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On Tuesday 8th July evening, ‘super-spellers’ from 4 BLC Primary schools joined Evelyn Grace Academy years 7 -9 in another fantastic Spelling Bee competition. The hall was decorated with balloons, the stage was set beautifully with flowers and the big screen and cameras were ready to record close up the contestants as they showed off their phenomenal spelling skills. The EGA Parent Association kindly donated two magnificent cups for the winners. The competition consisted of 2 rounds: the quick fire challenge where contestants chose to spell as many words correctly as possible within a set time limit, from either easy,medium or hard wordlists (with hard words gaining the most points per correct answer), followed by the last man standing round, where contestants took it in turns to spell a word, and were ‘out’ if they answered incorrectly. The primary last man standing competition got to a nail biting 23rd round – huge congratulations to all the children competing and especially to the final 2 spellers from St Saviours and Loughborough. The winners over all, from year 8 and from Loughborough Primary, held their cups high at the end. Who would have thought that a Spelling competition could be so entertaining! Great talent shown by all, and we are already looking forward to next year’s competition.

For more fun activities to do this weekend for London families, check out our latest flyer.

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Here’s our list of the some of the free or low cost activities on this weekend in London for families. Low Cost no cost flyer No 90 June 2014

This term, families of Nursery and Reception classes at St John’s Angell Town The course aim is to have been taking part in a course help parents in discovering that they have the skills to support their children’s learning and development at their fingertips through everyday fun activities. The course has a maths focus – parents/carers have made simple games to use at home and participated in group discussion around their child’s development through play. They also visited the Southbank as a group and had a brilliant day introducing the families to many wonderful London resources, including The Royal Festival Hall, Jubilee Gardens and The Queen Elizabeth Roof Garden. If you are interested in having a course in your school or taking part in one as a parent or carer, please contact Jenny Smith at Brixton Learning Collaborative.

This week was another action packed SHINE @ the BLC. There were children and tutors in bright green wigs and fake blood EVERYWHERE! Don’t be alarmed…. we are now in the second stages of making our Macbeth Epic and the Sharks group have been rehearsing and learning their lines and filming some of the early scenes. The Lions group have begun to devise ways of recording their learning using Art and music while the Eagles group are preparing a bid for money to begin an enterprise project….. Alan Sugar had better watch out!
Remember Breakfast Club is held every morning from 08:30am until 8:50am and SHINE begins at 9am.

Are you stuck in a low-paid part time job?
Have you got skills that could get you a better paid job, but you can’t find anything that fits with looking after your children?

Women Like Us is a charity organisation that can give mothers free support to get a better part time job. They run workshops in our BLC Children’s Centres and can also support parents in our schools. Women like Us can help you to:

Find good part time jobs that are paid a fair salary. Women like Us even go to local employers on your behalf. Improve your CV to help you get interviews
Improve your interview skills to help you get the job.

Apply today by going to:
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If you qualify for free support, then they can call you to discuss how we can best help you.

45 parents and members of the local community are currently enrolled on adult learning courses, taking place on Thursday evenings at Evelyn Grace Academy. 2 ESOL courses (entry level and level 1) and an adult literacy course are being delivered by tutors from Morley College. The school is planning to run more adult learning from September, including computing, as part of its commitment to serve the local community and promote learning for all. For more details on courses, please contact Francesca Hall, at Evelyn Grace Academy 020 7737 9520 ext 136.

Click on the link to access our Low Cost No Cost flyer of activities that families can do over half term, kindly produced by our colleagues in the Windmill cluster of schools in Brixton. Low Cost no cost flyer No 87 May 2014

May 2014 community edition final

The learning opportunities within the BLC go well beyond school age, with many settings offering Family Learning courses for parents and carers giving skills to support their children and develop their own learning. Since September courses have included Helping your child with Maths and Reading, Family Animation, Kitchen Maths, an ICT course Portals for Parents and Developing skills for working with Children. Our schools welcome parents’ suggestions of courses they would like to do either as adult learners or as a Family Learning course.