August 18th, 2011 with 1 Comment
Young people from across Hackney are celebrating today after achieving outstanding results in their A levels.
Students nervously gathered at schools and colleges across the borough this morning before receiving the news they were hoping for – and jumped straight on the phone to spread the good news!
Initial indications suggest these are Hackney’s best results yet [...]
August 18th, 2011 with No Comments
The number of students getting top grades at A level has shot up by more than 50% in just one year at Stoke Newington School & Sixth Form. More than half (55%) of A level students at the inner London comprehensive’s sixth form have achieved A*, A or B grades – up from 33% in [...]
August 18th, 2011 with No Comments
Clapton Girls’ Technology College are celebrating another fantastic year of A level results – with a number of girls acing all of their exams and securing places at some of Britain’s top universities.
Temitope Ibitoye received A*AB in Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, going to study neuro-science at Kings College. She said: “I’m so pleased with my results [...]
August 18th, 2011 with No Comments
Cardinal Pole Sixth Form is celebrating yet another great set of A Level results.
One of the success stories was that of Melissa Zaman, who notched up AABB in Biology, Chemistry, Psychology and Maths. She is going on to study Neuroscience at Kings College London. She said: ‘I am really relieved; I thought I was [...]
August 18th, 2011 with No Comments
The student leadership team from Our Lady’s Convent High School has excelled in their A-Level results, amassing 2A* and 10 A grades collectively.
School Captain, Nancy Adimora and Vice-Captains, Lady-Namera Ejaimike, Kerry Culbert, Keziah Arthur and Sochima Onyenemelu dedicated a significant amount of time to leading the School Council and their peers at Our Lady’s, [...]
August 18th, 2011 with No Comments
Lady – Namera Ejaimike, from Our Lady’s Convent High School, will soon be swapping her school books for a white coat after securing three As in her A levels and being offered a place to study medicine at University College London (UCL).
The news from UCL comes after many years of hard work and determination by [...]
August 2nd, 2011 with No Comments
Pupil’s results in English and Maths have risen again as Hackney primary schools record their best ever Key Stage Two results.
The total percentage of pupils achieving Level 4 or above in English and Maths before they leave primary school has risen from 71% to 76%. This is one of the biggest improvements in the country, [...]
July 25th, 2011 with No Comments
Our Lady’s Convent High School played host to pupils from other Hackney schools at a special conference to look at issues affecting young people in the borough.
The ‘World on the Street’ workshops centred around the theme ‘What empowers and disempowers young women today in Hackney’ with workshops on crime, teen pregnancy and relationships.
The workshops [...]
June 15th, 2011 with No Comments
Alan Wood, the Director of Children’s Services in Hackney, has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to Education and to Local Government.
Alan became Chief Executive of The Learning Trust in 2001, the first private, not-for-profit company to take over a local authority’s entire education function. At the time, Hackney was [...]
June 8th, 2011 with No Comments
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 [...]