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.
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!
The Young Economists’ Conference
On Wednesday 7th July Year 12 Economics students will come together from across SSLP schools (and beyond) for a full day’s conference, including speakers, a panel discussion and a workshop.
The first speaker of the day is Helen Thomas, CEO of Blonde Money. Helen will be speaking about the role of financial markets and how the pandemic has changed them. Next will be Lal Chadeesingh, Senior Advisor at the Behavioural Insights Team talking about Behavioural Economics.
Building on the morning’s two speakers will be an interactive workshop and competition, completed within school groups. In the afternoon there will be a panel discussion with a focus on career paths. Professor Dianne Coyle, from the University of Cambridge will round off the day by speaking about her work on the idea of Natural Capital and Comprehensive Wealth.
There are still places for teachers to register their school groups. CONNECTING SCHOOLS
PlayOn’s Macbeth will be the first production at Theatre Peckham since it has re-opened and features a fantastic young cast of 15 aspiring actors. The SSLP has worked with PlayOn and Theatre Peckham to support this production and we are pleased that one of the workshops that have led up to the performance was also a CPDL session for SSLP teachers. Performances will take place at 10:30m and 7pm on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th June. Group tickets for SSLP schools are available for just £6 each.