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On 15th July the teachers from our Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded Confident Creators project, developing a Growth Mindset through the Arts, together with arts practitioners who have been working with the teachers all year, got together to share their work and celebrate the wealth of creativity that has been taking place. The teachers went on a journey through drama, art and music to create their own collaborative pieces which demonstrated their learning and that of their children. They made drama, art and wrote songs which they performed at the end of the day to an audience which included Senior Leaders and visitors from the funder and other projects. Throughout the day the teachers shared with each other how they and their children had grown in confidence with the arts and developed skills in problem solving, risk taking and collaborative working. It has been a very busy year, with over 600 hours of artists working with teachers in school on top of CPD days. We look forward to embedding the practice in schools and sharing more widely in 2019-20.

The last couple of weeks of term saw the runners up and final of our girls football league, at Vauxhall Powerleague. The final match was between Jubilee and Christ Church Streatham primaries. Both teams had been playing excellent football all term, but in the end Jubilee were the winners, with a 3 – 1 score. Thanks to all the teams who took part and played such a great standard of football. Also a big thank you to Vauxhall Powerleague for hosting our games and to Jack at The Black Prince Trust being our referee each week.

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Last Thursday evening primary teams gathered at St Gabriel’s for our annual Spelling Bee. Every year this is a nail biting event, showing off amazing talent from our young teams. This year was no exception. The last man standing competition was very close – ultimately won by Michelle from St John Divine Primary – congratulations Michelle. The teams were very close over all, but well done to St Saviour’s who won the cup for first place. Looking forward to next year’s competition and a huge thank you to the English department for organising a great event.

Last Tuesday we completed this term’s set of Master classes, supported by the Royal Institution, for year 5 students. For the last 6 weeks, children from across the cluster have come to St Gabriel’s College each week to learn about different aspects of Maths beyond the curriculum. Topics have included Binary computer language, Special Number – Pi and Phi, Codes and Ciphers and this week Polyhedrons. Alison Eves from the Royal Institution led our session, setting the children a challenge to make regular polyhedrons using a set number of shapes. At the end of the session, the children compared different shapes, counting faces, vertices and edges and concluded – V+F-2=E which is Euler’s Polyhedra Theorem. The children have been very engaged and working hard throughout the series and we look forward to doing more next term.

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