The school council also wanted a sporting activity and we have had two excellent events. The Young Sports Leaders from Stanborough and other local secondary schools ran another superb day for pupils with PMLD from Lakeside, Breakspeare and Amwell View schools. The Young Leaders were amazing – a real credit to their schools.

Stanborough and Lakeside students took part in the Kielder Challenge again – see here.

We had an excellent football tournament at Applecroft with mixed teams of pupils from the three schools. The weather could have been better but the day was excellent.

One Lakeside student has been able to benefit by joining her peers at Stanborough on their Hair and Beauty course run in their  training salon.

Other pupils have really benefitted from joining the Mechanics course.

Lakeside has signed a Collaborative Agreement with Applecroft Primary school and Stanborough Secondary school – both now academies – to seek ways to work together for the benefit of our students and the local community. Left is the 'historic' signing ceremony!!

Part of the Collaborative Agreement was to have a joint governing committee to take a strategic view of the partnership's work and make sure it was driven forward. We have a very pro-active committee, committed to the ethos of the partnership. It meets regularly and at these meetings holds us, as heads, to account and suggests and supports new ideas for ways forward.

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The pictures below show the making of the HSP mosaic. Children from the three schools worked together to make a mosaic for each school.