Alperton Community School would like to say a huge thank you to Sgt Laura Barrigan and WO2 Katherine Robinson for delivering two engaging and inspiring assemblies to our Year 8 and Year 9 students on Monday. They encouraged students to believe that the possibilities ahead of them are endless, regardless of gender or class. In the words of Sgt Barrigan “Your only limitation is the limitation of your imagination”. (more…)
Some great news from our Business and Economics department! An article analysis regarding asking prices for UK homes written by our economics teacher Noaf Al-Diraa has been published in the Financial Times. The article picked by Noaf contains suggested questions about the housing market in the UK and is part of the Financial Times free schools access programme. (more…)
Come along to a free activity taster session at Alperton Family Wellbeing Centre. These taster sessions have been developed in partnership with the Alperton Student Voice members and based on feedback from the all-school activities poll in January. Please see the leaflet below for more information and how to sign up:
Congratulations to our Year 13 students Corey, Vishal, Haider and Diyana who won the Brent ‘Green, Clean and Sustainable Start-up’ competition defeating Claremont and Crest in the pitching final. The winning presentation, Upcycle4:Brent, set out the rationale and plans of a financially viable model for upcycling furniture. The pitch and responses to the questions asked by the panel of judges were excellent. (more…)
Many thanks to Andy Hammond and AiR charity for delivering a wonderful series of workshop to our year 7 students on how to narrate animations! The product of these fun and engaging workshops was the amazing video below made for Brent Council as part of an environmental campaign to keep Brent clean and tidy. The voices and drawings in the video are all by Alperton students and the video is due to be screened at Cineworld Cinema in Wembley.
During the workshops they also created artwork for the campaign’s banners that have been displayed along Ealing Road! Well done everyone for your hard work!
On Wednesday 26th a group of 24 students from years 7, 8 and 10 took part in a full-day Gamelan workshop. (more…)
On Tuesday, 1st February, Alperton Community School welcomed back two very distinguished former pupils, Dr Jason Seewoodhary who attended Alperton in the 1990s, and Sonal Halai who attended Alperton in the 2000s.
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Thank you to Krissie and the Brent Wellbeing Centre Team for visiting our school on Wednesday, 19 January. Krissie met with our Student Voice Council and our Headteacher, Mr McKenna, to discuss their future provisions across their Brent centres.
Following the meeting they will be creating a club list for students which we will share on our website soon. The students are really keen and excited about their future courses, resources and workshops.
Congratulations to our Year 11 students for completing their Coach Bright Programme yesterday.
CoachBright works with pupils to help them become independent and resilient learners to maximise their progress and attainment. Pupils are matched with a university student to receive academic coaching in one of the core subjects (Maths, Science or English). The programme is a term long and finishes with an in-school graduation ceremony. (more…)
