EDUCATION CORNER PODCAST
EDUCATION CORNER PODCAST WITH FUTURE PRINCIPAL
Mrs. Suzie Longstaff Mr. Paul Vanni AND HEAD
FROM LONDON PARK SCHOOL CLAPHAM
Mrs. Suzie Longstaff, Principal of London Park Schools from Easter 2023, and the newly appointed Head, Mr. Paul Vanni, speak about the new London Park School Clapham that will run through to GCSEs and is based in two buildings overlooking Clapham Common, with all the benefits and outdoor space this brings. They will also be absorbing Northwood Senior School and are going to open a Sixth Form partner school, London Park Sixth Form, in Belgravia in September 2024/5. On the London Park School website, it states: ‘London Park School Clapham offers the best of both worlds. The nurturing feel of a small school, with the opportunities, experiences and expertise of a larger one.’ Would you like 38 | EDUCATION CHOICES MAGAZINE | S P R I N G 2 02 3
to expand on this? Paul: We are a new school, a small school. Within
the context of the London Park Schools group, I see it as a family of schools. We are the founding cornerstone of that, but there is more out there. Within the context of our Clapham school, when we are full, we will have a maximum of 260 students (twenty per form). Everyone will know one another, we will very much have that local family, that genuine community feel to us. We will be entirely able to provide a level of support that is entirely commensurate with that. As part of this larger group of schools, we are able to leverage some of the benefits of numbers, of scale. I think that this is particularly relevant when it comes to some of the co-curricular experiences that we will be able to offer our students. For example, we will
