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
- Little Simz, actress, rapper and singer
- Kemi Adeosun former Minister of Finance Nigeria
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]
References
- ^ "Highbury Fields | Home". Highburyfields.islington.sch.uk. 7 March 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- ^ "Highbury Fields | About us". Highburyfields.islington.sch.uk. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- ^ "Highbury Fields | Curriculum". Highburyfields.islington.sch.uk. Archived from the original on 21 August 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- ^ "Home / IC6". Ic6.co.uk. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- ^ Home and Colonial School Society, UCL, retrieved 1 January 2014
- ^ "Highbury Fields School - GOV.UK". Get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
- ^ "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. 10 April 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.