Anti – Racism Conference
On Wednesday 25th November over 100 staff and students from thirteen SSLP schools came together on Zoom for an Anti-Racism Conference.
“Thank you so much for hosting a truly inspirational and influential conference. It was a pleasure and privilege to finally address and tackle racism in schools!” Student attendee
Monday saw twelve SSLP students in virtual attendance at Dulwich College’s mock Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs) where they each had seven 5-minute interviews in quick succession as preparation for their real-life Medicine degrees. We wish them all the best of luck. Our Tuesday Thinking About webinar was hosted by students from Queen’s College London who spoke with Professor Duncan Wheeler about Spanish National Culture(s) and welcomed 80 virtual guests. St Saviour’s & St Olave’s took the lead on Wednesday, hosting a very ambitious conference for staff and students on anti-racism. Mock Oxbridge interviews are continuing this and next week, with a whole afternoon offered at Dulwich College on Thursday.
SSLP Anti – Racism Project
Don’t let your school miss out on our partnership project to tackle racism for SSLP students. We launch on Wednesday 25th November with a conference for staff and students. Keynote speaker Ndubuisi Uchea will talk about how he found his voice with Word on the Curb and will encourage the student participants to find their voice via film with the help of expert film maker Laurence Lee and the guidance of Young Citizens.
Teachers will explore racism in education with the help of Prof William Henry, Ankhara Lloyd and Carol Murraine – all very experienced in the field.
This week we were delighted to welcome not one but two guest speakers to take the Thinking About stage. Megan Smith from the Carbon Trust, and Dijana Vlaisavljevic from Sonnedix were interviewed by Tom and Sher from Kingsdale Foundation School. They introduced us to Off-Shore Wind and Solar power generation and painted an exciting picture of the quickly evolving renewable energy industry. To find out more you can watch the recording on YouTube.
Our Thinking About webinar this week was Lord Peter Hain thinking about sport and apartheid in South Africa. He spoke about how at the age of 19 he became chairman of the Stop The Seventy Tour campaign which disrupted the all-white South African cricket and rugby union teams’ tours in protest against apartheid. Lord Hain mentioned the importance of young people speaking up for what they believe in, from Suffragettes to Black Lives Matter and Climate Change, and he urged students to work hard in order to achieve their goals.
In a term where schools are managing bubbles, quarantine and catch-up studies there hasn’t been much capacity for extra-curricula activities. But by working in partnership we have taken what spare resources we have had and put them together to deliver a fantastic offering.