Following on from the success of the inaugural business breakfast last year, Alperton Community School invited more local employers to have ‘breakfast’ at our Ealing Road school in order to network, discuss potential career opportunities for our students and to continue to build long term relationships with local employers.
The month of March has been an exceptionally busy one for fundraising at ACS. The team was able to organise, prepare and execute an excellent and highly successful charity collection for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day. Through advertising during form time, daily briefings and posters around the whole school, our Whole community of teachers and students came together to show astounding support for this amazing cause. We managed to raise £429.95 towards helping the poorest, most disadvantaged people in the UK and as well as some of the world’s poorest communities. (more…)
The ACS Eco Leaders students have joined the Eco Committee and they are keen to relaunch the Eco School programme interrupted during the Covid pandemic. The Eco Schools is the largest educational programme is the world, engaging millions of pupils across 70 countries, empowering children to drive change and raise environmental awareness. (more…)
On Wednesday 23 March fourteen students attended the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performance of Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No.1 and Walton’s Symphony No.1 conducted by Vasily Petrenko at the Southbank Centre Royal Festival Hall. (more…)
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…)
Last 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…)
Calling all parents and carers of young people between 11 and 17 living in Brent. We invite you to attend the Brent Early Help Spring series of parenting workshops.
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…)
