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Recycle Pens and Crisp Packets at School!

We have set up two new fantastic recycling initiatives to offer opportunities for pupils and families to get involved. Recycling crisp packets Crisp packets are an item that cannot be recycled in your usual recycling bins at home. We are...

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Eco Reps Promote a Healthy Global Community

Pupils have written our SCHS Eco School Code 'Help protect biodiversity and create a healthy global community'. Since watching David Attenborough's Extinction documentary, many pupils have expressed a wish to do more to mitigate the predicted biodiversity loss and climate...

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Bike-It!

Pupils enjoy a weekly afternoon bike ride offered to girls every week as part of our Kinza co-curricular programme. Active modes of transport are great for the individual's well-being as well as for the local community and our environment. After...

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Climate Week

Our girls are committed to tackling climate change on many levels. From letter-writing campaigns to our politicians around the climate strike, to eliminating single-use plastic and introducing Meat-Free Mondays, pupils work together with staff to make impactful changes from grassroots...

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Trees for Peace

To mark the International Day of Peace, we planted a pear tree on 21st September We invited the local community to join us to mark World Peace Day by planting a pear tree near the epitaph in front of the...

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The Big Pedal: 25th March – 5th April

Get set… we’re taking part in Sustrans Big Pedal 2019, the UK’s largest inter-school cycling, walking and scooting challenge. Each day for two weeks, schools compete to see who can record the greatest number of pupils, staff and parents cycling,...

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Youth Travel Ambassadors win!

A dedicated team of 12 SCHS pupils, aged 11-15, presented their campaign to promote cycling, walking and road safety to a panel of judges, including reps from TfL and Lambeth Council. The girls (pictured) took park in a Dragons’ Den-style...

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Upcyling Fair – Record amount raised for charity

Every year, the Lower 5th, as part of the School’s Careers Programme, are tasked with working as a team to design, market and create a product from scratch that they will be able to sell in a 30 minute window....

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Over 100 cycle spaces

We have increased our cycle parking to over 100 spaces As part of our commitment to active transport and enhancing the local environment, we have increased our cycle parking to over 100 spaces and plan to expand this provision further...