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Haringey Police Liaison Assemblies

Students at Duke’s have been welcomed back to assemblies this week delivered by the Haringey Police Liaison team. The assemblies detailed information to students on how to stay safe as well as the legality of certain situations. Many thanks to PC Fontana for delivering these engaging and informative assemblies. 

Christmas Lunch

A huge thank you and well done to the catering team at Duke’s for their fabulous Christmas lunch in the final week of the autumn term. On Thursday the 19th December Duke’s celebrated in style with a festive lunch and music provided by the steel pan group. Well done to the music department and students involved in this plus Ms Danso for a great piece of festive entertainment!

Linklaters Art Fund

We had a fabulous end to the calendar year at Duke’s with our partners at Linklaters. Earlier in the year the team at Linklaters got in touch to say they would be selling off some of their artworks and would like the proceeds to go to the art department at Duke’s. We were stunned last week to be presented with a cheque for over £29,000!

This money will be used for new art initiatives in the new year and our wider Expressive Arts team are very excited to find ways in which this money can help and support our students with their artistic endeavours. Such a generous gift and a brilliant way to end the end!

The Linklaters team also laid on a festive celebration for our staff which was very warmly received. We’re looking forward to continuing our relationship at Linklaters in the new new year 

Christmas Hampers

Huge thank you and well done this week to Ms Gordan Smith and her team who helped coordinate our annual Christmas Hamper delivery to a local church. The students and staff who set this up really made a difference to the lives of some in the local community at this time – a very worthwhile cause. Thanks again to Ms Gordan Smith, Ms Harrison at the team.

Linklaters Careers Focus Day – Year 11 

On Friday 6th December we had the first of our ‘careers focus’ days for the year. Year 11 students got the opportunity to visit Linklaters Law (one of our biggest partnership organisations) and spend the day getting to know the legal profession whilst also completing a networking masterclass. The students also had the opportunity to find out more about a number of different professions. 

A whole year group trip is no mean feat and the students all engaged in the day brilliantly. Huge thanks to all the tutors who helped support the day. 

BookBuzz!

We’ve been delighted to have the ‘Bookbuzz’ scheme in our school again this year. THe library and reading team have been busy giving our free books to lots of our students in years 7 and 8 this week – seeing students reading in tutor time and around the building has been brilliant! 

Year 11 College Application Day

On Thursday 12th December our year 11s got to take part in their ‘college application day’ – a day for them to find out more about post 16 providers and start to make choices on their next steps. Students had presentations from a number of local sixth forms and colleges and had the opportunity to start writing their applications. Huge thanks to Ms Gardner who helped organise the day.