Headteacher's blog

Saturday 29 March 2025 William takes on Ironman challenge William (Year 13) has decided to challenge himself in rather an extreme manner - by taking on an Ironman challenge in Estonia as a way of maximising his fitness and raising valuable funds for the LimbPower charity.

Thursday 27 March 2025 U9 and U11 Cross Country On Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 March, it was the turn of our U9 and U11 cross country teams to show us what they were made of. First up was the U11 team, who travelled to Twycross ready to take on a tough course which involved plenty of hills and a huge farmer’s field to navigate. There were 6 or 7 other independent schools at the event and we really enjoy taking our younger runners to this competition each year.

Thursday 27 March 2025 English Schools National Cross Country Championships On the back of the ISA National Cross-Country Championships, Freya (Year 8) was selected to represent the Staffordshire Schools County Cross-Country team. On Friday 14 March, Freya travelled down to Ardingly in West Sussex with the rest of the team, ready to prepare for the race the following day. This was an excellent experience for Freya, travelling and staying with other talented runners, and the atmosphere amongst the group was really positive.

Wednesday 26 March 2025 U15 Rugby 7s Last Tuesday, the U15 Rugby 7s team travelled to St Joseph’s College, Stoke, for the annual 7s tournament. With a glorious day weather wise, the team were looking for an improvement having finished winners of the Plate section last year.

Wednesday 26 March 2025 Growing hearts On Valentine's Day, everyone made living willow hearts in Forest School.

Tuesday 25 March 2025 ISA National Cross-Country Championships On Sunday 9 March, the Independent Schools Association National Cross-Country Championships were hosted at Mallory Park, in Leicestershire. You may remember that LCS took a team to the ISA Midlands Championships earlier in the year and two pupils qualified for the National finals. Emilia (Year 6) and Freya (Year 8) both qualified in their respective age groups and had the chance to run for the Midlands Independent Schools team. Both were quite nervous about the finals, but were looking to do the best they could in a very competitive contest.

Tuesday 25 March 2025 Zephan starring in Evita Zephan R (Year 12) will be taking part in the Lichfield Musical Youth Theatre production of Evita from 1-5 April at the Lichfield Garrick Theatre.

Monday 24 March 2025 Poppy playing for Beacon Hockey Club Poppy (Year 4) recently travelled to Wrekin College to take part in a regional hockey tournament.

Monday 24 March 2025 Arts education improves employability HM King Charles III has always been a great supporter of the Arts. He also recognises the importance of this type of education in schools and has convened a star-studded gathering of the great and the good from drama, music, art, dance, comedy, teaching (and politics) to create a plan for resurrecting creative arts in schools. The gathering was responding to the alarming and rapid decline of opportunities in the Arts in many schools.

Friday 21 March 2025 Careers Fair success The LCS Careers Fair took place on Tuesday 11 March at the Guildhall in Lichfield. This was an opportunity for our students in Years 9, 10, 11 and 12 to visit 25 different stallholders and talk about their future career aspirations and opportunities for higher education.

Thursday 20 March 2025 Summer Ball 2025 - tickets now available The Friends of LCS Summer Ball 2025 will take place on Saturday 28th June from 6.30pm with a drinks reception, followed by dinner served at 7.30pm and entertainment to midnight.

Wednesday 19 March 2025 STEAM competition finalists! You may remember in February that we reported about the Year 7 and 8 pupils in the after-school Science Club who had entered the ISA's national STEAM competition to design a flood-proof house.

Wednesday 19 March 2025 Supporting Retired Greyhound Trust Jess (Year 11) attended Crufts with her dog, Indie, to represent the Wolverhampton branch of the Retired Greyhound Trust.

Tuesday 18 March 2025 Super British Science Week at Longdon We were delighted to invite back Sublime Science once again to join us during British Science Week to celebrate this year’s theme of ‘Change and Adapt’. Sublime Science were incredible and the pupils had an amazing time during their workshops. Longdon pupils continued their celebrations in the classroom and looked at different scientists and their discoveries. It was delightful to see the children come dressed as scientists, so eager to engage in their activities.

Tuesday 18 March 2025 Gymnastics & Athletics achievements On Sat 8 March, Mia (Year 9) competed in a West Midlands County Qualifier Gymnastics Competition at Lilleshall National Sports Centre, finishing in a fantastic 1st place in her category.

Monday 17 March 2025 U15 Hockey vs The Friary The U15 hockey team recently took on two teams from the Friary School. In a spirited and well-natured affair, LCS were victorious against both Friary teams. Well done boys!

Monday 17 March 2025 U11 Hockey Tournament Lichfield's young hockey players were in action last week in the annual Staffordshire U11 tournament. Both the girls' and boys' teams took part, competing against teams from all over the county.

Sunday 16 March 2025 Inspiring Female Lead career event A fantastic group of Year 8-12 girls took part in an inspiring Female Lead event called Inspiring Careers of the Future at Amazon HQ in London recently.

