Haggerston School performed Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ to over 100 primary school students and an audience of 600 staff, family and friends over three nights last week.
Headteacher, Dr Jane Keeley, said “Everyone I spoke to was extremely impressed, especially those who had never seen a Haggerston production before, and who did not know [...]
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Lord of the Flies – Haggerston School
Chaotic, messy but always fun! Hackney’s adventure playgrounds
The Summer Holidays are always the busiest time of the year for Shoreditch and Hackney Marsh Adventure Playgrounds – the two that are run by the Learning Trust in Hackney, which has 7 in total. Here, Play Development Manager Nick Jackson tells us more about them…..
To the uninitiated they may seem at first to be [...]
Hackney children enjoy summer school in countryside
Pupils from Gainsborough Primary School in Hackney have just got back from a week-long residential summer school at the Kench Hill Centre in Kent.
During their trip, children helped in the centre’s new kitchen garden, funded by the Big Lottery’s Local Food programme, and harvested fruit and vegetables. Many of the children had never visited the [...]
Did you know?
Hackney schools have been the springboard for many stars of stage and screen, sports, business and more besides.Here are just a few of the famous faces who started out in our schools:
Freema Agyeman, Star of Dr Who, Torchwood and Law and Order (Our Lady’s Convent High School)
Labrinth, Singer-songwriter (Stoke Newington School)
Patsy Palmer, Actress, star of [...]
Beijing visitors delight Hackney pupils with dancing and music
Pupils from Our Lady and St Joseph’s RC Primary School in Hackney welcomed children from Beijing as part of a special exchange arranged as part of preparations for London 2012.
Nearly forty children and teachers from the Hai Dan district in Beijing visited the South Hackney school and performed dances and music in traditional costume.
After watching [...]
Bright lights await Clapton girl after winning place at RADA
After five rounds of gruelling auditions a budding young Hackney performer is overjoyed to have been awarded one of only fifteen places this year for female actresses at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA).
Selected from over 3,500 applications nineteen year old Rashmika Torchia is no stranger to success, being congratulated in August [...]
Learning Trust’s Music Service is first class!
Young musicians in Hackney are receiving first class tuition and support according to an official report on The Learning Trust’s Music Service.
The external review conducted by the Federation of Music Services (FMS) in partnership with the Department for Education (DfE), concluded that the Service is outstanding. It praised in particular the many opportunities for Hackney [...]
Hackney pupils judge book award
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 [...]
Hackney’s here!
Children from six Hackney schools have collaborated during June and July with six visual artists to create gigantic works of art for the exhibition Hackney’s Here!
Exploring scale and what it means to live in Hackney in 2010, children and artists have been challenged to fill the 4,300 sq ft outdoor courtyard at SPACE with works [...]
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