Celebration Evening – 2023

Celebration evening marks is an important date in our school calendar, as it allows us to congratulate high achieving students and ones that are making rapid progress. Longhill High School’s Celebration Evening, which is being held on Thursday 29 June 2023.  The awards ceremony itself will commence at 6.30pm. Every department presented awards, starting with… Read more

Computer Science OCR Update

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Dear Students, Following national concerns about the nature and content of Computer Science Paper 2, OCR have published an open letter for everyone who took this paper.  The purpose of the letter is to update you as to procedures for marks and grading.  There will be a further update from OCR on GCSE Results Day  – Thursday 24th… Read more

Duke of Edinburgh’s Award – Parents Information Evening

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I’m pleased to let you know that Longhill High School now offers the Bronze Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) to students currently in year 9, going into year 10 in September 2023. The DofE is a great chance for your child to broaden their horizons, discover new interests and talents, have fun with friends, develop… Read more

University of Sussex – Maths Experience Day

We offered a group of Year 9 students the opportunity to attend an in-person event at the Falmer campus of the University of Sussex on 22nd June 2023. It was a wonderful opportunity to learn about applications of maths outside of the classroom. Across the day we explored three major mathematical of notions of geometry,… Read more

Swim for free at Saltdean Lido this summer

Children and young people can swim for free at Saltdean Lido this summer. Brighton & Hove City Council Healthy Lifestyles Team is pleased to be working with Saltdean Lido CIC to support free swimming for children and young people this summer. Under the scheme children and young people aged 18 and under who live in… Read more

Canteen Closure – Refurbishment

To give appropriate time for the refurbishment of the Canteen to be ready for the next school year, we are closing the Canteen next week (June 19th 2023) for the remainder of the term. We will be serving food out of the Year 11 Canteen and devised a rota to minimise the wait time for… Read more

Straight Up! – The Longhill Boys Dance Crew

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The Longhill Boys Dance Crew performed at the ‘Straight Up!’ event, held at The Dome Theatre in Brighton on Saturday 17th June. Streetfunk’s ‘Straight Up’ is the biggest Street Dance showcase of the South Coast, bringing together the whole family for a spectacular and inspiring night showcasing outstanding local young dance talent. The show started at 6pm,… Read more

Inspiring the Future in Technology – Bank of America

On Friday 9th June were given the opportunity to attend an in-person event at the London office of the Bank of America, with the theme of Inspiring the Future in Technology. This was an exceptional chance to speak to a range of people currently at the Bank of America in a variety of different careers… Read more

Art Trip to the Tate Modern

The Art department took a group of Y10 students to visit the Tate Modern Gallery on the Thursday 8th June.  The Tate Modern Gallery holds a world class collection of contemporary international art and is a very enriching experience for any student studying GCSE Fine Art. The students spent the day viewing exhibitions, as well… Read more

Super 6 – Withdean Athletics – Year 7

Local schools gathered from across Brighton to attend the Super 6 tournament at Withdean Sports Complex. The Athletics event involves a team of 12 athletes competing over 6 track and field disciplines. Longhill High School selected the best group of athletes in Year 7 and went along to compete. We came victorious in the Girls… Read more