August 25th, 2011 with No Comments
Haggerston School pupil Mae-Li Evans adds 10A*s and 1A to the title of Hackney Jack Petchey Speak Out challenge winner after impressing judges with her speech on procrastination.
Commenting on her grades, she said: “I was quite worried about one of my grades but it’s turned out well so I’m proud of that. Next year I’m [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
August 27th, 2010 with No Comments
A year after their GCSE results soared above the national average for the first time, schools across Hackney have unveiled another set of record-breaking results.
Several schools in the borough, including Our Lady’s Convent High School, Clapton Girls’ Technology School, Haggerston School and Hackney Free and Parochial Church of England Secondary School, have recorded their best [...]
June 29th, 2010 with No Comments
Over the past few weeks, students from across Hackney have been busy sitting their GCSE and A-Level exams, hoping that all their hard work will bring even greater success than their predecessors achieved last year.
To help give those students an extra boost, The Learning Trust and a number of Hackney secondary schools have designed, printed [...]