On Tuesday this week SSLP Link teachers gathered for their first meeting of the academic year. We adopted a hybrid style meeting with some teachers joining via Zoom link and others hosted at St Thomas the Apostle School and Sixth Form College. We talked about the events for this term (detailed below) and some fun competitions that we have planned for later in the year.

On the same evening, 46 aspiring senior leaders received online training from John Tomsett, they explored Curriculum Conversations. 

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We have four fantastic Thinking About speakers this half term, starting with Dr Clive Young on Tuesday 16th November who will share his lifelong fascination with language. Following him on the 23rd November will be journalist Alex Renton and then cultural historian Dr Omar Kholeif on the 30th. Ending the series will be Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin on Tuesday 7th December. The zoom webinars are aimed at Year 10+ but we welcome all students, staff and parents who are interested in the topic to join us.

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The new year has got off to a great start with the commencement of new and existing opportunities for staff and students.

Congratulations to Elle, a year 7 student at JAGS, who won the competition to design a logo for So You Want To Be…, our new half-termly careers series for students in key stage 3. Our first featured career was …a game designer. Daisy Fernandez joined around 200 students on Thursday 7th October.

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Entrepreneur Lance Uggla and video game designer Daisy Fernandez talk to our students. Music teachers begin an exciting Yr7 collaboration.

We’re looking for two students per school to join our Student Voice council. The students will meet once a term to help shape Mental Health related events and activities for peers within the eighteen SSLP schools. The first meeting is on Thursday 7th October at 4pm on Zoom.

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Ninety seven members of SSLP staff registered for the launch of our 2021-22 activities, we were delighted to bring everyone together via Zoom to see some highlights from last year and to learn about what we have planned this year.

Read this week’s SSLP News for some of the key opportunities available to your school

Reflecting on 2020/21

Covid restrictions have been in place all year for school partnerships, meaning we have only been able to have two face-to-face opportunities. This means we have had to find other ways to bring schools, staff and students together.
In total we have arranged 64 Exclusive or Private opportunities – these have allowed the seventeen schools of the partnership to engage with each other a total of 448 times!

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