News From LES Schools

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LHS Longer than a Conga!

For Children in Need this year the whole LHS school joined in a fancy dress conga (to live music) around the school quad setting a new school record for conga dancing!

At the same time the pupils raised almost £600 towards the Children in Need Appeal. They were filmed by the BBC and this appeared as an item on the lunchtime East Midlands news.  

Creative Textiles Workshop

On October 8th

2007 LHS invited the very well established textiles artist, Anne Griffiths into the High School‘s Art department to spend the day working with textiles pupils in years 10, 11, 12 and 13.

Anne Griffiths is a textile artist who lives and works in a small Cotswold village on the borders of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. She uses both natural and chemical dyes combined with a variety of stitch techniques and works primarily in machine embroidery on sheer fabrics.  

Life at the Top

Head Boy, Tim Newman wrote:

When I started at the Grammar School seven years ago, I never imagined that I'd end up as headmaster. Well, for a day at least... when on Kids Takeover Day I swapped positions with Mr Fisher. That, along with Prize Giving, makes up the more glamorous aspects of being head boy. There is of course my weekly "quiet down please boys" role in assembly and more mundane work to be done, but still, it's a very enjoyable and satisfying job, and it's been a good first term.

Head Girl, Sarah Watson added:

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scared about my first term as head girl, with the prospect of giving speeches, school council and other responsibilities on top of A levels, music commitments and UCAS. So far I've worked with a diverse group of people ranging from governors to year 7s. While I'm enjoying leading my peers, being expected to be a good role model does mean that I can never be late for assembly! But I'm glad to say I'm enjoying every second of it and can't wait for what the rest of the year holds in store.  

Exploring the Frontiers of Particle Physics

The Grammar and High School were delighted to join a group of fifty keen young physicists from East Midlands Schools in a visit to the high energy physics facility at CERN in Geneva. The timing of this visit was perfect as the group were able to go deep underground to see the final assembly of the detectors being assembled to detect the subatomic particles generated when the new Large Hadron Collider goes live next year. The main accelerator at CERN will speed up the particles to close to the speed of light and smash them into each other, so recreating conditions only previously seen one second after the big bang (the start of the universe and time itself). These head on collisions of the particles will be detected by the biggest machine ever built by man; it's called ATLAS.  

Funfair Fanfare

The opening of Loughborough's annual fair was celebrated by the Lord Mayor on Wednesday evening with the help of the LES fanfare of trumpets. After the ceremony the boys and girl were treated to a number of free rides and a pie and mash supper in the Town Hall.  

LES Loros

Leicester Cathedral was the venue for the annual LOROS concert, and the LES choirs and Concert Band were invited to lead the proceedings. Lady Gretton, the President of LOROS, thanked the schools for their efforts and congratulated them on their performances.