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Annual Journal 2019 / 2020 Now More Than Ever We endures Annual Journal 2019 / 2020 now more than ever we Contents Chairman's welcome 4 Achievement snapshot 6 We serve 8 We care 12 We excel 16 Reflections 20 serve Our legacy 24 Our history 26 care eexcel Annual Journal 2019/20 3 ¬ nurses ¬ minibus drivers ¬ residents This journal is typically produced to share ¬ advice workers ¬ administrators stories from across our rich and diverse community, to celebrate our collective success, ¬ teaching staff ¬ care assistants and to reflect on another year in our charity’s long history. In these strange and difficult ¬ school heads ¬ home managers times, such an endeavour may seem an odd undertaking. However, it is how we react to ¬ maintenance & grounds teams times like these that defines us. And in the face ¬ carers ¬ students ¬ alumni of such adversity, we can all take huge pride ¬ volunteers ¬ support staff in the way our community has responded. ¬ home managers ¬ bursars ¬ housekeepers ¬ caterers ¬ pastoral staff ¬ chaplain ¬ governors ¬ counsellors We’ve seen staff and alumni from our schools battling to save lives in hospitals across the UK, DT teachers ¬ carers support staff manufacturing PPE for frontline workers, minibuses delivering essential supplies, care home residents sewing scrubs for the NHS, and staff at the Carers Support Centre arranging food parcels for carers as far afield as Milton Keynes and Plymouth. We’ve seen our community pull together and collaborate like never before in a time of great need, living and breathing the values our charity stands for. These are stories worth celebrating. This is a year worth reflecting on. As I do so, I’m minded of the motto which two of our three schools share – vincit qui patitur – which means ‘he who endures, succeeds’. We have endured much throughout this year. But if one success is to be celebrated, I hope it will be that of a community bound closer together. Christopher Houlding Chairman, John Whitgift Foundation 4 john whitgift foundation Annual Journal 2019/20 5 serve Whitgift and Trinity manufactured over care Wilhelmina House 3,000 resident turned visors for NHS staff care serve 106 48% excel excel Carers Information Service during first lockdown More than Whitgift students handles more than of all students helped score an incredible – oldest ever Whitgift with school fees Care resident 1 / 4 5,000 of Old Palace students 40/ 45 urgent carer enquiries care care receive highest possible and in the Global Trinity raised - provides 55 counselling sessions £6,000,000 A-Level and GCSE grades Top 10 of IB Schools. - and 150 online health and well-being sessions excel excel granted in bursaries by £100,000 John Whitgift Foundation in 36 hours after 90% 30 launching online of Trinity leavers students awarded bursary appeal receive place to places at Oxbridge 1st choice institution 6 john whitgift foundation Annual Journal 2019/20 7 we e servthe communities we are a part of, e inspiring others to do the same I’ve been volunteering Alumni, staff, and students essential supplies to those in need. our care homes – shuttling our staff at a local charity called report for duty Two brothers at Trinity have even to and from work to help minimise the launched a successful non-profit venture additional risks posed by taking public Compliments of the We’re extremely proud of the many – selling face masks to raise money for transport. students, staff, and alumni who have Shelter and other food bank charities. House. Normally, they reported for duty over the course of the pandemic – working on the front School minibuses shuttle key deliver surplus food line or volunteering to support those workers and supplies around them. Former students of Old from restaurants to Palace, Trinity, and Whitgift – some only With fewer students on site than usual a year or two out of medical school – before the schools reopened, Whitgift people in need. But with restaurants have been deployed to Nightingale and Trinity both offered up minibuses shut, they’ve had to find other ways of hospitals and intensive care units across and drivers to support local people in the country. Nurses at our schools have need. Whitgift's minibuses delivered sourcing food for people. In a single shift, joined the effort alongside them, after essential supplies from food banks to volunteering to rejoin the NHS in a people shielding in quarantine as well I’d be boxing enough food to support time of great need. And many current as to vulnerable families, who rely on students have volunteered to support school meals to ensure their children 20 or 30 families. It was really rewarding, those around them – signing up to be get at least one proper meal every NHS Responders or working with local day. In addition to working with CVA, and nice to get out of the house too. food banks and charities to deliver the minibuses were also offered up to Constanza, Year 11, Old Palace School of John Whitgift. 