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Partnerships

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 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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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 the launch of a mentoring programme, with CLSG pupils visiting the school to mentor year 9 pupils. Staff members at CLSG have also led dedicated English workshops for gifted COLASP students.

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Young Leaders Programme

Students from CLSG and the City of London Academies (Shoreditch Park, Highgate Hill and Highbury Grove) work with the Voces8 Foundation each year, learning to lead warm-ups and to teach songs to primary school children. They spend a day leading workshops with classes from Reception to year 3 at Galleywall Primary, putting this into practice with confidence and enthusiasm.

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Primary school Robotics Club

Since autumn 2018, groups of year 12 students have run a Robotics Clubs for year 5 and year 6 girls at The Aldgate School. The club is attended weekly by up to 20 girls.

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Strength in Numbers

A-Level maths students from CLSG and other City schools provide on-demand maths mentoring to younger students via an app in this innovative programme led by City of London Freemen’s School. The programme is open to all City of London and partner secondary schools, with plans to expand mentoring provision to other subjects including physics, chemistry and biology.

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Year 11 enrichment school placements

As part of their post-exam enrichment programmes, many of our year 11 students undertake a week-long volunteering placement in one of seven of our partner schools, either primary or secondary. Tasks include one-to-one support sessions, running support clinics for younger children, as well as gaining experience of classroom assistant roles.

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Street Child

We have a long-standing relationship with Street Child, a charity which focuses on the 125 million school-age children across the world who are currently out of education. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of our pupils, we have raised £189,318 for the charity since 2011.

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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

In autumn 2020, CLSG alongside CLS forged a 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.

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How to Academy

We are proud to have gained access to an inspiring set of speeches through our partnership with ‘How To Academy,’ which generously enabled us to co-ordinate access to talks ranging from John Kerry to Sarah Gilbert and James Lovelock as part of over 30 speeches in the ‘How to Change the World Conference.’  Our pupils and those from our partner schools enormously valued this enriching cultural experience.

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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

Competing against 65 schools and almost 200 university research teams across the globe, in 2020 CLSG and City of London School entered the prestigious international engineering competition as a joint project. Their submission impressed the judges so much that they were awarded a silver medal.

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London eco-schools network

City is part of the Eco-Schools Programme, a global initiative encouraging pupil-led climate action. Working towards their Green Flag Award, our student-run eco-committee is putting together an environmental action plan on a range of areas including waste, transport, biodiversity and energy. Our student leaders meet regularly with other schools in the London Schools Eco-Network to share ideas and tips on going green.

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International exchanges

In normal pre-pandemic times, we would hope that every student will participate 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 on the world.

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Japanese pen pals

Students in year 12 and 13 have taken part in a pen pal exchange with students from Takefu Senior High School in Fukui Prefecture, a rural area of Japan two hours north of Kyoto. Students have been sharing their experiences of lockdown between Japan and the UK in both English and Japanese. Some students have never learnt any Japanese before but have been learning as they go. Ganbarimasho.

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Our latest tweet

12/10/2021

Thank you to @DavidBodanis for a fascinating discussion last night on whether you can succeed without being a terrible person! Thanks to all of those who attended and asked such great questions.

We look forward to announcing our next City@6 guest speaker very soon!

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