Year 10 and 12 pupils thoroughly enjoyed a visit to the Tate Modern last week, where they spent the best part of the day in the gallery exploring the major permeant collections as well as the special exhibitions, including Surrealism.

Nine Lower Sixth pupils had the rare opportunity to visit the Diamond Light Source within the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories (RAL)in Oxfordshire.

John Lyon’s 2022 Secret Postcard Competition and Auction, which took place in May has been a phenomenal success, with over £2000 raised for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.

We were delighted and honoured to host two events supported by the High Commission of India, London.

Our pupils and staff have enjoyed celebrations this week to mark and commemorate Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

This year’s Solos Concert was once again a wonderful musical extravaganza.  With most year groups represented, including Year 11 and Upper Sixth who were in the midst of study leave, the concert was a showcase of varying talents and performances.

The inaugural Patani Lecture took place on Thursday 12 May and was delivered by Professor Hugh Montgomery OBE of University College London, who was appointed as an Officer of the Order of British Empire for his services in Intensive Care Medicine and Climate Change.

The Drama department delivered its 3rd major production of the academic year during the first half of this summer term with a modern reimagination of Shakespeare’s much loved The Tempest.

A recent trip to Royal Holloway, University of London proved to be a wonderful practical learning exercise for our Lower Sixth Form. 

Thirty Year 7 and 8 pupils enjoyed an amazing sporting experience at Wembley Stadium on Sunday 15th May.  Pupils joined staff in the school’s impressive Club Wembley seats to watch Chelsea take on Manchester City Ladies in the Women’s FA Cup Final.

On Wednesday 11 May, all of our pupils and staff from John Lyon and Quainton Hall (our prep school) came together to celebrate our School Values and mark the end of John Lyon's historic 145th anniversary year, where we became co-ed, and also kicked off the start of Quainton Hall's 125th anniversary celebrations.

Our VEX Robotics team enjoyed two successful days of competition in Telford, and the team was delighted to have finished 6th overall in the UK Knockout stages.

The online auction for John Lyon’s Secret Postcard Competition 2022 is now live!

At the start of the Easter holidays an intrepid group of Year 11’s travelled to the Peak District for their Silver Duke of Edinburgh’s Award practice expedition.

This year the theme for Earth Day is 'Invest in our planet' At John Lyon School we have already made huge strides in our sustainability journey but recognise that we have only just begun. 

As members of the Harrow family of schools, we have kindly been invited to join the ‘Harrow and the Hill Community Day’ next Saturday 30 April.

Our termly newsletter, The Standard, is out now! The spring 2022 issue is available to read here.

Earlier this term, Sixth Form Chemistry students undertook the 2022 Royal Society of Chemistry Olympiad. This is a gruelling two-hour examination, which gives students a thorough cerebral workout and tests their chemical knowledge and understanding well beyond the confines of the A-level syllabus.

After seeing the immense devastation to lives occurring in Ukraine, our school Charity Committee organised a collection for Ukrainian refugees fleeing conflict zones and has also opened a JustGiving page. The UNHCR, the UN's refugee agency, estimates that more than four million people will become refugees.