who we are our history
The Workhouse of our past evokes the grim Victorian world of Oliver Twist, but its story is a fascinating mix of social history, politics, economics, architecture, and institutional medicine and nutrition.
William Jenkyn Thomas (5 July 1870 – 14 March. Set the foundations of Hackney, and how it reinstates today. He was a writer too. As a Welsh headmaster and author best known for his The Welsh Fairy Book. He was an undergraduate student at the University of Cambridge and in addition to his writings worked as a lecturer and teacher. He was the first Head Master at Aberdare Intermediate School (1896-1905) and was headmaster (1905-1935) at a school in Hackney.
did you know?
The St Augustine’s Tower
was the only way for the public to tell the time in the Hackney village.
The beautiful island of Jamaica is the home of previous Global teacher prize (the best teacher in the world) winner ms Keisha Thorpe.
Dennis-Academy
it took a horse to show us how to win an award on the world stage well done Rufas!
when our students leave school they will face the gates of competition and I will be there in spirit . I fear none and have stolen awards from the mouths of the privilege in the past
Today's Hackney is a more resolute diverse cultural society, but we mustn’t lose sight of who we truly are. I am continuing the legacy of William Jenkyn Thomas.
A proud son of immigrants who wants our students to get the best support in education. And just to add to the cultural side of me we are hoping to extend to the shores of the Caribbean, and hope to have a secondary school there. Also in Cuba my ancestral home
St Augustine’s Tower
St Augustine’s Tower, Hackney’s oldest building, is the surviving part of the medieval church replaced by St John at Hackney in 1798. The earliest parts of the Tower date from the late 13th century. It was visited by Pepys in the seventeenth century and later enlarged to seat 1000 worshippers. By the end of the eighteenth century the medieval church had been replaced by the new 3,000 seat church. At first there were insufficient funds for a new belfry and the old bell tower was retained. The Victorians grew to love the tower and prevented its demolition once it had outlived its usefulness. St Augustine’s Tower remains open to the public once a month.
It is thought to have been put in place in the 16th or 17th centuries and is a fine example of a church clock of the period. It needed to be wound by hand for over 400 years and played a pivotal role in the lives of local residents for many centuries. When it was put in place, it was the only way for the public to tell the time in Hackney village.
We must never shy of our past, the struggles we lived under: in the social injustice and inequality that pervaded the Victorian England. that’s why it’s unacceptable today to be a witness to poor behaviour, poor mindset, poor teaching (blindfolds).
Etiquette
We are not from a privilege background that's why mindsets must be of competition nature. We don't need someone coming in telling us how to be etiquette we can do that ourselves and we must. Because that is the true change of a mindset: it shows in our work, our writing, our speech, our chose of words, our gravity of annotation, our presentation. This is the true essence of being formal, not pretending to be formal, this is formal!
