Girls Enjoying Success

Channing, an independent school based in North London, where girls aged 4 to 18 can discover their interests, develop their talents, and build lasting friendships. Our inspiring environment fosters academic achievement and personal growth.

The school successfully meets its ambition to empower pupils to become independent thinkers and fearless learners.

- ISI Inspection Report 2022

A visionary all-girls school full of extremely confident, capable and engaging young women.

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The school successfully meets its ambition to empower pupils to become independent thinkers and fearless learners.

ISI – Regulatory Compliance and Educational Quality Inspection Report, June 2022

Pupils accept others for who they are, respect diversity and appreciate the richness different cultures and traditions bring.

ISI – Regulatory Compliance and Educational Quality Inspection Report, June 2022

The development of pupils’ knowledge, skills and understanding is excellent, underpinned by the school’s commitment to offering an education of breadth.

ISI – Regulatory Compliance and Educational Quality Inspection Report, June 2022
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A Day in the Life of Channing Junior School

At Channing Junior School, we offer an enriching and exciting syllabus beyond the confines of a rigid curriculum. Creativity and innovation are developed from the Early Years and across Key Stages 1 and 2.

A Day in the Life of Channing Senior School

The Senior School is a place of great opportunities, Years 7, 8 and 9 are the years to learn, make mistakes, try new things and discover where your true talents lie.

Character Education

We felt that our Junior School pupils would benefit from being able to refer visibly to a set of defined character traits with accompanying tangible characters, which we could weave through every aspect of their educational experience. Pupils and staff were invited to share their ideas about what makes a Channing girl and what we want a Channing girl to be like. Thus, the Channing Characters were born!

Chatting with Channing

Welcome to our award winning podcast series: Chatting with Channing. Chatting with Channing lets the listener find out more about our wonderful school by hearing from people throughout the school community. In each episode, you’ll hear real stories from staff, pupils, parents and alumnae, to give a true reflection of life on Highgate Hill.
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Thank you very much to Phoenix in Year 12 and her family for gifting a copy of Portraits for Posterity to our Senior School Library. Portraits for Posterity is a project that began in late 2007, documenting Holocaust survivors who settled in Great Britain after World War II. The book features portraits of survivors alongside their personal stories and messages, including a profile of Phoenix's grandfather.

Since the project's inception, 101 portraits have been displayed across the nation, with the most recent exhibition held at Finchley Reform Synagogue earlier this year, in line with Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. @holocaustuk @mattwrittle
Years 8 and 9 heard from the author Tanya Landman today about her books and career, including Gothic literature retellings and historical thrillers, Buffalo Soldier and Apache. Thank you, Tanya, for your fascinating talk for Year 9 and inspiring creative writing workshop for Year 8!
We are seeing some great collaborative work going on in Mural Club as we finally get to the painting stages. Students have selected themes of ‘The Environment’, ‘Channing’ and ‘Inspirational Women’ for the current 4 boards. They are starting to take shape and we are looking forward to exhibiting them around the Brunner House building works when they are completed.
On Tuesday 4 February Thomasina R represented Channing and Haringey in the Middlesex Cross Country Championships. Thomasina produced an excellent run with a time of 12 minutes 14 seconds and came 37th out of 84 in the Year 8 and Year 9 combined race. Congratulations Thomasina, we are very proud of you!
The Computer Science department is running two python coding clubs, one for beginners and the other for advanced programmers. The pupils in both clubs have been creating basic games and simulations in Python. The pupils are now working on creating their designs for more complex games.

14 February

Careers in Sport Week

This week, the Careers and PE Departments collaborated to showcase Careers in Sport. Each year group attended a talk by an external speaker who shared insights about their careers in sport, what inspired them to...

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14 February

Theatre Design Workshops

This week, students have taken on a variety of creative roles behind the scenes in the theatre, both during the KS3 production rehearsals and in a series of extracurricular Theatre Design workshops. The backstage team...

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12 February

Chatting with Channing – Year 12 Historians chat with Professor Tracy Borman

Listen on: Spotify Apple Podcasts The latest episode of Chatting with Channing welcomes a distinguished guest, Professor Tracy Borman, a leading historian, author, and Chief Executive of the Heritage Education Trust. Interviewed by Year 12...

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11 February

Music at Lunchtime – Friday 7th February

What an amazing concert it was! It started off with a calming but yet powerful performance of ‘Maybe’ from Annie, sung by the talented Sophie C in 8EGi. Next up was Eve C in 12EH...

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10 February

Miss Hamalis’ Bulletin – Monday 10 February 2025

Dear Parents Congratulations to the Year 3 girls on their fantastic assembly on Ancient Egypt this morning! It was an absolute joy to watch them bring history to life with such enthusiasm, confidence and teamwork....

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Miss Hamalis, Head Of Channing Junior School