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Year 7 recently took part in a Maths and PE Project Day. Each tutor group spent one day looking at different aspects of Maths in the Olympic Games. This was an excellent opportunity fort our Y7s to develop their knowledge of how to keep fit and to use their Maths skills to investigate a range of Olympic themed issues. Y7 researched Olympic medal facts, showed this information using graphs and then made their own Olympic rings using origami (paper folding). Y7 put in a huge amount of effort, asked some brilliant questions and took a lot from the day. Well done Y7!

Congratulations to Year 10 for doing so well in GCSE Maths a year early! This includes all of Mr Awuley’s class who all achieved a Grade A*-C and three students who have the top grade of an A*. This is the first time this has happened in Year 10!

Year 10 GCSE Drama students worked with Emergency Exit Arts to develop their own piece of theatre based on protest. The students recently performed at Southwark College and outside the Old Vic Theatre at Waterloo. In addition the students created a magazine based on the theme of protest and presented the outcomes of the project at a conference held at the Imperial War Museum. Click here for more details.

Under the excellent supervision of Chef Tim from Chartwells Catering Y8 took part in Ready Steady Cook. Ana Teixeira and Imran Hussein made ginger and garlic beef patties served with stirfry noodles in hoisin sauce and competed against Kayleigh Galton and Kearon Douglas who made sweet and sour quorn served with coriander rice. The Green Tomatos won with their sweet and sour quorn!

The Y11 Army Leadership Academy students recently visited Blandford Army Base in Dorset where they participated in a number of leadership activities with serving British Army soldiers from the Royal Signals.

The Young Chamber Team organised the Spring Fair on Tuesday 27 March. It was a great success with many students selling items on their stalls. Students also took part in football, ping pong, trampolinging and an Easter egg hunt.

Omnicom Media Group and PlayStation recently set Y10 a fantastic challenge - how would they market the PlayStation brand so it becomes the number one brand of choice in the UK? 10 mentors from Omnicom Group are supporting 10 teams of our Y10 students prepare a pitch which would achieve this. Y10 have really risen to the challenge and we expect to see some fantastic team work, brilliant ideas and excellent final pitches.

Whitehouse Consultancy, a political and public affairs consultancy, recently prepared and judged U9 students in a formal debate: "Peaceful vs Violent Protest: which methods are more effective?". Thankfully, the group arguing for peaceful methods were the ultimate champions!

Y8 recently visited King’s College which is part of the University London. Students met undergraduates and had a tour!

On Friday 16 March Dan Freedman visited LBTS. Dan talked about his career and books to Y8 and Y9. The library has also organised a Football festival to celebrate his visit with competition, quizzes and football challenges. Check out Dan's amazing books at here or in the library.

A group of Y10 and Y11 students visited the Worshipful Company of Information Technology to find about the different career paths available in ICT. Students had the chance to talk about the growth of programming and gaming as major industries as well as finding out about the different career paths available at IBM.

On Sunday 19 May, our Y9 students took part in the Army Outreach Project Discovery Day at Blackheath. Students participated in a gruelling series of team challenges which required problem solving, lateral thinking, team work and physical stamina.All our students had a great day and enjoyed the experience so much that everyone is hoping to be selected for the 5 day Outreach Project in Wales in May!

Our Yr 10 Art students recently spent the afternoon at Tate Britain. The students enjoyed the experience of studying art through the ages and investigating the variety of ways you can produce Art.

A group of Y9 students recently attended the Model United Nations Conference at the International Maritime Organisation. The event was part of the 'Uniting the Nations' programme with the focus being 'The Olympic Truce' and how it should be implemented for the 2012 Olympic Games. The students took on the roles of ambassadors from different countries and debated the logistics and possible changes to the Olympic Truce. The debates involved communicating with students from a range of schools across the country and persuading people to vote with them, or against others.

LBTS is part of the BBC School Report Day in which students create a short news report about the issues that matter to them. Please click here to see our latest BBC School Report.

3 LBTS students recently attended the Mayor's Thanksgiving Service on Sunday 11 March 2012. It was a great honour for our students to be chosen to represent the young people of Lambeth at this very special event.

This year our celebrations for World Book Day included a free book for all Year 7 pupils, a £1 book vouchers for all students and a trip to Brixton Library for the final of the Phoenix Book Award 2012!

The LBTS choir recently performed at Wembley Arena as part of a 4000 strong mass singing event in aid of charity. The choir had a fantastic day out and represented LBTS extremely well. If you would like to join the choir and be part of this amazing experience and other events in the future speak to Mr. Burns in Music or attend choir practice during lunchtime on Wednesdays.

A group of Y9 girls recently took part in a workshop with Dare to Dance. The students were taught 4 different styles of dance and 2 students, Tiffany and Glaucia were given a prizes for their work. If you would like to get involved with Dare to Dance then come to the PE office for more information.

On Wednesday 29th February, a group of our Year 7 students took a creative leap at The Ministry of Stories. In its secret location, behind The Monster Supplies store, The Ministry of Stories set the group a mission to create 17 stories in 2 hours! Undaunted, the group produced a fantastic selection of original and professionally illustrated stories.

Today 124 Y6 students will start their journey to adulthood with LBTS. Yet again LBTS is oversubscribed so congratulations to those who have been given a place at one of the 200 most improved schools in England for the last 3 years. See here  for further details.

We look forward to seeing you at the Induction Evening on 10 May and at the Taster Day on 6 July. Your home learning until you start is to find out what very important scientific discovery was made on this date in 1896!

