Established in 2003 the SSLP comprises independent and maintained schools with a common desire for students and staff to learn together.
The Southwark Schools’ Learning Partnership (SSLP) brings together Partner Schools (from Southwark) and Associate Schools (from neighbouring boroughs). Our partnership comprises both independent and maintained schools. What the schools have in common is a desire to provide academic and vocational opportunities both for students and for staff, where each can learn with and from their peers.
We will be launching the next year of SSLP activities on Tuesday 19th September at Kingsdale Foundation School. We are pleased to share details of our achievements in the 2022/23 Annual Report.
Marcus Huntley
I have thoroughly enjoyed my first year as co-Director of SSLP, an organisation whose ethos and ambition I have been an avid supporter of during my 12 years of working in Southwark. This report highlights an extraordinary number and range of activities that bring together students, staff and schools across Southwark and beyond. I am especially proud that we have never been complacent about our work.
Instead, alongside our link teachers, we constantly reflect and evaluate our partnership to ensure it rises to new heights each year. I am very much looking forward to working alongside my co-Director, Joe Spence, and our “Champions” in the coming year. We are all richer for this partnership, more connected, and able to inspire better futures for young people. – Marcus Huntley
Dr Joe Spence
It’s an honour and a pleasure to be a co-Director of SSLP as it enters its 21st year. I look forward to celebrating both this second decade of the engagement of so many of the senior schools of Southwark in a partnership of equals and to preparing for SSLP to reach maturity with its 21st anniversary next year.
Whether you are coming new to the work of SSLP or someone who has worked with us before, I think you will enjoy reading all that follows. If you are a long-standing supporter of the partnership, I hope you’ll feel proud of this short account of some of the things that we’re achieved in connecting schools and students and staff over the course of a hectic and exciting year.
We can take particular pride in the way everyone has wanted to come together again after the years of lockdown. We learn from, and support, each other in a myriad of ways, to the benefit of thousands of the young people of Southwark.
The SSLP is a voluntary organisation that depends on the engagement of those who work selflessly to make things happen. I’m pleased, therefore, to take this opportunity to thank my Co-Director of SSLP, Marcus, for his contributions in his first year in post and to join with him in thanking our Link teachers (now rightly renamed Champions) for all the work they did within and between schools to ensure that our events last year were well-attended and well-focused on the needs and wishes of the students and their teachers.
The sad note we have to share is that after seven fantastic years of work, in which the difference she has made has grown year by year and almost exponentially, we are saying goodbye to our SSLP coordinator Katie Barretta. All I can say by way of silver lining is she’s had a major part in making us a model for independent state school partnerships around the country. – Dr Joe Spence