A new independent Catholic girls’ school is to be opened in Golders Green in September 2016 by the Alpha Plus Group.
St Anthony’s School for Girls will be located in Ivy House, on North End Road, NW11. Ivy House overlooks Golders Hill Park and is the former home of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and of the prima ballerina, Anna Pavlova.
The new school will be a two-form entry school, which will educate girls from age 4 - 11. Classes in Reception and Year 3 will open in September 2016 and growth will be organic after that, with Year 1 and Year 4 opening in September 2017 and so on. The maximum roll will be 280.
The diocese has granted the school for girls to be opened to complement St Anthony’s Catholic Boys’ school as an expansion to Catholic provision in the area. The school will operate with a Pastoral Board, which will work with Alpha Plus and the school leadership to ensure the Catholic ethos of the school is nurtured and developed. The new school will therefore be run with the same ethos and values as the existing St Anthony’s School for Boys in Hampstead, where the Pastoral Board model has worked highly successfully.
