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Highgate School

Highgate School
School information
MottoAltiora In Votis (Latin: I pray for the higher things)
Established1565
TypeIndependent School
ReligionChurch of England
HeadteacherAdam Pettitt, M.A.
FounderSir Roger Cholmeley
AddressNorth Road
CityLondon
Post codeN6 4AY
CountryEngland
Staff125 full-time
Students1313
AgesReception to Year 13
ColoursMaroon and Navy    
AffiliationsEton Group, HMC, IAPS

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Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate (Highgate School) is a British independent school in Highgate, London, England. Originally a free charity school for local boys, it became during the nineteenth century one of England's leading public schools. It is a member of both the Headmaster's Conference and the Eton Group. Highgate no longer takes boarders and recently moved towards co-education ending over 400 years of single sex education. According to the Good Schools Guide, "Its decision to go co-ed has helped to put its popularity and academic standards on upward trajectories."

The school was founded as, and still is, a charity, the Free Grammar School of Sir Roger Cholmeley, Knight at Highgate by letters patent of Queen Elizabeth I in 1565. In this period up to 1871 it was known commonly as The Free Grammar School at Highgate, The Highgate Grammar School or the Cholmeley School, when not referred to legally. By the 1870s the school had largely dropped free provision for local parish boys and instead became a boarding-school for boys from the upper and upper middle classes. For this reason the name was changed to Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate, which it is still known by today in the charitable status list. In the later part of the 19th Century the school's current title Highgate School developed, as it competed with better-known public schools with area names like Eton College, Harrow School and Winchester College.

Three separate schools now come under the Highgate Foundation, which manages not only the Senior School but also a prep school and a pre-prep school.

Highgate School Video

A film of 60 students finding an unusual way of beating exam stress. If you like this then share it with your friends, especially if they have exams coming up! For help with exam stress, search for 'beat exam stress' or visit www.ChildLine.org.uk/beatexamstress Whatever your worry, it's better out than in. Produced by 3angrymen for ChildLine. Choreographed by Imogen Knight. Music track is 'Get the Drive (Beat exam stress edit)' by Heartbreak. Now available to download from www.childline.org.uk Students from London schools and colleges took part including Highgate Wood School, Winchmore Hill School, Mountview Academy and Italia Conti.
1.72 min. | 4.83 user rating		 Highgate School Class of 2007
3.52 min. | 4.0 user rating		 Highgate Wood School is internationally renowned for its winter concerts. This is one of the highlights from this year.
6.73 min. | 4.4 user rating		 The Greatest Tenor FRANCO CORELLI sings Charles Gounod's - FAUST - London, Kingsway Hall: Studio-Recording Ambrosian Opera Chorus; Choir of Highgate School;London Symphony Orchestra; maestro del coro John McCarthy; producers Ray Minshull, David Harvey; engineers Kenneth Wilkinson, James Lock, Gordon Parry Act III - Scene and Cavatina Le docteur Faust - FRANCO CORELLI Méphistophélès - Nicolai Ghiaurov Marguerite - Joan Sutherland Valentin - Robert Massard Siebel - Margreta Elkins Dame Marthe Schwertlein - Monica Sinclair Wagner - Raymond Myers Scene and Cavatina Act III Conductor - Richard Bonynge June 01,03,06-07,09-10,13-16,17-18,1966, July 09-10, 1966 **Joan Sutherland indicated to René Seghers that Corelli's part in the final trio was dubbed in later because he could not stay to the end of the sessions.**
6.08 min. | 5.0 user rating		 highgate school house music competition 2007. winners Queensgate
6.93 min. | 4.0 user rating
Architect's Plans for BSF at Highgate Wood School. Showing the vision for the development to the Wren building, including the new Learning Resource Centre
0.98 min. | 2.33 user rating		 Didn't edit this at all, just put the clips together with some music. Good day of filming, got some good tricks filmed ! ( I do not own the sound track to this video, entertainment use only )
1.48 min. | 5.0 user rating		 The Nerve - Nobody Knows It - Live - Highgate Wood School - 2010
3.47 min. | 4.0 user rating		 St Giles London Highgate is a medium-sized, friendly English Language school in north London. It offers a relaxing location to study, only 25 minutes from the centre of the city. This video, filmed in 2007, offers a short introduction to the school.
3.65 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Highgate Primary School Christmas play either 1995, or 1996 ? Hope you have a good laugh watching yourselves and your mates dressed as puddings, or snowflakes !
6.40 min. | 0 user rating

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Islington Tribune newspaper website--We reported last week how their triumphant Year 9 side won the Camden -School- Sports Federation Secondary -Schools- League. Less than a week on, and a five-a-side team from the -Highgate- Road-based -school- have been - Date : Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:59:15 GMT+00:00
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St. Albans Messenger--SWANTON -- With the exception of a small increase in Franklin, all -school- spending proposals in the Franklin Northwest Supervisory Union have come in under current year totals. Voters in -Highgate-, Sheldon and Swanton will see per - Date : Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:04:16 GMT+00:00
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Telegraph.co.uk--But Orient's senior player � “senior, by some distance,” in his words � must sublimate memories of his own north London background, and of his -school- days at St Aloysius' College in -Highgate-, to engineer the humbling of - Date : Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:28:01 GMT+00:00
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Camden New Journal newspapers website--PUPILS at one of Camden's top secondary -schools- may have to provide fingerprints to get their -school- lunches. Scanners could be installed at Parliament Hill -School- in -Highgate- Road, -Highgate-, to speed - Date : Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:18:51 GMT+00:00
Girls' Football - Parliament Hill School win the Year 9 Secondary Schools League - Islington Tribune newspaper website Tweet this news
Islington Tribune newspaper website--AFTER five weeks of thrilling action at Cantelowes Sports Pitch, the triumphant 'B' team representing the -school- in -Highgate- Road were crowned champions having notched up 40 points from 18 games. It was a - Date : Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:11:10 GMT+00:00
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SFS Group---...- funding valued in the region of £30000 would be supplied to Wellington College, Cambridge's Perse School for Girls and North London's -Highgate school-. ... - Date : Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:14:24 GMT+00:00
Nina Dinah celebrates 101st birthday in Bellingham - Bellingham Herald Tweet this news
Bellingham Herald--28 at -Highgate- Senior Living in Bellingham. Nina grew up in the Chelsea area of London, England. She worked as a telephone operator during World War II, ... - Date : Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:10:12 GMT+00:00
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Camden New Journal newspapers website---...- felt towards the -Highgate- branch by saying it is the hub of -Highgate- Newtown. Friends chairwoman Linda Lefevre, former head at Brecknock primary -school-, ... - Date : Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:25:58 GMT+00:00

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