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Dyslexia no barrier for high-flying Petchey Academy student

August 25th, 2011 with No Comments

A Petchey Academy student is celebrating today after overcoming the barriers presented to her by dyslexia to excel in her GCSEs.
Esme Kirk, 15, secured all excellent GCSEs including an A* in History and a B in maths. The grades will allow her to go on and study English Literature, History and Textiles at The Petchey [...]

Record results at Hackney Free and Parochial Secondary School

August 25th, 2011 with No Comments

For the third consecutive year, students at Hackney Free and Parochial Secondary School in Paragon Road are celebrating record GCSE results.
77% of Year 11 students achieved five or more GCSE grades at A* to C. This is a 21% increase on the previous year. 45% of students achieved five or more GCSEs grades A*-C including [...]

Stoke Newington School achieves its best GCSE results yet

August 25th, 2011 with 1 Comment

Just one week after celebrating chart-topping A Level results, Stoke Newington School has achieved its best GCSE results yet. Seventy-two per cent of students achieved five good GCSEs, an increase of 8% on last year. Over 38% of Year 11 students got 3 or more A /A* grades – again an increase from 28% last year. This follows [...]

Hard work and dedication pays off at Cardinal Pole

August 25th, 2011 with No Comments

Three students at Cardinal Pole Catholic School, Hackney, are celebrating today after achieving an incredible 18 A*s, 9As and 3 Bs between them
Nneoma Nwaosu, Georgina Appeagyei and Aminat Oladipupo are just three of the many students at Cardinal Pole celebrating impressive results today – these are the best GCSE results yet for the South Hackney [...]

Hackney school raises EBacc results by over 10%

August 25th, 2011 with No Comments

Our Lady’s Convent High School students saw their English Baccalaureate (EBacc) percentage rise to 36%, an impressive 21% above last year’s national average. In 2010, the EBacc was introduced by the Department for Education as a performance measure for students studying their GCSEs. It recognises the students who secure good GCSE passes across a breadth [...]

Hackney youngsters make themselves heard!

June 8th, 2011 with No Comments

Yewande Daramola aged 15 from Haggerston School, scooped top prize in the Hackney final of Jack Petchey’s ‘Speak Out’ Challenge! 2010-11, held at Haggerston School on 26th May 2011.
Yewande’s speech on her chosen subject, ‘Addiction’ won her an iPod touch and a chance to go through to the Gala Grand Final of the Speak Out [...]

Hackney pupils judge book award

May 27th, 2011 with No Comments

The votes are in….and Hackney pupils have declared ‘The Uniform’ by Tommy Donbavand the winner of the 2011 Hackney Short Novel Awards!
Now in its second year, the Awards sees pupils from secondary schools in Hackney reading and reviewing a shortlist of five novels and voting for a winner. The Short Novels Awards scheme is the [...]

School with century-long heritage pioneers 21st century approach with new building

April 12th, 2011 with No Comments

A brand new school which incorporates a history dating back 120 years with a modern approach to classroom design has been officially opened in Hackney.
Skinners’ Academy, in the Woodberry Down regeneration area of Hackney, was declared open this week (Tuesday 12 April) by HRH the Duke of Gloucester KG GCVO at an opening ceremony attended [...]

Awards celebrate success of Hackney’s teaching community

April 28th, 2010 with No Comments

On 1 March 2010, Hackney’s teaching and learning community celebrated the achievements of the people responsible for making its schools among the most improved in the country at The Learning Trust Educators’ Awards.
Teachers, support staff, governors, headteachers, business partners and childcare workers were recognised at the biennial event, held at the Tower Hotel, St Katherine’s [...]

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