Ark Oval Primary Academy in East Croydon this week celebrated the opening of its brand new teaching building.

New figures show that five year olds at Ark schools are outperforming the national average by over a fifth (22%).

Over 750 students from across the Ark network joined together in a musical celebration at the Barbican for Ark’s seventh – and, to date, the largest – annual M

Masterly musicians and skilled singers from across the Ark network filled some of East London’s biggest performance venues with music as they took part in Ark’s ‘Sing into Spring’.