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Morpeth Makes The News (March 10)
Readers of the London
Evening Standard will have seen the recent feature on how
the fortunes of Morpeth School have been turned around under
the guidance of its dedicated headteacher, Sir Alasdair
Macdonald.
What they may not have realised is that
three of the students pictured with him - Elliot Ferguson-Dillon,
Chloe Knight and An Tran are presently mentored under the
EBP's Business Mentoring scheme.
The three individuals who are helping these
students are: Bryan Labelle from Goldman Sachs, Ria Fletcher
of Deloitte and Caroline Hegarty, formerly with Deloitte.
We hope that they will all keep up
their good work and that Morpeth continues to flourish.
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Parental Involvement Programme Breaks
New Ground For Education Charity (1st March 10)
The TRS Foundation,
the charitable arm of the leading Asian foods company T.R
Suterwalla and Sons, (TRS) has just announced the three-year
funding of a new project that will help Bangladeshi and
parents from other minority ethnic groups become more involved
in their children's education.
Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership,
which runs a range of programmes to raise levels of aspiration
and achievement among young people in Tower Hamlets schools,
will manage the TRS Family Support Programme.
The scheme will offer parents a weekly
English lesson with free crèche facilities for their
pre school age children followed by an advice session where
they can find help on a range of issues including health,
housing, social benefits, healthy eating or drug awareness.
Research shows that children progress faster
with their learning if they receive support at home, especially
if they have a chance to practice reading and their English
conversation
The TRS Family Support Programme will run
in five local primary schools - Hermitage, Osmani, Culloden,
Marion Richardson and Stepney Greencoat.
Three tailored programmes will also run
at three schools that cater for pupils with special needs.
There will be a specialist parental support programme at
Stephen Hawking School and two enterprise-related projects
to help develop life skills for pupils at Phoenix and Beatrice
Tate schools.
A spokesman on behalf the TRS Foundation,
said: "Mr Taherally Rehmanji Suterwalla and his five
sons started TRS in Tower Hamlets and 50 years later the
family is delighted to be supporting future generations
to succeed."
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Web Page Skills Learned At Bishop Challoner
(Feb 10)
Bishop Challoner
Girls' lunch time Computer Partners club has been successfully
running for three years, supported by volunteers from the
Royal Bank of Scotland and Deloitte.
A different project is adopted each term
and the current task, creating websites using Serif WebPlus
software, is proving particularly popular. Pupils have each
chosen different subject areas for their sites which range
from shopping to websites about films.
Chris Field, one of the RBS volunteers
said: "The new term's project to create a website has
generated a lot of interest among the students. The opportunity
to create their own web design is really stimulating great
ideas and is very enjoyable. I'm sure that the students
will find the skills and planning techniques extremely useful
in their future studies."
His sentiments are echoed by Mr Rahat,
Head of the ICT Faculty at Bishop Challoner: "Students
have learnt why we need websites and how best to create
them for a particular purpose. They appreciate that we are
in the digital era and are contributing their input and
expertise which is developed at Computer Partners.
"These sessions are extremely
valuable as they allow the ICT department to develop ideas
and test them as well students getting firsthand experience
of new topics which are exciting yet challenging."
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Student's Work Experience Initiative
Pays Off (Feb 10)
When Ace Global Markets
hosted a group of Bethnal Green Technology College students
on a Take Our Students to Work Day last year, one young
man, in particular, paid great attention.
Come the time when his work experience
placement was due, Abdi Mohamed remembered Ace and promptly
contacted the company to see if they could help. The result
was an opportunity for him to spend a week finding out more
about the insurance market.
"I was particularly impressed with
Abdi's initiative and enthusiasm following the Take Our
Students to Work Day. He kept the business card he was given
and he used it to make contact with us," said Kirat
Nandra who arranged for Abdi's placement, the first of this
kind that Ace has offered to a student. "He is a really
bright boy, asks lots of questions and has good aspirations."
Abdi had the chance to shadow a different
product line each day, went on visits to two broking houses
and to Lloyd's. "I've been interested in business for
a long time because my sister is studying law," he
said. "It's good here. I've learned how all the different
bits of insurance are divided up whereas on the TV, all
you hear about is car insurance.
"I've made lots of notes because,
at the end, it's good to tell people what you have learned."
Ace personnel were keen that Abdi
see as much of the business as possible and be treated as
a normal member of staff - except for one special treat.
He was taken home in a chauffeur-driven car on two occasions.
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Oaklands Students Are Learning Japanese
(5th Feb 10)
Keen students from
Oaklands School, Bethnal Green are learning Japanese thanks
to a flourishing partnership with global investment bank,
Nomura.
A Japanese Club began this term and meets
at lunchtime every fortnight. The club gives Japanese speaking
Nomura employees an opportunity to share with the students
their love of the language and culture. After only three
sessions, the students already have a grasp of some basic
phrases.
Tomoko Richards is one of half a dozen
Nomura volunteers who signed up for the initiative. She
said: "I have been interested in doing something for
young people since having my daughter two years ago. As
I am Japanese I wanted to utilise my skill and also thought
it would be useful to learn a little about the English school
system which I have not experienced myself. It has been
exciting to participate in this Japanese Club and to see
the students being so enthusiastic to learn a totally different
language and culture"
Year 10 students, Tamvir Tuhin and Fahim
Khan are already fans of one aspect of Japanese culture.
"We are really keen on Anime (animation) and thought
it would be good to learn a bit more about its origins and
the country it came from."
The Oaklands partnership with Nomura has
an interesting history. For more than 10 years, the school
enjoyed a successful relationship with Lehman Brothers with
the two parties introduced by Tower Hamlets Education Business
Partnership. When Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, Nomura
acquired parts of the European and Asian business and was
very keen to continue the partnership.
Nomura and Oaklands now enjoy a number
of joint activities. Nomura's Global Head of Recruitment
and Programmes, Malcolm Horton, sits on the school's governing
body, 70 employee volunteers support students with reading,
maths, science and modern foreign languages. There are work
experience placements, revision classes and visits to Nomura's
offices and partner organisations. Students from Oaklands
will have an opportunity to put their new language skills
to the test when they visit Tokyo this spring on a planned
trip.
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Term Dates 2009/2010
| Term
Dates 2009 / 2010 |
| Start |
Half
Term |
End |
|
WINTER TERM
Tuesday
1st September 09
|
26th - 30th October 09
|
Friday
18th December 09
|
|
SPRING TERM
Monday
4th January 10
|
15th - 19th February 10
|
Thursday
1st April 10
|
SUMMER TERM
Monday
19th April 10 |
31st May - 4th June 10 |
Friday 23rd July 10 |
| Term
Dates 2010 / 2011 |
WINTER TERM
Thursday
2 September 2010 |
25th - 29th October 2010 |
Wednesday
22nd December 2010 |
SPRING TERM
Tuesday
4 January 2011 |
21st - 25th February 2011 |
Friday
8th April 2011 |
|
SUMMER TERM
Tuesday
26th April 2011
|
30th May - 3rd June 2011
|
Friday
22nd July 2011
|
* Please note that these term dates
are guidelines issued by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Some schools may vary these dates slightly.
