Four borough event for John Lyon’s Charity project

Cross-borough Networking Event – 25.2.2014

The second cross-borough networking event hosted by the NRCSE was a great success. Supplementary Schools from John Lyon’s Charity funded boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Camden and Westminster came together on 25^th February to share good practice workshops with each other.

This was the second in a series of seminars which focused on teaching and learning in community schools. Jim Anderson (Title) from Goldsmith’s University was the keynote speaker and highlighted the challenges and opportunities for teaching community languages in Key Stage 2. Changes in the National Curriculum from September 2014 could be seen as a major opportunity for supplementary schools already teaching community languages and stressed the importance of working in collaboration with mainstream schools as a way forward in developing teaching programmes and resources.

After the main speaker the supplementary schools contributed fully to the 3 workshops which they also facilitated themselves. Shahla White from Rustam led the workshop on Tracking Pupil Progress, Emily Beckwith from Paiwand led on Supporting Teachers and Jihan Salah from Al-Ola Arabic School held an interactive session on Using Innovative Resources. They all shared good practice, exchanged ideas and talked about they work they do reflecting the high standards that is a key feature of so many supplementary schools.