Community Links and Partnerships

Latymer Upper School, King Street, Hammersmith, London, W6 9LR. Tel: 020 8629 2024. www.latymer-upper.org

Registered Charity Number: 312714

“At Latymer Upper School we have a long tradition of working closely with our local community which we hope enriches both the lives of our students

and the people they work with.

Staff, pupils and parents work hard to develop and maintain these important links with individuals and organisations, and to build sustainable positive relationships.”

Richard Niblett, Assistant Head

Primary Debating This is an exciting project for Y6 pupils from ten local schools. Run by Latymer Upper students, the children meet weekly to learn debating skills, which culminate in a competition.

Tri-borough Music Hub Latymer Upper School continues to host this music service for over 100 local children each Saturday.

Latin Latin clubs for primary school pupils are run by Latymer Upper L6th at John Betts & St Stephen’s CE Primary .

Mentors and Learning Support Assistants L6th students volunteer in local primary schools, after school clubs and community homework clubs and act as mentors for Y10 pupils at The West London Free School. Current pupils volunteer at IntoUniversity centres around London & we are extending this outreach to include Latymer Upper alumni.

Saturday School Every Saturday during the spring term 120 pupils in Y6 from up to 30 local primary schools attend lessons and workshops delivered by Latymer Upper staff and L6th assistants in Cookery, Photography, Roman History, Film-making, and more!

Saturday STEM Academy With support from the charity SHINE, STEM Academy on Saturdays at Latymer Upper aims to inspire local Y9 pupils in Science, Maths & Technology.

Voluntary Service Voluntary Service is an integral part of our sixth form curriculum. Over 170 L6th students volunteer at primary schools, charities, hospices, homes for the elderly, environmental projects and youth projects.

Our students have carried out their Voluntary Service in the following places; the list continues to grow:

Academic mentoring at Latymer Upper School, local primary schools & homework clubs Books for Free/Healthy Planet Charity Shops Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Club Xpress W2 Community Education Forum East Sheen Scout Group FiSH Fulham FC Foundation IntoUniversity Holy Trinity Brompton John Betts House Saturday Music Centre Latin Club at St Stephen’s and John Betts LBHF Youth Council Let's Play Netball London Youth Rowing LUS Saturday School Mary Seacole House Residential homes for the elderly Middlesex Tamil Academy Primary Debating Resurgo Trust Richmond Borough Mind Richmond Hockey Club Richmond Synagogue Riverside Animal Centre Rugby Portobello Trust Shepherd’s Bush Families Project STEM Academy St John’s Ambulance Sulgrave Club Surrey Youth Focus The Arabic Community School The Challenge The Oxfam Bookshop W4 Youth Wendell Park SHINE West London Free School Windham Crofters : a club for disabled children WWT – London Wetlands

ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIPS AND ENRICHMENT

SPORT, SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND GLOBAL OUTREACH

Latymer Upper Sports Facilities Our Wood Lane sports grounds are shared with a number of other schools & organisations and after reopening in Autumn 2015 our spectacular Sports Hall -including the 25m 6-lane swimming pool - will continue its full outreach programme for clubs and members in the evenings and at weekends.

Clubs currently using our sports facilities include Chiswick & Latymer Cricket Club— Badminton Club

Sulgrave Youth Club—Disabled Sub Aqua Club

Chelsea & Westminster Swimming Club

Partnerships with local Secondary Schools Hurlingham & Chelsea School—West London Free School

Dormer Wells School, Southall—Christ’s School, Richmond

Westminster Academy—Burlington Danes Academy

Hammersmith Academy—Sacred Heart School

Ursuline High School—Chiswick School

Acton High School—St Thomas More School

New 2014-15 Projects

Twilight Physics & Maths sessions for Y11 pupils and History of Art Taster Days for local Y10/11 pupils.

Y12 mentors at WLFS and the STEM Academy for Y10 pupils

Alumni links and mentoring at IntoUniversity

Other Local Outreach Partnerships IntoUniversity - Latymer Upper alumni , currently at university, will become mentors, volunteering for 1 to 2 hours every other week.

The Lyric Theatre—GCSE drama students have also participated in projects with , Hammersmith.

Exchanges & Links with Schools Abroad

Since 1948, there has been an annual exchange with the Johanneum Gymnasium in Hamburg and we continue to foster our Nantes and Argentinian exchanges.

European Work Experience

Since 1994, Latymer Upper pupils have engaged in a work experience exchange programme with the Canisius Kolleg in Berlin and The Lycée Notre-Dame du Grandchamp in Versailles.

International Charity Links & Global Citizenship

Pupils and staff are helping to support projects in Uganda, such as The Mummy Foundation in Kampala, Musequality and Brass for Africa.

The Latymer Upper community also supports eight children from the M-Lisada orphanage so that they are able to attend school.

Pupils have also raised funds for the Phillipines Typhoon Appeal and Solar Aid.

UK Charity Links

St Mungo’s St Paul’s Crosslight Chelsea and Westminster Health Charity Hammersmith and Fulham Foodbank Make a Wish Cancer Research UK Shooting Star Chase Children’s Hospice Junior Diabetes Research Foundation Save the Children Sport Relief NSPCC Christmas Jumper Day KICK (Kick-start Initiatives for Community Kids) Shepherds Bush Families Project and Children’s Centre West London Action for Children NSPCC Wings of Hope Mind

For further information please contact:-

Richard Niblett, Assistant Head (Co-curricular) : rbn@latymer-upper.org