Secondary School PartnershipsLearning from each other

Kensington Aldridge Academy Kensington Aldridge Academy – Educational Partner

We are particularly proud to be an educational partner of Kensington Aldridge Academy (KAA), along with Charterhouse School. The aim of the partnership is to share best practice in educational excellence across all the schools and to learn from each other.

In addition, KAA students join us for our Entrepreneurship Programme, our Politics Conference, Debating, Modern Language theatre productions, and creative writing workshops. KAA Sixth Form girls take A Levels at Godolphin and Latymer in subjects not offered at their school, such as Mandarin, History of Art, Classics and Italian

For staff, activities include: professional staff development days attended by all three schools sharing ideas and development of new initiatives around topics such as: Use of iPads – to enhance teaching and learning; Delivering Outstanding Pastoral Care; Generating Effective and Supportive Lesson Observations through the use of video software; The Role of Metacognition in the Classroom; Generating High Quality Lessons at Key Stage 5. There are staff links between departments including Geography, Music, Modern Languages and English.

Greenford High School Greenford High School – Educational Partner

Greenford High School is an established educational partner school with students from both schools getting together to discuss and debate at the Dining Club, and with staff working together on educational initiatives such as the Geography department’s Virtual Reality project.

Undiscovered Subjects Undiscovered University Subjects’ Taster Day and Fair

This event aims to introduce students to some of the courses available in higher education which are not normally included within the school curriculum; these courses are often overlooked by students choosing what to study at degree level, simply because they are not fully aware of what the subject involves. The day also offers advice on writing Personal Statements and a University Fair where University representatives offer guidance and advice. Over 250 students attend the event including pupils from seven or eight local state secondary schools.

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Art History Café West London Art History Café

This is a university preparation extension reading group for Year 12 students across West London. Students get together over coffee, juice and cake during the summer term at the end of the school day at Godolphin and Latymer. Pupils come from a variety of schools with different life perspectives which benefit, enrich and deepen the understanding for everyone involved.
Recent reading groups have considered topics such as The Representation of Women with a case study by Willem de Kooning, and texts by John Berger, Laura Mulvey and Thomas Hess.

Art History/Art Conference Art History and Art & Design Higher Education Conference and Fair

Students from local Secondary Schools join us at the conference and fair which typically includes an introduction to: Art History as a Sixth Form subject; the role of the art historian; architecture;  writing a Personal Statement for university Art History courses; art portfolio workshop. There are also talks by eminent art historians and artists which this year included artist Marc Quinn (famous for ‘Self’, cast in his own blood!) in conversation with Sarah Phillips, author of the new global A Level syllabus.

University application workshops University Application and Interview Preparation

Our Higher Education department organises a series of University Application and Interview Preparation Workshops, In November, Godolphin teachers hold practice interviews with students from West London Free School and Kensington Aldridge Academy to support their applications to competitive university courses. In May every year, several local partnership schools join us for UKCAT & BMAT workshops provided by The Medic Portal (these are both university admissions tests for Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences) and we also host an Oxbridge Saturday Workshop organised and supported by teaching staff.

Debating Debating Competitions

We have established programmes working with partner schools running the London Middle School and London Junior Debating competitions and also run workshops for local Primary Schools. Our Sixth Form students assist with coaching, chairing and judging in the competitions and also attend and train the Sacred Heart High School and Fulham Boys School Secondary School Debating Teams; Fulham Boys School recently won the London Debating Challenge.