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Best in Class!

Let me start by welcoming back all members of the school community to what, I feel sure, will be another exceptional year of progress and what better place to start than with our students’ remarkable successes both at A-level and in their GCSE exams – details of which you can read about in the article on this page.

Congratulations are due to both Year 11s and Sixth-Formers and, of course, to our dedicated staff who have worked so hard to support students’ studies. More than ever our progress and our successes can be seen to be the product of a genuine team effort bringing together parents, teachers, support staff and students. For Alperton, the result of that whole endeavour is certainly more than just the sum of its parts!

And what successes they have been, for I must mention the outstanding results achieved at GCSE in both English and Maths - our students gaining 72% and 71% respectively – substantially exceeding all targets! And it can be no coincidence that, during the summer term leading up to our best ever results, an inspection by HMI of the Maths Department, led to the Inspectors awarding a judgement of Outstanding – the highest level they can award!

Though we may believe that through always reflecting on, and where necessary making changes to, our practice, we will continue to address the needs of our students, it is always encouraging to have those judgements confirmed with an official stamp of approval!

And so we begin again. We will look to what we have done well and work on what we could have done better so that, this time next year, we can look forward to announcing even greater success!

Poetry Pleases!

In case you were not aware, Thursday 8th October is National Poetry Day . Click on the links to either, the main offical 'NPD '09' site or to the 'NPD '09 Education' site and enjoy the world of poetry. The poll of the nation's favourites threw up three very different poets in the top 3 positions!

Alperton Opens Its Doors!

On Thursday of this week, we were delighted to open the school to prospective parents on the event of our annual Open Evening. Not to be outdone and demonstrating their many skills, our talented students produced a very special edition of their own magazine 'Buzz' , in record time! Working at break-neck speed so that guests could take a copy with them from their visit, the team of reporters, photographers, editors and sub-editors managed to publish the edition to their own demanding deadline - beating last year's record by a healthy margin! Why not download a copy of 'Buzz Express' from this site? Just click on 'Buzz Express' in the downloads section above.

Alperton's Students Gain Record Results

Well done to our ex-Year 11 students for gaining an impressive 57% A*-C including English and Maths in their GCSE exams. ACS has certainly made remarkable progress over the last few years given that in 2006 the comparable figure was a modest 36%! Perhaps more pleasingly, the results for English and Maths saw an outstanding 72% and 71% respectively - another best ever result! We are delighted that this success has encouraged our students to stay on in the Sixth Form where they can be assured of the best education possible right here at Alperton. (top right: GCSE students on 'results day')

Six of the Best!

And while we are on the subject of the Sixth Form, here too our A-level students achieved some remarkable successes. Although there are too many to name them all here, among our best performers we must certainly congratulate Jaina Varsani for achieving four A-grades, which will take her to the London School of Economics to study Economics. Our congratulations also go to the following students who each gained the high grades required to take them on to their favoured course but who represent just some of our successful students - Dilipkumar Buddha, (Computer Science at Imperial); Aejaz Khatri (Actuarial Science at LSE); Amish Hirani (Optometry at Aston); Sana Chippa (Neuroscience at Kings); Kajal Patel (Maths at Manchester); Nikita Vyas (French & English at Leicester); Chetan Hirani (Architecture at Kingston); Yash Maniar (Pharmacy at Kings); Rajan Arora (Maths & Management at Brunel); Shahida Khan (Teaching at Roehampton). Well done to all of them and to their unnamed but equally successful peers.

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.

It Could Be

You!

On the sporting front, we have recently been awarded £10,000 by the National Lottery to buy sporting equipment, which will allow us to launch or further develop three extra-curricular clubs at ACS. The first of these, with James De Gale, a specialist Great Britain Coach and Olympic gold-medalist running things, will be the Alperton Boxing Club; The second, a ‘trampolining’ club for girls aged 14-18 - assisted by a Great Britain Olympic ‘trampolinist’; and finally, Alperton Rugby Club, which will receive new kit, training gear and RFU top level coaches for Years 7, 8, 9, and 10, as well as for Year 9 girls.

Putting Children at the Centre!

The construction of our other major building project, the Children's Centre , situated on the Ealing Road site, will provide services for families and carers with children aged 0-5years including support services such as a parent support group, speech and language, including a time for rhymes group, nutrition sessions, Citizens Advice Bureau and Jobcentre Plus services. Services planned include sessions for fathers and a parents’ forum.

The centre will provide flexible facilities for a crèche, training, children’s activity sessions such as a childminders’ drop-in, pop in and play and storytelling (in partnership with Brent Libraries).

The building is now completed, however, activities will still stay at Safe Start Foundation until the building is ready for public use. (Please see map in Downloads ). For an update on the latest services and activities of the Children's Centre, just click the following link - Children's Centre update . Alternatively, you might like to click on the link at the top right-hand of this page ( Downloads ) to download your own copy of our first newsletter, where you can also download our updated timetable of Children's Centre activities.
For more information, please contact Jumana Saifee on: 07984 146 925