At Halley House School we are proud to offer ‘Little Stars Stay and Play’ sessions every Tuesday morning from 9-11am (term time). These sessions are run by friendly parents who enjoy getting to know each other and both current and prospective parents of the school are welcome. Activities include free play, craft and creative activities, snack time, music and singing …
Explorify, an innovative and exciting new teaching resource from Wellcome Trust
Explorify is a new and exciting programme of free activities available for primary school teachers, created by Wellcome Trust Education. It includes engaging, creative science activities that have been designed to stimulate curiosity, discussion and debate. At Halley House School, we are always on the lookout for new innovative and high quality teaching resources. To find out more about Explorify, click …
Top 10 Tips for Preparing Your Child for School
Starting school is one of life’s major milestones and for many parents it can be an emotional time. It’s natural to feel both nervous and excited, but with a little advance preparation both you and your little one will be able to cope with the transition more smoothly. Here are our Top 10 tips to help you and your child …
Summer Fete Saturday 8th July
We would like to invite all families and friends of Halley House School to attend our Summer Fete on Saturday 8th July from 2-5pm. We have lots of different activities lined up including a bouncy castle, arts & crafts and face painting! We hope it’ll be a really enjoyable afternoon for everyone and look forward to seeing you there. Please …
Site Assistant Vacancy
Site Assistant Dalston, Hackney Salary Scale 3-4 Closing Date: 7th July 2017 Interview Date: 11th July 2017 Job Start: 1st September 201 Our candidate: You have experience of working within a school environment and …
Higher Level Teaching Assistant Vacancy
Higher Level Teaching Assistant Dalston, Hackney Salary Scale 5 SO1 Closing Date: 5th July 2017 Interview Date: 10th July 2017 Job Start: 1st September 201 Our candidate: You have …
Teaching Assistant Vacancy
Teaching Assistant Dalston, Hackney Salary Scale 3-4 Closing date: 5th July 2017 Interview date: 10th July 2017 Job start: 1st September 2017 Our candidate: You have experience and passion for working within EYFS or …
Excellent Parent Survey Results
We had an excellent response to our annual BPET Parent Survey this year (May 2017) and are delighted to see the positive feedback and suggestions for further improvements. The attached letter provides more detail from the responses received and our next steps as a school. The table below indicates the areas where we received the highest percentage of respondents who …
New Families Welcome Event
On Wednesday 10th May we held a welcome event for families with secured places for Reception 2017 as well as families who are undecided with their current allocation and wanted to find out more about what makes Halley House School so unique. Thank you to all our new families who attended last night, it was great to see so many …
Fundraising Parent Runners Feature in Hackney Gazette
The Halley House Hawks are a group of parents of children at Halley House School who ran the Hackney Half Marathon on Sunday as part of their fundraising efforts to raise £2,500 for additional playground equipment. Click here to read the Hackney Gazette coverage of the day. Parents are motivated to improve the school playground that will include a new climbing structure, …