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Last Friday talented artists from Loughborough, Christ Church SW9, St John’s Angell Town and Jessop Primary schools got together to spend a day exploring a range of art techniques and skills. The day took place at Christ Church, led by Hannah Littlejones, Christ Church Primary’s specialist art teacher, making full use of Christ Church’s facilities – a dedicated art room and outdoor learning areas as Lambeth’s lead Forest School. The children started their day in the Forest School learning area, collecting natural materials and exploring sun printing. They used their materials to create clay moulds and tiles, having looked at the work of William de Morgan. They explored the work of Gillian Ayres, producing simple books in which they displayed their colour mixing and experimentation with colour shades, as well as having fun mixing colour using the potters wheel. They also produced fabulous textile wall hangings, based on an African Admire cloth technique, using resist and stencil techniques. The focus of the children, who worked in mixed school groups, was excellent and enabled the children to produce a vast of amount of high standard work. Huge thanks goes the the staff who accompanied, encouraged and worked with the children for the day, also making sure that all the children played together happily in the break times. It is hoped this work can be displayed locally in the future. We are now planning a day of practical Science with a focus on Chemistry in November, for all those budding scientists in our cluster.

Evelyn Grace Academy are hosting new adult learning courses this Autumn, delivered by Morley College. Come and hear more this Thursday 2nd October 6 – 8pm at Evelyn Grace Academy. You will be made very welcome.

On Tuesday 16th September organisations and interested parties throughout Lambeth came together in Lambeth Town Hall to discuss how to support people currently in low paid jobs to move on to better pay and build careers.

Research shows 570,000 Londoners have been stuck in low pay for at least a year and the number in low pay has increased significantly over the last five years. There is some limited evidence about what works in supporting people to move out of low-paid work, but to date there has been little focus on developing progression programmes that help people to earn more, gain more secure employment and develop a career ladder.

Walcot Foundation, Trust for London, The Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion, LVSC and Timewise Foundation organised this event because they believe there is a need to share and generate ideas and strategies about how to support people out of low-paid work.

This was the largest event of its kind so far in UK, and a number of ideas were generated.
At the BLC we hope to hold workshops in our schools have given information to parents about organisations who can support them, if they are in this situation and would like help in work progression.
Please contact the Partnership Manager at BLC if you would like more information.

Activities that are free or at low cost for families to enjoy in London this weekend.

Low Cost no cost flyer No 96 September 2014.docx

Parents and carers in Lambeth are warmly invited to an event in West Norwood, organised by the Norwood Food Bank, signposting services for Lambeth families. Coffee and lunch will be served. Here is the flyer about the event.
14 08 26 Signposting flier food bank.pdf

There are lots of activities happening in and around London this summer for families to enjoy. As we approach the end of term, we wish everyone in our schools’ community a happy and fun packed summer break.
Low Cost no cost flyer No 94 July 2014.docx

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.