‘I used to call it my heart job’: Meet the lollipop lady who transformed a Hackney neighbourhood
Donna Thorpe, whose smile lit up Albion Road for years until she resigned in July, speaks to local author Alpa Shah
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‘It’s like I’m on The Apprentice’: Hackney students sell school-grown produce at Ridley Road Market for charity initiative
Pupils from across the borough took part in charity project Know Your Onions
Cyber criminals steal data from group of Hackney schools
Mossbourne Federation, made up of five local schools, cannot say how many people are affected
‘Robot pets to world-saving tech’: Children’s visions of the future go on display in Hackney as part of charity project
Stories by youngsters from the Literacy Pirates are on hoardings on Northchurch Road throughout summer
Forty Hackney schools sign up to Town Hall’s climate education programme – as councillor celebrates pupils’ activism
Environment chief Cllr Mete Coban praises ‘inspiring’ students taking part in Eco-Schools initiative
Politicians hail ‘world-class’ revamp of Clapton special school – as building’s pioneering past revealed
The Pavilion’s £2m restoration has created 50 new places for children with special educational needs
‘Magical’: New £40k playground at Hoxton school proves an instant hit
Pupils at Thomas Fairchild enjoy new play area featuring sand pit, monkey bars and even a teepee
Hackney secondary smashes stereotypes by introducing Rugby Fives – a sport traditionally limited to elite private schools
Pupils at Stoke Newington School are ‘getting so much out of the game’
‘It’s our local park’: Primary school pupils fight for ‘basic right’ to have playtime in De Beauvoir Square
Candidates for upcoming De Beauvoir by-election line up in support of the children following complaints from local residents
‘Joy, inspiration and wonder’: Young V&A unveils summer of family fun to mark its 150th anniversary – and begin the countdown to its big reopening
East London’s oldest museum, formerly the Museum of Childhood, will be out in the community as huge redevelopment continues
Child Q: Former Hackney superintendent says he no longer agrees with having police officers in schools
Leroy Logan MBE, who used to select officers for schools, told the Conference for the Black Child that he has changed his mind
Child Q: Headteacher of school where Black teenage girl was strip-searched steps down due to ill health
Scandal-hit school informs parents of news – with successor already in place
Child Q: ‘Mortified’ Hackney police chief issues fresh apology to teenage girl and her family
Borough commander Marcus Barnett says he is ‘genuinely sorry’ for the heartache caused
Child Q: School apologises for teenage girl’s ‘harrowing’ experience
Governing board accepts the child ‘should not have been left in the situation that she was’
Child Q: Two officers who conducted strip-search removed from frontline duties
Police watchdog investigating three constables for their involvement
Child Q: Metropolitan Police ‘taking racism claim very seriously’, says assistant commissioner
Louisa Rolfe, tipped as a possible successor to Cressida Dick, says Met accepts findings of safeguarding review