About Us

The Islington Headteachers Network is open to all Heads of Children’s Centres, Primary, Secondary and Special schools in Islington. There are 3 full Network meetings per year (one per term) and six Executive Committee meetings. The network has 5 main objectives, which are set out in the constitution, as follows:

  1. To campaign for the maintenance of, and improvement in, the quality of publicly funded education in the London Borough of Islington
  2. To provide mutual support and advice to Headteachers of affiliated secondary, primary, special and nursery schools (community, aided or foundation), and other maintained settings with school age children in Islington
  3. To offer a non-party political and non-sectarian forum for debate and dialogue on education issues between members of subscribing schools; and between them and (i) the local authority; (ii) other stakeholders including DfE, parents groups etc
  4. To act as a voice for Islington Headteachers with other organisations concerned with the quality of education
  5. To raise such funds through subscription fees payable by participating schools, that shall meet the costs of the other objectives.