Southbank International School Westminster
Catchment Area, Reviews and Key Information

"The principal, supported by governors and senior staff, has secured excellent teaching, learning and assessment that enables pupils to achieve extremely well. Pupils make rapid progress and reach standards that are above world averages for the International Baccalaureate (IB).

Teaching is outstanding. Teachers have high expectations and excellent subject knowledge. They enable pupils of all abilities to make rapid progress.

Pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is a strength of the school. Pupils’ attitudes to learning are extremely positive. They are polite, mature and respectful in their behaviour."

OFSTED inspection report 2017

To help parents clearly understand everything Southbank can offer your child, we regularly host information mornings throughout the academic year.

These give you and your child a valuable opportunity to view our excellent facilities, chat to current students and teachers, and ask any questions you have about the school and our admissions process.

If you cannot attend any of our information mornings, we can also arrange an individual tour at a campus. Please see below.

Upcoming Open Mornings

The Information mornings listed will be held virtually via Google Meet, in line with the UK Governments and World Health Organisation’s recommendations.

*Please note that registration for each event will open 3 months prior to the date of the Information Morning.

Kensington Campus (ages 3-11)

12 March 2021 - Primary Years Programme (3 - 11 years)
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Hampstead Campus (ages 3-11)

2 March 2021 - Primary Years Programme (3 - 11 years)
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Westminster Campus (ages 11-18)

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Individual Campus Tours

In view of the recent developments with the Covid-19, Southbank International School has made the decision to close to external visitors. For this reason, we will not be able to conduct the usual physical tour of the school we offer until further notice.   We are able to offer a google hangout video call or a telephone call instead with one of our Admission Managers. Our aim is to ensure that we provide you with as much information as possible given the circumstances and until we are able to resume tours of our campuses.

Please contact the Admissions Office on [email protected] to discuss availability. To avoid disappointment, please contact us at least 2 weeks ahead of your preferred date.

Virtual Tours 

We are very proud of our school and understand that not everyone will be able to visit before they join us.  We have produced virtual tours of all our campuses and we encourage you to explore these to gain an initial insight into what to expect when you arrive.  View virtual tour .

It was an exciting start of the academic year with the formal opening of our new Cleveland Street campus for our Westminster students last week.

Founding Principal Milton Toubkin was invited to officially open the site, and he shared his memories of the start of the school 39 years ago and took guests on a historical walk through Southbank’s evolution. It was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the school’s beginnings and marvel at the strength of vision and ethos which, whilst adapting as the school has grown, still underpins Southbank today.

We are already looking forward to our 40th birthday next year.  What a way to celebrate our 39th year with such an impressive new building, designed with the creative input from our Southbank community of staff and students.  IB diploma students eloquently led visitor tours of the building and their pride in the design was evident.  It’s been a great start to the year!

Southbank International offers two outsstanding settings for children aged 3-11 years in Westminster and Hampstead. 

Students are encouraged to become: inquirers, thinkers, communicators, risk-takers, and to be knowledgeable, principled, caring, open-minded, balanced and reflective. They develop these attributes within the classroom, during Town Meetings (assemblies), in the playground, and while participating in Southbank’s many extracurricular activities.