What did you get?
24 August 2010
One Thousand A Grades
In another outstanding year LGS pupils achieved a massive 1011 'A' or 'A*' grades between them. Several boys managed to gain 'A*' across the board giving them up to 12 top grades. Statistics of course can tell us anything but when 'A*' was the most awarded grade for LGS pupils this year with 'A' being the second most awarded grade it surely proves the hard work put in has really paid dividends for the year 11 students this year.
A Level Success
19 August 2010
A Star Performance
A gallery of A* results topped off another suberb performance from the LGS leavers this year. Over 86% of the results were A* to B grade with a massive 22% achieving A*. Students turned up at 7.30am to find out their results and celebrate with friends.
Library Conference
17 March 2010
Boys do Read
50 Librarians and English Staff from boys' schools all over England attended a one day conference at the school to discuss the complex challenge of how to get boys to read. Sir Andrew Motion – poet laureate 1999-2009 – gave the key note address reflecting on his time at an all boys' school, Radley College, as well as reading some of his latest work. He was joined by the local Author, Michael Cox, who worked with two forms of junior boys, watched by the delegates. The conference started with a presentation by LGS boys of the school's 'Book of the Year' project, which has already been adopted by other member schools of the International Boys' Schools Coalition around the world.
Maths Wizard
16 March 2010
Maths Wizard
Almost unbelievably, for the 5th consecutive year, a Loughborough Grammar School pupil has been chosen for the prestigious award of a place at the training camp at Trinity College, Cambridge, which prepares the best young mathematicians in Britain for the International Mathematical Olympiad. This year's star is Matei Mandache, whose achievement is all the more remarkable because he is only aged 15, and is competing with students who are several years older.
GO Champs
15 March 2010
GO Champs
The LGS Go team of Tien, Matei and Bosco won all their games in the British Schools championship to comfortably retain their national title. This was no great surprise as Tien, although only 15, is also the British schools champion, having not lost a school game for two years. He has also been part of the British Go squad that went to Japan and received special coaching last October. For an explanation of the game....
Girl Trouble
10 March 2010
Girl Trouble
The latest French play from the Onatti Theatre Company had a "lesson for life" for the boys of Years 9, 10 and 11. Jean-Paul was a 16 year old boy desperately hoping to find a girlfriend. Inexplicably, a super heroine, Fashion Girl, appeared from the back of his wardrobe, in a variety of guises, offering advice on fashion, diet, hobbies and music. Though all the advice seemed to be outrageous and contradictory, the end result was a great success when Jean-Paul finally met up with Angélique, the girl of his dreams.
O L Scholars
2 March 2010
O L Scholars
In recognition of their outstanding GCSE results, and the excellent start they have made to their sixth form studies, these boys have been awarded an Old Loughburians' Association scholarship, and a prize of £100:
Year 12
Callan Boyle
Rahul Ghelani
Samuel Green
Rikan Patel
Hun Pu
Robert Seaton
Hans Trivedi
Max Wu
Logo Winner
9 February 2010
Logo winner
Hercules Pang (Year 11) has won a competition run by Leics County Council – he designed a new logo for County Viewpoint, a forum for people with learning disabilities. He will receive his prize at a ceremony at County Hall.
Rebuilt Colossus
16 October 2009
Colossal Journey
Not the coach trip to Bletchley park undertaken by our ‘A’ Level computer scientists but the rebuilt Colossus now housed in the original home of British Cryptography and code breaking at Bletchley Park. The Colossus was dismantled after the war and remained a state secret until 1979. Rebuilt by Tony Sale over a fifteen year period the Colossus MKII is again fully functional and an amazing feat of dedication, engineering and electronics.
We were privileged to meet Tony Sale himself, who gave us a talk and a demonstration of the Colossus machine. We also enjoyed a guided tour of the computer museum and a demonstration by LGS Old Boy Peter Onion of the Elliot 803B computer which is the same as the first computer to be installed in the school in P4 in the early 1970s
Culture Vultures
23 September 2009
Culture Vultures
The National Gallery and Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre were the destinations for the Year 13 English students on their cultural visit to London. After a guided tour of the Gallery and an illustrated talk on the Pastoral in Art, the group crossed the Thames where they stood in the sun, in the Globe's authentic surroundings, to enjoy As you Like It. For a full account of the day, click
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