St Helens School

about us

Welcome to St Helen's School where enthusiastic, intellectually curious girls thrive in an environment which embraces academic challenge and ambition, values co-curricular success, and provides support and guidance to every pupil.

A leading independent girls’ day school and member of the Girls' Schools Association (GSA), St Helen’s provides an outstanding education for girls aged three to eighteen. Situated at the heart of Northwood in North London since its foundation in 1899, the School provides the opportunity for more than 1100 girls to excel academically, to fulfil their all-round potential and to acquire the skills, insight and confidence to become leaders in their fields, their professions and their communities.

The School is set in over 21 acres of beautiful grounds which provide the space to be physically active, to play and to be creative. The nearby Northwood station (on the Metropolitan Line) provides easy access by Underground from north-west and central London, and we are close to the Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire borders. Our excellent transport links and our own coach services mean that St Helen’s attracts girls from a wide and varied catchment area.

Dr M Short
School Office
Independent School
1100
01923 843210
enquiries@sthelens.london

school history

St Helen’s School was founded by Miss May Rowland Brown in 1899. After training as a teacher at Cambridge Training College for Women, she began her career at Northwood College, and was persuaded by a group of local businessmen to start another school. At the age of just 25, on the 19th January 1899, she founded Northwood High School, later named St Helen’s School. In 1999, St Helen's School celebrated its first centenary.

St Helen’s School, as it is now known, opened with just 12 day-pupils. These pupils were mostly girls and a few of their younger brothers.

The school was an immediate success. Its reputation spread and the roll grew steadily. Miss Rowland Brown recognised the need for a suitable property to accommodate the growing school, and chose a site at the corner of Eastbury Road and Carew Road. This large L-shaped building which she developed still forms the corner of the main school building today. The new building was opened on 22nd April 1902, and was named St Helen’s after the Bishopsgate church of the same name in which May Rowland Brown’s mother had been baptised, confirmed and married.

St Helen’s hosted 140 female overseas Olympic Games competitors in 1948, including Fanny Blankers-Koen, who went on to win four gold medals. A Parents’ Association was founded in 1951 and grew into a major support for the school and “in 1957, after 8 years of fundraising, a grand ceremony was held to lay the foundation stone of what would become The Rowland Brown Hall. Above it was to be a splendid new Library.

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work for us

St Helen’s School is an academically selective independent girls’ day school of more than 1100 students aged 3-18. It is set in over 20 acres of beautiful green space in Northwood, Middlesex. Within easy access by Underground from central London it draws pupils and staff from a wide area catchment of north-west London, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire.

Benefits of working at St Helen’s School include:

a competitive salary scale
access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or Group Personal Pension Scheme
access to the School’s swimming pool and fitness suite
on-site parking and excellent public transport links
free lunch and refreshments
access to private medical insurance at group rates (contributory)
a supportive community of highly motivated students and staff
supportive parents
small, focused and well behaved classes
a beautiful working environment – the School is set in a conservation site in excess of 20 acres
commitment to professional development

Please note that before making an application for any vacancy at St Helen’s, you should familiarise yourself with our Child Protection, Recruitment Selection and Equal Opportunities policies. Please also see the green links to our application form and supplementary form and the links in the vacancy table below to our recruitment packs.

Please send your completed applications to the link on the job listing or to recruitment@sthelens.london.

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