Global Girl Leading Study Tour

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From 17th-22nd March, eight students from across Mulberry Schools Trust will be travelling to New York for a Global Girl Leading study tour. Students will take part in the United Nations International School’s 2024 Conference: Equal Rights Equal Heights: Climbing the Ladder of Gender Equality. They will then engage with a variety of activities, including school visits and cultural opportunities.

The aims of the tour are to:

  • Engage students as global citizens
  • To share priorities for girls’ education, voice and leadership
  • To conduct an educational enquiry
  • To explore ideas for partnership work through Global Girl Leading
  • To enable students to act as ambassadors for their peers and local communities

7th Annual Education Lecture in celebration of International Day of the Girl 2023

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Wednesday 11th October 2023

The Mulberry Schools Trust is a flourishing collaboration of schools and partners that believe in the power of education to bring about lasting social change. The Trust currently includes Mulberry School for Girls, Mulberry UTC, Mulberry Academy Shoreditch, Mulberry Stepney Green Maths, Computing and Science College, Mulberry Wood Wharf Primary, Mulberry Academy Woodside, Mulberry Canon Barnett Primary and Mulberry Academy London Dock. At the heart of our Trust sits the commitment to ‘outstanding achievement for all’. We provide our students with the knowledge and skills to become successful, confident individuals capable of making a valuable contribution to their own community, to British society and to global well-being.

The Mulberry Schools Trust was delighted to welcome Susan Acland-Hood, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education to deliver our Annual Lecture on the International Day of the Girl 2023 to an audience of pupils, parents and friends of Mulberry. Susan Acland-Hood has been the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education (DfE) since September 2020. Susan studied at Cambridge University and has a History MA and an MPhil in Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought.

Her Civil Service career began in the then Department for Education and Employment in 1999. Before taking on the role at the DfE, Susan was Chief Executive of Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service. From 2015 to 2016 she was Director of Enterprise and Growth at HM Treasury, responsible for policies on growth, energy, the environment, business, infrastructure, exports, competition and markets. She was Director of the Education and Funding Group at the DfE from 2013 to 2015, and before that held a range of posts covering education and justice policy, including in the Prime Minister’s Office in No.10, the Home Office, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Social Exclusion Unit.

In her role as Permanent Secretary, Susan leads the day-to-day running of the department and heads the senior leadership teams. Susan is responsible and accountable to Parliament for the stewardship of the department’s budget and ensuring value for money as the Principal Accounting Officer. Susan is also the Chief Policy Adviser to the Secretary of State and the ministerial team.

Global Girl Leading Conference 2023

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Mulberry Schools Trust held its annual Global Girl Leading conference on Wednesday 11th October 2023 to celebrate the International Day of the Girl.

Now in its 11th year, the day highlights and address the needs and challenges girls face, while promoting girls’ empowerment and the fulfilment of their human rights.

The event brought students together from across the world to address these aims in a truly global way, celebrating the progress that has been made so far and learning how to face future challenges that may lie ahead.

Students heard from trailblazers in a variety of sectors, with panels focusing on media representation and responding to humanitarian crises.

The event was run in person at Mulberry School for Girls and streamed online.

The recording can be accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGZsWezZShg. 

 

Online donations to Mulberry Schools Foundation now welcome

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The Mulberry Schools Foundation is now receiving donations to its two funding streams to support its charitable work.

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Mulberry Schools Trust Endowment Fund

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The Mulberry School’s Foundation seeks to build a lasting and growing resource for our area through an endowment.

The Endowment Fund aims to protect the future activities of the Foundation to provide a stable, sustainable source of income to fund our work in the long term.

Donations to fund are invested. The fund’s income is derived from the increase in its value. The aim is to produce a consistent amount for charitable spending today while protecting the value of the fund for future generations.

This will help to enable the Mulberry Schools Foundation to take strategic planning decisions and be confident that we can be there for young people who need us.

Schona Jolly KC guest speaker at renowned Annual Education Lecture

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On Tuesday 14th March, we were delighted that Schona Jolly KC, delivered our Mulberry Schools Trust Annual Education Lecture for 2023. Staff, students, Trustees and friends of Mulberry attended the renowned event at The Royal Society of Arts.

Schona is a leading barrister at Cloisters Chambers. She is well-known for her work on international human rights, equality and employment law with a crossover into AI and sports law. Schona spoke about her life at the Bar and why human rights and the rule of law matter.

Some of her most recognised work in recent years includes her representation of Caster Semenya before the European Court of Human Rights, influential cases in respect of the gig economy and complex whistleblowing and discrimination claims.

Schona is a Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London and was Chair of the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales from 2019–2021.