One of our students certainly has a reason to celebrate this half term, as her design was picked by furniture designer Tom Faulkner as the winner in our Take A Seat Competition. Anne-Elizabeth from St Saviour’s & St Olave’s School now has her very own chair which Tom described as “true to her original art-deco concept” and “both practical and beautiful”.
Part 2 of our EXCLUSIVE Professional Learning Trio took place on 29th January. Those in attendance shared their experiences of using Live Marking, Self & Peer Evaluation and Conferencing. They have made contacts with other teachers and are in the process of arranging observational visits. Registration is now open for the third and final session on Wednesday 23rd March.
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?
In January we have two EXCLUSIVE opportunities for SSLP teachers to get together for professional development. Getting The Best Out of Yourself and Others on Thursday 23rd is for aspiring and experienced middle leaders; whilst the Professional Learning Trio on Wednesday 29th is for any teacher with an interest in trying different techniques for marking and providing feedback.
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.