8 john whitgift foundation Annual Journal 2019/20 9 I hope that you are staying safe but also having fun and being happy, especially during this very hard time. I know that we will get through this Whitgift Community Summer School keeps local children learning together and everything will Last summer, Whitgift School be back to normal again soon. collaborated with Croydon Council to run a Year 5 Community Summer School Navinna, Old Palace of John Whitgift School Whitgift House residents – helping 142 local boys and girls from sew scrubs for NHS workers 22 different primary schools achieve their full academic potential and look Residents at Whitgift House beyond the pressures they and their decided to do their bit – sewing families may have encountered over the scrubs for NHS workers. past few months. Year 5 is a formative moment in a child’s education, a crucial learning phase in building towards the teaching stimulating lessons in the core transition to secondary school which subjects of English, Maths, and Science, has been massively disrupted for an with the addition of a range of exciting entire year group by school closures. enrichment lessons in Philosophy, And due to the nature of achievement Languages, Music Technology, and gaps, the negative effects of this will Sport. Much to their parents’ delight, land disproportionately on children from the boys and girls who attended 3,000 visors less privileged backgrounds. Funded not only developed their academic almost entirely by generous donations understanding but grew in confidence from Whitgift parents, and staffed and had the chance to mix with other Schools print +3,000 protective visors children as part of a school community – entirely by John Whitgift Foundation for frontline staff school teachers, the course focused on something many had greatly missed. Teachers and support staff from Whitgift and Trinity have put their skills and equipment to good use – 3D printing Blown away by the summer school. more than 3,000 protective visors for NHS staff at Croydon University Best summer school ever. Carers Information Service Hospital, as well as for staff at Whitgift delivers for carers House and Wilhelmina House. He really enjoyed the lessons and I can The impressive effort began with a The coronavirus has had a substantial simple design by Whitgift DTE teacher see his confidence growing. impact on carers and the vulnerable Mr Wendes, which has now been shared people who rely on them – often with schools right across the borough, rendering one or both unable to even inspiring other schools to follow suit. He was so pleased to tell us about what he had leave the house, due to the need to learned and the new friends he had made. shield or self-isolate. At the beginning of the outbreak, the Carers Information Service received hundreds of enquiries The science lesson my daughter had from carers as far afield as Milton Keynes was spectacular – she wants to and Plymouth worried about how they’d get access to food, medication, and become a microbiologist. other essentials. Fortunately, while the Carers Support Centre may have been My daughter has been closed, staff at the Carers Information Service were still hard at work – helping inspired to aim higher. carers get food parcels and emergency cards so they could shop quickly and Parent feedback about the safely during protected times. Whitgift Community Summer School 2020 10 john whitgift foundation Annual Journal 2019/20 11 £100,000+ Students and residents keep in touch We are all a bit lost, worried, and Trinity raises more than £100,000 by exchanging art and letters in just 36 hours concerned at the moment. I am also Children from Oakwood Primary joined Trinity School held its first Giving Day students from all three of our schools in extremely bored. I’d prefer to be at on Thursday 18th June – raising much exchanging letters, poems, and pictures needed donations for the Trinity Bursary with care home residents. The initiative school and see my friends.” Fund. The newly launched ‘Trinity Gives’ was launched at the start of the first website kept a tally of funds coming lockdown, to give young children and Diya, Old Palace School of John Whitgift in from all over the world to support residents a constructive way to tackle bursaries for students, particularly feelings of loneliness and isolation Trinity families whose finances have and to help bridge the gap between been affected by the pandemic. In total, generations. But over time, it grew into Thank you so much for all your letters. the Giving Day alone raised £115,000. something much larger. Students at We’re pleased you’re thinking of us and This year, the school raised in excess Trinity launched a ‘visual conversation’ of £250,000, more than half of what with residents, creating uplifting artworks have enjoyed reading all about you.
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