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Coralie Alison and Anna Gawthorpe, from St John’s Angell Town Primary School have been announced as one of ten winning applicants for the London Innovation Teacher Fund, funded by the Mayor’s office and organised by SHINE. Their Active Learners in Numeracy project will deliver a toolkit of movement-orientated, play based pedagogical activities for children in Reception. The project supports children’s physical development whilst also addressing specific numeracy learning objectives. The grant will support roll out to other schools in our cluster. We look forward to the project getting started this year.

Thank to Evelyn Grace Academy for hosting another great Spelling Bee competition last week. The standards were extremely high and the competition was fierce but the cup this year has gone to Christ Church Primary, SW9 – congratulations!

Lots of free things for families to enjoy in London this weekend.

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Last Friday Headteachers from all 13 schools in our cluster got together for a very productive and constructive strategic planning day, looking at 2016-17. The lively, positive discussion and planning was facilitated by Sonia Gill from Heads Up. Headteachers worked together to create visions for BLC under 4 agreed headings: ‘What are the future risks individually and collectively for our schools’, ‘What do we want the cluster to look like in a year’s time’, ‘What are the benefits of being in the cluster’ and ‘What it would it be like if we were more cutting edge and creative’. The BLC wants more staff in its settings to benefit from working with others across our schools – exciting times ahead!

Yesterday representatives from 8 of our primary and secondary schools (over 60 children and young people) met together to discuss what they would like to see to improve their school and community lives. This event was held in partnership with Young Lambeth Co-op (YLC) and facilitated by poet and coach Adisa. Young Lambeth Co-op want ideas and opinions from as many children and young people as possible to help shape their offer for children and young people for out of school activities. The school councils worked in mixed groups to collage headlines and news photos of what they cared about and started to formulate SMART ideas for short term goals. The participants had strong ideas on wanting peaceful school and out of school settings and activities that could support and grow their talents. In the next few weeks school councils will collate opinions through voting, on what pupils want YLC to prioritise for funding and future fundraising. Many thanks at everyone who came, to Adisa for facilitating, YLC, Stockwell Primary for hosting and all the pupils and staff.

Following a packed programme of events, organised within our cluster this year, the Able and Talented Co-ordinators from our primary schools met yesterday to start planning activities for our most able students next year. More visits to the Houses of Parliament with workshops and presentations back in school, visits to professional newsrooms to inspire young writers, partnering with our secondary schools on Science and DT masterclasses, Art using specialist teachers and exploring different media, Dance, Sports, Music and a Maths competition for KS1 are just some of the events we aim to plan and deliver together as a cluster next year. We also hope to set up a blog for pupils to be able to record their own experiences of the activities as the year progresses. Many thanks to the enthusiasm and commitment from the staff in this group.

A chance to see some of our talented young dancers in the BLC – the video was made after 1 hour’s workshop on completely new material – great achievement!http://videocentralhd.lgfl.org.uk/Play.aspx?id=vzmVmXKx0fDnv5

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