ACS Hillingdon International School A GSG School
- ACS Hillingdon International School
Hillingdon Court
108 Vine Lane
Hillingdon
UB10 0BE - Head: Martin Hall
- T 01895 259771
- F 01895 818404
- E hillingdonadmissi…[email protected]
- W www.acs-schools.com
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 19.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Hillingdon
- Pupils: 580; sixth formers: 100
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Fees: £10,640 - £24,400 pa
- Open days: Contact the school for an appointment at your convenience
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- ISI report: View the ISI report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Teachers expect pupils to question and learn from mistakes: no rote learning happening here. ‘We teach them to be ready for things we don’t even know will be in their futures’. Overall a great feeling of space - staff room enormous, wide corridors for pupils to move around, huge science labs, extra rooms for team working and studying, generous numbers of art rooms, meeting rooms, music rooms. Pupils from too many countries to be anything other than accommodating of each other - parents hugely grateful of the fact ‘that we are family to each other'...
What the school says...
ACS Hillingdon International Schools is a leading International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma school which offers non-selective entry yet achieves examination results which place it among the highest ranking UK Schools.
What the parents say...
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Curricula
International Baccalaureate: diploma - the diploma is the familiar A-level equivalent.
Other features
All-through school (for example 3-18 years). - An all-through school covers junior and senior education. It may start at 3 or 4, or later, and continue through to 16 or 18. Some all-through schools set exams at 11 or 13 that pupils must pass to move on.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Head of school
Since 2017, Martin Hall (50s), who hails from Aberdeen, moving to Glasgow to study economics and philosophy then further south to Worcester College of Education where he did his PGCE (secondary economics), working first at St Olave's Grammar school and then off to Tanzania for two years' voluntary service. ‘It was very formative, it made me content with small things and realise that a good teacher can achieve wonderful things regardless of a school’s facilities’. One gets the impression that this tall, affable man still has an outdoor spirit and a desire to do good. He came back to the UK for more teaching jobs but then returned to Tanzania as a teacher and there he met his wife. That was his first experience of IB teaching, to which he is now...
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