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Heart Streatham Issue 52

Welcome to the may issue of Heart Streatham. It includes the official guide to Streatham Kite Day. We can’t wait to see the fabulous kite displays filling the sky above Streatham Common with colour – and we’ll be joining in the fun flying our own kites and enjoying the live music, food, and stalls on the 12th may. It’s a family friendly celebration that brings the whole community to the Common, and one of our favourite events in the local calendar. See you there!

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Photo of Phoenix Book Award pupil winners from Streatham and Clapham High School this year

The Phoenix Book Awards at Streatham & Clapham High School

Launched in 2008, The Phoenix Book Award is a literary prize judged by children from Years 6, 7 & 8 in Lambeth. For the second year Streatham & Clapham High School hosted the awards in May, giving pupils from ten Lambeth schools the opportunity to quiz, review and vote for their favourite authors. As well as Streatham and Clapham High Schools senior and junior departments, participating Streatham schools this year included Bishop Thomas Grant and Dunraven. The Awards help keep Lambeth pupils reading during transition years (Y5 to Y8) when they may stop. In a series of stages over the... Read more...

Northwood Senior School

Northwood Schools are opening a new independent senior school in September next year at 3, Garrad’s Rd. Streatham. NorthWood Senior will be a co-educational school for pupils aged 13 to 16. Northwood Schools, which owns Broomwood Hall and Northcote Lodge pre-prep and preparatory schools have appointed Susan Brooks, currently Deputy Head (Academic) at Broomwood Hall, Head-designate of the new school. Susan Brooks graduated from Queensland University in 2003 and came to the UK in 2007 to teach at Bromford’s School, Wickford, in Essex before taking up the position of Head of History at Broomwood... Read more...