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‘It might not be over’: Islington families keep up the fight following school closures

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 2 May 2025

Council officers reject opposition’s move to call in decision, setting back parents’ plans for judicial review

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Town Hall to close two primary schools as pupil numbers fold

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Saturday 26 April 2025

St Jude and St Paul’s and Highbury Quadrant will shut permanently on 31 August

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Three Islington primary schools offering free breakfast clubs in state-backed trial

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 22 April 2025

Laycock, Vittoria and Whitehall Park are providing 30 minutes of care before school until July

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Parents demand public consultation on ‘merging’ primary schools facing shutdown

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 17 April 2025

Families of Highbury Quadrant and St Jude and St Paul’s argue another way as fate of schools due to be decided next week

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Islington’s cabinet to vote on school closures next week

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 16 April 2025

Council’s decision on proposals to shut Highbury Quadrant and St Jude and St Paul’s primary schools slated for 24 April

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Town Hall pursuing cross-council campaign to halt Islington school closures

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 11 April 2025
Highbury Quadrant parents, teachers and children march in protest

Islington Council to push for change to inner London funding – but new efforts will not affect current plans to close two primaries this year

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Islington schoolchildren unveil new playground amid threat of closure

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 4 April 2025
Physical mock-up of pupils designs for playground area

St Jude’s Street Garden has been refurbished with new trees, footpaths, swings and slides, drawing on diagrams put together by the schoolchildren

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Pupils join forces on bus tour protest against Islington primary closures

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 6 March 2025

‘It’s not our kids’ job to balance budget,’ say teachers leading strike action

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Less than a third of primary schools regularly visit their local library, report shows

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 21 February 2025

School staff say not enough time or help available to facilitate trips, though library visits overall climb back to pre-Covid levels

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Primary pupils protest plans to close Islington schools

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 14 February 2025

Local MP Jeremy Corbyn slammed for suggesting council had an ‘agenda’

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‘Shocking’: Parents and teachers protest council plan to close Islington primary school

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 15 November 2024
Highbury Quadrant parents, teachers and children march in protest

Town Hall has earmarked Highbury Quadrant primary school for closure in August 2025

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Islington’s school absence rate one of the worst in London, council says

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 18 September 2024
Islington Town Hall

Town Hall updates penalty notices to tackle cases of frequent missed lessons

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Councillors alarmed by ‘unbelievable’ school suspension figures

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 12 September 2024

Recent data suggests that more than a third of suspended pupils were Black Caribbean

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School suspensions for SEND pupils disproportionately high in Islington, figures show

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 13 June 2024
Islington Town Hall

More than a tenth of secondary students were suspended during 2022/23 Spring term

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Almost a third of Islington’s secondary school pupils have been persistently absent, council data shows

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 13 June 2024
School uniform

Around 30 per cent of students missed more than a tenth of school during 2022/23

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Islington Council approves controversial merger of two primary schools

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 19 April 2024

Town Hall says falling pupil numbers mean Montem Primary will be folded into Duncombe Primary this August

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‘Salami-slicing approach’: Row erupts over Islington Council’s school closure plan

By Noora Mykkanen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 22 February 2024

Opposition councillors call in decision to propose a merger of two primaries

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Primary school in Islington could be axed this year as council plans move ahead

By Noora Mykkanen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 9 February 2024

Town Hall proposes merger of Montem and Duncombe schools – doing so ‘with a heavy heart’

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Three Islington primary schools at risk as pupil numbers drop

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 23 November 2023
Islington Town Hall

Blessed Sacrament in King’s Cross could close for good if council plans go ahead

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‘Swift action needed’: London councils set to push government for more school funding – with pupil numbers in ‘acute decline’

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 20 July 2023

Islington education chief issues stark warning as schools continue to lose money

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