Year 10 student Daisy tells us more: “We watched a music video by Janine, a Holocaust survivor, in collaboration with the hip-hop artist Kapoo. Though she managed to escape, many didn’t and the overriding message from her and other survivors was to try to heal the wounds inflicted by such a catastrophic event, by fighting for justice on both a big and small scale. This is a message that I believe is particularly pertinent at a time of great suffering and inequality".
Holocaust memorial workshop
Linking up with the law
On 27 January, Linklaters led a webinar for CLSG and partner school pupils to illuminate what a career with a leading law firm is like, as well as introduce students to graduate recruitment schemes and the transferable skills most valued by recruiters.
The inaugural Andrew Douglas lecture: Carol Ann Duffy
For the next instalment of the City@6 series on Monday 1 February at 6.00pm we are delighted to welcome the renowned poet, Carol Ann Duffy, to give the inaugural Andrew Douglas Lecture.
Survival of the friendliest! Year 7 desert island challenge
One of the happy byproducts of virtual learning is that students are no longer bound by form group bubbles, allowing them to socialise more easily across class and year-group boundaries. This is exactly what stood out to year 7 Sienna about last week’s Year 7 Challenge, which brought together students from each form into groups to imagine they were stranded on a desert island.