NBH Canonbury Senior School Celebrates Outstanding GCSE Results

Students from North Bridge House Canonbury Senior School & Sixth Form in Islington are celebrating outstanding GCSE results today: 65% of grades are 7 and above (compared to 22.6% nationally), and 45% of grades are 8 or 9 (the equivalent to an A* or higher).

Impressive results have been achieved across a broad range of academic and creative disciplines, with particular success in the arts, languages and STEM subjects.

Art has seen a huge 43% of students achieve a grade 9 (with 86% achieving a grade 7 or above), and over half of the school’s Drama students are celebrating a grade 8 or 9.

Top grade success has continued in modern foreign languages: 100% of students have secured a grade 8 or above in French, whilst 100% and 67% are celebrating a grade 9 in Italian and Spanish respectively.

Notably, NBH Canonbury Senior School is paving the way for future careers in STEM, with a remarkable number of students scoring a grade 8 or 9 in the following fields: 63% in Computer Science, 55% in Further Maths, and 50% in Chemistry.

The school’s humanities department has also fared well, with 85% of Geography students and 68% of History students achieving a grade 7 or above respectively.

Representing the school’s strength in both the arts and STEM related subjects, top performer Fergus Hebbert is celebrating 8 and 9 grades in Drama, Chemistry, Maths, Further Maths and Physics. Overall, Fergus has achieved an amazing seven grade 9s, two grade 8s and one 7. He will be continuing his Sixth Form studies at NBH Canonbury, further to the school’s celebration of 36% A*-A grades at A-Level last week.

Fellow high achiever, Lara Pospisilova, is also celebrating success in the arts, with a grade 9 in both art and drama among an overall six grade 9s and three 8s, which have secured her Sixth Form place at the competitive University College School Hampstead.

Classmate Niccolo Galleni is delighted to have achieved seven grade 9s, plus two grade 8s and one 6, and will be pursuing his talents in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Music at NBH Canonbury’s Sixth Form in September.

Overall, three quarters of the cohort have scored a grade 7 or above in English Literature, two thirds have scored a grade 7 or above in English Language, and over half have scored the same in Maths.

Headteacher Mrs Charlotte Tassell-Dent concludes:

“I am enormously proud of both staff and students. Though we are an academically non-selective school, our mission is to help students achieve more than they believed possible, and there are so many individuals who have achieved outcomes above and beyond their starting point trajectories. Even though our Year 11’s path to exams has been significantly disrupted – with three lockdowns hindering the cohort’s first two years in secondary education – results like these are a dream come true, and our students should be very excited for the bright futures they have ahead.”

If you are interested in a place at NBH Canonbury Senior School & Sixth Form, please email joinus@northbridgehouse.com or call 020 7428 1520.