City Road addiction service launches £40,000 scholarship fund after coronavirus lockdown trebled numbers seeking help

Teenagers have been left enthused and motivated ahead of their new school year thanks to a virtual summer school programme on their estate.

Schoolchildren in Hackney and Islington whose learning has been interrupted by the pandemic have been benefiting from an intensive maths catch-up programme.

The number of School Streets around Islington will be double last term when young people get back to class.

London’s Transport Commissioner explains why it is safe to go back on buses, Tubes and trains, whether you are returning to work, school or just out and about

More than half of Islington pupils were awarded a grade 5 or above in English and maths on GCSE results day this year.

There will be many anxious teenagers waking up in Islington this morning, with their GCSE grades just an envelope away.

The government’s U-turn on A- level results is good news for downgraded students, but the exams algorithm has been branded an “absolute disgrace” by Islington’s National Education Union (NEU).

Islington’s National Education Union (NEU) has criticised the algorithm used to calculate A Level results this year.

A record number of Islington students have been awarded top A Level grades this year according to Islington Council, with more than a quarter of entries given an A* or A.

Pupils at the City of London Academy Islington have been praised for “achieving outstanding results in very challenging circumstances”.

Pupils at St Aloysius’ College have worked to “overcome the challenges of post-16 preparation” in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, to secure 38% A*-B grades at A level.

Students around Islington are anxiously opening their 2020 A Level results this morning.

The end of the school year has come, but many parents and children have been left without the normal opportunity to say goodbye to the staff who have made such a big difference.

A drive has been launched to help disadvantaged students get online during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Demonstrators calling for youth services to be better funded by the government are holding a protest and talent showcase on the border of Islington and Hackney.

The end of the school year is drawing near, but many parents and their children will be left without the normal opportunity to say goodbye to the teachers who have made such a big difference.

Youngsters from St Joan of Arc Primary School are contributing to a “digital time capsule” which will be archived in the British Library, for future generations to learn what life was like during lockdown, through the eyes of children who lived through it.

A Holloway schoolgirl has won an award at a national filmmaking competition.

Islington college students teamed up with university researchers to study the trust issues between young people and the police.

A young man is helping to inspire other young people with autism through the unsettling coronavirus crisis by writing a weekly blog.

Islington National Education Union estimates just a “handful” of schools in the borough will welcome back all students in reception, Year 1 and Year 6 this week.

Islington Council has “strongly advised” schools against “rushing” to reopen to more pupils to “hit arbitrary deadlines set by ministers” as the coronavirus lockdown is gradually eased.

Parents and trade unions fear it won’t be safe to reopen primary schools next month and could “cause a second wave” of Covid-19.

In just the first six months of this academic year, the number of fixed-term exclusions at City of London Academy Islington (COLAI) was 584 per cent up on the whole of 2018-19.

Islington Council’s children’s social care services have been rated “Outstanding” by Ofsted – the highest grade on a scale of four.

Since readers can’t get to their local for their pub quiz fix, we’re bringing the pub quiz to them everyday this week.

Downing Street has announced the closure of all schools in England from Friday afternoon, March 20.

A deputy headteacher who lives in Highbury thinks she has coronavirus – and says the government should close all schools during the pandemic.

Islington parents are pulling their kids out of school for fear they’ll catch coronavirus (Covid-19) or transmit it to a vulnerable relative.

City, University of London has suspended all face to face teaching from next Monday at the latest as a precautionary measure against coronavirus.

UPDATE: There are now three positive cases of coronavirus in Islington, see here.

Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds will be given a route into the music industry in a project run by The Prince’s Trust and Tileyard recording studios.

Young people from Finsbury Park and Clapton were among those to create a hard-hitting short film about knife crime that premiered this week.

A Barnsbury nursery is celebrating being awarded its third Outstanding rating from Ofsted in a row.

National Education members working at a school in Angel will strike on Thursday to demand more funding for sixth form colleges.

An all-out boycott on Ocado in Islington could cost the online delivery giant more than £60million a year, campaigners say.

Islington’s new young mayor, deputy young mayor and member of Youth Parliament have been announced.

Two Islington primary schools celebrated being awarded the World Class Schools Quality Mark (WCSQM) with a special joint assembly on Friday.

New data suggests air quality at Islington schools improved between 2016 and 2018 – but three still breached Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) limits.

Forget the Oscars – hard working teachers and support staff stole the show as they scooped gongs at the at the glitzy Islington Education Awards ceremony on February 10.

A special needs school in Highbury is celebrating after two of its students were voted onto the Islington Youth Council for the first time.

Demand from 13,000 weekly customers in Islington justifies plans to build a controversial delivery and refuelling depot next door to an Archway primary school, an embattled online supermarket has claimed.

St Mary Magdalene Academy has warned pupils not to walk unaccompanied through Highbury Fields after a spate of incidents.

Highbury Grove suspended 631 pupils in little over two years – but the academy chain running it denies pupils are being sent home “too easily”.