This comprehensive school is in East Ham, that suburb of London monitored by video cameras in an effort to combat crime. They use glossy, professionally designed prospectuses to show off their curricula, to introduce their staff, to present their facilities and activities in detail. One of the most noticeable differences between English schools and those in Germany and other European countries is that most English schools insist on school uniforms.
Langdon schoolboys wear dark trousers, the girls wear skirts.
Outside the school too, schoolchildren can be recognised as Langdon students. This is a good reason for behaving properly outside school, because complaints are more likely to reach the headmaster's or headmistress's ears first, long before the parents hear anything about it. The school day at Langdon School begins at 9.00 and finishes at 15.30. In this time, children have 5 teaching periods and a lunch break in which hot meals are served in the canteen. Chips are now also available in the school canteen, ever since one student was seriously injured because he went out in the lunch break to buy chips.