Islington Schools for the Future

Building a brighter future for Islington’s schools

Islington schools are being transformed in to first class educational facilities to give every young person the best possible opportunity to succeed.

We’re investing in primary schools, secondary schools and schools for children with special educational needs so to support the aspirations and achievements of our young people now and in the future.

In Islington GCSE results are at an all time high and achievement is up at every Key Stage. More and more people are choosing an Islington school as their first choice for education.

Building Schools for the Future

BSF is a national Government initiative to make improvements to every secondary school in the country. It is the biggest national investment in school buildings in England for 50 years.

But BSF investment is about much more than buildings; it will transform education at our schools and provide excellent facilities to serve our communities for decades to come.

Islington’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme is a £140 million, five year scheme to transform eight of the borough’s ten secondary schools, a special educational needs school and a pupil referral unit in to first class learning environments supported by the latest technology.

View our Building Schools for the Future webpages by clicking on the link to the left.

Completed school projects

Samuel Rhodes secondary department

Samuel Rhodes School for children with moderate learning difficulties is being co-located with two mainstream schools, a primary and a secondary, as part of Islington’s inclusion programme.

Samuel Rhodes secondary department is the first completed project in the Building Schools for the Future programme. The pupils were welcomed in to their new building, on a shared site with Highbury Grove School, in September 2009.

Samuel Rhodes School primary department

The brand new primary department opened at Montem Community Campus in Hornsey Road in September 2008.

Golden Lane Campus

The Golden Lane Campus brings Prior Weston Primary School, Richard Cloudesley MLD School and Fortune Park Sure Start Children’s Centre together in a fantastic new development which opened in 2008.

The campus is modern and inclusive offering facilities including sensory therapy, a creche, café and exciting outdoor play areas.

The Bridge School

The Bridge School opened in 2007 as a purpose built school for children with special education needs (SEN) located on two sites with mainstream schools: Hungerford Primary School and Holloway School.

The state-of-the-art facilities cater for children and young people between 2-19 years offering a range of educational and health facilities and a outreach service across the borough.

New North Community School

A brand new building for the New North Community School opened its doors in April 2007. This was the first new school to be built in over two decades in Islington. 

For more information on the future of Islington’s schools use the links on the left. More information on the Building Schools for the Future Programme is available by using the suggested link to the DCSF website.

Fran Stewart
Email: fran.stewart@islington.gov.uk
Tel: 020 7527 5954