School News

Sixteen year-old Jenny Spahl, from Berlin, has spent the past year studying at ELSS Sixth Form, and is about to return home to continue her education. Here she reflects on her experiences and on what she learned from her ‘year abroad’ with ELSS. We are sorry to see...

Sam Anderson joined ELSS as Head of Classics in 2017 and in that time he has overseen the expansion the department. Here, he explains a little about himself and the role of Classics at ELSS. “We now have both 6th form Latin and GCSE Ancient Greek, which is very rare...

The school's Leadership Programme was fortunate to be visited by Dr. Matthew Post of the University of Dallas this week. Matthew leads work evaluating and training American high-school teachers in the values, expectations and achievements of the growing classical...

In April a group of Year 9 Pupils took part in another of our Chinese cultural exchange visits. This time we were in Beijing, where pupils visited local schools, met local school students and stayed with host families. While in Beijing they visited the city's main...

“by the end of my tour around the school’s classrooms, homework space (there’s an hour of prep daily) and laboratories, it’s clear to me that whilst the youngsters at ELSS are encouraged to see how they are progressing in comparison with their peers, the overwhelming...

There was a full house this week in the ELSS 'Great Hall' for our first musical concert of the year. It was also the first concert under the leadership of Mr McPherson, who joined us as Head of Music in September 2018. Pupils varying in experience and age sang and...

Minister of State for School Standards the Rt Hon Nick Gibb MP wrote to our Principal Mr Perks at the start of April, praising our “school’s achievement in entering 85 per cent of your pupils into the EBacc and 98 percent of your pupils for a language GCSE in 2018.”...

Julia Ahoune joined our Language Department, as the Head of French, in January 2019. "I was born in Ivory Coast but was raised in France" she explains, "I attended a  boarding Catholic school and a business school in Lyon before moving to England to further my...

Choosing Knowledge 2019: Just Teach; the fourth annual education conference organised by East London Science School took place on Friday 29 March at The Building Centre in Fitzrovia WC1E. The conference is an opportunity for ELSS staff and interested members of the...

On a chilly spring March morning last week, ELSS Head of Classics Mr Anderson, and a group of enthusiastic Lower School pupils took to the open-air stage on Three Mills Green to read extracts from Homer’s Iliad - in 12  launguages including English, German, Arabic,...