• New Emmanuel Primary School building opens at West Hampstead site

  By JulieGK at 21:20 on 14/11/12

  

  Pupils and staff at Emmanuel CofE Primary School are celebrating the opening of their brand new building in Mill Lane, West Hampstead. Work on planning the state of the art building, which opened on Monday began six years ago - but it has been an aspiration to build a new school in Mill Lane for about 50 years. The old Emmanuel school, also in Mill Lane, was only able to take 15 children per year and was heavily oversubscribed. In...

• Final chance for parents to see Swiss Cottage school before opening

  By JulieGK at 12:24 on 18/10/12

  

  Swiss Cottage school parents who didn't make last week's open day have a chance tonight (October 18). Parents who have not yet visited Swiss Cottage School's new building are invited to look around and meet Kay Bedford, the principal, as well as school staff and local authority officers on tonight between 5pm and 6pm. This is an opportunity to see your child's new class and to get an overview of the facilities that will be available...

• Hampstead Schools GCSE Results 2011

  By Simon__Lee at 19:20 on 26/08/11

  

  Henrietta Barnett lead the charge with Hampstead's GCSE results yesterday, though many of the schools in the area have done well.     South Hampstead School matched Henrietta Barnett's impressive 90% A*-A grades with 20% of their students gaining straight A*s. Their head mistress was very please. 'We are proud of our girls. As a school, we provide the opportunity and support but it's the girls who work hard and get...

• Hampstead Garden Suburb's Henrietta Barnett School Gains Top GCSE Results

  By Simon__Lee at 11:43 on 25/08/11

  

  Hampstead Garden Suburb's Henrietta Barnett School, the top school in the country last year for GCSE results, achieved another set of outstanding results today, their best ever, with 90% A*-A grades.     The majority of their students (54/93) gained 9 or more A*-A grades, with 13 girls walking away with straight A*s. As mentioned, last year the school was the top of the GCSE league tables, and with this year's...

• Two Hampstead Schools Gain Top A-Level Results

  By Simon__Lee at 19:14 on 18/08/11

  

  Today was the day that the UK's A-level students received their results. Always a nervous time for students. If they're heading to university, the results will secure, or deny them their place, and if they're not, then their A-levels could mean a job in the future.     Last year, Hampstead's schools did rather well in relation to the rest of the country, and the top two schools last year, have once again...

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