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We have reviewed 1,450 schools in the UK, including independent, state and SEN schools. Our writers visit on normal school days and meet the headteacher, pupils, parents and teachers, as well as speaking to parents. Their reviews then cover everything from academic matters, sport and the arts to the atmosphere of the school, staff, discipline, fees, facilities and where pupils come from or go on to. Schools are selected on merit and cannot pay to be included.
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We specialise in providing information on special schools and have reviewed over 130 of them. Our SEN writers visit on a normal school day. We interview the headteacher, meet teaching staff and pupils and are taken on a tour. Because special schools may not have local or externally identifiable parent communities, we are assisted by the schools in making contact with parents and canvass independent SEN professionals for their views. Schools are selected on merit and cannot pay to be included.
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Our writers talk to a range of parents with children currently or very recently at a school, as well as studying available information such as inspection reports, accreditation listings and published exam results. They visit on normal school days and meet the headteacher, pupils and teachers, as well as speaking to parents. Their reviews cover everything from academic matters, sport, staffing and language support to the atmosphere of the school, SEN provision, fees, facilities and where pupils go on to study. Schools are selected on merit and cannot pay to be included.
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Our Education Consultants can advise parents on everything to do with their child’s education journey. It is a bespoke one-to-one service; you tell us what you want and we tell you how we can help. And then we do!
The consultancy team is made up of our most experienced reviewers, each of whom has visited dozens of schools. All are parents. Your own personal adviser also has the benefit of the combined experience and expertise of the entire team to draw on. Schools cannot pay to be recommended by our consultants.
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You can read sample reviews of mainstream schools including, Thomas’s Battersea, a prep school in south west London; Merchant Taylors School, a private secondary school in Hertfordshire; Tonbridge Grammar, a selective state secondary in Kent; Wymondham High School, a comprehensive state secondary in Norfolk.
You can also read this sample SEN school review of Abingdon House, a private special school in west London.
You can also read a sample international school review of Dubai College, an international school in Dubai, UAE.
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