […]

10 October 2025

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rieni, Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr Confidence starts with dignity Nowhere at LHS is this better expressed than through the empathy of our Rights to Confidence group – Alex, Grace and Matilde. Our Year 11 girls ensure each one of our students has access to hygiene products, raising funds through bake sales […]