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6 days ago · This means that schools with a high number of unfilled places have less money for staff, resources, equipment, extracurricular activities, to pay bills and to carry out maintenance work. Hackney’s primary schools currently receive over £28.5m less funding compared to what they would be entitled to if their classrooms were full, the council said.
Sep 19, 2024 · Justifying the plans, Hackney Council said that 64% of maintained, mainstream primary schools, or the federations they form part of, ended the 2023/24 financial year having overspent. The combined ...
5 days ago · School Days is a regular series by author Danny Danziger in which acclaimed British names and faces share the childhood stories that shaped ... Dad went to a state school called Hackney Downs, ...
Sep 19, 2024 · Overview of decision process. On 11 December, Hackney Cabinet agreed on the proposals to close or merge six schools in Hackney, as a result of the significant decrease in their pupil numbers. The...
Sep 23, 2024 · By 1909 there were county secondary schools at Hackney Downs (taken over from the Grocers' Company), Colvestone Crescent, and Cassland Road.
2 days ago · In Downs Park Road land had still to be taken by the Grocers' Co. for the later Hackney Downs school, opened in 1878. Only a few short roads remained for building: Cottrill Road, Spurstowe Terrace, and Sigdon and Bodney roads in the east, and Alvington Crescent and parts of Colvestone Crescent in the northwest.
17 hours ago · Cheeky builder Tommy Walsh was a Ground Force favourite (Image: Birmingham Post and Mail). Born and bred in South Hackney, Walsh was educated at Parmiter's School before entering the building trade.