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The Henrietta Barnett School is a grammar school with academy status for girls, in Hampstead Garden Suburb in London. The Good Schools Guide called the school 'One of the best academic state schools in the country, providing a gentle, inspiring education in a wonderful setting for very clever girls', [1] and the school consistently ranks amongst the top state schools in educational league ...
The eleven-plus (11+) is a standardised examination administered to some students in England and Northern Ireland in their last year of primary education, which governs admission to grammar schools and other secondary schools which use academic selection.
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Henrietta Barnett School is a grammar school for girls with academy status.. A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented selective secondary school.
Dame Henrietta Octavia Weston Barnett, DBE (née Rowland; 4 May 1851 – 10 June 1936) was an English social reformer, educationist, and author. She and her husband, Samuel Augustus Barnett , founded the first "University Settlement" at Toynbee Hall (in the East End of London ) in 1884.
The Women's University Settlement was founded after a talk by Henrietta Barnett to the Cambridge Ladies' Discussion Society. Toynbee Hall had been founded in 1884, and female students resolved to set up a similar project.
Wood Street Campus, Barnet (includes Tudor Hall, the original site of Queen Elizabeth's School). The Wood Street Campus reopened in September 2010 following a £50 million redevelopment, and provides a centre for its learners in the heart of High Barnet. Colindale Campus, Colindale.
Born in Golders Green, London of Indian and Finnish origin, Lahiri attended the Henrietta Barnett School in Hampstead Garden Suburb, where she excelled in languages and music. She graduated from Birkbeck, University of London with a degree in humanities and literature in 2005.