Highgate has been selected as a finalist in the Outstanding Educational Partnerships category of the Independent Schools of the Year Awards 2024.
Taking place on Tuesday 8 October 2024, the Awards recognise and celebrate achievements across the independent schools’ sector. Chanel Noel, Community Partnership Director, said: “We are truly honoured to have been selected as a finalist.”
“At the heart of our Chrysalis partnerships work are the pupils, whose growth and success drive everything we do. Our collaboration with our sibling school the London Academy of Excellence Tottenham, and our network of Chrysalis schools reflects our shared commitment to creating opportunities that enrich their educational journeys.”
Partnership work is deeply embedded in the Highgate DNA. We encourage our pupils to look outwards, to play an active part in their community, and as a school we commit to a substantial range of projects to make a real mutual impact, tackling disadvantage in a sustained way. Some of Highgate’s partnership work includes:
- Co-founding and lead educational sponsor of London Academy of Excellence Tottenham (LAET), which provides exceptional sixth form education and a pathway for university entrance.
- Partnership with over 50 state schools, primary to sixth form, reaching over 16,000 children and young people from across London.
- Partnership clubs in the Junior School for Highgate pupils and local state school children, including Drama, Chorus, Science, early-morning Maths, Cookery and Reading.
- A ‘Mock University Interview’ programme to prepare sixth form pupils at local state schools for the final stage of university application.
- The ‘Accelerator’ programme which supports young people who are in care or have a social worker.
- Bursaries for children whose families are in need of financial support towards school fees. In 2023-24, there were 95 pupils receiving bursary funding in the Senior School and Sixth Form (including nine Ukrainian refugees) and nine pupils in the Junior School.
Highgate’s Head, Adam Pettitt, commented: “Partnerships for Highgate have taught us and brought us so much: from the reality of what collaborative work can do to resolve knotty problems, to the unleashing of new learning in a different environment; every partnership opens a school’s eyes.”
“But what a long term, committed school partnership of equals, such as Highgate’s with the London Academy of Excellence Tottenham, has given me, is proof positive that there is actually no school that won’t be stronger or more responsive than in partnership, or diminished without.”
Find out more about our partnership work here.
