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Stoke Newington School is noted for its anti-homophobia drive, with music teacher Elly Barnes coming no. 1 in The Independent newspaper's 'Pink List' LGBT awards. [2] The school also pioneers the use of 'behaviour mentors', who aim to reduce bullying and discrimination. The school was highly praised in its Ofsted report for its anti-bullying ...
Stoke Newington had a Quaker presence from the early days of the Society of Friends.(George Fox stayed for a time in neighbouring Dalston, for example. [1]) From 1668 there was a Quaker girls' school in nearby Shacklewell, run first by Mary Stott and then Jane Bullock, “to Instruct younge lasses & maydens in whatsever thinges was civill & useful in ye creation” [2] By the early nineteenth ...
Stoke Newington: L/I [28] Alexander Baron: Writer (works include The Lowlife, set in the area) Hackney Downs School: L [29] James Burgh: Writer, educationalist and philosopher L [30] Rosa Nouchette Carey: Children's novelist Tryons Road L [31] Daniel Defoe: Writer and spy (educated) Stoke Newington L [32] Siobhan Dowd: Author Haggerston: L Sir ...
Woodberry Down Comprehensive School was a secondary school located off the Seven Sisters Road in the Manor House area of North London. The now defunct school verges on three London boroughs: Hackney, Haringey and Islington. The school was opened in 1955, and closed in 1981 when it was amalgamated with Clissold School and renamed Stoke Newington ...
Barnes first job was as a peripatetic singing teacher in Hertfordshire and London. She then obtained a permanent teaching role at Stoke Newington School in North London becoming Head of Year in 2005. That year, she began working towards eradicating homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic language and bullying. [1]
In 2006, Stoke Newington School also joined the Sixth Form consortium which expanded upon the curriculum of the existing Sixth Form, which was established in 1927. The school was awarded specialist status in recognition of its Business and Enterprise teaching and became a Business and Enterprise College in 2004.
Stoke Newington is an area in the northwest part of the London Borough of Hackney, England.The area is five miles (eight kilometres) northeast of Charing Cross.The Manor of Stoke Newington gave its name to Stoke Newington, the ancient parish.
St Andrew, Stoke Newington; St Mary, Stoke Newington; St Matthias' Church, Stoke Newington; Stoke Newington (London County Council constituency) Stoke Newington (parish) Stoke Newington (UK Parliament constituency) Stoke Newington Central (ward) Stoke Newington Church Street; Stoke Newington Common; Stoke Newington School