ACS art students take part in the Red Nose Day artistic celebrations

21st March 2022Administrator

On Friday 18th March our creative A Level art students took part in an exciting Art Paint Off event at the Alperton Art Studios by the canal. Everyone really enjoyed the event, including the many visitors from the public, local MP from Brent and NHS Mental Health representatives. The A Level students were joined by our younger art, drama and music students who took part in what proved to be an inspiring afternoon full of entertaining painting, singing and spoken word. Some of the outcomes will be auctioned off to benefit the Red Nose Day Charity.

Please see the email below received from the event organiser. (more…)

Year 12 and Year 13 students visit the House of Parliament

18th March 2022Administrator

Image of Alperton students during their visit to the House of ParliamentLast week, the Year 13 Politics students and the Year 12 Health and Social Care students visited the House of Parliament. The students participated in a workshop on law making which they found very useful and were able to watch a debate from the public gallery. (more…)

Inspiring assemblies with Team Force Atlantic

4th March 2022Administrator

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…)

Alperton teacher’s Economics class published in the Financial Times

2nd March 2022Administrator

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…)

Free activity taster session at Alperton Family Wellbeing Centre

2nd March 2022Administrator

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:

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ACS wins the Brent ‘Green, Clean and Sustainable Start-up’ competition

23rd February 2022Administrator

Image of Year 13 students who won the awardCongratulations 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…)

Engaging workshop with AiR artist in residence, Andy Hammond

15th February 2022Administrator

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!

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