History

In 2024, TaskSpace transformed three additional classrooms by reconfiguring the existing spaces to create optimized learning environments for pupils. Maximizing natural light and improving storage solutions were essential, ensuring the spaces met the requirements for both form rooms and classrooms.

On the 10th July 2017, work began on the new Food Studio; a dedicated space to enable the girls to fully embrace the food technology curriculum and to learn invaluable life skills. Tons of earth and London clay were excavated in order to create a room which would exist below the level of the existing terrace and so minimise the impact on the overall footprint of the playground and other areas. Work was successfully completed in April 2018 and the result is a fantastic light and airy space that integrates seamlessly into the existing building. On 26th April, Cook and…Read More

In the early 1990s, the Governors announced exciting plans to move the school to a new building further down Eton Avenue. The staff were involved in the planning and development of ideas for the new building and in 1994 the whole school attended a ceremony for the laying of the foundation stone. A time capsule was then buried in the far corner of the new gym, which may be found by future generations if this building is ever demolished. The time capsule contents include coins, a fountain pen, some of the school uniform, letters written by the girls at the…Read More

In 1939, at the outbreak of war, the school was evacuated to Whatcombe House in Dorset. Unfortunately the evacuation was unsuccessful, only lasting about one term. The conditions, including cooking facilities, were far from ideal and the bombing in the Hampstead area of London was not as bad as expected, so many parents wanted their children back home with them. Following the short evacuation, the school was forced to close and reopened again in 1945, following repairs to the building caused by war damage.

Sarum Hall School was founded in September 1929 at 51 Eton Avenue, Belsize Park by Miss Violet E Webb, the first Headmistress. Miss Webb had been a pupil at the Godolphin School in Salisbury and named Sarum Hall School after that town – Sarum is the Roman name for Salisbury. The first term began with just seven pupils; double that number enrolled for the second term and at the beginning of the second year there were 28 pupils. The oldest year group that started at Sarum Hall School in 1929 had just three pupils in it all the way up…Read More