Twenty eight Key Stage 3 students from Ark Globe Academy, The Charter School East Dulwich, Compass School Southwark, Kingsdale Foundation School, Westminster City School and hosts Harris Boys Academy East Dulwich played in the SSLPs first Chess Tournament on Wednesday. All the participants showed great sportsmanship. Congratulations to Nasir, the overall winner, Alfie, the runner-up and the winning team who were from Kingsdale.

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This half term six exclusive SSLP activities have been open to students, two more to staff and one to the whole school community. Thank you to all 246 people who have involved themselves with activities such as the Student Voice Projects, Photography Competition, and the Aspiring Leaders Programme.

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Yesterday 200 KS3 students from six schools attended one of two lunchtime webinars given by JAGS alumna Sydny Lo. Sydney was our latest speaker in our So You Want To Be… series and told us all about her career in science, particularly Bio Technology. She was hosted by Amy, Emily, Inaya and Shaan who are currently studying Biology & Chemistry at JAGS.
“Our kids really enjoyed and found the session useful.” – The Elmgreen School

On Wednesday evening 70 members of staff attended the second talk in our Aspiring Pastoral Leaders series, to hear from Professor Sonia Lupien talking about stress in childhood and adolescence.
“What an interesting and thought-provoking/affirming session!” – Attendee

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Over 200 students came to the SSLP Gospel Choir Workshop at Kingsdale Foundation School in November. Watch how they got on in this short video.

Librarians from across the SSLP met at South Bank University Academy on Monday. They discussed how to handle overdue books, creative ideas for marking World Book Day and how to diversify reading lists.
School Counsellors have also come together this week, via zoom. They discussed hosting trainees and bereavement groups.
SSLP Link teachers met on Wednesday at Alleyn’s, they discussed upcoming SSLP events, Student Ambassadors and initial plans for 2023/24.

SSLP Hubs bring together a variety of staff from across our schools.
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On Tuesday this week ten SSLP teachers attended a three-hour twilight training session delivered by Debate Mate. They learnt about the Debate Mate core programme, Debate Mate rules for debating and were given ideas and resources for integrating debating into the classroom. This training is part of a package of debating support from the Worshipful Company of International Bankers, which will seven schools each receiving six debate workshops this term and a debating competition next term.

The SSLP Photography competition launched this week with guest judge, Lillie Eiger, and the first of five rounds, The Extraordinary Ordinary, announced.

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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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