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2020 A level results: Maths expert heading to the US

Thursday 13th August 2020

Ark Acton Academy student Livan has been awarded 3 A*s in A Level Maths, Further Maths and Physics, and an A in Chemistry.
This, combined with his completion of American standardised exams earlier this academic year, means he will be attending Harvey Mudd College in the USA to study Maths and Liberal Arts.

ABC @ Home: Building a home learning timetable (and keeping it flexible)

Tuesday 12th May 2020

ABC @ Home Blog Series
By Matt Butler, Head of Curriculum at Ark
In the third of our blogs on the ABC @ Home – Ark’s support framework for its schools during the current school shut down – Matt Butler, Ark’s Head of Curriculum discusses how we decided the structure of the timetable and why we made the decisions we did.

The strategy behind our ABC @ Home framework

Thursday 23rd April 2020

ABC @ Home Blog Series
By Lauren Thorpe, Head of Data, Systems and Improvement at Ark Schools

Planning a framework for home learning – ABC @ Home

Friday 17th April 2020

ABC @ Home Blog Series
By Rebecca Boomer-Clark, Director of Secondary Education, Ark Schools
 

Meet the Curriculum Creator: Lucy Wood, the Director of Science Mastery 

Monday 27th January 2020

Meet the Curriculum Creator is a four-part series of chats with some of the educators working on Ark Curriculum Partnerships (ACP). Throughout the month, we will introduce you to our heads of English, music, science and maths. 

Marcella

Alumna credits Ark for ‘inspiring’ her to continually push boundaries in science career

Thursday 23rd January 2020

Ark alumna Marcella Cilia studied at Burlington Danes Academy (BDA), in White City, London, from September 2012 to 2014. Throughout her time at BDA, she fell in love with the natural world and went on to study geology and physical geography at the University of Birmingham.

Ark Music

Meet the Curriculum Creator: Margaret O'Shea, the Director of Ark Music

Thursday 16th January 2020

Meet the Curriculum Creator is a four-part series of chats with some of the educators working on Ark Curriculum Partnerships (ACP). Throughout the month, we will introduce you to our heads of English, music, science and maths.

Mabast Hussein, Kenan Salkic and Ammar Roomi

Ark alumni return to school to pilot their coding project

Wednesday 15th January 2020

Ark alumnus Mabast Hussein graduated from Ark's Burlington Danes Academy (BDA) four years ago. Since he left school, the 21-year-old has gone on to study physics at Imperial College and is now completing his masters in computational finance at University College London.

English Master

Meet the Curriculum Creator: Nick Wallace, the Director of English Mastery

Friday 10th January 2020

Meet the Curriculum Creator is a four-part series of chats with some of the educators working on Ark Curriculum Partnerships (ACP). Throughout the month, we will introduce you to our heads of English, music, science and maths.

Donavere Benjamin-Mahon

Ark alumnus shares life-changing experience studying in Hong Kong during the protests

Thursday 9th January 2020

Ark alumnus Donavere Benjamin-Mahon left Ark’s Burlington Danes Academy three years ago. Since then, he has been studying politics and international relations at the University of Dundee.

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External blogs

The Guardian

How I've made Walworth Academy a safe space for students to share problems

Sunday 10th May 2015

The Guardian

‘Britain’s brightest student’ taking aim at teaching’s sacred cows

Tuesday 25th November 2014

The Telegraph (Blog)

The school that proves Michael Gove is right (King Solomon Academy)

Tuesday 30th September 2014

Times Education Supplement

‘How we achieved dramatically good GCSE results in the poorest ward in London’

Monday 22nd August 2011