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.We are delighted to have built up a brilliant partnership with Fulham Football Foundation, Girls United Football Association, Black Prince Trust and Powerleague over the last year. Sadly plans to organise our girls football league and other fixtures have had to be put on the back burner for a while, but children have been keeping active! Several schools have been taking part in the weekly challenges set by our partners, designed for all ages of primary children to complete and develop their skills over the weeks. Filmed  challenges are sent weekly, then staff in schools promote to the children and off they go! 

A wealth of resources and a new dynamic map of Lambeth can now be found on the updated Lambeth Larder website, allowing users to easily search for and find local assistance related to the pandemic.

This includes where to find emergency food provision, advice and other support services in the borough as well as details of volunteering opportunities and where items can be donated.

To explore the response map visit the updated Lambeth Larder website here

Our partners Pegasus Opera will be starting a digital choir in August, every Monday from 7pm it’s FREE, open to everyone aged 10+.
They will be working towards a digital performance entitled ‘Legacy and Hope’ in October singing a wide repertoire from calypso to classical music.

All abilities and ages welcome!

https://bit.ly/2OOAFsL

Madame Kalamazoo’s Magical Mail

Brought to you via email from the National Theatre

Would you like a visit from Madame Kalamazoo this summer?

Madame Kalamazoo is a mysterious storyteller who arrived from the Blue Moon at the start of lockdown. She writes funny daily stories for children and will send them to you for FREE via the National Theatre by email. The magical thing about her stories is that they have your children in them as the main characters!

These imaginative stories have been written to help young people get through the unusual times we are living in and to invite them into a community of children all receiving their own special Kalamazoo adventures each day.

If your children choose to, they can go a step further than simply reading and can contribute artwork and ideas to help move the stories along. Their artwork can be sent via a magical route to other children also receiving Madame Kalamazoo’s Magical Mail.

Families receiving Madame Kalamazoo’s Magical Mail already have been loving their daily stories and have had this to say:

“Madame Kalamazoo has been such a welcome distraction and breath of fresh air. Every day my son wakes up asking if Madame Kalamazoo has sent a letter and he’s really thrilled when it arrives. Thank you, Madame Kalamazoo.”

If you would like your children to be part of the growing community of children receiving their own special, daily stories from Madame Kalamazoo this summer, then please pre-register with the National Theatre here.

As a group of schools we have benefited so much from a strong partnership with Pegasus Opera Company, based in Brixton and dedicated to supporting, developing and celebrating BAME opera performers. Pegasus has worked with our schools on celebrating Black British music, Black Georgians and for the last 2 years has been our artist practitioner partner on our Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded Confident Creator programme. Their work goes from strength to strength, as demonstrated in their newsletter, linked here.https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/?tab=wm&ogbl#inbox/FMfcgxwJWjCrLTKZwZTbXNbxsBKcFXvh

The Mayor’s Fund for London has supported organisations across Lambeth and Southwark to put together a programme of activities for children over the summer holidays – a great variety of ways for children and families to have fun together, do sports, read, get outside and eat together.

https://www.mayorsfundforlondon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DBG0177-Kitchen-Social-Design-AW-Digital-Version.pdf

Having really enjoyed Dr Matt Pritchard’s session at the Ogden Partnership Conference last week, we wanted to share his short video on the magic if science. BLC is delighted to be an Ogden Trust Partnership and experience so much excellent support and expertise in Physics teaching and learning from their team.

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/?tab=wm&ogbl#inbox/FMfcgxwJWXRldlmCcWGfKGDdXVkHtLSC?projector=1

Embracing Diversity and Inclusion is central to our work in the Brixton Learning Collaborative and we wanted to share BBC CBeebie’s short video to help young children’s understanding of this – Everybody’s Welcomehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/everyones-welcome

This summary gives teachers and parents links to a number of very simple growing project You Tube videos for growing projects to do at home, outside or in the classroom.

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