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Partnerships

'Pupils have a strong sense of social justice and spoke of being empowered by the school to make a difference... Pupils readily embrace the many opportunities that arise from the school's extensive partnership work.'

- Independent Schools Inspectorate

Partnerships

City of London School for Girls is acutely aware of its responsibility to engage with the world outside the school, both as part of the community in London and more broadly in promoting international links. We are thoroughly committed to fostering a concern for, and engagement with, the wider world both through our Mission (charity) work and through our partnership programme. We want our students to develop a strong sense of social responsibility and an understanding of their role in addressing the needs of others. Please see our partnerships impact report below or read our partnership strategy here.

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Family of schools

City of London School for Girls joins one maintained primary school, ten sponsored and co-sponsored academies and two independent schools within a collaborative network known as the Corporation of London’s family of schools. Multiple ventures are organised across this structure.

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Afghan refugee response

Two CLSG teachers have taught weekly EAL sessions to Afghan refugees in our partner primary schools COLPAI and Galleywall. These sessions have focused on conversational skills, vocabulary building and developing pupils’ confident engagement with grammar.  It has been a joy to see pupils making progress and gaining important skills and confidence in English.

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City of London Academy Shoreditch Park

Our partnership with CoLA Shoreditch Park is one of which we are especially proud. This includes the teaching of Latin, and a CLSG teacher leading weekly Further Maths sessions. We are pleased that 100% of the pupils at COLA Shoreditch Park were awarded grades 7-9 in their GCSE Latin last year. We continue to collaborate regularly, including through Sixth Form collaboration with key colleagues meeting to share best practice on a termly basis.

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Coaching

In autumn 2022, we were delighted to host colleagues from six partner schools for a two-day coaching programme, led by a team of our expert facilitators. Colleagues joined us to learn about the philosophy of coaching as well as being introduced to key strategies which can be used in the classroom and across school life.

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Maths Partnership Forum

We are proud to have been closely involved with the launch and second year of development of the City of London family of schools Maths Partnership Forum, enabling the close collaboration of colleagues from across the family of schools with a focus on curriculum and leadership in maths. his group enables cross-phase as well as primary and secondary-specific dialogue to take place, facilitating a rich exchange of ideas.

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City of London Academy Highgate Hill

In 2022, we partnered with COLA Highgate Hill to assist them in setting up their new sixth form. We held meetings with key professionals to share best practice and held a pupil panel in which CLS/CLSG pupils shared the best aspects of sixth form provision in our schools. We also set up curriculum links set up in subjects including biology and English to discuss assessment and curriculum models and we held a leadership networking event to enable pupils to share their experience and expertise.

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Oracy and Maths Professional Networks

We are delighted to be at the forefront of cross-phase, co-chaired professional network groups across the Family of Schools in key areas of oracy and maths.  Groups of key practitioners from across the Family of Schools meet on a termly basis to share best practice and jointly address shared problems for the benefit of pupils across the group.

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City@6

Since we launched City@6 in 2021, we have welcomed world-renowned experts and leaders from the fields of journalism, law, politics, and science amongst others. It is a pleasure to be able to extend the invitation to not only our students, but also to parents, alumnae and our partner schools.

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Street Child

Fundraising and charity are at the heart of our community at City. In 2022, City raised an impressive £33,054.20 for Street Child, with whom we have a long-standing relationship. The amount is a powerful reflection of the efforts of the school community.

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Community service

Through our community service programme, all pupils in year 12 undertake about an hour a week of community service. Their activities are wide-ranging, from offering their help on a dairy farm to tutoring younger pupils and creating clubs to promote the role of women in STEM subjects.

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Higher education support

Our careers department continues to share career development advice and resources across the academy and independent school network supported by the Corporation of London. Our higher education evening and other careers events are open to attendees from across this ‘family of schools’ and CLSG staff provides bespoke interview support and guidance for pupils aspiring to apply to Oxbridge.

