FABRIC PROMOTION

Building on success 80 years since it was first established as one campus in St. John’s Wood, the highly successful North Bridge House School is now launching a sixth campus, which will extend its unique, specialist offering to families in West Hampstead, as well as those it currently caters for in Hampstead, Islington and Regent’s Park

New home, existing expertise Opening in September 2020, North Bridge House Nursery and Pre-Prep West Hampstead will provide an exciting new home for the school’s existing Early Years and Key Stage 1 expertise. Under Executive Head, Christine McLelland, who has made the longstanding NBH Nursery and Pre-Prep Schools the happy, high-achieving and popular North London destinations that they are for children aged two to seven years, the new campus will focus entirely on the same age range. “What sets North Bridge House apart is that our Nursery School is totally focused on the Early Years Foundation Stage and the Pre-Prep is focused solely on Key Stage 1. Every member of staff is an expert in these age groups and therefore every interaction that the children experience is age appropriate,” the Executive Head explains. “The staff are all working towards the same objectives, speaking a common language, and our academic outcomes speak for themselves,” she continues.

Top results North Bridge House (NBH) children progress from Reception having become confident mathematicians, able to read and write their own stories at just five-years-old, while at the end of Year 2 (KS1), 42 per cent of pupils perform in the top four per cent of the country for literacy and 50 per cent perform in the top four per cent for numeracy. While North Bridge House has grown from strength to strength, celebrating results well above the national average at every stage of its academically non-selective, all-through independent education for ages two to 18, the Nursery and Pre-Prep provision itself has proven to develop the fundamental skills upon which pupils’ future successes are built. The warm and nurturing environment in which children find the confidence to express themselves assertively and creatively offers a rich and varied curriculum, providing children with a fully rounded education and allowing them to develop a genuine love of learning.