Author Archive | Neil Shadbolt

We would like to invite you to attend a Community Engagement Event to review plans for the proposed redevelopment of the Francis Barber PRU site at Tooting. For more details please see the attached flyer and Public Consultation sheets. If you are unable to attend but would like to comment, please use the ‘Request for […]

The students in Pathways visited the Natural History Museum, as part of the English Curriculum in Pathways, for Writing (Things to do in London). The students explored many areas in the museum and applied their social skills in a public setting. They were also given the opportunity to explore South Kensington, a different area away […]

During their Creative curriculum lessons our students have created these lovely boxes and decorated them with different materials and colourful accessories. The students loved making their designs and really enjoyed comparing their boxes with their different creativity

Starr and Kallai were the two students who were nominated by Francis Barber for the Jack Petchey awards which were held at the Civic Suite at Wandsworth Town Hall on Wednesday 1st February. Kallai has made incredible progress in recent weeks. His attendance is excellent and he has been working really hard and is doing really well, […]

The Art GCSE coursework incorporates self-portraits in the style of different artists. When a pupils finishes a piece of work, this then gets photographed to go into their sketchbook and a copy is put onto a postcard to be sent home to the parents and carers to see.

Year 11 pupils were very lucky to have a visit from the British film director Andrea Arnold OBE on Friday 25th November this year. Andrea came into the Tooting site (with her dog!) to talk to pupils about her early part of her  journey to success and what it has taken to get to where […]

On Thursday 20th October year 11 students took part in Interview Skills Day. Please read the attached reports for more information on what was a very successful Interview Skills Day. Report on Interview Skills Day Interview Skills Day Contributors 2022

Today, the Chair of the Art exam board visited us at Francis Barber. He was very pleased with his warm welcome from Joan and thoroughly enjoyed Jackie T’s delicious lunch! He took photos of the GCSE Art work to help with the identification of grading for this year’s GCSE Art exam.   Click on this link […]

Thursday also saw a visit from the Mayor’s funding team to see how our garden project is progressing. He was very pleased with our progress. As well as the Tooting garden, he was shown photos of the gardens at Providence and Westdean where lots of work has also taken place and he was really pleased with […]

On Thursday a member of staff spotted a young female fox that had become trapped in the new garden area in Tooting. In its attempt to escape she hurt her leg which meant she needed help from the RSPCA to be rescued and taken to a vet. Thanks to the bravery and expert skills of […]