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North Bridge House Senior Canonbury

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Students choose between French and Spanish and between Latin and Mandarin – take-up for the latter possibly influenced by the promise of a scavenger hunt to Chinatown to recognise words on shop signs, ordering their own meal and making dumplings. Drama is ‘a jewel in the crown’ – ‘the brilliant embodiment of the community-minded spirit’. Don’t expect jolly hockey sticks and slaps on the back. Lack of outside space, however, more than offset by…

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Headteacher

Since 2022, Charlotte Tassell-Dent. NBH Canonbury pioneer, she has been at the school since its inception in 2014, starting out as geography teacher and head of pastoral, and ‘really proud’ that still teaches geography to incoming year 7s – ‘a way of getting to know the students at the beginning of their NBH journey’. A personal approach to teaching and learning lies at the heart of her thinking – ‘knowing every individual and working with them and their family to show we genuinely care’. ‘There are so many levels of support here,’ she says, ‘and happy learners achieve more.’ Parents say she is ‘unbelievably unflappable’ and wants to be the first to know about issues as they arise. Students too appreciate her accessibility and the fact that she knows them so well.
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