On Thurday, thirty Year 10s, having endured an application and then an interview process, spent a day at Richmond Business School being inducted into becoming prefects as from after half term, when the current Year 11 cohort passes on the mantle as they move from being 5-days-a-week attendees to examinees. The Year 10s had applied for different roles throughout the school, including Head Boy and Head Girl. These two roles were elected from their peers and staff and Amine Turay and Ceejay Cubitt are the worthy winners. The prefects were greeted by Christina Conroy, the Principal, who talked to them of leadership and its challenges. They then had a series of activities such as role playing scenarios so they could be confident in dealing with issues when they are in post. They enjoyed a business lunch break and then continued with further activities. Ms Babadu, the Year 10 Leader and organiser of the event, was very proud of them all. We think we have a fine body of prefects ready and waiting and I am very much looking forward to working with them.
On Friday, Ms Blease, the Gifted and Talented Coordinator, took 5 students to Waldegrave School for a conference/workshop on Communication and Emotional Intelligence. Despite arriving late due to a bus break down, and thus missing preparation time, Shene students stood up and presented in an exemplary way for the first of several activities. Ms Blease was thrilled, surprised and proud to hear at the end that Shene students had won the event for their passion and confidence in presenting.
On Saturday, Shene School welcomed fifty Chinese business, political and education representatives who had come to the UK to hear about various education initiatives. The British Council asked us to talk about the Self Esteem Through Sport programme which we run via Wayne Simon from LBRUT. Before the speeches, however, they visited the school and were astonished when they reached the Art room. Art, Photography and Technology are, apparently, less well supported in China than academic subjects so they were firstly very surprised and impressed by the extremely high quality of the work. They particularly liked Andrew's Micky Mouse piece. More than this, though, they were astonished at the number of children (Year 11s) who had come in in their own time to put the finishing touches to the coursework (about 40 in total). So delighted were they to meet children on a Saturday that they ended up showering them with gifts. You can see the beautiful objects they gave them below.
Headgirl Colette looks at a beautiful hand-painted map
Finally, a thank you to Mark Hartley and a huge "Well done!" to Barnes Primary, whose Art Exhibition I was invited to on Friday night. It was a fabulous show, wonderfully and professionally displayed in the Old Sorting Office. The sheer imagination, diversity and creativity was a joy to see. Anne Hahlo, a Barnes parent and Shene governor, made a very interesting comment about this exemplifying the differences in Secondary and Primary artwork: the first is essentially individual with the child aiming for the best GCSE result possible; the second is collaborative, with the varied pieces displayed as part of a whole and thus very compelling and coherent as an exhibition. The Shene exhibition is being taken to Sheen Library shortly; please try and see it.
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