Please find the dates and times of our upcoming open days below. If these dates are not suitable we can arrange a guided tour for you to see the school. Both open events and guided tours can be booked by completing the form via our website.

Nursery School (2 years 9 months – 4 years)

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 9.30am
Tuesday 3 March 2020, 9.30am 
Tuesday 17 March 2020, 9.30am

Pre-Prep School (ages 5-7)

Friday 24 January 2020, 9.30am
Friday 7 February 2020, 9.30am
Friday 6 March 2020, 9.30am

Prep School (ages 7-13)

Friday 6 March 2020, 9.30am

Senior Hampstead (ages 11-16)

Thursday 19 March 2020, 9.30am

Senior Canonbury (ages 11-18)

Thursday 2 April 2020, 9.30am

North Bridge House Canonbury is rated ‘Outstanding’ in all areas of its Senior School and Sixth Form provision following the Ofsted inspection.

Having only opened in September 2014, Ofsted’s report reflects how much the school has already achieved as Islington’s first independent senior school for 13-18 year olds, based on the longstanding success of the North Bridge House group. 

The Ofsted report highlights the School's nurturing yet academically rigorous ethos, to which all staff and students contribute, and the exemplary work of the Head Teacher, senior leaders and teachers, who together form an inspirational team. The school is commended for excellently preparing students ‘for the next stage of their education through effective pastoral support and guidance for academic subject choices or for university or career choices.’

Ofsted also identifies the ‘consistently outstanding support’ that students receive and the ‘highly effective teaching’, which not only motivates pupils to fulfil their potential, but encourages them to develop a self-confidence that aids their academic progress significantly.

Other key elements of Ofsted's findings were:

• ‘Sixth form provision is outstanding.’

• ‘Students make significant progress from their starting points. Results in mock examinations show that they are achieving above expected levels from their previously predicted grades and performance.’

• ‘Students who require additional help in their learning make above expected levels of progress because they are given good support in lessons to match their identified needs.’

At North Bridge House Senior Canonbury we are dedicated to providing our students with an outstanding education and to developing happy, confident young adults with the skills to become future leaders. Thanks to our small class sizes we are able to tailor our teaching and support to meet the needs of every child.

With experts continuing to shed ever-more light on teenage learning patterns and the stages of their brain development, we believe that by effectively harnessing this research we can maximise the potential of each individual. Our work with the Teenage Sleep Foundation and Dr Paul Kelley from the University of Oxford has led us to introduce a later start time for our Sixth Formers, whilst Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Teenage Mental Health champion, Johnny Benjamin, have informed our pupil support programme and helped us, and the parent body, better understand our teens.

Our team of specialist and dedicated teachers, drawn from prestigious university backgrounds and with experience at some of the country’s leading schools, provide the inspiration our pupils need to realise their academic goals. The focus on academic excellence is complemented by first class pastoral care and attention to the learning needs of every child. Both our experienced Learning Support Co-ordinator and SENCO are members of the school’s Senior Leadership Team, thereby ensuring our commitment to an inclusive curriculum and teaching strategies attuned to the needs of the whole school community.

To broaden our pupils’ interests and help them develop new and transferable skills, we offer a diverse enrichment programme – often in conjunction with our sister schools. This summer, for example, pupils are undertaking charity work in Malawi alongside their peers from our Senior School in Hampstead. Our timetabled enrichment programme includes activities as diverse as Mandarin and Yoga, whilst almost all of our Sixth Formers undertake the EPQ.

We also host regular ‘World of Work’ events whereby students get to hear from – and question – specialists from a broad range of industries. These activities are not perceived as ‘extra-curricular’, rather they constitute an integral part of the overall educational offering.

Jonathan Taylor
Head Teacher
North Bridge House Senior Canonbury 

GCSE Results 2018

Students from North Bridge House Senior Canonbury achieved an impressive 27% Grade 9s in the school’s second ever set of GCSE results. 68% of all grades achieved an A*/A or Grade 7 and above.

A remarkable 32% of students secured a Grade 9 in Maths. Four students also sat Further Maths GCSE – a qualification designed to stretch particularly high achieving Mathematicians and the only one which offers an A** award – and achieved 3 A** grades and an A*.

The school’s impressive number of Grade 9s continued across science and languages with 62% of students achieving the top grade in Physics and 80% in Spanish.

Star student, Oscar Brogden particularly excelled, gaining a complete set of Grade 9s and A*s. With nine Grade 9s, plus an A* in Music and an A** in Further Maths, Oscar is one of very few pupils to score so highly across the country.

A Level Results 2018

North Bridge House Senior Canonbury’s third set of A Level results saw a number of the 26 Year 13 students achieve a clean sweep of A*/A grades.

With an A* in Maths and A grades in Physics and Further Maths, Arpi Saruhanyan secured a place at her first choice university, the University of Exeter to study Astrophysics.

Economics was a particularly popular subject of study with the class of 2018. Josh Tucker (AAA) accepted an offer from the University of Nottingham to pursue his interest while Sepehr Edalation (AAB) chose Queen Mary’s to study the subject. Yusif Cahusac (AAAB) will embark on a Political Economy course at Kings College, London.

NBH Canonbury maintained its strength in Modern Foreign Languages as students sat A Levels in French, Spanish, Italian and Chinese. Spanish results were particularly impressive with all candidates gaining A grades.