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[email protected] November 2007 No. 170 20p ARCHER ISSN 1361-3952 wheresold A community newspaper for East Finchley run entirely by volunteers. Fortismere forges new links with N2 By John Lawrence Fortismere School is seeking to build new links with East Finchley and encourage more applications from families in N2 as well as Muswell Hill. September was an impor- “Being on the boundary of be run in the same way as if tant date for the school as it Haringey and Barnet means it had continued to be a com- moved into Foundation School that the school will always wel- munity school. status and, after many years of come applications for places Other plans put forward by being a specialist technology from families in both Muswell the governors are to extend college, changed its specialist Hill and East Finchley.” Fortismere’s services to all status to Maths/Computing The move to foundation local families by offering and Music. status was opposed by some evening or weekend courses, In addition, following an parents and staff, who formed such as Mandarin, Spanish, excellent Ofsted report in the Keep Fortismere Compre- maths for parents, computing which the school was described hensive campaign group. The for beginners, website design, as having ‘many outstanding group says it will carry on orchestra and instrumental features’, Fortismere has been campaigning for the school to lessons. formally identiied as a High Performing Specialist School and, as such, has been offered PRICKETT 36 High Road the opportunity to take on & ELLIS East Finchley N2 9PJ a second specialism, which will be Modern Foreign Lan- TOMKINS guages.