Mossbourne Federation

About

Founding Mossbourne Community Academy in 2004, the late Sir Clive Bourne made it his mission to provide Hackney children with a world-class education and drive the standards of educational provision in the borough.

This required Mossbourne to create an environment where teachers can teach and children can learn—that is, an environment where learning is the norm.

He believed that the children of Hackney were being incorrectly blamed for the failure of schools in the borough to reach good educational standards and that the real reasons lay elsewhere. “Good enough” was not a mantra he was prepared to put up with.

Sir Clive Bourne’s vision changed the face of education in Hackney.

Mossbourne Community Academy was not only one of the country’s first academies but the very first in Hackney, with the goal to re-imagine what inner-city, non-selective education could be. ​It showed everyone what was possible when the community focused on high-quality teaching and didn’t allow excuses, mediocrity and disruptive behaviour to get in the way.