coordinator for the Partnership to add resource and focus to the programme of activities. The Directors talk regularly to the Heads and Link Teachers of all the schools about what they and the pupils most want from SSLP in the future and about how it can make the greatest impact on the greatest number of the young people in Southwark. There are two further aspirations for 2018. Firstly, to actively encourage each of the schools to hold at least one SSLP event during the course of the year, for either students or teachers; and secondly, to see the introduction of a student leadership body who will play a part in directing what we do.
The SSLP facilitated over 60 activities in the last academic year (2016/17) with two particular highlights:
featuring Year 7 and 8 pupils from five schools across the partnership, with varying levels of experience, and joined by Dan Ludford Thomas (our Head of Singing) and Pete Mitchell (Absolute Radio Presenter). It was jointly arranged by Dulwich College and Kingsdale School, and the celebration of the human voice benefited from Kingsdale’s excellent facilities. Students worked with singing coaches and a guest musician before putting on a performance at the end of the afternoon.
God & the Big Bang , which gave GCSE and A level students an exciting opportunity to debate the compatibility of science and faith. Hosted at St Saviour’s and St Olave’s, students gathered for a keynote talk from Professor John Bryant, who has spent much of his career investigating DNA and genes, in relation to his own faith and to science.
SSLP Glee was a day-long musical extravaganza
In addition to student-focused events such as these, there is also an increased number of joint Continuing Professional Development sessions for our teachers.
The success of 2016/17 has encouraged three new schools to join the partnership. We’re particularly delighted that SSLP now includes City Heights E-ACT Academy, just over the border in Lambeth, with which the College enjoys a rich educational partnership and, in July, co-organised a Modern Languages Conference ‘Modern Languages and the Road Ahead’, opened by the MP for Dulwich and West Norwood, Helen Hayes.
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