Langdon is an ‘All-Through School’ providing excellent learning opportunities for children aged 4 to 16. This expertise in both Primary and Secondary education provides the key to ensuring maximum continuity and progression in students’ development.
Langdon is a vibrant and harmonious community in which every child can feel safe, secure, and able to thrive. Our core values of respect, equality, honesty, and community define our culture and ensure that every child feels cared for, valued, and enabled to contribute to their school and society.
Our school motto ‘Progressio Cum Populo’ (Progress with the People) defines our purpose and reminds us of our principles. Our purpose is to ensure maximum progress for each student in every aspect of their development, and we are reminded that this is best achieved through partnership with them, their families, and our wider community. Since the 1950s this motto has underpinned the school’s values, though never more powerfully than it does today.
Like our partner school, Brampton Manor Academy, we believe in doing the simple things well. Our growing academic success is built on high standards of discipline, the recruitment of excellent staff, clear expectations for all, and outstanding effort.
The curriculum in all Key Stages is tailored to the needs of each student, providing a balance of challenge and support to enable each child to achieve their potential. We demand effort and determination from all students and believe that if the effort is right the progress will be outstanding. We also demand high personal standards about attendance, punctuality, and behavior.
Other sensible measures to achieve success include small group sizes. Where many schools have typical class sizes of thirty students, our average is twenty-two, substantially increasing the individual attention our teachers can provide to each learner.
This is by no means our only luxury and privilege. Our wonderful, 43-acre, greenfield site provides an almost unparalleled setting for a London school and a rich learning resource for our students. What’s more, a £26m development has ensured that we have impressive facilities in every phase and every subject area.
Langdon Academy is a ‘Specialist Sports College’, with exceptional external sporting facilities such as our floodlit 3G Astroturf pitches, cricket nets, tennis and netball courts – not to mention the acres of grass pitches for cricket, football, and rugby, or the internal Sports Hall and Fitness Centre.
Langdon is also proud to offer Resourced Provision in both Primary and Secondary phases for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Whatever talents or needs children may have, every parent wants their child to make excellent progress in school, but also to be happy, to make friends, to develop high personal standards, to behave well, to be motivated and, most of all, to be safe. We take all of these aspects very seriously at Langdon Academy and pay great attention to ensuring that students are happy in their learning and every aspect of their personal and social development.
Langdon students are overwhelmingly well-behaved and are a credit to our school, much commented upon by visitors. At Langdon Academy, we expect and require high standards of behavior from our students at all times. We believe that effective teaching and learning can only take place in a disciplined, orderly, and purposeful environment underpinned by respect for oneself and others. Through making learning enjoyable and stimulating, and through providing rich, engaging opportunities for students we find that students respond with positive behavior. Our approach to keeping children safe in and out of school is both effective and far-reaching, not merely about reducing risk in school, but also in preparing our students to make safe choices in their personal lives beyond school.
At Langdon Academy, we aim for high standards in all areas. However, we know that students have different talents, skills, and abilities and that not all can achieve at the same level. So we celebrate success and applaud effort and determination whenever our students go ‘the extra mile to be the best that they can be. Education research shows that rewarding effort drives up standards. That is surely obvious those who try hardest make the most progress. As a result of our unswerving focus on effort and determination, Langdon students develop the ambition and resilience that will serve them well throughout their lives.
