We are stronger together. When we forget that our community is the richer for its diversity, we forget what made us great in the first place. We must all remember this, politicians and Presidents alike. Leadership is about bringing people together, not driving them apart.
It’s
#PiDay2019
- and to celebrate we held our annual Pi Contest. How many decimal places of Pi can you recall? Our champion, Nathan, remembered Pi to an astonishing - wait for it - 655 decimal places. I know. Runner up Saba got to a worthy 463 decimal places. Congratulations.
We are Dunraven: a snapshot from a fabulous Culture Day. A huge thank you to our whole community for embracing an excellent day for all! Have a wonderful weekend.
@DunEdTrust
We are delighted to welcome
@DLawrenceOBE
and
@S_LawrenceTrust
this morning for the launch of the day to celebrate Stephen's life and legacy on 22 April. The theme is to 'live our best life'. Let's make it so.
All smiles in the sunshine. Including Mr Maidment! Fantastic set of results for Y11. Congratulations to them and their hard working teachers. And hoorah for all the support from families to make it possible.
Time for a round of applause: congratulations to David Boyle, our former Principal at Dunraven School and now CEO of the Dunraven Educational Trust who has been made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to education in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
This is what HAPPY looks like - free programme, free ice cream and the most brilliant show. Thank you
@HamiltonMusical
for making this possible for our young people. Just amazing. Community at its best
#ArtsMatter
@DunEdTrust
Our cup winning team. Just brilliant. Thank you
@smpbrixton
for making it happen
@RidleyLyndsey
for inspiration. Well done to all the footballers who took part
@ThisGirlCanUK
- boys take note.
Please sir, we want some more: a Dunraven round of applause for the fabulous cast and crew of Oliver. A few moments from tonight. With thanks to the whole team for getting us there
#ArtsMatter
Meanwhile in Holland, we had 6 teams playing this evening and all 6 won: 8-0 2-1 4-0 1-0 6-0 3-0. As you do. We were up against local side ERMELO DVS’33. Well played 👏
@DunEdTrust
@smpbrixton
They spoke out: congratulations to Cheyanne and Oak, 1st and 3rd place in the Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge Lambeth Final this evening. Exceptionally well chosen words delivered with great panache.
@JPFoundation
@DunEdTrust
Absolutely sensational: a round of applause for Edesi please. Highly commended in the Ruth Borchard self-portrait prize, and quite right too.
#ArtsMatter
@Artsmarkaward
@RuthBorchard
Introducing the winners of the London Cup: congratulations to and a round of applause our Year 7 Girls football team after a hard fought end-to-end 5-4 cup final victory against
@KingsdaleFS
Many congratulations to our Cross Country runners who took part in the London competition yesterday. Team results still to come but huge congratulations to Vivi who was runner up and Oak who is Year 7 Champion for London. Amazing! Actual Champion. For the whole of London.
A lesson for life from last night's game. The importance of patient leadership, the strength of working as a team, making your very best effort whatever the conditions and never giving up until the end.
That's a wrap: but to quote
@MarcusRashford
'there is no finish line to your dreams'. Thank you to all of our champions, student and staff alike, for summer school 2021. Something to say thank you including a copy of 'You are a Champion' for all 200 participants this summer.
Election fever: Thank you to Jo Swinson who took the time to meet with Sixth Formers from Dunraven and across Lambeth at Knights Youth Centre and listen to their concerns.
A very large Dunraven thank you to all Secondary students, families and our staff for embracing two days of distance learning. This was the view from here.
Really sorry to say that we’ve still no water on either site so we will have to stay closed tomorrow Tues 6 March. We expect problem will be solved so we can open Weds 7 March. Message direct to all families on way.
A room of future Doctors: a Dunraven round of applause for Adam Timmis
@adamtimmis
Professor of Clinical Cardiology at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry for a brilliant talk to Year 11, 12 and 13 students today for as part of
@speakrs4schools
.
Only one place to be this evening and that's streaming the Dunraven Concert 2021. Where else would you find Mitchell, Martin and Gallagher jostling with John Barry. Breathtaking - take a bow young musicians!
#ArtsMatter
@DunEdTrust
Some familiar faces behind the masks: Thank you so much to staff volunteers packing and distributing our weekly lunch bags to eligible families today and to our premises team delivering. Very, very grateful.
Perfect Circle: Year 11 at Crystal Palace today. A thank you to them for everything over the last five years. After half term the insight sessions begin. Time for a proper break before then.
Coming soon: very excited about the Dunraven Summer Concert which will be streamed on Thursday 9 July at 7.00pm. Full details will be with you all in due course
#ArtsMatter
Good luck not needed, but here's some anyway for Frances who makes her debut today for Millwall against Crystal Palace in the Junior Premier League. Very very proud.
Ok. 23,000 lessons done, Ms Andrews is as positive and as energetic now as she was at Dunraven lesson number 1. 29 years later, early retirement awaits. Thank you SO much
@educationgovuk
@getintoteaching
@GoodNews_Schls
We are the champions: a round of applause for the Under 13s Girl's Football Team who are now Lambeth Football League Champions after defeating BTG 5-4 on penalties. Have good weekends!
Important to be clear that schools are doing more with less. The
@educationgovuk
says more money in education now than ever. Institute for Fiscal Studies report disputed this claim, calculating an eight per cent drop in overall school funding between 2009–10 & 2017–18
@ASCL_UK
Friday is here: A very large thank you to the team distributing lunch parcels today and Accent for providing. A reminder to families that collection has moved to the Secondary Site at the Dining Hall. Entrance by the the 417 Valley Road stop on Leigham Court Road.
'Hopefully better days are coming': thank you so much to the Friends of Dunraven- Secondary for the very kind (and unnecessary) delivery this morning. It means more than you know
@FoDunraven
@RSC_SESL
@DunEdTrust
Really pleased to announce that preloved Dunraven uniform is available at St Christopher's store at 23 Streatham High Road. Save money, reduce waste and support an excellent cause. With thanks to
@FoDunraven
and
@StChrisHospice
@StreathamMums
@DunEdTrust
The power of oracy: well done to all students along the way and a very special mention for our prize-winners in the Year Nine Speech Final this afternoon. Take a bow.
‘It’s happened again....’ Congratulations to our Lambeth Champions who won the league with a 5-0 victory over
#BTG
. This means our girls are KS3 and KS4 Champions 👏👏👏
@smpbrixton
@DunEdTrust
Great to meet
@SteveReedMP
today. Sixth Form Government and Politics students heard about his journey to the Cabinet & he met some leaders of tomorrow. Come back soon.
Congratulations to our Debate Team who are now South London Regional Champions. Congratulations as well to Wallington Girls who join us in the
#ESU
London Final next week. Very Exciting.