Already this term our Student Ambassadors have met virtually to ensure that student voice is central to the SSLP. Our young leaders took a detailed look at the feedback received from their peers at the Sustainability Conference in November and began planning for a Mini United Nations event to take place at the end of this term. We will announce more about this when we have details.

When applications closed at the start of this week, we had received 39 applications from Year 12 students hoping for one of two fully-funded BASET opportunities to spend six-weeks studying in Australia this summer. After reviewing the applications we have invited six students to an interview.

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Since the SSLP Launched our 2022/23 programme in September, there have been 24 exclusive opportunities for schools, staff and students to connect as well as four meetings of directors and Link teachers. Seven requests for support from partner schools have been successfully met.
Watch this short video from the SSLP Launch.
The image above is from our Gospel Choir Workshop which brought together 235 students from 8 SSLP schools. Read about all our events in the full newsletter.

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CONNECTING SCHOOLS

CONNECTING SCHOOLS
Since our last newsletter we have been Thinking About Activism for Climate Change with author Anthea Simmons and Thinking About Sustainable Fashion with Professor Richard Blackburn hosted by students from Dulwich College and St Saviour’s & St Olave’s school.
CONNECTING STUDENTS
On Thursday last week our SSLP Ambassadors hosted a Sustainability Conference at 15Hatfields. They welcomed speakers from OddBox and London Wildlife Trust and worked with facilitators from Young Citizens to choose projects that will bring about change for Food Waste and Fashion.
CONNECTING STAFF
Counsellors from SSLP schools met virtually last Thursday for their half termly catch-up sharing good practice and useful links.

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This week we have been Thinking About… Setting Up A Sustainable Business with Anna Brightman from UpCircle and students from JAGS, we had 44 teachers join the Aspiring Pastoral Leaders programme and we’ve begun connecting Oxbridge Applicants with mock interviewers from other schools.
Yesterday was a particularly uplifting day when Kingsdale Foundation School hosted over 200 students for our Gospel Choir Workshop, which featured materials produced by a teacher from Compass School, was led by a teacher from Westminster City School, had sessions supported by teachers from Dulwich College and St Saviour’s & St Olave’s and was coordinated by a teacher from JAGS – that’s what we call partnership! The students learnt about posture and breathing, practiced part singing and took part in a final performance including seven soloists from as many schools.

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Chaos Symposium
SSLP Oxbridge applicants were invited to Dulwich College yesterday to join the Chaos Symposium. We were welcomed with croissants and then heard from Dr Mike Martin, an expert on modern warfare before taking part in two elective seminars (from a choice of 30 different topics). We re-grouped before lunch to hear from Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience.
“My daughter attended and she came back enthused and inspired. She got so much out of the day and it has made her even more excited about her university applications.”

CONNECTING STUDENTS

CONNECTING STUDENTS
This month we will be bringing students together on two occassions. Our Sustainability Conference hosted by SSLP Student Ambassadors takes place on Thursday 24th November at 15Hatfields. Five students per school will hear from guest speakers before identifying projects to make real changes. Before this, on Thursday 17th November, 250 singers will attend a Gospel Choir Workshop at Kingsdale Foundation School.
CONNECTING STAFF
Our four-part professional development series for staff begins on Wednesday 18th November. Sixty-one aspiring and experienced pastoral leaders have already registered for the programme which will feature three twilight guest speakers via zoom this winter, finishing with a physical event in May.
CONNECTING SCHOOLS
The Thinking About programme will continue with three more webinars this month. These are suitable for students in Year10+, staff and families. We will cover Setting up a sustainable business, Activisim for Climate Change and Sustainable Fashion.

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