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Inner Spark 

This week Alain from ‘Inner Spark’ visited Duke’s to deliver workshops on Resilience and knowing yourself. His workshops were really well received and students found his words exhilarating and empowering. Alain himself was born and raised in Bruce Grove so it was great to have him back at Duke’s in Tottenham delivering his messages. 

College Applications

It’s that time of year again where our year 11 students turn their thoughts to next steps. Our year 11 cohort had presentations from local colleges and then time in tutor groups with their tutors to start completing their applications. Every Duke’s year 11 student is expected to complete three applications to ensure they have plenty of choice when GCSE results day happens! Good luck to all our year 11 students. 

Festive Fun

We’re all very much looking forward to next week with lots of festive activities planned for the final week of term including: Christmas jumper day, Festive lunch, Christmas assemblies and also our very first ‘winter wonderland’ here at Duke’s!

Loudspeaker – Year 10 Workshops 

On Friday 5th December ‘Loudspeaker’ came to Duke’s to deliver a full day of workshops for year 10s on aspiration and character. The presenters were incredibly engaging and themed their work around ‘knowing yourself’ and next steps – a brilliant example of our Connect work in action. 

Employability Programme 

This week our year 10 employability group graduated from their programme with a final trip to Linklaters. They presented to a panel of employees from Linklaters and received amazing feedback on their work. They committed 100% to the programme and showed professionalism and tenacity. 

Football

Duke’s hosted Gladesmore this week for a year 9 football fixture. The result was a 3-3 draw but amazing goals from Romareo and Jeremiah. As ever our Duke’s team put in an amazing performance and showed fantastic team work and sportsmanship.

Music Concert

On the 27th November Duke’s hosted the Haringey borough Music hub concert. It was a huge success with a great turnout and some fantastic performances. Well done to the music department and all involved in the concert.

Linklaters Y7 Careers Day, Challenge Mentoring & Employability 

This week our whole year 7 cohort got to visit Linklaters Law as part of our Aldridge connect activity (Professional skills day). Students were able to experience what it is like working in a magic circle law firm and also understand more about the world of work. 

Experiences like this are invaluable for our students and we were delighted that the whole year group was able to participate in activities all around what it means to be ‘professional’ – students learnt that a law firm doesn’t just employ lawyers there are multiple other professions and job opportunities that will be open to them in the future.

Alongside the career focus day for year 7, a group of year 10s began their graduation from the Employability Skills programme offered by Linklaters. A group of students took part in mock interviews this week at the offices in central London. They’ll be completing presentations next week. 

The year 7 challenge mentoring programme also continued this week. So it’s been a hugely busy week for our partnership with Linklaters. 

Stubbers Outwood Bound Activity Trip

This week our PE department took the year 11 GCSE PE cohort to Stubbers outdoor activity centre. Canoeing, climbing and archery were the order of the day with the students having an amazing time in the great outdoors. Mr Green and the rest of the PE department worked incredibly hard to make the trip a success. After a very early start the students really enjoyed themselves and learnt an awful lot!

African Drumming 

The music department this week hosted an amazing African drumming workshop – an excellent way for our students to participate in music making and experience culture. 

Ex-Year 11 Certificate Evening

We were delighted to welcome back our ex-year 11 pupils this week to collect their GCSE certificates. It was wonderful to see some familiar faces now thriving in their post 16 environments and fantastic to hear from them all about what new and exciting endeavours they have been up to!

“The Prime Agency” Workshops

This week students were treated to a fantastic workshop by “The Prime Agency”. The engaging and exciting workshop gave students insight into mental health and managing emotions through the medium of theatre and performance. The workshops were a great moment for our students. 

Assemblies with Steven Browne Foundation 

This week also saw assemblies delivered by the Steven Browne foundation on the theme of Anti Bullying. Students were treated to a fantastic interactive assembly on the themes of looking out for each other and reporting bullying. Overall the assemblies were brilliantly well received. 

E Sports – Tottenham Hotspur Visit

A really lucky group of year 7 students this week also got to go to the Tottenham Stadium and meet a player! None other than Xavi Simmonds was on hand to give information and advice to our young people on professional football and what it is like playing for one of the UK’s top clubs!