St Dunstan's College Outreach and Community Partnerships 2019 - 2020

St Dunstan’s Educational Foundation

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FOREWORD

by Headmaster, Nicholas Hewlett I am delighted to share with you this summary of St Dunstan’s community benefit and partnership work across 2019-20.

This was a year like no other. But despite the extraordinary challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, there is still so much to celebrate, not least the compassion and creativity of our community as we have adapted to new and different ways of working.

Although we were unable to end the year with the well-established St Dunstan’s Festival, I was very proud of the fact that through the pandemic we were able to cement even further our connections with our local community – donating unused food to local food banks, continuing to open the school for the children of key workers, opening up the Jubilee Grounds for NHS staff to use for parking, and donating all our goggles, eye defenders, aprons and gloves to a variety of hospitals and care homes.

The Design Engineering Department used our laser cutters and 3D printers to produce much needed face shields for hospitals and care homes – over 200 were distributed to those working on the frontline against the pandemic.

We continue to offer our sports facilities in the centre of Catford for community use, and I am delighted that they are utilised so extensively. Our Jubilee Ground is now widely used by local clubs, offering increased opportunities for hockey, tennis, basketball and netball, as well as cricket, football and rugby across the borough of Lewisham and beyond. We look forward to the opening of our new facilities in April 2021 which will afford even more opportunity for community engagement.

We have also made great strides in sustainability this year, with valuable input from the student Sustainability Committee leading to some really forward-thinking developments which are celebrated in this brochure.

I do hope you will enjoy looking through this summary and find it as heartening as I do.

We would continue to welcome any dialogue with local charities and community groups to engage with us in how we can further develop stronger links between St Dunstan’s College and the area of which we are proud to be a part.

Mr Nicholas Hewlett Headmaster, St Dunstan’s College

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O U T R E AC H A N D C O M M U N I T Y PA RT N E R S H I P S I WELCOME

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SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND LOCAL SCHOOLS

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SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND LOCAL SCHOOLS Bursaries

695,182 was provided through our Bursary programme In total

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families received bursary assistance of some kind

£50,000 was given to the London Academy of Excellence Tottenham supporting their work improving social mobility

through excellence in 16+ education

The St Dunstan's Benevolent Fund supported families

through hardship, gifting more than

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Lewisham Historical society had free use of our facilities for their monthly lectures

SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND LOCAL SCHOOLS

St Dunstan’s led subject knowledge enhancement sessions in Physics, both in person (2 hours – 15 teachers) and online (7 hours – 62 teachers), for state school teachers at Sedgehill School, St Matthew’s Academy and United Learning Academy Chain Collaboration with local

Rathfern Primary School were given

free use

schools welcoming students for regular masterclasses

of our Great Hall to host their annual Christmas celebration

St Dunstan’s community choir of parents, alumni and local singers

Our swimming pool was made accessible every week to support Rathfern Primary School’s swim

programme

of the Catford community met regularly to sing together

Our musicians aided community worship at Southwark Cathedral, All Hallows by the Tower and St Augustine’s Church

St Dunstan’s was a centre for the community for those children who wished to enter

Associated Board Music examinations

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SPORT

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SPORT

Swimming The pool was a training

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13 000 swimming lessons were delivered to local children at the St Dunstan’s Swim School

venue for Orpington O Jays Swimming Club

The pool was an IQL (Institute of Qualified Lifeguard) registered training centre

Grass Pitch Hire / Sport Hire

Football Over 13,000 hours of hire was made available to the public on our synthetic sports pitches annually The St Dunstan’s Jubilee Ground offered free access to 900 local primary school children who attended Lewisham School Games Football events over 3 days

Free use of our pitches was provided for Lewisham’s district football squad

Lewisham’s London Youth Games football squad was given free access to train ahead of the event

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5 hours a week of free pitch hire was provided to Catford and Lewisham police units for training and fitness Dalmain FC provided

free Community Football development at the Jubilee Ground to local girls aged 7–12 St Dunstan’s Jubilee Ground continued as Tottenham Hotspur FC’s only Southern Football Centre offering holiday development programmes with premier league standard coaching to local children St Dunstan’s Jubilee Ground was home to Academy One sports education helping local footballers create

new opportunities through education and access to professional clubs

Our partnership with Super Camps delivered Ofsted registered holiday activity camp spaces for over 400 children from the local area Munchkin Sports delivered 5 weeks of summer camps for over 3000 local children

