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Four Longhill students, Lois Martin and Daisy Lawlor from year 7, Gene Ronaldson and Oscar Lake-Gouhari from year 8, have been lucky enough to be chosen to design a bespoke rugby shirt for the Longhill team. The Rugby shirt design is part of a special RFU all schools initiative, sponsored by CBRE in conjunction with… Read more
Longhill students enjoyed an opportunity to make new friends and practice their language skills at the same time recently, when they played host to a group of 26 French students and their teachers. The visitors came from a school in north-western France called Collège les Garettes, which is in a small village, Villaines La Juhe,… Read more
Longhill dance students enjoyed an awesome experience at the end of the summer when they took part in a special dance performance at Wembley Stadium. The dance was devised to entertain the crowd during half time at the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final. The 15 dancers from Brighton had just one day to learn… Read more
It’s been an exciting start to the term and I’ve already met lots of amazing people on my travels! I’d like to extend a big ‘thank you’ to all our local primary schools who have made me feel so welcome during my visits over the past seven weeks. I’ve been fortunate enough to meet… Read more
We hope that our Year 7 students have found their special ‘Friendship Days’ interesting and beneficial. They attended sessions and workshops, with the aim being to give them the skills to make and break friendships without conflict; to be able to understand what bullying is and how we can access support to deal with it. The students… Read more
Children from the Deans primary schools gathered at Longhill recently for an afternoon festival of rugby. The children from Woodingdean, Rudyard, Saltdean, Our Lady of Lourdes and St Margaret’s were welcomed to Longhill on a sunny afternoon by our senior sports leaders and Longhill staff. The festival, which was organised by Longhill PE department’s… Read more
If you would like to see what Longhill has to offer your child, why not come along to one of our tours? We would be delighted to show you around the school and answer any questions you may have – a warm welcome awaits you! To reserve your place, please call the school on 01273 304086…. Read more
We have now finished running our popular Saturday Science clubs for Year 5 and 6 primary children. The final workshop was last Saturday, 15th October. We hope that your children enjoyed a Sonic Adventure with lazers, sound waves and a vortex canon, or investigating gases with some explosive demonstrations! Perhaps they looked at bacteria under a… Read more
Unfortunately a pupil was struck by a car on the school site. Thankfully the student was not badly hurt. However I think this incident reminds us all of the dangers of motor vehicles and school children. Please can I remind everyone to take extra care when driving near or on the school site, keep your… Read more
Longhill was praised in a BBC report this week for being one of the few school’s nationally who have a designated member of staff to teach PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education). This subject is not a mandatory part of the curriculum and, in 2013, Ofsted found that class-time given over to PSHE had… Read more