Durston House School A GSG School
- Durston House School
12-14 Castlebar Road
Ealing
London
W5 2DR - Head: Mr Giles Entwisle
- T 020 8991 6530
- E info@durstonhouse.org
- W www.durstonhouse.org/
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 3 to 13.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Ealing
- Pupils: 389
- Religion: None
- Fees: £14,250 - £18,540 pa
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- ISI report: View the ISI report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Traditional Common Entrance subjects are taught with rigour and old-fashioned values, fountain pen and ruler (for underlining, rest assured) at the ready. Male teachers in shirt and tie, addressed as ‘sir’; the females as ‘miss’. Latin teaching strong. No Greek. French, the only MFL on the curriculum, is taught by the head, with two other MFL specialists - we were pleased to see a lesson drilling the building blocks of avoir and être. Teachers encourage debate and hands are going up all the time, not just on the front row. Not that there are rows in every class – some have more fluid arrangements to encourage teamworking and getting up and about. There is collaboration between classes too, and more...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since 2020, Giles Entwisle. Previously head of Bede’s Prep for seven years, he swapped the bracing sea air of the south coast for a diverse west London suburb. Mr Entwisle, or Giles, as he likes to be known, cut his teeth as a French and sports teacher at Cottesmore in Sussex (where he met his Spanish wife, Regina, also a language teacher) before being variously housemaster, head of foreign languages and head of year at other co-ed country preps, followed by deputy head of Highfield School.
To say he’s had a lot on his plate is an understatement. ‘Since I arrived, it’s a very different school,’ he concurs. ‘We still have unswerving ambition for academic rigour and getting pupils into top schools, but there’s now an added focus on mental...
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