Most Recent Stories in Schools

Borough among top ten in the country for good and outstanding schools

By JulieGK at 19:38 on 27/11/12

Finsbury Park schools which fall in the Islington borough have had good news as it is among the top ten places in the country for education rated as good or better by Ofsted. Data released in Ofsted's annual report – released today - ranks local authorities across the country according to inspectors' assessments of schools. Islington is ranked 9th out of 152 authorities, with 87.5 per cent of Islington's primary and secondary...
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...
Islington Arts and Media School to start new cycle club

By LiseS at 13:57 on 22/10/10

Students at Islington Arts and Media School will soon get on their bikes with a new scheme to loan bicycles and provide bicycle safety training from Islington's road safety team. Piloted at nearby Holloway Secondary School, the scheme offers free one-to-one cycle training sessions covering the basics of on-road cycling and a personalised map planning out a safe cycle route to and from school. Students can borrow bikes and...
National Schools Film Week 14-22 October

By LiseS at 13:29 on 23/09/10

National Schools Film Week is an annual event where school groups can see films at local cinemas entirely free-of-charge. The festival provides classroom resources for discussing great filmmaking in the context of different curriculum areas at all National Curriculum levels. Over 400,000 students and teachers attended the Festival in 2009, and this year is NSFW's 15th birthday. Films are rated by their age and curriculum...
Secondary School Transfer Events 29 and 30 September

By LiseS at 13:27 on 09/09/10

School has been much on everyone's mind this week, with the new term starting and another cohort of youngsters joining either primary or secondary school. If your child has just started Year 6, now is the time to be thinking about secondary school - applications opened last week and close on 31 October. To help with the transition from primary to secondary school, and to give parents and children information about schools in the area,...
New school building causes problems for neighbours

By LiseS at 18:10 on 31/08/10

Earlier this year, many Islington schools were relieved to hear that their Building Schools for the Future funding would be protected in the face of cuts announced by Education Secretary Michael Gove in July. BSF was to be the UK's largest-ever school buildings investment programme before cuts were announced. Neighbouring Camden is one of the worst-affected boroughs, with up to 17 planned rebuilding projects now under threat. Projects...