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Linklaters

Since Autumn 2020, CLSG alongside CLS has forged a valued partnership with leading law firm, Linklaters, to provide learning and development opportunities to year 12 pupils from the family of schools. The inaugural webinar was attended by 140 pupils in years 10-13, from across the City of London’s Family of Schools and the East London Consortium.  Further webinars have been shared with the Family of Schools in 2021/22, sharing expertise on communications and how to access careers in the Law.

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Primary summer school

Over the summer of 2022, we launched our inaugural joint primary summer school in partnership with the family of schools, hosted at City of London School. Year 4 pupils from each of our four partner state primary schools (COLPAI, Aldgate, Redriff and Galleywall) joined us for a three-day event in which they had English and maths consolidation and extension sessions.

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Galleywall Primary School

Over the last two years, City has been developing its relationship with Galleywall Primary School, a partnership of which we are especially proud. At Galleywall, the Reading Mentors initiative sees students from City meeting with respective mentees on a weekly basis. Mentors help to develop pupils’ vocabulary, comprehension skills and further their exam preparation.

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Lauriston Lights

Last spring, CLSG and CLS pupils welcomed eighteen year 7 pupils from Bow School to City of London School as part of a new partnership with the charity Lauriston Lights. Across the morning, our pupils led sessions that they had created on sustainability and pupil journalism. CLS and CLSG pupils supported their year 7 counterparts in creating a joint edition of our pupil newspaper, ‘The Citizen’, and in learning about how our choices impact the environment, leading discussions with sensitivity and confidence. Sessions were interactive and personalised, engaging and fun.

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IntoUniversity

CLSG’s collaboration with IntoUniversity is both an opportunity for our pupils and an aid to students who access IntoUnversity’s provision. CLS and CLSG pupils gain experience in education, whilst the students being mentored are aided in achieving their academic aims from primary education to GCSE, and even further. Through educational videos and in person assistance, CLSG volunteers have been able to make a real impact, as well as gain satisfaction through the results of their help.

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Schroders

We are very excited that City have forged a new partnership with Schroders, an asset management company. Our partnership is mutually beneficial. Last year, Schroders used the tennis courts as part of their fundraising efforts for NSPCC, totaling £75,000! This year, students from year 10 students visited Schroders to learn more about careers in asset management. We are looking forward to more events about women in finance, and careers in asset management hosted by Schroders.

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Mace

In 2022 we were very pleased to partner with Mace, a global consultancy and construction firm headquartered in London. Pupils in year 9 attended Mace to take part in the Building Futures course delivered by employees as Mace. As one student commented, ‘the after-school sessions deepened our knowledge of the world of design and engineering.’

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Partnership with CoLA Highgate Hill

We are proud to be developing a close and strategic partnership with COLA Highgate Hill, with collaborations of key colleagues and curriculum links.  CLSG pupils also recently shared their views of what makes outstanding Sixth Form provision at a pupil panel, alongside pupils from CLS.

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City of London School

We have a strong relationship with our brother school, situated just up the road beside St Paul’s Cathedral. Our students collaborate on joint plays, musical projects, and charity initiatives, as well as forming strong social connections outside school hours.

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iGEM

The iGEM Foundation is an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to the advancement of synthetic biology, education and competition. For the past few years, CLSG has been entering the iGEM competition as a team in partnership with participants from City of London School. In 2021, a joint team of thirty pupils from CLSG and CLS have worked together to create a diagnostic mask for tuberculosis. iGEM is a brilliant opportunity for students to engineer creative solutions for problems.

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International exchanges

We hope that every student participates in an international visit of some kind during their school career. In addition to MFL exchanges in France, Spain, Germany, and China, we have expanded our curriculum exchanges to include Australia, Argentina, Canada, and New Zealand, enabling our pupils to develop a wider understanding of the world.

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23 November 2023

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24 November 2023

Year 12 mathematicians had a great trip to the maths in action conference last week. Topics covered included Fermat's last theorem and transforming mobius strips, how MRI scanners function & how numbers determine which musical notes sound good together.

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