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Burbage Primary School
This is a list of schools in the London Borough of Hackney, England. In 2002, the borough entered into a ten-year contract with the ''Learning Trust'', an independent collaborative body that organises education for Hackney's 27,000 pupils in over 70 schools, nurseries and play centres. The trust was set up in response to an OFSTED report that identified failings in the then existing system. State-funded schools Primary schools *Baden-Powell Primary School *Benthal Primary School *Berger Primary School *Betty Layward Primary School *Burbage Primary School *Colvestone Primary School *Daubeney Primary School *De Beauvoir Primary School *Gainsborough Primary School *Gayhurst Community School *Grasmere Primary School *Grazebrook Primary School *Hackney New Primary School *Halley House School *Harrington Hill Primary School *Holmleigh Primary School *Holy Trinity Church of England, CE Primary School *Hoxton Garden Primary School *Jubilee Primary School *Kingsmead Primary School *La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The City Academy, Hackney
The City Academy, Hackney is a Mixed-sex education, coeducational secondary school and sixth form with Academy (English school), academy status, located in the Homerton area of the London Borough of Hackney, England. The school was first opened in 2009 in a new building. The school is sponsored by the City of London Corporation and KPMG. Anna Sarchet is the current Academy Principal The City of London Corporation also sponsors City of London Academy Islington and City of London Academy, Southwark. City Academy, Hackney has a specialism in business and financial services, but includes the full range of subjects that are found in any state school. . The school is in the top 5 chart of the country and is aiming to be in top 3. The school opened a sixth form building in October 2016; they named it after the old principal (Mark Emmerson) " The Mark Emmerson Sixth Form Block ". The houses within the school represent that of the doors to the City Of London. Standards The school was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Lady's Catholic High School, Stamford Hill
Our Lady's Catholic High School is a Roman Catholic secondary school for girls situated in Stamford Hill, in the London Borough of Hackney, England. History On 11 January 1904, the Servite Sisters founded a small independent school called Our Lady's School, with Sr M. Phillipa as its first headmistress. The school later moved to 14-16 Amhurst Park during the 1930s. There were 27 pupils aged 10 and over; all the staff were Servite sisters; parents paid fees of £2/10/00 per term. The rooms in the house built in the 1800s were used as classrooms. There was a grass tennis court in the garden. The school has since expanded and the premises consist of the original buildings and newer additions (the most recent in 2003). The first lay headteacher, only the sixth in the school's history, was appointed in 1994. Our Lady's is no longer directly run by the Servites but remains under their trusteeship. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hackney City Farm
Hackney City Farm is a city farm and independent alternative school in Haggerston in the London Borough of Hackney. It is situated at the junction of Hackney Road and Goldsmith's Row. The farm was established in 1984 as a community and educational resource and to give borough residents, particularly young people, experience of animals. The facilities at Hackney City Farm include a farmyard, area for grazing, garden and a tree nursery with butterfly house. The amenity encourages children to learn about the natural environment, growing vegetables and caring for animals. The farm is home to a range of animals, including poultry, sheep, rabbits, bees, pigs and a donkey. Animals can be adopted at the farm, and free range eggs are for sale. Hackney City Farm is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. It runs educational projects, exhibitions, courses in crafts and farm trails, and operates a café, Frizzante, which won a Time Out award for best family restaurant in 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tayyibah Girls' School
Tayyibah Girls' School is an all-girl independent Islamic primary and secondary educational institute for girls aged 4 to 16. It is located in Hackney, London, United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North .... History Tayyibah Educational Trust was established in September 1992. Tayyibah Girls' School is the flagship project of the trust. The school started in a basement flat in Cazenove Road, Stamford Hill, with just four girls. Today, there is a full primary and secondary school. The school moved to its current premises in 1993. Further extension was made to the building. References BBC News statistics on Tayyibah Girls' School [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tawhid Boys School
Tawhid Boys School is the first independent Islamic boys' school in the Stoke Newington area. The school was founded in June 2000 (Rabi-al Awwal 1421). Moulana Yusuf Motala, head and founder of Darul-Uloom, Bury, Greater Manchester, inaugurated the school in September 2000. The total number of students in Tawhid exceeds 100 between the ages of 10 and 16, with 13 teachers. The school was established with the aim of providing excellent Islamic and academic education. The school is managed by the ''Shura'', the management committee. The number of students has increased over the years. Tawhid means "the oneness of God". History The school was originally based within the premises of North London Mosque Trust but moved to its own premises in November 2001, which have since been expanded several times. As a response to the 2017 Westminster Attack, the school set up a link with Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hackney College
