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Top London Award for Local School

Our Lady’s Convent High School’s commitment to Servite values was rewarded recently, when the school became the proud recipient of the London Citizens School of the Year Award.
The award was given to Our Lady’s for its commitment to justice and for being involved in practical projects to improve the lives of its students and their [...]

Baroness Amos praises students at Hackney Academy on visit to London from United Nations

The Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs at the United Nations has visited a Hackney Academy to support the students and their aspirations.
Baroness Amos, who was the first black woman to sit in the Cabinet, met students from Clapton Girls’ Academy in Hackney on Wednesday at an event to celebrate its status as an Academy. Clapton [...]

Hackney school teacher tops ‘pink list’ for work to tackle homophobia

A Hackney school teacher has taken the top spot in a list of the 100 most influential gays and lesbians in the UK, beating other famous names like Clare Balding, Alan Carr and Evan Davies.
Elly Barnes, a teacher at Stoke Newington School, was nominated for the accolade by readers of the Independent on Sunday for [...]

Wild Swans in South Africa

Four Sixth Formers from Clapton Girls’ Academy found themselves sleeping under the stars in a game reserve this Summer.
Briony Lambert, Tania Hossain, Titilope Badru and Alexie Telan were chosen to be part of the Wild Swans Womens’ Leadership scheme which takes young women with leadership potential on a remarkable journey of self discovery [...]

Hackney schools welcome WorldSkills Competitors from across the globe

Hackney school pupils are looking forward to a special visit today (Tuesday 4 October) from children from Mexico, Canada, Luxembourg and beyond who are arriving in London for the WorldSkills event.
Around 400 Competitors and Team delegates will visit 16 schools in Hackney for a special Welcome Event organised and hosted by students.
WorldSkills London 2011, the [...]

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 [...]

What empowers and disempowers young women today in Hackney?

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 [...]

Trust recognised for innovation in recruitment

The Learning Trust has won the ‘Innovation in Recruitment’ award at this year’s national Recruiter Awards, for our strategy to fill six teaching positions (including the headteacher role) at Daubeney Primary School last year.

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