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Ready, Steady, Cook!

After a year and two months of Young Chamber efforts, much time spent advertising, chasing around for ingredients at ASDA, and constant checking with Ms Hiskyas, CoLA’s Master Chef finally got to the Academy kitchen on 26th January. Three groups of two students each entered a cook-out competition to get their recipe onto the Rendezvous Restaurant menu. The dishes we...

Election Fever Begins

There will be a CoLA election at the end of this half term in order to select our new Head Boy and Girl. The successful students will take over from Adam and Georgia, the current incumbents, at the beginning of the summer term. The Year 12 shortlist for this year’s head boy and girl will be published shortly. The week beginning 1st February will be the campaign ...

Work Experience Not a Hard Sentence

Several of our Year 12 students are doing their work experience week with the City of London Police, and they are having a wonderful time! So far, they have: Studied fingerprinting methods; Worked with police horses and dogs, and learned about their specialist crime-fighting roles; Gone on patrol in a Police patrol vehicle to discover how policing is delivered...

What to do about Absences

From; Ms Goddard, EMA & Attendance Officer If you have a GP, Dental or Medical appointment, please ensure that you send in an official appointment card or headed letter, saying when and where the appointment was. In an emergency you can ask the receptionist at the medical centre to provide this. We need to have a copy of this for our records. Try to book appointm...

Greenhouse Dance at CoLA

From; Ms Thompson, Greenhouse Dance Studio Greenhouse Dance offers students FREE dance classes at CoLA, and trips to watch professional dance shows such as The Pied Piper by Hip Hop dance group Boy Blue! Students learn Street Dance, Hip Hop, Popping, Locking, Jazz and Contemporary dance, and are currently working on a dance piece to be performed at a national compet...

Percy Jackson Film!

From; Ms Brede, Assistant Librarian. If you're a fan of Percy Jackson books, check out the film of The Lightning Thief in cinemas, from 12th February. Also, author Rick Riordan has a new Egyptian series coming soon, which you can hear about on youtube:

January Examinations

This is a reminder for years 10, 11, 12 and 13: the CoLA Spring term exam series starts on Monday 11th January and runs until Friday 29th January. The Full Exam timetable can be found here

Grease is the word!

From: Ms Oragano, Teacher i/c Drama Will the Pink Ladies and the Burger Palace Boys have lunch together? Will Sandy Dumbrowski get her man? Will Danny Zuko tell the whole story of what happened suddenly last Summer? Tickets will be on sale soon! £5.00 Adult and £3.00 Children. Please come to see this show and bring EVERYONE you know.

New School Shop

From; Andrew Ralph, 6th Form Prefects You can purchase all your stationery requirements from the new school shop in the PE building. The shop sells: •    Pens    •    Pencils    •    Rulers    •    Erasers    •    Sharpeners •    Items of Uniform    •    Sports Equipment AND Talent @ Christmas Tickets! Cash or...

Finance News

Don’t forget that we take card payments (Visa or Mastercard) for trips, lunches and any other payments to be made to the school. Also, payments over £20 made by card or cheque for dinner money get 10% extra added to the card. Please also remember that all free school meal applications have to go through Southwark and not through the school. Southwark P...

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I hope that 2010 is a good year for all of you. The Academy is looking forward to a great year: good examination results, great sports team victories and wonderful plays and concerts. I am confident that with such a wonderful student body and staff and students that it will be good year.

At the moment London is affected by the heavy snowfalls of recent days but the Academy has functioned as normal. I have seen no need to close the school and nearly all members of staff have been able to get in without too much trouble. Parents can be assured that, if I had to close the school, it would be as a last resort. This is particularly important since there are GCSE and AS level examinations over the next two weeks. It is vital that our examination students are in school to receive final revision teaching.

Have a good January and take care,

With best wishes,

Martyn Coles
Principal



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