Langley Park School for Boys A GSG School
- Langley Park School for Boys
South Eden Park Road
Beckenham
Kent
BR3 3BP - Head: Suzanne Munday
- T 020 8639 4700
- F 020 8639 4633
- E office@lpbs.org.uk
- W www.lpsb.org.uk
- A state school for boys aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Bromley
- Pupils: 1,745; sixth formers: 641 (221 girls)
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Open days: Sixth Form Open evening for external students
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 5th March 2019
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 18th June 2015
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Drama is ‘cool’ here, say sixth formers – and it’s superb. The bi-annual whole school productions have large budgets and massive buy-in (‘You go along even if your child isn’t in it’), with the recent Singing in the Rain musical boasting a cast of 110 and actual rain. Dance on curriculum. ‘I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like dance,’ a group of boys insisted, and we were certainly impressed by watching chairs being fake flung in a year 8 lesson. Pupils were performing with control and focus on a unit of work based on gaming – with not one pupil giggling or pulling faces from the sideline. Take that, gender stereotypes. Impressively varied number of clubs and societies – all the usual sporting and academic, including some that are...
What the school says...
Our vision is that education is a whole life enterprise closely related to the well-being of the communities in which we live. The prime task of Langley Park School for Boys, is to provide all pupils with equal access to a broad relevant and dynamic curriculum which reflects local needs, giving parity to vocational studies, emphasising industry links and underpinned by the broader goals of responsibility, tolerance, self reliance and a lifelong interest in learning.
Langley Park School for Boys is a place where all students are encouraged to achieve the highest academic and social standards, feel secure and important and in which cultural diversity is prized. Where there are special needs these must be assiduously met. The school will continue to promote music, drama, art and sporting life as central elements of its success and appeal to pupils. The sustaining and strengthening of existing and new extra curricular activities and competitions are crucial to the school's future. ...Read more
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since April 2023, Suzanne Munday, previously deputy head of Sydenham High School GDST for just under three years and before that, deputy head for four years at St Martin-in-the-Fields High School for Girls, where the experience of her first single-sex setting was ‘like scales falling from her eyes’ – ‘You can go with what works, pupils are free to be themselves.’ Friends were surprised when she came here rather than a girls’ school, but it was the ‘holistic education which already existed, along with the harness of boy energy’ that clinched the deal. A degree in music and Italian from Bristol followed a stint teaching the flute in Switzerland, where she was introduced to Italian – a year in Florence at the conservatoire cemented the marriage between music and Italian.
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Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Langley Park School for Boys (LPSB) is an inclusive school working towards the ethos of Quality First Teaching. LPSB offers provision to support children with communication and interaction, cognition and learning difficulties, social, mental and emotional health problems, sensory or physical needs. The range of support deployed will be tailored to individual need following thorough assessment by internal or external agencies. It is designed to promote pupils working towards becoming independent, resilient learners and should not be seen in isolation.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | Y |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
Interpreting catchment maps
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Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
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Further reading
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Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
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