"Fiction can achieve marvellous things, especially inside individual heads, not least when it subtly nudge-nudge-nudges the reader towards minding more, thinking more, asking questions."  Monday 18th June saw the final meeting for our amazing Carnegie Shadowers – the Red Carpet...

We were delighted to host a Maths Fair showcasing the talents and skills of 100 Year 5 students from 11 different local Primary Schools (and a few of our Year 7s). There was a wonderful buzz to all the students showing displaying an amazing range of stalls and presentations from hexagons, football s...

On Monday 14th May, our Patron of Reading Non Pratt came in for her final visit of 2017-8 (can’t believe our first year with her has gone so quickly).  I’m trying hard to make sure that as many students as possible meet her during her time at Fortismere and she is loving getting to...

Wednesday 25th April saw the return of Non Pratt for the first of this term’s Patron of Reading visits.  Year 8s joined in with a full and frank discussion about friendship and self-confidence.  They all tittered at super-cool (not!) pictures of 14 year old Non and, after some initia...

On 27th March an excited group of Year 7 readers went to Heartlands High School to join students from other schools for the Haringey Children’s Book Award.  We’ve all read the six books, we all liked different ones for different reasons and we were delighted to be able to vote along...