Halcyon London International School A GSG School
- Halcyon London International School
33 Seymour Place
London
W1H 5AU - Head: Mr Barry Mansfield
- T 020 7258 1169
- E join@halcyonschool.com
- W halcyonschool.com/
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Westminster
- Pupils: 190; sixth formers: 59
- Religion: None
- Fees: £30,429 - £31,851 pa
- Open days: September October December
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
A friendly, happy, small school, Halcyon is one of the few schools in London to offer the IB middle years programme (MYP), which it does for the first five years. Most teachers have an IB background and are skilled in the delivery of its demanding curriculum. ‘Unlike GCSEs, which are knowledge based, it’s a framework rather than a syllabus, and you need to understand the criteria,’ says the head. ‘It’s very rewarding if delivered well, but you really need to be on point.’ Parents enthuse about...
What the school says...
Halcyon is the only not-for-profit, co-educational, exclusively International Baccalaureate (IB) school in central London. Halcyon brings a high standard of life-readying education to one of the most culturally diverse, academically rich and historically important cities in the world.
Building on the foundations of the IB, Halcyon is an innovative, thinking community, committed to holistic teaching and learning; nurturing reflective, life-ready global citizens.
Beyond the standard IB curriculum, Halcyon offers innovative courses which include multi-grade settings in subjects such as podcasting, forensics and archeology as well as personal learning projects for students to explore their individual interests.
With a holistic and integrated digital learning programme, extensive student wellbeing programme and a commitment to the lifelong learning of its staff, Halcyon can truly describe itself as innovative, collaborative and community orientated.
Halcyon London International School is a qualified school for the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IBMYP) and International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP). Halcyon is rated as Outstanding in all categories by Ofsted, accredited by NEASC in 2018, and recognised as an EdTech50 school in 2019.
Halcyon is considered a leader in the use of educational technology to support teaching and learning. ...Read more
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Curricula
International Baccalaureate: diploma - the diploma is the familiar A-level equivalent.
International Baccalaureate: middle years - middle Years is a programme for ages 11-16.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Director
Since 2015, Barry Mansfield BA PGCE MA. Attended Thomas Mills Grammar School in Suffolk (whose other star pupils include Ed Sheeran), before a degree in modern and mediaeval history at Nottingham University and a PGCE (in history and English) at the University of East Anglia. After a brief stint teaching in the UK, he left to join an American school in Athens (where he met his wife). Together they travelled the world, working in schools in Nairobi, Dubai, the south of France and Jeddah. His first principalship was at Berne International School in Switzerland, followed by six years as head of the International School of Paris. He has worked in IB schools since 1992 and is ever more enthusiastic about them: ‘The IB allows schools to be brave and innovative in their curriculum and...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Special Education Needs
SEN support is offered on a student-by-student basis: capacity is limited, and every student's needs are individual, so we do not have a list of needs that we can guarantee support for. Please enquire to speak to our Admissions Director about capacity to support a student's particular needs.
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas's Kensington | 2023 | 1 |
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