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A fast-paced academic education delivered with imagination, creativity and care. A thoroughly modern and forward-looking environment for able, energetic girls.
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Overview & data
- Pupil numbers
- 316 ·
- Religion
- Inter-denominational
- Fees
- £25,620 pa
- Local authority
- London Borough of Harrow
- Linked schools
Headteacher
Head of junior school
Mr Richard Queripel
Since June 2024, Richard Queripel, BA, PGCE. Originally from Nottingham, Mr Queripel did his undergraduate degree (in American studies) at the University of Sheffield, before returning to his home town to complete his PGCE at Nottingham University.
Entrance
Over 300 apply for 40 places at 4+, with a two-step assessment in the January of the year of entry. In the first round, girls participate in nursery-like activities – cutting, sticking, listening to stories, etc. ‘We’re not trying to catch them
- Open days
- Open Morning: September; School in Action Mornings also take place which can be booked through the school's website.
Exit
Junior School pupils no longer sit the senior-school entrance exam, and the vast majority proceed seamlessly to year 7. A handful choose to go elsewhere – including to local selective state schools, such as Henrietta Barnett and Watford Grammar
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Teaching & learning
Mobile phone policy
A clear mobile phone policy is a really important part of modern schooling. This school has provided us with their policy.
Mobile phone policy
Provided by the school and not part of our review In the Junior School pupils are only permitted to have mobile phones in school if they are traveling home on the main coach service. This applies to pupils from Year 2-Year 6. Parents are advised that the pupils must not have smartphones but should only have ‘brick’ phones if they are purchasing one. Any pupil with a phone in school must hand these in at the beginning of each day and collect them once their lessons or extra-curricular clubs have finished. Smartwatches are not permitted in the Junior School.
Pupils
Money matters
North London – as elsewhere – has been affected by the imposition of VAT on school fees, but fortunate parents here have seen these rises kept to a minimum, thanks to the school’s partnerships with schools overseas.
- Fee information
- £25,620 pa
Our view
This is an academic school, but academic in a fresh, contemporary way, and parents consider teaching ‘exceptional’. Maths and English are at the core, and on our visit, we saw the youngest using illustrations of the ‘Hippocrump’ poem to learn about
The last word
A fast-paced academic education delivered with imagination, creativity and care. A thoroughly modern and forward-looking environment for able, energetic girls.
