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Celebrating 150 years of pioneering education. Camden was founded as a school for girls in 1871 by Frances Mary Buss, one of the great pioneers of women's education. The school therefore has a long tradition of promoting opportunities for girls. Our Aims.
Our Main School. Camden School for Girls is a comprehensive school that provides an excellent education for all its students. We enable our students to find their own voices and develop their own opinions by encouraging a broad understanding of the world, a social conscience and a considerate approach to other people.
- 150 Years of Pioneering Education
- 1871 -1877 Rapid Expansion
- 1878 Move to Prince of Wales Road
- The War Years
- The 1960s
- School Uniform
- 2013 6girls No Buoys Swim For Science Labs
- Casca Fundraising
- 150 Years
- A History of Camden School For Girls
Frances Mary Buss was born in 1827 and founded The North London Collegiate School in 1850 aged just 23. All the family assisted with the school including her brother Septimus and her father, R.W. Buss, who illustrated Dickens' novels. She was the first person to coin the term ‘headmistress’ and the first to use it! In July 1870 she handed NLCS to t...
The Camden School grew rapidly from 40 girls to 161 in just 6 months! By February 1873 governors had to take another house in Camden Street and numbers rose to 331. The school’s first waiting list was soon established. Funds for The Camden School were however short and attitudes towards female education were still hostile. The school battled for su...
In 1878, the school moved to a larger building on Prince of Wales Road (now luxury flats) which had previously been the Asylum for Aged Governesses. The school had grown to 420 girls and the architect Mr E. C. Robins FSA had a big task in remodelling the old home into a school. Classrooms were provided as well as a Science Lecture room, an Art Scho...
The First World War saw the creation of the School’s Guild of Good Will with a collecting box put in each form room and weekly voluntary contributions invited. The school also gave up all school and sports prizes and the money saved was added to the fund. Donations were made to the Serbian Relief Fund, the Friends’ War Victims’ Relief Society and t...
In the 1960s, a small factory adjacent to the school became available and plans went ahead for the addition of an additional science wing. On 8 December 1965 Sir John Cockcroft, Master of Churchill College and joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1951) for his pioneering work on “splitting the atom”, laid the foundation stone. Some celebrit...
The school uniform altered somewhat over time. In the early 20thcentury girls wore pinafores known as ‘gymslips’.By the middle of the 20thcentury this had evolved into a bottle green uniform with a school tie and blazer.By the mid-1970s the uniform had been abolished.On Sunday 1st September 2013, a team of 6, 4 of whom were from Year 8 at CSG set out from Shakespeare Beach, near Dover, at 5.30am and swam a distance of 21 miles. They swam in in one hour shifts and reached France in just over 13 hours. A magnificent £18,000 was raised which was put towards refurbishing the science labs. Dame Athene Donald, Profes...
The school is extremely fortunate to have support from Camden School's Community Association (CASCA). On Founder‘s Day 2017 they kicked off a 60for60 campaign to mark 60 years at Sandall Road with a target of £60,000 to help modernise classrooms, common areas and the dining hall. In fact £105,000 was raised and in May 2018 Baroness Gail Rebuck decl...
2021 marks 150 years existence of Camden School for Girls and the school carries on its traditions and remembers every Spring its founder Frances Mary Buss who was such a visionary. Doris Burchell CBE, past headteacher at CSG from 1946 - 1968, writes in her book ‘Miss Buss’ Second School’ that Frances Mary Buss spent her life in preparing a pitch o...
A fascinating memoir of Camden School for Girls which was founded in 1871 by Frances Mary Buss. Written by Fiona Millar, writer, journalist and CSG alumna with photographs and archive material spanning the decades across 150 years. A must-read for everyone in the Camden community! We suggest a minimum donation of £10 which includes UK postage and p...
Please click here for our admissions page, including our admissions policy, and next steps if you are considering applying for Camden School for Girls. Please click here for information on secondary school transfer information if you live in the London Borough of Camden.
The first stage in the admissions process is to register for the banding assessment (opens 1 July 2024). Music applicants should follow the instructions at the end of the banding assessment registration. The deadline for online registration is Tuesday 24 September 2024.
Applications. We follow a two-year three A Level programme of study. Students must choose three subjects to study at A Level. Students are expected to pass GCSEs at grade 6 or above in English language and mathematics and three other GCSEs at grade 6 or above.
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A warm welcome to Camden School for Girls. Camden School for Girls is a comprehensive school that provides an excellent education for all its students. We are determined to make learning enjoyable, interesting and stimulating so that all our students reach their full potential.
