The kids swim at The Holloway Secondary School swimming pool ever Thursday evening with Anaconda…read moreswimming club. Mixture of 2 hour and 1 hour sessions. Hard work just watching. Not open to the general public but various clubs use this pool for training sessions both kids and masters and a swim school. If you live in the area this is a great place for your kids to learn to swim properly - all four strokes, tumble turns, diving - if they have been inspired to swim by the Olympic swimming competitions then this is a great option. New build pool - 25m length - perfect for training. The entrance to the pool is round the back - use The Bridge School entrance

This is a wonderful school. It has a great GCSE grade rate…read more The school has a new feel to it and is very big. All staff there are friendly. It is a great school. There are different departments for each subject. I recommend this school to you to apply your children there for secondary school.

Attended autumn 1969 through July 1974. Received my intro to Computer Programming and throughly…read moreenjoyed Chemistry. Some blokes did not take kindly to my being a Yank but most were cool with it. Wood and metalwork and drafting classes were a great foundation for my Mechanical Engineering (BS'82 Purdue) Loved choir that last year (Carmina Burana) and the sailing was good, as well.

DON'T SEND YOUR CHILD HERE!…read more Boys grabbed me and slapped my behind continuously even after I gave them a dirty look. Reported it, had to keep asking about the progress of it only to be told after about a week that they "can't do anything without video evidence". And this isn't the only time they ignored my/anyone else's allegations. I called the school out on twitter later on after I left, and they blocked me because I was telling the truth. They lie and promise students and their parents a safe educational environment but yet for the longest time I was made to feel like what happened to me and my friends didn't even matter. I would complain about them doing nothing about the issue then I would get shouted at and told "complaining about it isn't going to make anything happen". They were so quick to punish students with dyed hair or an untucked shirt with detention, isolation, exclusion; essentially missing out on what they love to say is 'important education', 'your future', over things that ACTUALLY don't matter. But when their students feel unsafe because of their own classmates, they're told the school can't do anything because apparently we should've recorded it. And it wasn't just students this would happen to! Several TEACHERS have reported sexual harassment, homophobia, sexism etc. but we all know where those reports they would make you fill in went. In the bin.

Part of the Anaconda Swimming Club suite of training pools - not available to the public but if you…read morehave kids in the Islington area this is a fantastic pool to learn in. Only 15m long but deep enough to dive in - within the school grounds and recently refurbished as part of the upgrade to the school. Small groups and great value.

I was intrigued by the new centre set up for kids at the age of pre-nursery. Its done in a lot of…read morerecycled wood, given a Scandinavian design element; basic and playful. Upon my inquiry the adjacent Georgain building houses the mixed primary and prep school. Children from different geographical and cultural backgrounds go to study and is a local community school run by a trust fund and its members. Not much green space to it I thought, its entrance grounds are very cold and grey. Quiet an air of Victorian rigidness and emotionless warmth to the place. The running and exciting shouts of little kids distracted me from my dissection. The security is superb, you can't walk in without someone opening the gates. I wonder how disciplined the young children are trained to be, especially when you have a pot-pourrie fo culture to manage. I spoke to one of the teachers who was friendly and calm in nature, she was looking after the kids in their break. The localtion of this school is important because the local community around rough Hackney, they are able to give their children a safe and cultured environment to develop. The school take 45 children in each year group aged from 3-11 years.