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On Monday evening 6 BLC primary schools and years 7 and 8 from Evelyn Grace Academy took part in the annual EGA Spelling Bee, hosted by Evelyn Grace Academy. As always the competition was fierce and the standard of spelling very high, as the young people competed in quick fire, relay and last man standing rounds. After a nail biting finish in Last Man standing, both spellers from St John’s Angell Town and Christ Church Primary SW9 were awarded 10 team points. The final primary cup winners were St John’s Angell Town Primary. Bronze, Silver and Gold awards went to star spellers in Evelyn Grace year 7s and 8s with an over all winner coming from year 8. Every year the competitors show great concentration under pressure. Many thanks to all the staff in Evelyn Grace Academy, St Saviour’s Primary, Stockwell Primary, Jessop Primary, St John’s Angell Town Primary, Loughborough Primary and Christ Church Primary SW9 for making the event, to the parents for supporting the children and of course to all the participants for their excellent work. Looking forward to next year.

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On 10th June, groups of children from four of our primary schools were hosted by Jessop Primary School in a morning of team sports and skills, led by Jessop’s sports coach and supported by Evelyn Grace Academy young sports leaders. The children enjoyed a number of different challenges in mixed school groups. This has been 1 of several joint BLC events covering a range of subject areas over the year, and we hope to run a similar schedule of events together in 2015-16

Over the last 2 weeks, teachers from across our cluster of schools have been meeting together to jointly moderate writing, particularly looking at case studies of children whose work they judge as at Age Related Expectations. The groups used the new National Curriculum goals against which to check their judgements together. This has proved a thoroughly worthwhile exercise and teachers are now compiling a folder of exemplars of work jointly considered at ARE, together with explanations for their judgements, for other teachers to use in their practice. Having actual samples of children’s writing for use by teachers should prove an invaluable source. Teachers commented "Very useful. I found this session excellent – it reassured me in my own assessment ability"; "Really useful to share examples of work with other year 3 teachers, to discuss composition, see different sequences of work and see how other schools plan and assess". We aim to do a similar exercise looking at year 4 writing in the Autumn. Many thanks to all the schools who took part: Hill Mead Primary, Stockwell Primary, Jessop Primary, St John’s Angell Town Primary, St Saviour’s Primary, Loughborough Primary.

Lots of activities for families to enjoy together this weekend in and around London.

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11th June was a busy day of music making for the BLC. Pegasus Opera company were working with year 6s at St John Divine Primary School, devising an opera on the theme of transition to secondary school. In the first few hours of the project, the children had already written verses for their first number about some of the things they were going to miss about primary school – including all the sports they do, the friendships they have made and…. chicken at lunchtime! They had learnt the chorus and started work on the choreography. One group wrote about their memories throughout their time at school: Miss Powell, their year 6 teacher, taught this same group of children when they were in Nursery and told me how proud she was to have seen them grow and develop. Jai and Nick, the Pegasus Opera practitioners asked for the highest standards of performance from the children – unison movement, clear words, projected voices. Looking forward to seeing the final piece. Later that afternoon, St Gabriel’s College hosting their annual Big Sing celebration – 5 cluster schools sang their hearts out expertly conducted by Karen Gibson and her team of excellent choir trainers in gospel repertoire. Congratulations to St John’s Angell Town, St John Divine, Christ Church SW9, Jessop and of course St Gabriel’s College for some wonderful performances.
We are very fortunate to have such a wealth of musically talented young people within our cluster.
Jenny Smith, Partnership Manager

Yesterday the BLC Partnership Manager met with Christ Church Primary and Lucia Vinzon from IRMO (the Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organisation), following Christ Church’s recent successful bid for funding to support Spanish and Portuguese families in their school. The new Kickstart project at Christ Church will include interpreters being available at parents evening, supporting parents on the Save the Children FAST programme and helping parents finding their way around welfare and social issues in the local area. IRMO are also starting up 2 new projects in Brixton for Latin American women, helping with education, employment and empowerment. We are pleased to be working in partnership with IRMO to support our local community.

Pop up parks have set up a few sites around the borough over the summer. All Parks promote play for children under 5 but welcome all ages and run between 10.00am – 4.00pm

For more information visit http://popupparks.org.uk/

More family activities to enjoy together this weekend.

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Low Cost no cost flyer no 127 June 2015.docx