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A day in the life of a school chef…

The Learning Trust has launched a campaign ‘Don’t miss out’ to make sure that those eligible for free school meals apply. It’s also a chance for us to highlight the fantastic food on offer in our school canteens. Here, school chef Joseph Santagada, tells us about lunchtimes at The Urswick School, Hackney.
Eating a healthy, balanced [...]

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 [...]

Amazing A levels: time to celebrate Hackney’s young people

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 [...]

Top A level grades up more than 50% at Stoke Newington

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 [...]

Clapton Girls celebrate top grades

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 [...]

Top results at Cardinal Pole Catholic School – A levels

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 [...]

Our Lady’s leaders excel at A Level

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, [...]

Our Lady’s student celebrates As and place at medical school

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 [...]

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 [...]

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