Welcome to Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys.

We are a school community of over 1000 students and staff set in the Kent countryside on the outskirts of the medieval city of Canterbury. We enjoy a high reputation locally and nationally as a school with an enviable academic record consequent upon inspirational teaching and top quality pastoral care. We also consider ourselves to be in the vanguard of English schools developing a research approach to education that has been recognised as genuinely ground breaking.

 

Langton Boys Join Squad to Defend National Title

Chris Wyver, Arion Alexopoulos, Olly Neal, Toby Vaughan and Stanley Allen are all members of the Canterbury U16 Hockey Squad who will be travelling to Wolverhampton on 21st January to defend their National Indoor title.

They qualified by winning the South Regional Tournament last month.  The squad will face Cannock, Team Bath Buccaneers, Stockton and Old Loughtonians as they try to reach the finals on Sunday.

Dr Parker Awarded Prestigious Medal

Dr Becky Parker, Head of Physics, has been awarded the first Royal Astronomical Society Patrick Moore Medal.

Named after the veteran presenter of the BBC’s The Sky at Night, it was awarded to Dr Parker in recognition of her work in astronomy education.

RAS President Professor Roger Davies said ‘Becky is a truly outstanding teacher who has directly inspired a large number of young people to pursue careers in science. I am delighted that she is the first recipient of the Patrick Moore Medal, an award she richly deserves for her work in astronomy education over many years’

Dr Parker will be presented with her medal in a ceremony in Manchester in March

Stargazing Live

Dear Parents, Staff and Students

Just a few dates for your 2012 diaries from the Langton Star Centre.

Stargazing Live at the Langton Star Centre in conjunction with the BBC2 Stargazing Live programme will be on Tuesday 17th January 7pm – 10pm – this will be a public observing session led by the South East Kent Astronomical Society.  We will also have the Langton Telescope operational and warm refreshments in the Star Centre.  The BBC plan to involve outside events in its programme so they may link through to us.  Having this big observing event on Tuesday 17th we will not be holding public observing on January 6th.

Read more: Stargazing Live at the Langton

Star Centre Updates

There are a few changes to the dates and times of Public Observations at the Star Centre in the new year.  The session on 6th January has been cancelled; the Langton will be joining in with the BBC Stargazing Live on 17th January and SEKAS will be leading a public session on February 3rd; on 9th February you are invited to come along to the Langton Guide to the Universe.  Full details of all these events, and more, can be found in the News section.

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