Community, Partnerships and Outreach

Ukraine Humanitarian Support

We received an overwhelming response from our community to our appeal for emergency items for refugees and had to organise additional deliveries of essential supplies. To highlight the plight of the victims of the disaster, parents, staff and students rowed 50 miles in relay and wrote messages in a montage of SUPPORT and raised over £7,300 for the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. Just before the Easter holidays, Lower Sixth student Isabell, was one of the organisers of a charity concert at St Paul’s Church in Covent Garden and performed with other Godolphin students to raise an incredible £3,788 for the Red Cross in Ukraine.

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Bridge Programme

At the beginning of December our 2021 cohort of 72 children from 24 primary schools took part in their graduation ceremony to celebrate everything they had achieved over the last twelve months. They had attended 40 hours of Saturday lessons, 30 hours of tutorials with Keystone Tutors, and collectively spent 2,255 hours on the Atom learning platform. This was particularly commendable as this year’s programme began during the second national lockdown. As a result of the programme, most of the students applied for places and bursaries at independent secondary schools in London and three joined Godolphin and Latymer in September 2022, following in the footsteps of the three now in Year 8. Over 80 students have joined us for the 2022 programme.

Primary School Sports Partnership

Every Monday morning thirty Years 4 and 5 boys and girls and PE teachers from West London Free School Primary took part in netball training, wall climbing, trampolining and karate in our Sports Hall. The children received specialist instruction and it was always inspiring to see how keen, enthusiastic and competitive they all were.

DofE

Students taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh awards programme contributed 3,250 hours of volunteering with a social value of £15,015 over the last year. It was fantastic to see so many of them challenging themselves and working as a team on their expeditions to the Chilterns, New Forest and Purbeck Hills.

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Ancient World Breakfast Club

After a gap of 19 months it was fantastic to welcome our wider community back into Godolphin to enjoy their yoghurt, muesli and croissants before hearing from eminent experts in Greek, Latin and the Classical World. The year’s visiting speakers included Dr Peter Jones who was the Club’s very first external speaker back in the autumn of 2005, in its previous incarnation as the Greek Breakfast Club. His 2022 lecture ‘Death in the Roman World’ was peppered with classical examples read by Upper Sixth students Aoife and Morwenna and, as always, his lecture prompted a range of probing questions from members of his audience, both young and not so young!

Social Impact Committee

This year our committee, which consists of 20 students from the Sixth Form, mainly focused on the plight of refugees and the girls have worked with Thoughtbox, Rights for Refugees, the Refugee Community Kitchen as well as fundraising and collecting items for Ukraine.

Old Dolphins’ Day

We were delighted to welcome back Old Dolphins, teachers and former members of staff for Old Dolphins’ Day in September. With over 30 different year groups and more than 200 Old Dolphins in attendance, the day consisted of three events: a luncheon in the school hall for the Classes of 1930-1961; a garden party for the Classes of 1962-2014; and a champagne reception for the Classes of 2015 and 2016 to celebrate their fiveyear reunions.