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Following our reviews, planning and training sessions at the start of term, our artist practitioners have started their school visits where they are supporting class teachers to deliver the arts to their classes. It has been noticeable how teachers have quickly taken on their new art forms this term, having worked with different art forms last term. Topics have ranged from using Music to write songs on the Vikings and the Romans, creating drama stories about the Great Fire of London, creating a soundscape of an African market, making Abstract Art inspired by Paul Klee and Sonia Delaunay and creating Egyptian neck pieces. Our schools are committed to supporting their teachers to nurture children’s creativity and use the Arts across the curriculum.

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On Tuesday evening members of our EYFS forum visited the Work and Play Scrapstore in Tooting to use their fantastic resources, meet the team there and get inspirational ideas for things to make with recycled materials. The Scrapstore is a charity that takes materials that would otherwise go to landfill and offers a scheme whereby community groups and schools can have them to use. The team of volunteers at Scrapstore sort through vast amounts of paper, wood, materials, glue, paint, craft materials, plastics – a myriad of things to inspire projects in schools. We are pleased to be members of this fantastic resource bank.

On Wednesday last week, school councils from Jessop, Stockwell, St Saviour’s and The Michael Tippett school came together for a morning of debate, action planning and presenting, facilitated by Team London volunteers working on the WE London project. Many thanks to Jessop Primary for hosting this lively event. To start the morning, students from The Michael Tippett School presented their work last term as Eco Warriers. Members of the school council at Michael Tippett have become experts in how to sort and recycle in school and they do checks within school to make sure it is done correctly. We hope they will be able to train other school councils to spread their knowledge and good work. The whole group then looked at ways they could make a difference to tackle Homelessness and Food Poverty. Children came up with slogans for their campaigns. Students at St Saviour’s had already written to the Mayor to ask for free Oyster cards for the homeless and those in need to help them access the facilities at Brixton Soup Kitchen. Children discussed how they could raise awareness, fundraise and lobby politicians to make a difference. Next term we hope some of our schools can take part in WE London’s global campaign to get better water in parts of the world who need it. Thanks to everyone who took part, their enthusiastic staff, Jessop primary and Team London.

This week St Gabriel’s College hosted the first workshop for year 5 BLC primary school pupils in preparation for our annual Science Fair, due to take place on 27th March. Pupils from St John Divine, Loughborough, St Saviour’s and Christ Church SW9 worked with year 9s and the Science staff at St Gabriel’s in their fully equiped labs in the college’s new building. Over the course of 4 workshops the children will come up with their own experiments, test them and prepare to present them at the fair. More children will take part after half term.

Lots of activities for families to get involved with this weekend.

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As we approach the end of term, its an opportunity to highlight some of the opportunities staff and children have taken part in this term, as part of the Brixton Learning Collaborative.First we have had a number of meetings for staff across our schools – for Heads, Deputies, Year group meetings for years 1 through to 6, SENCOs, EYFS staff, School Business Managers and RE leads. Thanks to all the staff who have participated and shared their practice across the cluster this term.
We are delighted that younger children have been able to attend performances of String Theatre’s production of the Red Balloon at Longfield Hall by Myatts Fields Park. Nursery and Reception children from Christ Church Primary, Loughborough Primary and St Saviour’s Primary have all taken part. Older children from Jessop and St John’s Angell Town have also seen the production of Snow White at the Oval House Theatre. We are looking forward to working more with Oval House as they get ready for their move to Brixton in 2019, including after school drama opportunities for St Gabriel’s and Evelyn Grace Academy.
The South Bank Centre hosted our steering group at the beginning of term, together with a visit to the Hayward Gallery exhibition Shape Shifters. Since then our schools have visited the South Bank for gamelan workshops, storywriting INSET and the start of a 3 year programme of Arts support for St Saviour’s and St John Divine Primaries.
Half term saw 2 terrific performances from St John’s Angell Town year 5 children, joining local choirs and performers from Pegasus Opera in Windrush celebrations at Brixton Library and Town Hall.
Our 2 year programme of Teacher Development, Confident Creators, funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, has been delivered 4 training sessions for participating teachers together with 15 visits to schools from our artistic team which includes Pegasus Opera and visual artist Liz Atkin. In addition the Partnership Manager has met and worked with colleagues from 5 other Paul Hamlyn Funded projects across the country all working to embed the Arts in the Primary Curriculum.
Our girls football training sessions were kindly hosted by the Powerleague team at The Black Prince Trust community hub. Girls were coached by by staff from Archbishop Sumner and St John’s Angell Town Primaries and we look forward to getting a girls’ football league started in the Spring.
The New Year will see a continuation of many programmes and staff meetings, as well as primary hockey matches, our Science Fair hosted by St Gabriel’s College, a STEM expo event hosted by Effra Nursery for all ages and a Team London event for school councils.
Thanks to all our schools for supporting each other over the last few busy months and we wish everyone a very happy Christmas and New Year.

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