Congratulations to Karissa from The Elmgreen School, Mark from Westminster City School, Saskia from Queen’s College London and Helen from Alleyn’s School for their winning pictures.
See the images and read the judges comments here.
This week’s SSLP news recaps the activities that have taken place this half term; Debating Competition, Thinking About Performance Engineering, So You Want To Be an Environmental Conservationist, Thinking About Wild Crimes, Student Voice Mental Health Activity Days workshop, Thinking About Reggaetón and Aspiring Senior Leaders session 4.
And looks forward to everything coming up after the break; Thinking About Art History, Aerospace Careers, Thinking About The Green Economy, Alleyn’s International Concert Series, Standing Firm – Football’s Windrush Story, So You Want To Be a Clinical Psychologist, SSLP Dance Competition, Young Economists Competition, Professional Careers Fair and a save the date for a Young Diversity event.
Congratulations to Ava, Karissa, Sarah and Helen for these fantastic photographs responding to the challenge of “colour”. This was the fifth and final round in this year’s competition.
Highlights from this week include Amy and Kit from Alleyn’s hosting Khalil Thirlaway for Thinking About Wild Crimes, and 30 students workshopping the connection between physical and mental health.
Next week we look forward to Thinking About Reggaetón with Rebecca Blacknell and the fourth Aspiring Senior Leaders session.
It has been a real pleasure to work with the Worshipful Company of International Bankers to introduce debating into SSLP schools this year.
Five state schools received six week’s of training from Debate Mate before being invited to enter a beginner’s competition open to all SSLP schools.
On Wednesday 4th May eight teams gathered at JAGS for three rounds of debating before a final between the hosts and St Michael’s Catholic College. It was the home team, ranging from year 7 to 12, who won by a narrow margin.
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The relaxation of Covid restrictions has allowed us to finally resume some in-person activities this half term. Over the last six weeks SSLP schools have had the opportunity to engage with an afternoon with Elif Shafak, a day with Orpheus Sinfonia, a peace workshop with Aegis Trust, the Sixth-Form Science Quiz, Debate Mate workshops, as well as the third Aspiring Senior Leaders online workshop, two Thinking About webinars, So You Want to Be A Lawyer and other open activities.
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