Highbury Fields School Explained
| Highbury Fields School |
| Coordinates: | 51.5527°N -0.1011°W |
| Type: | Community school |
| Head Label: | Headteacher |
| Head: | Tim Fox |
| Address: | Highbury Hill |
| City: | Highbury |
| County: | London |
| Country: | England |
| Postcode: | N5 1AR |
| Local Authority: | Islington |
| Urn: | 100455 |
| Ofsted: | yes |
| Enrolment: | 768 |
| Gender: | Girls |
| Lower Age: | 11 |
| Upper Age: | 18 |
Highbury Fields School (formerly Highbury Hill High School) is a secondary school for girls and coeducational sixth form, located next to Highbury Fields in the Highbury area of the London Borough of Islington, England.[1]
The School has specialisms in Science and Mathematics, and is also a Leading Edge Partnership school.[2]
Highbury Fields School offers GCSEs as programmes of study for pupils.[3] Students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels which are provided as part of the Islington Sixth Form Consortium (iC6).[4]
History
The school is credited with being a successor institution to the educational ideas introduced to England by Charles and Elizabeth Mayo at the school on Gray's Inn Road.[5]
Grammar school
It was the former Highbury Hill School, a girls' grammar school. During the war, it evacuated to Huntingdon Grammar school, now Hinchingbrooke School.
Comprehensive
It became a comprehensive in 1981. Today it is a community school administered by Islington London Borough Council.[6]
Notable former pupils
Highbury Hill High School
- Edith Clara Batho, Principal of Royal Holloway College, University of London from 1945 to 1962
- Michelle Collins, EastEnders well-known actress, who played Cindy Beale, and Stella Price in Coronation Street
- Eileen Hickman-Smith, artist
- Mary Kerridge, actress
- Andrea Levy, novelist
- Sandy Ratcliff, EastEnders actress who played Sue Osman, expelled at the age of 12[7]
Notes and References
- Web site: Highbury Fields | Home . Highburyfields.islington.sch.uk . 2013-03-07 . 2013-08-30.
- Web site: Highbury Fields | About us . Highburyfields.islington.sch.uk . 2013-08-30.
- Web site: Highbury Fields | Curriculum . Highburyfields.islington.sch.uk . 2013-08-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130821011110/http://www.highburyfields.islington.sch.uk/curriculum/ . 2013-08-21 .
- Web site: Home / IC6 . Ic6.co.uk . 2013-08-30.
- http://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/institutions/home_and_colonial.htm Home and Colonial School Society
- Web site: Highbury Fields School - GOV.UK . Get-information-schools.service.gov.uk . 2022-12-27.
- News: Sandy Ratcliff, gifted actress who starred in Ken Loach's 'Family Life', was spotted by Snowdon and took a regular role in 'EastEnders' – obituary. Daily Telegraph. 27 April 2020. 10 April 2019.
