Dwight School London

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Dwight School London is an independent co-educational international school providing educational programmes for Lower and Upper School prepared by the International Baccalaureate (IB) Organisation as an alternative to the national curriculum. David Rose BA MAEd FRSA is the current Head of the school.

The school consists of senior, primary and nursery departments in the North Finchley and Friern Barnet areas of north London, educating children from the ages of 2-18. It supports both the local and the international communities. ^[1]

The school initially developed from the Holmewood Boys’ preparatory school founded in 1885 at North Finchley, which in 1985 was acquired by the Dwight Franklin Foundation and the family of the then Chancellor of the Dwight School, New York, which remains the sister school of Dwight School London.^[2]

In 1988, Holmewood merged with St Alban’s School, becoming co-educational and being renamed Woodside Park Preparatory School, which in 1995 consolidated with the Friern Barnet Grammar School for Boys to form the Woodside Park School (eventually Woodside Park International School - a very discrete change that was not made known to the parents, causing an uproar), for education of pupils from the ages 4 to 18.^[2]

In December 1995 the senior department was accredited by the International Baccalaureate Organisation to teach the IB Diploma Programme; in 2003,to teach the IB Middle Years Programme, and the following year the junior department the IB Primary Years Programme. Consequently, the school became one of only a handful of British establishments to deliver the full range of IB teaching programmes for pupils aged 3 to 19.

In May 2006, the school came under sole ownership and was listed as a limited company with an age range of 3 to 18 years old.^[2]

The school is now called Dwight School London in recognition of its links with Dwight School New York, Dwight School Canada (on Vancouver Island) and Dwight School Seoul. It is one of the UK's leading International Baccalaureate World Schools

References

↑ http://www.dwightlondon.org
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Independent Schools Inspectorate Inspection Report: February 2011

v t e Schools and colleges in Barnet

Primary schools	Beis Yaakov Primary School Dollis Junior School Menorah Primary School Pardes House Primary School Rosh Pinah Primary School Trent School Underhill School Wessex Gardens Primary School

Secondary schools	Ashmole Academy Bishop Douglass School Christ's College The Compton School Copthall School East Barnet School Finchley Catholic High School Friern Barnet Secondary School Hasmonean High School Hendon School JCoSS London Academy Mill Hill County High School Queen Elizabeth's School for Girls St Andrew Greek Orthodox School St James' Catholic High School St Mary's CE High School The Totteridge Academy Whitefield School Wren Academy

Grammar schools	Henrietta Barnett School Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys St. Michael's Catholic Grammar School

Independent schools	Dwight School Holland House School King Alfred School Mill Hill School Susi Earnshaw Theatre School

FE & sixth form colleges	Barnet and Southgate College Woodhouse College

Defunct schools	Aida Foster Theatre School Friern Barnet Grammar School

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