1700 hours of public hire were made available in our sports hall including the support of cricket, badminton and netball St Dunstan’s College hosted Goldsmith’s University Varsity Day with multiple sports being played across the main college and Jubilee Ground sites with over 500 participants and spectators

SPORT

Cricket

St Dunstan’s continued in its annual support for the MCC Community Cricket Hub providing local children with

13 weeks of free cricket coaching and pathways Catford Cyphers Cricket Club and Beckenham Cricket Club were based at the Jubilee Ground

Hockey 35 hours weekly hire were made available to local community clubs

Netball We hosted the Lewisham Schools Netball Event for 12 local schools competing at years 5 & 6

General 6 Lewisham School Games events were booked in at the Jubilee Ground for Boys and Girls Football, Netball, Mixed TAG rugby and a MultiSkills festival day

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COMMUNITY SERVICE AND CHARITY

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COMMUNITY SERVICE AND CHARITY

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students pioneered a competitive project amongst each year group to

fill the food bank in Catford library on a weekly basis

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students volunteered to help out in the

providing teaching support and after-school care Junior School,

St Dunstan’s Enterprises supported

The Royal British Legion offering the Great Hall to record their annual album

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students maintained the Catford Bridge book exchange every week

supplying new books for the local community to enjoy

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COMMUNITY SERVICE AND CHARITY

St Dunstan’s hosted the community event ‘So Last Century’, a vintage fair

Charities Macmillan Cancer Support

£815.58 Young Minds Mental Health

£829.34 Lewisham Food bank

£197.43 Sickle Cell Society

£747.15 World Wide Fund for Nature (Australia)

£1,000 Centrepoint

£409.05 Save the Children

£761.26 Crisis at Christmas

The Jubilee Ground hosted Remark Community Deaf Junior Football Training

£121.08 The total amount raised this year was

£4,880.89

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SUSTAINABILITY

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SUSTAINABILITY

1,000 bulbs planted around the College

New trees planted at the front of the College

Wildflowers planted around the College

Senior School nature and science pond built Participation in

Earth Hour

Plastic bottles no longer provided in the refectory

Computers installed with software to

automatically switch off after working hours

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SUSTAINABILITY

A new Junior School woodland classroom was developed on site

Switch off engine

Car Free Days

signs installed

introduced

Environmentally friendly construction methods employed

Food donated to local

The Junior School won Lewisham Council’s

food banks to avoid waste

Gold Air Quality award

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THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

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THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Food and drink donated to Catford’s Saturday Soup Kitchen

More than

750

items of PPE produced

by St Dunstan’s Design Engineering Department.

These were delivered to:

• King’s College London • St Christopher’s Hospice • Bethlem Royal Hospital • Local GP surgeries Other protective eyewear donated from the Art Department and Science Labs was given to local hospitals and GP surgeries

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• 20 jacket potatoes • 10kg new potatoes • 8 heads of cos lettuce • 170 apples • 60 oranges • 20 lemons • 2 honeydew melons • 6 pineapples • 12 cucumbers • 150 eggs

THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

St Dunstan’s Lectures were posted online for the whole

15,000 community to enjoy – more than

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Dedicated Support Hub

The Jubilee Ground was used as

created on our website featuring the latest NHS and PHE guidance, mental health advice and daily tips for lockdown suggested by teachers and pupils

Junior School pupils created poems and raps

a testing ground during the pandemic

Staff and students wore blue to

support the NHS and Key Workers

to show their support for the NHS and Key Workers during their LAMDA lessons

The College remained open during the pandemic for children of Key Workers

Food and drink deliveries

Free parking for NHS and Key Worker staff at our Jubilee Ground

made to the Trussell Trust food bank in Forest Hill

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ST DUNSTAN’S COLLEGE - OUTREACH OVERVIEW

OUTREACH OVERVIEW Financial support

Charity support

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Bursaries Scholarships Benevolent Fund London Academy of Excellence

Macmillan Cancer Support Young Minds Lewisham Food Bank Sickle Cell Society World Wide Fund for Nature Centrepoint Save the Children Crisis

Community support

Student volunteering

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Venue and facility use PPE for NHS and Key Workers Food bank donations Educational master classes for local schools Education articles in the local media

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Primary School reading sessions Catford Food Bank Catford Bridge Library After School Care

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