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Book Club: How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi

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Book Club: How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi

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Collaborating to provide an innovative and more joined up curriculum.

Meeting One: Curriculum collaboration - Skills progression

Meeting Two: Curriculum collaboration - Content progression

Meeting Three: One of the following: Learning Visits, Lesson Study, Action Research.

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It's time to question your best.

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Why do we need to develop metacognition in our planning and assessment?

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Being Fearless. Kevin Stannard, Cat Scutt, Paull Redford and Sarah Horrocks.

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Lewisham Teacher network Hub: Next meeting 3rd October 4.15-6.00pm "Closing the gap for the most disadvantaged"

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How fearless are you? Learning should feel uncomfortable, we expect our girls to challenge themselves, take risks and fear nothing but we too must model that behaviour. Share your fearlessness below.

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Like to know more about coaching? The Prep school have implemented the SPIRE model. Coaching  conversations are taking place around the Prep school with clusters of ‘coaching corners’ in the Prep School playground. If interested sign your name below.

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Since returning to school after the Christmas break we have been working on launching coaching conversations as a strategy for empowering pupils to take responsibility for challenging situations in which they may find themselves. Our focus for the term is HAPPINESS and in recent assemblies and circle times we have been exploring the power and responsibility we have all have for our happiness.

We have considered the reality that life is not a constant; we all must deal with highs and lows, bumps in the road and take the rough with the smooth. Coaching conversations help individuals truly understand what the problem they are dealing with is, identify the options available to addressing it, consider the impact of not taking any action and then commit to making a change. These conversations provide space to explore an issue deeply and without judgement from the coach.

Following a staff training focus on coaching and its merits in school, two year 6 pupils, Saskia and Amy, have been trained by Mrs Mitchell Morgan as our first Kid Coaches. Using a bespoke model entitled SPIRE which was devised by Prep School, these pupils are ready to conduct simple coaching conversations with willing peers. On Wednesday Saskia and Amy presented an assembly to the rest of Prep School in which they shared their learning and advocacy for the coaching conversation model. One of the highlights of the assembly was the screening of a video of a coaching conversation they both participated in recently.

Over the coming weeks we will be training up more year 6 Kid Coaches to spread the SPIRE model of coaching conversations around the school with the ultimate aim of establishing a cluster of 'coaching corners' in the Prep School playground. We will also share sample coaching conversations in the weekly bulletin alongside some resources for families to use at home if they wish.

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Prep School train to be Kid Coaches | Sydenham High School

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Since returning to school after the Christmas break we have been working on launching coaching conversations as a strategy for empowering pupils to take responsibility for challenging situations in which they may find themselves. Our focus for the term is HAPPINESS and in recent assemblies and circle times we have been exploring the power and ...

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Our triads are a way in which we can form a more collaborative and reflective learning journey for both us as staff and our students.
Please share your experiences so far here!

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Why we need to talk about talking.

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Bring your lunch and come to one of our Learning Streams. This term's Stream is led by Ms Graham on Growth Mindset.

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Book Club
"The Secret of Literacy" by David Didau

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Book Club
"The Secret of Literacy" by David Didau

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Join our book club to really address how we make the implicit explicit from Prep through to sixth form.

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Zoe Elder's "Full on Creative Thinking"
Join our book club to consider how we can further engage and inspire our students within and beyond the classroom.

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Visit the Prep school to find out how to make the most of an outdoor learning environment.

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Lunchtimes this week were bursting with fun and excitement thanks to the new Performing Arts initiative spearheaded by Mrs Spence and Mr Welch. Original pieces devised by pupils in year 5 and year 6 were performed in the Outdoor Classroom to a big audience of Prep School pupils.

Inspired by their Autumn Term CONNECT+ topics Chocolate and Kensuke's Kingdom, pupils took to the stage to perform as part of our Playwrights of the Cocoa Bean and Playwrights of the Caribbean competition.

Pupils in the audience not only offered support to the performers but completed motivational play reviews of each production.

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Playwrights of the Caribbean | Sydenham High School

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Lunchtimes this week were bursting with fun and excitement thanks to the new Performing Arts initiative spearheaded by Mrs Spence and Mr Welch. Original pieces devised by pupils in year 5 and year 6 were performed in the Outdoor Classroom to a big audience of Prep School pupils.