Dulwich continues to act as an educational partner to City Heights E-ACT Academy, which opened in September 2013. The aim is to provide support for the Academy’s educational work but also to establish links and activities which benefit both schools through shared experience and good practice. The relationship between the Academy and the College is a strong one and has developed significantly over the last year, ahead of the Academy moving to KS4 in September 2016, with a particular focus on timetabled Liberal Studies afternoons to run enrichment classes. The College offers considerable financial, administrative and practical support to the Southwark Community Education Council (SCEC), a charitable trust which, in the College’s case, provides a Saturday School experience for some 80 students in Year 6 from eleven participating state primaries in the borough of Southwark, assisting them in making a confident transition to secondary school through Mathematical Problem-Solving, Science, English, Drama and Technology and Media workshops.
The College continues to play a significant part in the work of Southwark Schools Learning Partnership (SSLP), a scheme involving ten schools – seven from the maintained sector and the three Dulwich Foundation Schools – which runs a series of projects for students and joint CPD for staff. Over the last year the College has hosted events such as the second Liberty Schools’ Conference for sixth formers; Drama workshops on ‘How to Write about Theatre?’ led by theatre critic Mark Fisher; and the five-month project Variations on a Theme, during which the artist and sculptor Peter Randall Page RA worked with sixth-form students from the College and the Charter School. The College has also collaborated with Dulwich Picture Gallery and Mystart/ Film Aid International on an exhibition of works produced by young refugees in North West Kenya, which inaugurated a series of workshops for SSLP students. Boys’ involvement in Community Service has a considerable profile in the College and is recognised in the award of community service ties at the end of
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