Congratulations to the recent SSLP competition winners.
Juliana from JAGS was named as the winning student for her entry in the Entrances and Exits round of the Street Photography Competition, with Eleanor a close 2nd and Jamie submitting the winning staff entry. Congratulations to Florence, Ludo, Isabel, Elodie, Lorcan and Alex whose physics essays have won them each a place at this summer’s Particle Physics School hosted at CERN.
It’s an exciting time at the SSLP as we wait for the results of several recent competitions. Who will be announced as the December winner of SSLP Street Photography? Who will experience school-life in Australia this summer thanks to the generosity of BASET? Who will spend a week at CERN at the Particle Physics School? And which of our amazing designers will see their bespoke chair produced by Tom Faulkner in our Take A Seat competition?
The Southwark Schools’ Learning Partnership (SSLP) has advertised over 35 unique opportunities to member schools since the start of this half term in November. Six of these (that’s one per week) have been exclusive to the partnership, this means that the opportunity only existed because of SSLP. The Take A Seat competition has connected students from six schools, part 1 of the Professional Learning Trio connected teachers from another six schools and the Gospel Choir Night, attended by ninety five students, connected school choirs. Other opportunities included the sharing of spare capacity at events, inter-school mock Oxbridge preparation and promotion of public events.
Nine SSLP schools have been competing, with others, in the Southwark Schools Basketball League during the Autumn term. Congratulations to UAE South Bank who became eventual winners of the U16 competition in a thrilling triple overtime victory against St Thomas Apostle College. The U14 competition saw Dulwich College take on Kingsdale Foundation School, the game was close, but the talented Kingsdale team pushed on to victory in the last few minutes to be crowned U14 champions.
On Friday 15 November, 95 singers from four SSLP schools met at JAGS Community Music Centre for a Gospel Choir Workshop with professional gospel singer Lena Wright and accompanist Abe Hampton.
This week nine Take A Seat participants went to Swindon to visit Tom Faulkner’s workshop and spent four hours learning how he makes furniture, from the design process to manufacture, finish, assembly and finally transportation. They spoke with the welders and finishers, learning tricks and techniques to achieve the best quality outcome. They also had a chance to operate a fly press and try MIG welding. As well as workshops they have also visited Tom’s showrooms in Chelsea.