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. 

Victoria class from Joseph Clarke school had the pleasure of meeting Marshall the wood sculptor last week. They  learned about the different types of trees and wood through touching and smelling and also found out about Waltham Forest being the London Borough of Culture this year.

Whitefield Academy Trust’s work helping students into the world of work has received national recognition from Nasen (National Association of Special Educational Needs) with an award for Excellent Practice in Post-16 education. The award, presented at ceremony at the Waldorf Hilton Hotel in London celebrates outstanding practice that provides improved outcomes for young people.