We try to include as many links and information as we can to help families access local activities and services – many of which are free or very low cost. Keep checking back here to find out more – there are lots of free activities in Islington – you can find out all about these and how to access them by visiting Islington Life
We also work with a number of local organisations who provide volunteers to work with us in school to make the environment and school life even better for the children. We are very thankful to all who can help. Here are some of our wonderful partners:
- Islington Big Alliance (garden volunteer days with local companies)
- Air BNB
- London Youth (career talks and mentoring)
- Islington Council – Bright Start (courses for toddlers and services to support parents)
- Parishes (SSPP, St Josephs, St Peter Italian)
- The Peel Centre (joint charity events and food for parents and children)
- St Luke’s Community Centre (courses and community services)
- Coram Beanstalk (volunteer readers)
- School Readers (volunteer readers)
- Greenspaces (Environmental education volunteers)
- St John Ambulance (Garden teacher and volunteer days)
- Bikeability (cycling courses)
- Fiecon (volunteer garden days)
We will be welcoming Coram Beanstalk to our school on 29 to celebrate The National Year of Reading 2026 – they will be bringing a local firm for a Storytime Afternoon event Year 2. You can find our more by clicking the link below to their poster, or bu visitng https://www.coram.org.uk/
We also have a wonderful project with School Readers who send volunteers to read with the children regularly.
Huge thanks for supporting our schoolhouse renovation – it is a great success! We are now trying to update our school playground.
We have renovated and opened the school house for our wonderful two year old nursery in September so a big thank you to our governors and friends who donated. We are now looking at updating the outside space and update with play equipment and repair play surfaces. You can see an illustration below of what we’d like to achieve!
It’s a wonderful introduction to ‘big school’.
If you are able to help, please donate here:
Brick by Brick: Help Fund Our Schoolhouse
Summer activities
There are lots of free or low costs activities this Summer at St Luke’s Community Centre, available for all ages! If you’re looking to stay active you could try their yoga class, or if you’re looking to creatively explore, they offer an art skills workshop. They also have lots on offer for kids too including family table tennis and junior cooking classes.
Head to their website for more info. You can see the full calendar of events and activities by clicking here
Swimming fun
Family Fun Swim at Archway Leisure Centre. Enjoy the slide, wave machine and other exciting pool features at Family Fun Swims! Sessions take place at weekends and during the school holidays. Book now:
https://bookings.better.org.uk/location/archway-leisure-centre/family-fun-swim
Sustainability projects with Fiecon
Local company Fiecon are working with us and are giving us the knowledge and expertise of their sustainability director to help us develop some projects. They have recently completed the planting of our sensory garden in the nursery. Even though it was a very wet day, 40 people came to help and brought loveliness to our school garden. Our Green Team children were involved in the planning for these gardens and were delighted to see the new water feature and plants, new compost bins and a much-improved pond area, as well as lovely wall art. A big thank you to all involved.
STEAM Mentoring Programme
We are delighted to be partnering with SoapBox Youth Project and Local Village Network (LVN) for a second year, to deliver their STEAM Mentoring programme with Year 5.
STEAM Mentoring is an innovative and original programme, funded by the GLA, which inspires and encourages young people to aim for careers in the STEAM industry, such as engineering, medicine, graphic design and technology. We do this by bringing in volunteers who work in a range of STEAM careers to run a series of 6 interactive and fun one-hour sessions, alongside an experienced LVN colleague.
Year 5 teacher Finonnuala Gormley told us that she has enjoyed seeing the children ‘being so interested in the speakers and seeing them realise that they can follow their dreams.’ The whole class certainly seem to be enjoying the sessions too… here’s what some children had to say:
‘I enjoyed learning about all the different types of doctors that there are, and it has inspired me to be a doctor…’
‘In the session we talked about technology involved in VR and as a result, I want to be a programmer when I grow up.’
‘They taught us that we can do our dream job and how we are able to accomplish it.’
