Abingdon House Prep A GSG School
- Abingdon House Prep
24 Elvaston Place
South Kensington
London
SW7 5NL - Head: Ms Tanya Moran
- T 0203 750 5527
- E [email protected]
- W www.abingdonho…seschool.co.uk/
- A special independent school for boys and girls aged from 7 to 13.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Westminster
- Pupils: 50; sixth formers: N/A
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Linked schools: Abingdon House School and College
What The Good Schools Guide says..
In art and design, the emphasis was on choosing, collaboration, cutting-out and colouring-in skills, with which the pupils cheerfully engaged. Other lessons covered social skills, friendships, life skills, and include developing self-confidence and self-esteem. In activity week, there is an option to attend (an assiduously planned) residential outdoor activity centre; one young pupil’s anxiety caused them to be unwell each time the trip discussed but they still wanted to take part – the head says it’s all worth it ‘to see the accomplishment in their faces and effect on their self-esteem, and they can always come home’. Drama included...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Executive Principal
Since 2018, Tanya Moran, executive principal for the prep and senior schools in Central London and Cavendish Education’s new school in Purley. A Canadian maths and science graduate who taught in New Zealand before starting in UK at the Harrodian school, rising to deputy head over 11 years. In 2011, she co-founded a free primary school, Thomson House, in nearby Richmond upon Thames, where she is still involved and shortly after became co-founder and principal of the Independent School, providing support for specific learning difficulties (SpLD) such as dyslexia and dyspraxia. On the change to working in a special school she says, ‘It’s the passion I’ve found, I try to see the world through their eyes so I can understand what they need and that inspires me. We can take a child who...
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