SIS-LPEBL Kentish Town

A very small English-French bilingual primary in Kentish Town, part of the La Petite Ecole Bilingue family, serving children aged 3 to 10 with a strict 50/50 language split.

The school teaches both the National Curriculum for England and the French Education Nationale programme in parallel, with year groups capped at small numbers so each child gets close attention. Parents who choose it tend to be French or Francophone families wanting genuine bilingualism rather than after-school French clubs, plus mixed-nationality households living across north London.

Feedback from families is consistently warm: a happy atmosphere, friendly teachers, visible progress in French and motor skills, and children who want to go to school in the morning. The flip side is the same as for any tiny school: limited cohort, modest facilities, and families needing to think early about secondary, since the school stops at 10.

• Ofsted rates the school Good. Inspectors describe an ambitious bilingual curriculum, an effective phonics programme, positive behaviour, and good handling of bullying incidents.
• Independent parent voices online are limited. The most useful parent-side input is the Ofsted Parent View survey, which the inspection draws on; standalone forum discussion of the school is sparse.
• The intake is a small primary aged 3 to 10, with English and French taught on strict parity. Capacity is 165, so families get a small school by design.
• No substantive negative signal surfaces online. The thinness of independent reviews means the read leans heavily on the Ofsted report.