Lancaster Royal Grammar School has a long history of forging lasting educational links in our local community.   We continue to work with a wide range of organisations, aiming to promote the world-class education that can be found at LRGS. These links also enable us to offer an increasingly rich educational experience to our own students.

We take our role within the community in Lancaster very seriously, and are proud to be involved with a number of projects and initiatives, working with a wide variety of local schools, institutes and individuals.  Here are just some of our community-based projects.

InspirUS

This programme for talented girls and boys in Lancaster primary schools was launched in January 2010.  It aims to raise aspirations and to encourage able pupils to explore avenues well beyond the confines of the National Curriculum.  The programme covers all aspects of the curriculum, including science, literacy, numeracy and art.  Please click on InspirUs to find out more about the programme.

Flourishing Education

Mrs Wareing, teacher of History at LRGS, writes an interesting educational blog and the contents from her PSHE lessons can be found on here. 

Lancaster Community Music Centre

We have a long-standing link with Lancaster Community Music Centre, which meets at the school on 32 Saturdays per year, mostly during school terms. All members of the community are welcome to come along and take part in various musical ensembles. Individual instrument tuition is also available. More details about LCMC here.

Charity fundraising

Every year, the pupils choose six charities to support during the Lent Term, and two of these are always local. Due to the pupils' tremendous fundraising efforts, over £20,000 is raised and local charities receive on average £2,000 from the school.  Recent recipients have included CancerCare, Friends of Chernobyl's Children Lancaster, Beaumont College and St John's Hospice.  

Lancaster University

We organise frequent visits to Lancaster University, and have good links with staff and students who come to give talks and run workshops for the pupils.  LUSU student volunteers studying Modern Foreign Languages recently ran a French competition at LRGS, as part of their Involve project.

Heritage Open Day

The national Heritage Open Days festival gives us a chance to open the doors to the general public and invite them to glimpse behind the scenes. In 2017 we opened Old School House and provided tours of the Library and former boarding accommodation. In 2018, as well as opening the Library again, we also opened the Memorial Library in New Building and hosted an exhibition to remember the 400 Old Lancastrians who were involved in World War 1.