Colin Gottlieb from Omnicom Media Group recently launched a year long project with year Y10. Over the next few months the whole year group will be organised into different Media Agencies who will then be preparing and presenting a pitch to Sony PlayStation!

On Thursday 9 February our Y11 Citizenship students visited City Hall to learn about the Mayor of London's plans to develop London. Students also learnt about the budget and the Olympic games preparations.

A group Y7 students recently visited IBM to as part of Internet Safety Day. This event was led by the IBM Cyber Mentors and students listened to talks about how to keep themselves and family members safe on social networks and when playing games on line. Students then presented their ideas on how to use the internet safely to the Y7s who did not attend the event.

The school runs a free toast club every morning for students from 8.00am until 8.15am. Students get to make their own toast with a choice of spreads whilst listening to the radio or reading a newspaper.

LBTS has launched its own online Art Gallery showcasing KS3 and KS4 work. Click here and use the navigation on the left to explore the site to look at sketchbook work, final pieces and animation.

Everyday a group of Y7 boys come into school early to attend 'Rise and Read' All of the boys are improving their reading levels and social skills. Well done boys. Keep pushing yourself to achieve better!

After a huge amount of hard work and practice students from across the school participated in this year's Winter Concert. With a jam packed line up introduced by our two excellent hosts, Isaac and Tosin, the standard of musicianship stunned the audience, who were warm and respectful throughout.

Year 11 students visited China Town on Sunday 29 January for the Chinese New Year celebrations. Students learnt about how multicultural London has become over the years.

On Thursday 26 January the latest school league tables were published.

LBTS was featured on the BBC News throughout the day due to its remarkable achievement of being one of the 200 most improved schools in England for 5A*-C with English and Maths for 2011. This is the 3rd year running that the school has been in the top 200. In addition our 'value added' score, which measures the progress students make from when they start until when they leave, was exceptional and for the 5th year running places LBTS in the top 10% of schools in England for value added.

Watch the BBC News clip here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16743283

On 20 January Y9 students participated in a careers seminar and workshop ledby Enfuse London. The seminar featured a guest speaker from KPMG who are a leading global financial services company. During the workshop LBTS students were required to come up with an innovative marketing strategy for KPMG whilst considering how to market themselves as competitive future leaders.

On Tuesday 17 January Y7 girls took part in a national programme designed to inspire girls into choosing careers in engineering and the sciences. The day involved a number of interactive group activities where students were able to think as engineers and improve their career awareness in this field. The children were inspired by guest speaker Ruth Amos who used a design idea from when she was a Year 11 student to set up her own successful business.

LBTS is pleased to announce that Georgia Frimpong and Salah Faisel have both been accepted to study Law and Economics at Cambridge University from 2012. We are very proud of them.

Throughout last week ex students came into school to talk at assembly about their careers and university degrees. Honey talked about studying to be a barrister, Ola told us about his degree and basketball scholarship and others described a wide range of careers ranging from bus driver to business consultant and from weight loss consultant to medicine.

On Friday 6 January our 6th form Pioneers attended the Topping Out Ceremony for LBTS6. The Mayor of Lambeth was our Guest of Honour and helped us celebrate the end of phases 1, 2 and 3 of the building of the LBTS6.

The LBTS Players recently performed 'Moulin Rouge' in our new theatre. The production was a huge success! The performers had to dance, sing and act and did so to a very high standard. Students also had to create their own costumes and apply their own make up which was done very professionally. The audience responded very well with lots of cheering and clapping to the music.

LBTS Theatre presents Moulin Rouge. Performances will be on Monday the 12th of December & Tuesday the 13th of December at 5.30pm.

The year 10 boys football team recently played and beat Globe Academy in the London Cup. Goals came from Cain Morris, Ryheem Sheckleford, Dean Penn and Craig Baker. Lilian Baylis won 5-4 and now progress to the last 16 of the cup.

LBTS has staff and a group of Y11 students were recently trained to become FAST (Families And Schools Together) trainers. The FAST programme supports families with the difficult transition to secondary school through a programme of workshops and events and was run at LBTS in early 2011.

LBTS hosted its annual 'Eid Show' celebrating diversity at the school. It was a wonderful night in which students from all year groups took part. After a number of amazing performances some delicious food was served!

LBTS has joined the national anti-bullying campaign. Its slogan is ‘Stop and think – words can hurt!’ and it is focused on tackling verbal bullying and raising the awareness of the impact of negative language.The Y9 Anti Bullying Champions (ABCs) are working on promoting the campaign throughout he school.

The Angola Show took place on Wednesday 9 November. It was an amazing show with students from Y7- Y11 taking part and enjoying the food. The atmosphere was fun and lively and the audience even had a chance to participate in the dancing at the end!

Our Penathlon team triumph again!! This year they won the Polybat and Table Cricket tournamenta at Westway Sports Centre on 8th November. Lilian Baylis are already looking forward to the regional finals to be played in February at Southfields School.

The Black History Month Show took place on Wednesday 19th October. It was a fantastic show with students from different year groups participating.

The Y8 boys football team recently beat Chestnut Grove 10-1 in the South London Cup.

On Wednesday 19 October the Youth Chamber team will be holding a Black History Show that includes poetry, dancing, singing and a fashion show. All students are welcome.

As part of their very first project day at LBTS Year 7 visited the London Transport Museum to look at how journeys around London have changed and what bus rides will look like in the future.

This half term Year 8 have been learning about the Tower of London. This week Year 8 visited the Tower and saw how it is still being used today.

Y9 students recently visited the World Skills Expo. There were displays and exhibitions about a wide range of trades and skills and the students took lots of challenges.