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U5 Let’s Talk About Tomorrow, Today!

The daily life of an U5 pupil is always busy and this week was certainly no exception. Each year, the U5 pupils are offered personalised interviews with careers specialists to discuss their future higher education and potential employment trajectories. For the first time in SCHS history, the U5 careers interviews were conducted via Teams. For…

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SCHS Musicians Deliver Blockbuster Sadie Crawford Jazz Night

Main image: Sadie Crawford music scholar Adrianna, L5, accompanies herself on the piano and sings The Isley Brothers’ Harvest for the World Even though the music venues are shut, that did not stop our pupils bringing the famous Streatham Hideaway Club to SCHS. The pupils, yet again, have raised the bar, recreating the atmosphere of…

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Focus On Netball: Nurturing Every Player

By Mrs Sharron Lewis-Burke, Head of Netball Sport is my passion at all levels; I feel so lucky to work in this arena that I love. In 2016, I joined SCHS with a remit to put our Netball on the map. The girls at SCHS are always hungry for direction and structure in a sport…

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Focus on Art by Ms Rebecca Baker BA (Falmouth), PGCE Art

During the last few months, like everyone else, the Art Department has been managing as best as possible with whatever we have had available. This has certainly been something that I have often found myself saying to the girls I teach: "do the best that you can, with whatever you have to hand,". Artists are inventive,…

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FOCUS ON: Community

Neighbourhood Natter by Jess Telling L6 (Franklin) A Community & Partnerships Prefect Right now, it’s impossible to know exactly when social distancing will end. After conversations with my grandparents, I realised that their not knowing when they’ll be able to go out and see their family members in person again is a concern of theirs.…

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Focus on: A new type of Community

by Ellie McCollum L6 (Knights) A community & Partnerships Prefect As we have transitioned to Guided Home Learning, many co-curricular activities have been harder to complete. My Kinza activity at school is ‘Activ8’, where we take part in various different sports and challenges. I am still keeping up with my fitness at home, so for…

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Focus on Geography: Interesting Times and the New Normal

by Mr Andrew Doddridge BSc (UCL), PGCE Head of Geography As a student, sometime in early 1989, I remember idly chatting with a friend and naively stated how, as fully paid up members of Generation X, that we had missed the great events of history. Literally that weekend, a series of…

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Black Lives Matter: Why You Can’t Stay Silent, No Matter How Challenging

by Riva-Bleu Scott U5 (Knights) The time is now. The time to educate. The time to acknowledge. The time for change. The time for empathy. The time for black lives to matter, as they should have always mattered. We, as educated citizens in society, have the power to make changes in order for equity and…

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Focus on History: How do Today’s Circumstances Compare to Past Pandemics

by Mr David Lee, BA (Manchester), PGCE (Head of History and Politics) Commentators are quick to remind us that these are unprecedented times, before immediately reaching for precedents such as SARS, the Second World War, or more recently, swine flu for comparison. One of the first pandemics recorded in 541 was in Egypt, which did…