Children’s Minister Tim Loughton visited Clapton Girls’ Academy in Hackney to present Linklaters with the Prime Minister’s Big Society Award for its ‘Learn for Work’ programme.
The programme sees over 400 Linklaters staff give 3,500 hours of their time to support 2,500 young people in more than 50 schools. It’s an international scheme which Linklaters [...]
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Climate Week film competition – you decide!
The Learning Trust needs your help to decide the winner of our exciting Climate Week film competition.
Children across the borough have been busy making short films with a message about climate change and what we can do to tackle it. The children were allowed to make any sort of film they liked – so entries [...]
Students go Bananas for charity
Our Lady’s Convent High School students have raised an impressive amount of money for charity over the past year. Students have organised cake bakes, bucket collections and raffles and collected £6,300 for a range of good causes. The charities range from Action for Blind people, British Red Cross, Children in Need, The Foundation [...]
Top acts sign up to Hackney Weekend
Radio 1 DJs have been popping in to Hackney schools this week to spread the word about the huge, free Hackney Weekend summer concert.
DJ’s Vis and Ace who present 1Xtra weekends 4-7pm, went to Our Lady’s Convent High School to urge students to sign up for a chance to see some of the top [...]
Author visits Our Lady’s for World Book Day
Year 7 and 8 Pupils at Our Lady’s Convent Secondary School were fortunate enough to get to meet ten authors and enjoy a series of readings, quizzes and games in celebration of World Book Day and Book Week. One of their visitors was JD Sharpe, the author of teen horror thriller, ‘Oliver Twisted’, a book based on the Charles Dickens classic.
Their chance came [...]
Moving towards sustainability: work at Kench Hill
Kench Hill, located in Kent, is our outdoor learning centre. Every year, hundreds of Hackney schoolchildren come here on residential study trips. In recent years, the centre has been striving to become a sustainable ‘eco-centre’. Here, the team discuss some of the things they’ve been doing.
Cutting Food Miles
We now grow up to 80% of our [...]
Climbing trees
Nick Jackson, Play Development Manager, talks about the importance of risk and adventure in childhood.
Climbing a tree seems like the quintessential childhood experience. Many people I talk to over the age of 30 have climbing trees as one of their most preciously held childhood memories. I did it myself – a lot! Yet for children [...]
Star of The Wire visits his old Hackney school
Idris Elba, star of US series The Wire and BBC’s Luther, paid a visit to Queensbridge Primary School recently. Idris, who grew up in Hackney and attended Queensbridge as a child, was in town to promote the London 2012 Torch Relay and 2012 Festival. Take a look at the video he made.
Idris told teachers that [...]
A magical day at Buckingham Palace for Hackney students
Students from Clapton Girls’ Academy went to Buckingham Palace to collect an award from the Duke of Edinburgh for their win at the English Speaking Union London School Debate Challenge.
Student Najma Ahmed said: “I walked into Buckingham Palace feeling incredibly overwhelmed by its beauty, the corridor decorated in rich deep red and gold. I can [...]
Lord of the Flies – Haggerston School
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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