HEADTEACHER'S BLOG - 6th march 2026

📚CELEBRATING WORLD BOOK DAY! 📖

From Ms Russell, Assistant Principal 

One of the highlights was literacy time quizzes, where guessed the staff member and their favourite book. Year 7 also enjoyed the National Literacy Trust's 'Footy & Booky' Quiz where they competed against other schools with exciting questions about famous books. 

We also had a special treat where our staff read a book aloud for everyone to enjoy: Half a Man - Michael Morpurgo 

Finally, our students also took part in a Big Book Swap in the library, exchanging their favourite books with classmates and discovering new stories to enjoy. The library was buzzing with excitement as children shared recommendations, talked about characters they loved, and found fresh reads to take home. It was a wonderful way to celebrate World Book Day, encouraging a love of reading and the joy of sharing stories with friends. 

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) 

🧅 STEM Club Experiment: The Magic of Pink Pickled Onions! 

From Ms Savani, Head of Mathematics

This week in STEM Club, students took on a slightly unusual challenge: making pink pickled onions! 🧅

The room quickly filled with curiosity as jars, onions, and ingredients appeared on the tables. Students carefully added the onions to their jars and measured out the pickling mixture, making sure everything was just right before sealing them up. 

There was a real buzz in the room as everyone compared their jars and discussed what might happen next. Although the onions didn’t turn pink straight away, that’s all part of the excitement — the transformation happens over time! ⏳

By the end of the session, everyone left with their own jar of onions, ready to watch the magic happen over the next few days. 🥳

A fun, hands-on session and another great reminder that STEM can be creative, practical, and sometimes even a little bit tasty! 😋 A special thank you to Mr Clark for leading this session! 🧑‍🍳🧑‍🔬🧅

National Careers Week

From Ms Sandhu, Assistant Principal

Extra-Curricular Updates

From Mr Insley, Assistant Principal

Over the past few months it has been fantastic to see the continued growth of our extra-curricular provision across the school, with excellent attendance from students across all year groups. Increasingly, students are choosing to stay after school, try something new and represent themselves through the wide range of activities now available.

Extra-curricular activities are a vital part of school life. They help students build confidence, develop friendships across year groups and discover new interests, while demonstrating our core values of Leadership, Belief and Self-Discipline beyond the classroom.

Several newer clubs have already seen great success. Darts club has quickly become a favourite for KS4 students, offering a relaxed but competitive environment where skill and focus are developing. Pokémon club has proved popular with students who enjoy strategy, trading and friendly competition, while our e-sports provision continues to grow, allowing students to compete and collaborate in a structured setting. Touch rugby has also started strongly, with excellent enthusiasm from those involved.

This is only the beginning. A number of new clubs are currently being planned and we look forward to sharing more details with students and families soon.

Parents can support this by talking with their son about the clubs they attend or any new clubs they would like to see. Student voice plays an important role in shaping our programme, and many of our most successful clubs have come directly from student suggestions.

We are proud of the culture developing around extra-curricular life at the school and look forward to seeing even more students getting involved as the year progresses.

Weekly Sports Round-Up & Schedule

From Mr Janes, Director of Sport

Weekly Music News & Schedules 

From Mrs Lowndes-Ford, Director of Music

This week has been full of energy, creativity and opportunity across the school. Our World Book Day celebrations were a real highlight, with fantastic costumes from both staff and students, literacy quizzes, a whole-school reading of Half a Man by Michael Morpurgo, and a brilliant Big Book Swap in the library that had students excitedly sharing and discovering new stories.

Alongside this, it has been wonderful to see students embracing the wide range of extra-curricular opportunities available, from STEM Club’s hands-on experiments to the growing number of clubs after school. School is about more than lessons, it is about trying new things, building confidence and discovering new passions.

As the saying goes, “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… the man who never reads lives only one.” This captures exactly what we encourage our students to do every day: explore, experience and make the most of every opportunity school offers.

I encourage every student to get involved, try something new and take full advantage of the experiences available, because the more you put into school life, the more you will gain from it. 📚

If you have any questions or need any support, please feel free to reach out to me directly at: r.kang@lordswoodboys.co.uk.

Mrs. Rajdip Kaur Kang

Headteacher

Lordswood Boys' School