Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll have gathered that it’s Charity Week here at Leventhorpe. Five school days of initiatives and entertainment in the name of fundraising – from sponsored walks to talent shows, murder mystery, bake sales and the opportunity to show off your threads on Friday for civvies day. We interviewed Head Girl, Ella Pierce and Yohann Alcaraz, Head of the Environment Committee, to hear their views and get some inside information from 6th Forme

On Friday, 10th October, our dedicated Mental Health Prefect team hosted a successful bake sale outside the sixth-form common room to raise funds for mental health causes. Students from across the school generously baked and donated a delicious variety of cakes, helping to make the event a resounding success. Throughout the morning, the team raised an impressive £300, which will be donated to two outstanding charities: Young Minds and Barnardo’s. Young Minds is a leading UK c

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This month, Leventhorpe’s Year 7s are participating in their first interhouse competition, alongside all of the other years. Their sport is football, so read Alice's article for in-depth coverage of all of Lawrence's games.

Last week, Key Stage 3 students took part in a production of Annie; 3 shows took place over the week, and the play ran for a whopping 75 minutes without an interval, despite the heat.

Prepare yourselves everyone, as Annie is coming to Leventhorpe! Alice gets us all the backstage information in the lead-up to the show, and explains the roles of each department in bringing the show to life.

Following his article on Caroline Boxall's visit to Leventhorpe, Hudson spoke to her about her upbringing, and the growing success of her stories.

On Thursday 6th March 2025, Caroline Boxall visited Leventhorpe to talk to a handful of students about her competition, Short Stories of Courage (the predecessor being Short Stories of Hope). Short Stories of Courage is a competition designed to give young people an almost once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be a published author at a very young age. Students compete to be in the top 50 best stories to be chosen and published in the book, by Caroline Boxall herself. Caroline i

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In the lead up to Annie, Sid speaks to members of the Oliver! stage crew about their retrospective experience with the production.

We caught up with Ms O’Connor, the DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) lead at the school to get her thoughts on cultural awareness.

Charity Week Tuesday can only mean one thing - eating! Will Mr Beardsworth prevail again? Or do Jasper and Freddie have what it takes?

Nick Jones discusses the new Audio Mixing Club available to all sixth form students, and gives the low-down on what goes on.

Kdee discusses how band rehearsals for Oliver! are going, and conducts a very interesting (and revealing) interview...

Year 13 visits Switzerland for a whistle-stop tour of the best Geneva has to offer: CERN, museums, Lake Geneva, the UN and so much more…

Our very own BBC Young Reporter, Scarlet Davies, has made headlines recently appearing on the BBC.

On Monday, a packed audience attended the opening night of Roald Dahl’s Matilda, to watch the talented cast of 2022.

English literature students, from Leventhorpe’s sixth form, attended a wonderful day of fun-filled, Shakespearean activities at Shakespeare’

Sixth Form Philosophy and Ethics students visited The University College for a seminar and debate on the topic of euthanasia.

In the White household, it is not the snow that makes Christmas magical, but the music and the games.