Weekly Update

08/09/2025 2025

Message from the Headteacher

Welcome back to a new academic year. I hope you and your families had a restful summer break and are feeling refreshed and ready for the term ahead.

It’s been a pleasure to see our students return with such positivity and focus. Year 7 have made a fantastic start and are settling in brilliantly, we’re also delighted to welcome our new and returning Year 12 students who have joined us for Sixth Form.

Over the summer we celebrated an amazing set of GCSE and A Level results and would again like to congratulate our students on their achievements.

Dates for your diary:

  • September 10th 2025 – School photographs
  • September 16th 2025 – Year 12 Welcome Evening
  • September 18th 2025 – Sixth Form Project day at Lancaster University
  • September 22-22th 2025 – International Week
  • September 25th 2025 – Year 10 and 11 New York trip parents information evening
  • September 30th 2025 – Year 9 Geography trip to Bowness

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Student news

Elinor Greaves PLACED Academy Architecture Summer School

During the summer holidays, I took part in the PLACED Academy Architecture Summer School at Manchester School of Architecture. During the four days we were learning about the different types of roles in architecture and the different types of skills that we would need to become architects. Each day we would also get new professionals who would be there to tell us about what they do and their journey on how they got into architecture. Each group had different briefs to help design the second phase of the viaduct at Deansgate-Castlefield. Our groups brief was community and social spaces, this meant that we had to draw a 2D floor plan and create models to our groups own scale. After the two days of designing and building, we had to pitch our ideas to the other groups and professionals, as well as someone from the National Trust, so they could have young people’s ideas put forward into phase two of the viaduct. Our group won most creative response to the brief.  I have attached some images on what me and my group managed to do during the four days. There are also lessons after school on a Tuesday and on a Saturday every month, which go towards graduation at the end of the year. Hopefully, this has informed you a bit more and that more people will sign up next year!

Miranda Hartley, Farrah Hawkins, Eva McDade and Molly Carruthers in Year 13 have helped to achieve the Eco School Green Flag Award 2025

This academic year, pupils have led the way in promoting sustainability and raising environmental awareness among their school community, including peers, staff members, and the wider local community. Their exceptional efforts have been recognised with the prestigious, internationally recognised Eco-Schools Green Flag accreditation.

The Eco-Schools programme, established in 1994, has been inspiring young environmentalists for over 30 years. It has grown into a global movement, with Eco-Schools Green Flag accreditation awarded to schools in more than 100 countries. In England alone, the programme reaches over 1 million young people each year, empowering them to make a positive impact on our planet.

Please send in your positive student news to commsteam@lggs.lancs.sch.uk

Parking around school

Please can we ask you are considerate of others and our neighbours when dropping off or picking up from school. We do experience heavy traffic at the start and end of the school day and need to ensure that our students are safe when crossing the road.

Please help us by parking in designated parking bays, using the local pay and display car parks or dropping off/picking up away from the school.

We do have regular visits from traffic wardens who do issue parking tickets for those stopping at the junction, on the zig zag and double yellow lines.

Parents’ Evenings

Here are the dates for this years parents evenings.

Year 7Information Evening: Thursday October 9th 2025
Parents’ Evening: Thursday December 4th 2025
Year 8Parents’ Evening: Thursday November 20th 2025
Year 9Parents’ Evening: Thursday January 15th 2026
Year 10Parents’ Evening: Thursday February 5th 2026
Year 11Parents’ Evening: Thursday March 12th 2026
Year 12Welcome Evening: Tuesday September 16th 2025
Parents’ Evening: Thursday June 4th 2026
Year 13Parents’ Evening: Thursday February 26th 2026

Vacancies

Medical Room Assistant

Lancaster Girls’ Grammar School are recruiting a part-time Medical Room Assistant to join our Administration team. In this role, you will be the first point of contact when pupils are feeling unwell during school, offering First Aid, overseeing medical records and medications, and providing day-to-day support for students with health needs. You will also support the wider team by carrying out a range of general administrative tasks. This may include communicating with parents, and assisting with departmental and reprographic work. If you have a calm, caring nature and thrive in a busy school environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply here: Vacancies – Lancaster Girls’ Grammar School

Future First Alumnae Network

We have a growing Alumnae network and, as a reminder you are able to keep in touch with school, each other and receive our termly Alumnae newsletter by signing up to Future First.

Our Alumnae also provide support to our current students through talks, mentoring or offering work experience. Further along your career path, this may be something that you wish to be involved with.

Android Smartphone Guide for Parents

As with other devices, there are Android offers a variety of parental controls, including controls that allow parents to set the maturity level of apps and games. Full information, including detailed instructions, can be found here: Android parental controls guide | Internet Matters

NHS Apps to Support Your Mental Health

Mental Health Support for Young People

There is a wealth of useful information from Young Minds to help parents and carers understand more about their young person’s mental health, find the right help for them or hear from other parents who’ve been there. 

You will find advice on:

  • Helping your child to talk 
  • Looking after yourself as a parent/carer
  • Speaking to professionals 

An A-Z guide to mental health and a guide to mental health services

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