As you know, School will be fully open for all children from Monday 7^th September 2020.  Here is an update on arrangments for the return to school

Whitefield Academy Trust will submit plans for a new community training café to the council later this month. If accepted and if consultation with local residents goes well – construction of the new café in the park opposite Joseph Clarke School could begin this summer. 

Whitefield Schools and Joseph Clarke School will remain closed from the 1st June and will keep the wider opening for primary children under review.
From the 2nd June, Joseph Clarke School will be offering child care for the children of key workers, for the most vulnerable children – identified by our safeguarding team and by local social services – and for those whose needs cannot be safely met at home.

The safety and wellbeing of our school community remains paramount and senior leaders and directors continue to feel that there are significant risks as set out in the letters you received on 16^th and 18^th March.

Congratulations to Chadia Filali-Moutei who has been appointed Headteacher for Joseph Clarke school. Chadia has been with Whitefield Academy Trust for 15 years and at Joseph Clarke School since 2016, most recently as acting headteacher. 

The Joseph Clarke School Trust held its 6th Charity Golf Day at West Essex Golf Course and the early indications are that the Trust will have raised in excess of their target of £5,000. As in previous years the Trust is extremely grateful for the generous support and sponsorship from both local Businesses and Friends of the Trust.

Joseph Clarke School has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Royal Society for our project ‘How you can say where things are in space’ which uses a variety of technologies to let vision impaired students explore and create objects in three-dimensional virtual space.  The project is being undertaken in partnership with the ‘Knowledge Lab’ at the Institute of Education, University of London. 

Our poets were invited to perform at Walthamstow Central Library at a Celebration of Poems and Languages put on by the Waltham Forest Bilingual Groupas part of the Borough of Culture events.