Happy New (Academic) Year and greetings from Lancing College. I hope that the hurly-burly of the start of a year is starting to subside but the excitement of returns is unabated.
We start the year with the largest number of pupils or roll ever; under the leadership of Dr Scott Crawford, who has joined us from Magdalene College School, Oxford and with some superb GCSE and A Level results for last year’s Fifth Form and Upper Sixth Form.
Lancing College has also been recognised in a host of national awards, and it is good to see the excellence that we (and you) know to be the case reflected in this way.
We include details of open events across this academic year: please do direct families to these as well as to the possibility of individual visits and please do invite your various departments to join us for Prep School days this term in Art and Music.
For families with children in Year 6, the deadline for registration with us for the Advance Programme (pre-Test) for entry in 2028 falls on 28 October 2025 and the familiarisation and assessment day is on 13 January 2026. We will be asking for CAT4 scores from you for these children and that parents have registered them with ISEB in order that we can add these data points into the mix in our assessment processes. We aim to make the familiarisation and assessment day one which is engaging, fun and which brings c.100 children together to enjoy each other’s company; the Lancing site and the chance to meet and interact with many of our staff.
I hope you enjoy the film that our new Head Master prepared for our parents at the start of term. The school is in excellent heart; the week just gone has seen a whole-school charitable fundraising event in the 12-mile walk for Malawi across the South Downs (with 1000 pupils, staff and parents participating); our first Open Morning of the year and a whole-school Chapel service including the installation of Dr Scott Crawford and the commissioning of the school Prefects. There is a real spring in our step and the year ahead promises to be an exciting one.
With all best wishes for the term ahead,
Yours
Mrs Hilary Dugdale, Director of Admissions
