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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 ...
Grizell was the eldest sister of another family of well-off Stoke Newington Quakers, of whom the best-known is Samuel Hoare Jr (1751–1825), one of the twelve founding members of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. She had been nurse and companion to her father, a merchant in the City of London, and then married Wilson Birkbeck ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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.
The year 11 Class of 2010 have also received the highest target ever set for year 11 pupils in the history of the school. It gets GCSE and A-level results slightly above the England average. In 2013, 71% of pupils left with 5 A*–C including English and Maths. This was a new school record.