Good News from Duke’s – 7th February 2025

By Benjamin Curry11th February 2025

Jack Petchey Speak out Challenge

On Tuesday 5th February Roj in year 10 competed in the borough wide finals of the Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge. Roj took to the stage alongside a number of other students from Haringey schools to perform his speech. Roj spoke with clarity and enthusiasm and really represented Duke’s well. We’re all massively proud of him for braving the stage and showing real grit and determination. Well done also to Mr Avevor and the English team for their running of the Speak Out Challenge! 

 

Hardwick Hall History Trip

This week our year 11 History students got to visit the fantastic Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire. The visit was a rousing success with students able to see Elizabethan England brought to life in the surroundings of one of the country’s finest prodigy houses. Well done to Mr Broadbent and the History team for organising such a great trip. 

 

Sporting Success

It’s been a busy week for the PE team. Duke’s hosted two of the borough finals for Badminton as well as beating Alexandra Park school 2-1 at football. This is a great success and paves the way for more in the coming weeks! Will be good to see a Duke’s team in the final.. Fingers crossed. Well done to Mr Green and the whole PE team for their work this week. 

Good News from Duke’s – 31st January 2025

By Benjamin Curry4th February 2025

Poetry Live!

On Thursday 30th January the English department took 30 students to attend the prestigious ‘Poetry Live’ Workshop at the Victoria Apollo Theatre. 

Students were provided with key exam insights from GCSE examiners and enriched through live poetry performances from some of the nations best poets – Carol-Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage and John Agard. 

Thank you to everyone involved in supporting this trip and a big thank you to Mr Avevor and Ms Rodney for attending. 

 

Sports Leaders

The PE department in conjunction with Tottenham Hotspur have been running a sports leaders programme for our Year 7s for the past two years. On Tuesday 28th January our current year 7s completed their award and took part in the final session. 

A TV crew from Match of the Day as well as a Spurs Player visited the school to film our Sports Leaders delivering a Football session to draw attention and raise awareness of the power sport has to develop confidence, resilience and interpersonal skills. 

It was a fantastic experience for all involved. Well done to Mr Green and the PE department for making it happen. 

 

Linklaters Careers Insight Day – Year 9 

On Friday 24th February our year 9s got to experience their Careers Insight Day at Linklaters Law. The whole year group got to visit Linklaters offices in the City of London and took part in a range of exciting and interesting careers focused activities. 

Students also got to meet a number of employees of Linklaters and talk to them about their routes into their chosen professions. It was just about law – students found out about a number of other professions as well as being treated to a fantastic lunch! Thanks to Linklaters yet again for a great day.

Good News from Duke’s – 24th January 2025

By Benjamin Curry4th February 2025

Staying Safe Assemblies 

Insight Platform, a Haringey based organisation, were at Duke’s this week delivering assemblies to all students on the subject of staying safe. Students received information on the dangers of substance abuse as well as being taught about where they could go to get help. We always value working with local community organisations at Duke’s and the team from Insight Platform are no expectation. We are looking forward to our partnership growing in future months. 

 

Eastside Employability from Linklaters

Our partnership with Linklaters Law has continued this week with our newest cohort of year 10 students beginning the Eastside employability programme. The series of workshops and activities are aimed at driving up our students’ employability and look at future careers. The students have made a smashing start and the workshops have been very gratefully received.

Good News from Duke’s – 17th January 2025

By Benjamin Curry21st January 2025

Indoor Athletics

A huge well done to the year 8 athletics team and the PE department. On Thursday 16th January the PE department took 13 members of Year 8 to St Thomas More School for the annual Haringey Indoor Athletics Championships. Although they did not manage to come away with a podium finish against the other 9 schools they did show a lot of resilience, fight and competitive spirit and there were some outstanding performers.

Kimorae drove the girls team to participate and acted as assistant to Mr Green. She was also the standout performer in the girls relay.

Khyroe managed 3rd position in his 4 lap race and Clara who was the standout individual performer from the girls overall.

The team in full was: Khyroe, Javier, Guneyt, Judel, Nizae, Michael, Jordi, Kimorae, Chrisstanel, Makayla, Ava, Clara, Shamoya.

Well done to everyone involved. Next week it is the turn of our Year 7s!