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The Mixture As Before

This Spring Term, as always, has involved a number of important events in our students' lives, including the Sixth-Form Options Evening and the Year 9 Options Evening, at which we 'put out our wares' to better assist our students in making what may be life-affecting choices. Although school life is in many ways all about routines and continuity, we always attempt to bring a fresh eye to both our curriculum offers and the ways in which we try to help and advise students at what can be an anxious time for them.

As I have mentioned before, we are constantly looking for ways to keep parents better informed about events and of attendance and punctuality concerns. With this in mind, we are looking to update our current web-site and to further promote the use of our MLE (managed learning environment) - particularly with the prospect of parental online reporting, scheduled for launch in September of this year, in mind.We will also be using the website to regularly update you on developments in the BSF in a new dedicated section - more of which on another occasion.

Finally, with (I hope) the worst winter weather behind us, I look forward to spring and what it represents - growth, renewal and an emphasis on the positive; a sentiment that will be shared by many, I'm sure!

News about News!

Recently, our students had a fantastic day under the direction of Ms Hartley, conducting some well structured interviews, generating some great ideas and producing some impressive news reports – all in preparation for a forthcoming appearance on the BBC News School Report website. Technical hitches apart, this was a tremendous learning experience for all and bodes well for the ‘big day’. Click on the link below to find out more and to see ACS students featured on the schools report section for 4th February. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/school_report/8497617.stm

Choice Events!

In recent weeks we have hosted two of our key annual events - the Sixth-Form Options Evening and the Year 9 Options Evening, at which students were able to explore the curriculum options on offer for next academic year. If you want to see more details of the Year 9 Options, why not download a copy of the booklet from the Downloads section of this site?

Building Schools

A little while ago we told you about the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project and gave you an outline of our broad expectations in respect of transforming learning, empowering young people, reaching families and communities and contributing to the regeneration of the area.

We anticipate that this will be all more achievable with brand new buildings especially designed with our learning vision in mind and with the new school a central part of the regeneration of the whole Alperton area. Because of the importance of this major project, we know you will want to be kept up to date with developments as they happen and so, in future, we will be devoting a dedicated area of this site to BSF. Look out for our special BSF area in the next few weeks.

Alperton's Night of Celebration

Earlier this half-term, we celebrated our students' success on an occasion in which Year 10s,11s and 6th Formers came together to receive a range of certificates - including, in addition to those for subject achievement, special awards for volunteering, an ICT excellence award from ICT specialists GamCom and the Ernst Friedlander Award. The evening also saw the inception of a new award, the Bryn Carden Award. We were delighted to welcome special guests Ricky Anderson, ex-Alperton student and professional cricketer, Dawn Butler, MP for Brent South and newly appointed Minister for Youth Engagement, Govind Gami, executive of GamCom and a governor and Johnny Kyriacou, the Learning Progress Leader of the A-level students receiving certificates and now a Senior Teacher in a neighbouring school. We also welcomed Mike Heiser, our Chair of Governors. You can see pictures from the event in our Winter edition of Buzz magazine, downloadable from this site.

21st Century Education - How does it affect you?

On 30 June 2009 Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families Ed Balls wrote to heads, teachers, governors and support staff following the publication of the White Paper Your child, your schools, our future: building a 21st century schools system. To learn more about what he had to say, just click on the fopllowing link http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/21stcenturyschoolssystem/. Alternatively, you could download the PDF file from this website (see top-right corner of this page.) Return here for further updates on the Children's Plan and other aspects of the June White Paper.

Parent Governors

We have two vacancies for Parent Governor at the moment. If any parent is interested in knowing more about this role or standing for election as a Parent Governor, they should contact the clerk to the governors via the school. If you wish to stand for election please write a short statement explaining what you have to offer and why you would like to be a governor and submit it by January 4th 2010. Should there be more nominations than vacancies an election will be held early in the Spring TermPutting Children at the Centre!

Parent Surgery

All parents should be aware that I run my parent surgery every Wednesday from 4-6pm and I look forward to meeting you there if you have anything you wish to discuss or suggest (no appointment necessary). In January this will be at the Lower School site and it is currently at the upper school.

M.Rafee