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IAMS celebrates league table results

By LiseS at 21:47 on 12/01/11

Islington Arts and Media School can feel proud of its place in the London-wide school league tables today, having scored a very healthy 1046.3 in the important "value-added" column which indicates how well pupils have progressed since arriving at secondary school. A score of 1000 indicates that pupils in a year group are progressing as well as expected based on their Sats scores recorded at the end of primary school. IAMS's...
Sustainable school meals win Good Food Award

By LiseS at 15:48 on 13/12/10

Islington's sustainable school meals service has won a prestigious Good Food on the Public Plate award from the Sustain alliance. The group works to promote health and welfare through sustainable farming and food initiatives, and the awards honoured the public bodies that have made changes to provide meals that are better for the environment and for animal welfare. Over a billion meals a year are served to schoolchildren, hospital...
New building works for IAMS N4

By LiseS at 19:54 on 30/11/10

Transform Islington Ltd has signed a contract with Islington Council to rebuild and refurbish Islington Arts and Media School (IAMS) under the previous government's Building Schools for the Future scheme. The plans for IAMS include both the construction of new buildings and extensive renovation and refurbishment of existing buildings. With its new facilities the school, a specialist arts and media college, will become a new centre of...
Local opera company brings The Ring to schools

By LiseS at 16:40 on 19/11/10

Richard Wagner's nineteenth-century Ring Cycle, an opera that usually takes 15 hours to present over four separate performances, is being compressed into a 90-minute presentation for 120 schoolchildren by Pooles Park school's resident opera company English Pocket Opera. Formed in 1993, English Pocket Opera delivers specialist music workshops in for children and young people in opera composition and performance. Last year, the company...
Ashmount School moving to Crouch Hill

By LiseS at 21:35 on 26/10/10

Plans to relocate Ashmount Primary School and regenerate Crouch Hill are gathering pace, with builders Willmott Dixon contracted to carry out the project. Ashmount School - currently based in Archway - will move into a brand new building in Crouch Hill Community Park. The site will offer improved recreational space and child care services for local people. There will also be facilities for children and...

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Local schools - your views

By LiseS

IAMS's new head Diana Osagie invites parents and prosepctive students to series of open days at the...

By LiseS at 15:09 on 29/08/10

Parents of children going into either primary or secondary school this year will have faced some tough choices in the past few months. Newspapers have reported increased numbers of children travelling large distances - up to five miles in each direction - to get to school, with many London children attending schools outside their home borough. The Finsbury Park area sits in a difficult location on the border of three boroughs -...
School's...in...for...autumn!

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What a great pic!!!

By LiseS at 16:49 on 22/08/10

There's just ten days left of the summer holidays, and it's time to make those final preparations for the new school year. New school shoes, book bags, pencil cases, uniform basics and academic stationery - where do you get your school essentials in Finsbury Park? Stationery and supplies Supermarkets such as Tesco on Stroud Green Road always have funky back-to-school supplies in bright colours at attractive prices - look out for...