Saturday 15 March 2025 Superb LAMDA results! A total of 115 students undertook recent examinations in Public Speaking, Devised Performance, Musical Theatre, Mime, Acting, Reading for Performance and Verse and Prose, and the results are amazing:

Friday 14 March 2025 Gardening is great! This week I am inspired by the sunshine that is beginning to make an appearance. That said, as I write this I am aware that the forecast for when you may be reading this is rather less clement! However, having listened to an amazing lecture last week on the mental and physical wellbeing benefits of being outdoors in the ‘greenery’, having benefitted from the lovely weekend weather, and having had a splendid few months planning our primary nature curriculum with Mrs Churton, I am turning my attention to the great outdoors.

Thursday 13 March 2025 Exciting theatre trip for Pre-Reception A couple of photos from Pre-Reception's recent successful visit to Tamworth Assembly Room to watch Room on the Broom, Tall Stories’ fun-filled stage adaptation of the best-selling picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. It was a great show, the children really enjoyed joining in with repeated parts of the story and singing. They were star pupils throughout!

Wednesday 12 March 2025 M3 Challenge weekend Four intrepid students dared to undertake this year's MathWorks Math Modelling Challenge Weekend - a 14 hour international Maths competition open to Sixth Form students. Jess, Zephan, Theo and Danae used Maths and data to solve open-ended and timely real-world problems during a 14-hour continuous work time slot (breaks are recommended!) and they had no idea what the challenge was about until the clock started. Teams can use computers, books, reference works and internet sources to help them complete the challenge, but they cannot discuss the problem, nor seek help via any means or method from a coach or anyone other than their teammates.

Tuesday 11 March 2025 Taking inspiration from St Chad Last week we celebrated St Chad’s day (officially 2nd March). The Cathedral would not be here were it not for St Chad and last Wednesday a special service took place for his patronal festival. All of the bishops from Chad to our current Bishop Michael Ipgrave (99 in total) were listed and remembered. The College of Canons then celebrated Chad with a meal and a drink from a memorial cup called the Loving Cup (you may have seen the photos in last week's Update). In addition, on Monday pupils in Years 5, 6 and 7 took part in our annual St Chad’s pilgrimage walk to St Chad’s Well.

Monday 10 March 2025 Exploring philosophy and theology Last Monday, Year 12 and 13 Philosophy, Ethics & Theology students visited Coventry Cathedral to listen to world renowned philosopher and theologian Dr Peter Vardy talk at a Candle Conference exploring the topic of 'Evil and the God of Love'.

Saturday 8 March 2025 Cathedral Choir concert in Sutton Coldfield The Lichfield Cathedral Choir will once again be performing a concert at the Holy Trinity Parish Church in Royal Sutton Coldfield.

Friday 7 March 2025 St Chad This week we celebrate St Chad’s day (officially 2nd March). The Cathedral would not be here were it not for St Chad and last week on Wednesday a special service took place for his patronal festival. All of the bishops from Chad to our current Bishop Michael Ipgrave (99 in total) were listed and remembered. The College of Canons then celebrated Chad with a meal and a drink from a memorial cup called the Loving Cup. In addition, on Monday pupils in Years 5, 6 and 7 took part in our annual St Chad’s pilgrimage walk to St Chad’s Well.

Thursday 6 March 2025 Quiz Night - Friday 14 March, 7.30pm, Cathedral Enjoy an evening of quizzing among friends and support the Lichfield Cathedral Choristers!

Wednesday 5 March 2025 National Apprenticeship Show Students from Years 11 and 12 travelled to the Coventry Building Society Arena last week to speak with a wide range of companies and organisations all offering apprenticeship opportunities. Stallholders ranged from Aldi, Tesco and Royal Mail to the Army, Rolls Royce and the NHS. The Show also incorporated UniversityFest, so that students could meet University teams to learn about Higher Education pathways.

Tuesday 4 March 2025 College of Canons Supper Choristers and Choral Scholars enjoyed a meal in the Cathedral after Evensong on Wednesday for the annual College of Canons Supper. A Loving Cup is passed along the dining table with each person saying the school motto as they hand it to their neighbour to take a sip of (non alcoholic) wine. The cup used last night was the Hackett chalice cup, which dates from 1662. Bishop Hackett paid for the restoration of the Cathedral after the Civil War, and his grave is the one in the south quire aisle with the man lying down in full robes. When the Civil War soldiers came in and saw him praying the 1662 Prayer Book, they told him to stop or they would kill him. He simply turned to them and said, “You must do what you must do and I must do what I must do“. He kept praying and they didn’t kill him. Evensong is sung each week by Choristers and Choral Scholars on Tuesday to Friday at 5.30pm and Sunday at 3.30pm together with Sunday Eucharist at 10.30am.

Monday 3 March 2025 Getting to the heart of Maths Before half term, Mrs Reynolds' Year 9 class used graphs to plot a mathematical heart for Valentine's Day!