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Celebrating music-making in Haringey
Haringey Music Service is delighted to be returning to the Royal Albert Hall on Friday 1 April 2022.
The concert will feature young musicians from all over Haringey, including choirs from local primary and secondary schools, and there will be performances from the Haringey Young Musicians ensembles including their Symphony Orchestra, Big Band, Guitar Orchestra, Percussion Group, Steel Band and Youth Choir.
Haringey Music Service have been working with living Haringey composers to bring you world premieres of multiple works, including a large scale performance of the new work Songs for Unsung Heroes by Ty Lowe and Peter Desmond. There will also be a specially commissioned piece featuring performers from special educational needs settings across the borough.
Join us for an exciting celebration of music uniting young people from across Haringey.
Read Alexandra Palace’s March newsletter here
Including Biblio-buzz 2022 awards ceremony on Friday 25 March.
Apply to join Ally Pally’s new Young Actors Company for 18-24 year olds.
New River Sports and Fitness in partnership with To the Whistle, Little Cubs, London Skolars and Haringey Rhinos presents its Easter Eggstravaganza holiday camps. The Easter Camps will be running from 4 – 14 April.
Camps are available for 3 – 15 years, you can book one day or all nine days. Places funded for those receiving free school meals.
The camps will have a range of activities, with a grand Inflatable finale on 14 of April. Parents, friends and families area all welcome to attend.
The Heritage & Honour Collection is a creative social enterprise documenting and collecting content on Black British Female History from 1500-1999.
They provide educational and historical presentations, creative workshops, talks and private bespoke workshops for schools and groups interested in knowing more on black British female history.
The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA), together with Barclays, Intel, and the Learning Foundation, is launching new funding to tackle digital poverty in schools.
Paul Finnis, Digital Poverty Alliance CEO says teachers must not be forgotten by the Government or industry in efforts to provide better digital access and boost tech skills.
DPA research has shown that nearly half of teachers don’t have adequate access to the Internet
The Learning Foundation has announced new funding for Tech4Teachers, a project that will provide computers to teachers at schools in disadvantaged communities. The organisations are coming together on this project under the umbrella of the Digital Poverty Alliance, which is run by the Learning Foundation.
The campaign will provide 550 devices to teachers who lack adequate online access, to enable them to better support 20,000+ school children in the most disadvantaged communities. In addition, a new collaboration room for teachers, sponsored by Intel and Barclays, will be created on the Digital Poverty Alliance community hub. It will serve as an area for participating teachers to share best practices, ask questions, and seek guidance.
The new funding for the programme will come from Intel and Barclays. Intel Corporation will provide funding as part of their RISE initiatives to create a more Responsible, Inclusive, and Sustainable world, Enabled through technology. RISE focuses on Intel partnering with organisations worldwide to apply their solutions and expertise to geographically unique problems as well as global challenges. Barclays part of the funding will come from Barclays 100×100 UK COVID-19 Community Relief Fund. All of this follows the success of the initial phase of the Tech4teachers programme funded by Currys in 2021, which provided 1,000 laptops for teachers and teaching assistants at schools across the UK. After the project, the Learning Foundation will evaluate the impact and create a white paper with policy recommendations for the Department for Education.
Most Haringey households in properties with council tax bands A to D will receive a one-off council tax energy rebate payment of £150 to help with rising energy costs.
It is quicker and easier for residents to receive their £150 payment if they pay their council tax by direct debit. We will make the £150 payment to the bank account they use to pay their council tax once we have received their first direct debit payment in April 2022.
If they don’t pay by direct debit, they will need to wait until we write to them and invite them to claim their £150 payment online. To get their payment easily, they can sign up to pay their council tax by direct debit using Haringey My Account.
Find out more on our website: Council Tax Energy Rebate.
Well done to the young people from Haringey Vox choir who performed One Day before the Tottenham Hotspurs v Everton Premier League match on Monday 7 March.
Haringey Vox, part of Haringey Music Service, comprises young people aged 11-18 from schools and post-16 colleges across the borough. Vox has previously performed at the BBC Proms, the Royal Albert Hall and on tours to both South Africa and Barbados.
Haringey Vox is open to any young person in Haringey and holds weekly rehearsals at Chestnuts Community Centre in Tottenham.
One Day is song expressing hope that one day our world will stop fighting and people will embrace kindness and freedom, it was originally recorded by US reggae artist, Matisyahu. The song offers a message of peace in light of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
The Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for the Environment, Transport and the Climate Emergency, Cllr Mike Hakata, paid a visit to Noel Park Primary School on Wednesday to present Angela Salih with a Gold certificate and star for their incredible work on the TfL Stars programme.
As Noel Park Primary’s school travel champion, Angela has worked hard on delivering active travel and behaviour change/modal shift activities for the last four years, resulting in this great achievement of becoming a TfL Gold Stars school.
Noel Park Primary is now deservedly among the capital’s top 10% of sustainable travel schools. They’ve achieved a 6% change away from car use; delivered more than 30 different activities to enable and encourage behaviour change and built road safety knowledge within the school.
Many congratulations to Angela and the teachers and staff, pupils and parents at Noel Park Primary School!