Livery Hat Trick for Crayford Academy
Haberdashers’ Students Impress at the Livery Academy Awards Heats. On Tuesday 9 December, sixth form students from across our six Academy secondary schools gathered at Haberdashers’ Hall to take part in the Livery Academy Awards Heats—an exciting evening designed to showcase innovation, teamwork and entrepreneurial talent. Each team was challenged to pitch a fully formed […]
Celebrating Creativity: Haberdashers Character Art Day 2025
On 20 November, Haberdashers’ Hall came alive with colour, creativity, and collaboration as students from across the Haberdashers family of schools gathered for the Haberdashers Character: Art Day. This event is part of the wider Haberdashers’ Character programme, designed to nurture confidence, broaden horizons, consider learning beyond the classroom and develop essential life skills in […]
Supporting a valued colleague: A grant for Tom’s hearing aids
At Haberdashers’ Abraham Darby, our staff community is at the heart of school life. This month, we were reminded once again of the profound impact our colleagues have on the lives of our students—and the importance of supporting them when they need us most. Recently, a member of staff reached out regarding support for one […]
Second School to join the Haberdashers’ family of Elstree Schools
From April 2026, St Martin’s School – an independent prep school in Northwood – joins Haberdashers’ Elstree Schools (Haberdashers’ Boys’ School and Haberdashers’ Girls’ School and Lochinver House School). Haberdashers’ Elstree Schools was proudly crowned Independent School of the Year 2025 for outstanding educational partnerships and overall Independent School of the Year 2025. These awards are not […]
Careers for 2030
This November, 90 Year 12 students from across the Haberdashers’ family of schools came together for Careers for 2030 — a two-day event designed to spark ambition, expand horizons and give young people a clearer sense of the world they were stepping into. Young people are being bombarded with media AI anxiety and graduate unemployment […]
Elevate: Bright minds. Bold journeys.
Elevate unites a community of bright, ambitious young women from the Haberdasher family of schools, inspiring them to be bold in shaping their futures and resilient when facing challenges. Delivered in partnership with Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, the programme connects students with role models, offers guidance on academic pathways, and provides a glimpse into university life. […]
The 16th Century City Actor Robert Browne, Haberdasher
By the 16th Century some members of City Livery Companies were not following a career in their trade or mercantile endeavour, but rather in the world of the rapidly growing Tudor theatre. In fact haberdasher members were a good fit for this as they had excellent company links to supply costumes, stage sets and a […]
Amen – My testament to pride
Haberdashers’ Crayford Academy Head Girl, Favour, shares her spoken word poem about the Windrush generation. They say pride comes before the fall but for us, pride came after the storm. After the ships. After the chains. After our names were scattered like waste across oceans that were never meant to hold us. And yet from […]
The brown-haired girls are in a line
Haberdashers’ Crayford Academy Year 13 student, Taylor, beat countless other hopefuls to be one of the winners of the Foyle Young Poet of the Year 2025 award. More than 10,000 poets aged 11-17 submitted over 28,300 poems into the 2025 competition. Young people from 135 countries took part from as far afield as Uzbekistan, Fiji, […]
Mentoring and the workplace: Extending the reach of Habs Aspire
Time, experience, and money: these are three ways we can give back, something I learnt from a lockdown talk on what Haberdasher members do to get involved with the ongoing work of the Company in our schools and charity spaces. Since then, I have been looking for different ways that I can give back through […]