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Join us at Butchers' Hall on Friday 10th January for our first Court Lunch of the year at our annual celebration of Charity and Education, with our two major charities. Our guest speaker will be Djamila Boothman, Teach First Trustee and Assistant Principal at Totteridge Academy, and we will also be welcoming Donna Edmonds, CEO of Farms for City Children.

As is tradition, we will also be welcoming the winner of the Gary Baker Award 2024, to embrace our support of education in the industry.

Guest Speaker: Djamila Boothman

Djamila Boothman is currently an Assistant Headteacher in a high-performing North London Secondary School (TES Secondary School of the Year, 2023). As Teach First Safeguarding Trustee and 2016 Ambassador, she passionately advocates that addressing educational disadvantage must be addressed through both the curriculum and pastoral offer. As a school leader, she has held positions of responsibility for both pastoral and teaching and learning. As a safeguarding lead, she worked under the premise that embedding a strong safeguarding culture and promoting student welfare across a school can mitigate against a child’s challenging socioeconomic circumstances in order to ensure they can thrive. As an induction coordinator, she is committed to supporting teachers in developing effective strategies for facilitating a positive and productive learning environment in which students can succeed. 

As an English teacher, Djamila values the power that literature has as a gateway to new worlds and experiences and is committed to improving cultural representation in the English literature curriculum as a means of increasing student inquiry, attainment, promoting pride and placing equal value and celebration on the lived experiences of all children sitting in Britain’s classrooms. She is the co-author of Collins Who We Are Key Stage 3 Anthology, Through Our Eyes GCSE Key Stage 4 anthology and All of Us Key Stage 5 Anthology. Djamila firmly believes that school leaders lose the right to say that their schools are working to address educational disadvantage if they do not explicitly teach and maintain high expectations of how students speak and is the author of Collins Develop Brilliant Speaking - Build oracy skills in KS3 to empower every child. 

Djamila has been recognised for her community-based work to engage students and families (100 Teachers Campaign, 2021) including the UK’s first Windrush Day School Festival, a sponsored walk for water and a documentary entitled Hush We Came on Windrush⁠—as well as her work to address the issue of disproportionality in schools.

The price of the lunch is £105 per person, inc VAT which includes drinks reception, a three-course lunch with wine, and a Stirrup Cup.

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