New City College (NCC) is a large college of further education with campuses in East London and Essex. The college was formed in 2016 with the amalgamation of separate colleges, beginning with the merger between Tower Hamlets College and Hackney Community College, followed by the gradual additions of Redbridge College, Epping Forest College, and both Havering College of Further and Higher Education and Havering Sixth Form College. It is the second largest provider of post-16 education in the country since 2019. Courses Various vocational and academic programmes are offered by the constituent colleges of New City Colleges such as A levels, BTECs, Diplomas, ESOL programmes and Access courses. In addition, certain colleges have currently or in the past provided some higher education courses in conjunction with the University of East London. History and sites The college has 9 buildings and 5 campuses around London and Essex: Redbridge (Ilford and Chadwell Heath), Tower Hamlets (Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BSix Sixth Form College
BSix Sixth Form College: Brooke House is a sixth form college located in Upper Clapton, London, England. It was established in 2002, giving students in Hackney the opportunity to study at a college close to where they live. Brooke House has previously been the site of other educational institutions. History BSix Brooke House Sixth Form College was opened on the Brooke House school site in September 2002, on a site that was previously part of Hackney College. It was set up by the then Secretary of State for Education, David Blunkett David Blunkett, Baron Blunkett, (born 6 June 1947) is a British Labour Party politician who has been a Member of the House of Lords since 2015, and previously served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough ..., and formed part of an unrealised plan to build eleven new sixth form colleges in London. BSix is unusual in the sixth form college sector because it offers courses at all levels and across a wide range ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School
Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School is a state-funded Jewish secondary school for girls, located in the Stamford Hill area of the London Borough of Hackney, in England. The school primarily serves the Charedi Jewish community of Stamford Hill. The school has been rated "inadequate" by Ofsted for the highly restrictive education it provided to its pupils. The Charedi community does not have access to television, the Internet, or other media, and members of the community aim to lead modest lives governed by the codes of Torah observance. In 2008, it emerged that nine pupils, supported by their parents, had refused to sit a Key Stage 3 Shakespeare test on '' The Tempest'' because they felt the character of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice was anti-semitic. There have also been recurring controversies at the school due to failures to teach sex education, the theory of evolution, or various aspects of British history. History The school was founded in 1942 as a private school wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The Urswick School
The Urswick School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in the Hackney Central area of the London Borough of Hackney, London. The school is named after Revd Christopher Urswick, Rector of Hackney from 1502 to 1522, and a close friend of King Henry VII and his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, a great benefactress of learning. History Established in 1520 as Hackney Free School, in 1722, it joined with a parochial charity school to form Hackney Free and Parochial School. The school moved to its present location after 1856., and was significantly rebuilt and expanded, being renamed in 2011 as The Urswick School. Present-day A voluntary aided school administered by Hackney London Borough Council and the Church of England Diocese of London, Urswick School offers GCSEs, BTECs and ASDAN awards as programmes of study for pupils, and the sixth form can study a range of A-levels and further BTECs and ASDAN awards. In 2021, The Guardian reported that the Urswick S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoke Newington School
Stoke Newington School (SNS) is a secondary school situated in Stoke Newington, in the London Borough of Hackney. History The school is an amalgamation of Clissold School and Woodberry Down School, with the new school founded in 1982 in the building of the former Clissold School. In 2002, the school's ''Media Arts'' specialism was granted by the then Department for Education and Skills (DfES). A second specialism in science was awarded by the DfES in 2005, hence the title ''Media Arts & Science College'' in use by the school since 2006. The specialist schools programme ended in 2011. The current Head Teacher of the school is Zehra Jaffer, who succeeded Annie Gammon in 2018. In the 2007 report produced by the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted), Stoke Newington School was described as "an outstanding school with a culture of high expectations" and that "close attention to making sure that all students do as well as they possibly can characterises the school's leade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skinners' Academy
Skinners' Academy (formerly The Skinners' Company's School for Girls) is a school in the Woodberry Down (North Hackney) community for boys and girls aged 11–19. The academy opened in 2010 and is supported by the Worshipful Company of Skinners, a London Livery Company. There are currently approximately 900 pupils on roll from Year 7 - Year 11 and over 100 Sixth Form students. More than 60% of the pupils speak English as an additional language and more than 86% of students are from ethnic minority backgrounds. In March 2017 the academy welcomed a short Ofsted inspection which resulted in the academy retaining its recognition as a 'Good' school. History The Skinners' Company The Worshipful Company of Skinners (known as The Skinners' Company) is one of the “Great Twelve” Livery Companies with a history going back some 700 years. It is one of the most ancient of the City Guilds and developed from the medieval trade guild of the furriers. Members of the guild dressed and trade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
