Our mission
To give every child roots in a house that knows them and wings in the responsibility it hands them.
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About us
Our story
A house school on the northern rim of the valley, where the seniors are responsible for the juniors and the cross-country goes uphill both ways.
Who we are
Built around houses rather than year groups
Langtang Hall opened in 2002 with three houses and a conviction that mixing year groups does more for a child than sorting them. Six houses later, the conviction has not needed revising.
The result is a school where a Grade 6 student has a named Grade 11 student responsible for them from their first week, and where by Grade 11 that responsibility has been passed on rather than received.
What we stand for
Mission, vision and values
Our vision
A school where by seventeen every student has looked after someone younger — and done it well.
Our values
Radices et alae. Notice who is quiet. Answer for your tutor group. Choose a Saturday activity and see the year through.
Radices et Alae
Roots and wings
Message from management
Meet our leaders
Headmaster
“Put a seventeen-year-old in charge of something that matters and watch what happens.”
Headmaster since 2015, previously housemaster of Melamchi for nine years. He runs the Saturday hill running group and has never won it.
Rabindra Pant
Headmaster
Senior Housemistress
“A house is not a dormitory. It is the forty people who notice when you are quiet.”
Oversees the six houses and the tutor-group system. Writes to every boarder’s family once a fortnight, and expects her house captains to do the same.
Sarita Ghimire
Senior Housemistress
Our journey
The school by decade
- 2002
Three houses
Opened with 130 day students and the first three houses: Trisuli, Bhote, Melamchi.
- 2007
Boarding opens
The first forty boarders arrive; house study hours begin the same term.
- 2013
Six houses
Langtang, Indrawati and Sun Kosi added as the roll passes six hundred.
- 2020
Tutor groups formalised
Every Grade 11 and 12 student takes responsibility for four juniors.
Our team
Staff and houses
The people a family deals with most, by where they sit.
Leadership
Rabindra Pant
Headmaster
Sarita Ghimire
Senior Housemistress
Mohan Adhikari
Deputy Head, Academic
The houses
Bikash Thapa
Housemaster, Trisuli
Sunita Rai
Housemistress, Sun Kosi
Dawa Sherpa
Housemaster, Melamchi
Upper School
Nirmala Poudel
Head of Science
Keshav Bhandari
Head of Mathematics
Lower School
Anita Gurung
Head of Lower School
Alumni
Old Langtangers
Twenty-three years of leavers. Here is where a few of them are now.
Class of 2019
Prerana Shrestha
Civil engineer
Road projects, Karnali
What I use most from that school is running a house meeting at seventeen with forty people who did not agree with me.
Class of 2016
Suyog Pandey
Wildlife biologist
Chitwan
Three years of Saturday hill running and beekeeping. I did not know it was fieldwork training at the time.
Class of 2014
Ishani Rana
Architect
Kathmandu
The printmaking room is where I learnt to draw. I still carry a lino cutter in my bag.
Class of 2012
Tenzing Norbu Lama
Mountain guide and trainer
Solukhumbu
My housemaster wrote to my parents every fortnight. I write to my trainees’ families the same way.