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The Institute of Imagination’s Imagination Lab is based in our borough, on Lambeth High Street and has lots of opportunities for Lambeth families to get involved with making, exploring, tinkering with ideas and getting creative. On Wednesday 27th September, they will be launching their Community programme. Come along from 4 – 6pm and hear all about the offer.

IOI Lambeth Local Community Programme T1[2].pdf

invitation to Lambeth Community event launch.pdf

So, our big opera writing project begins today with the first of 7 workshops and finale performance in partnership with Black Cultural Archives and Pegasus Opera Company and generously funded by Ernest Cook Trust. The year 5 children will be writing and staging their own hip hop and reggae influenced pieces with support from Choral Director David Levale. We look forward to reporting more as the week’s progress.

This week’s flyer features quite a lot of family film this weekend, as part of the FREE Streatham Film Festival and at our local cinema in Loughborough Junction, Whirled Cinema.

low cost no cost 23 and 24 September 2017.docx

Here is our weekly flyer of free or low cost activities for families to enjoy together this weekend.

low cost no cost 16 and 17 September 2017.docx

After a well earned break, it will be great to start working again as a community of schools in and around Brixton. Meetings of Heads and Deputies will start this week and we have 2 new projects about to begin. One is songwriting in 4 of our schools; the other is another music project in partnership with Pegasus Opera and the Black Cultural Archives: Black Sound. More news on all our activities to follow soon.

Congratulations to all the fantastic speller who showed off their talents at the Spelling Bee yesterday evening, hosted by St Gabriel’s College. Teams from St John’s Angell Town, Loughborough, St John Divine and Jessop primaries competed in spelling rounds – mastering some tough words which showed just how complicated the English language is!
St Gabriel’s year 7 competitors started the evening and we also heard some original poetry from a year 8 student.
All the children showed great skills, but the over all team winners were Loughborough Primary School.
Thanks to everyone who took part and especially to St Gabriel’s staff for organising the event.
Looking forward to next year!

Follow the link to hear about our recent Primary Maths Olympiad
http://www.jessopprimary.org.uk/News/Maths-Olympiad-Competition/

The Headteachers from our cluster took a day to plan for 2017-18 yesterday. Schools had put forward priorities from their School Development Plans that they would like to work on with other schools. The Heads analysed these priorities and drew up action plans to drive in 2 areas: on Marking and on Identifying and Supporting our Able Children. Thanks to Sonia Gill from Heads Up for facilitating a very productive day.

Our schools are gearing up for the Maths challenge this week, hosted by Jessop Primary. Teams from year 1 – year 6 will be taking part. Buzzers, banners, badges and trophies are on the way and we are looking forward to it!

Teachers from our year 6 primaries met with secondary teachers from St Gabriel’s College last week to discuss transition in English, to moderate books and learn more about each other’s work.

One observation made was how there is strong emphasis on writing skills in KS2 whilst there is strong emphasis on reading in KS3 and 4 with a 75% weighting on GCSE reading skills. Transition needs to be smoother from year 6 to year 7 to gradually introduce difficult reading skills and not lose the quality of the writing established in KS2.

For example, why did you choose to use that simile in your own creative writing? What view is the writer of ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ expressing about WW2?

In BLC we are committed to working across phases to support pupils transition through school.