Orley Farm School A GSG School
- Orley Farm School
South Hill Avenue
Harrow
Middlesex
HA1 3NU - Head: Mr Tim Calvey
- T 020 8869 7600
- F 020 8869 7601
- E [email protected]
- W www.orleyfarm.harrow.sch.uk
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 13.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Harrow
- Pupils: 504: 318 boys 186 girls
- Religion: Not Applicable
- Fees: £14,655 - £16,908 pa
- Open days: See website for remote visits
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- ISI report: View the ISI report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Occupies a Tardis-like plot. Delightful grounds sprawl behind the main school building, providing space for the Orley Farm chickens (the box of freshly laid eggs we were given on departure, rather than the usual piles of self-promoting literature, could almost be a metaphor for how this school differs from others). You can’t help feeling that an Orley Farm education is about so much more than just powering towards…
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Sports
Fencing
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since 2013, Tim Calvey (40s), formerly school’s deputy head and art teacher. Hailing from a teaching dynasty, grew up in Zimbabwe in the boarding house run by his father. Passionate about sport and art, got his teaching degree at Christ Church University before cutting his teeth at Northbourne Park School in Kent under an inspirational head ‘who pushed all the boundaries’, then landing at Eagle House (Wellington College’s prep) around the same time as Anthony Seldon took the helm at the senior school – spending a six-year period there that ‘shaped him’. In true Seldon style, impassioned by well-being and development – ‘we have to find ways to release the pressure children are under.’ A challenge indeed in this most competitive of postcodes.
Shades of Gareth Malone – sharp, quirky dress...
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Special Education Needs
Leavers' destinations
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aldenham School | 2020 | |||
| Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls | 2020 | |||
| Haileybury | 2020 | 2 | Scholarships: Academic & Music | |
| Harrow School | 2020 | 1 | Scholarships: Academic | |
| Merchant Taylors' School | 2020 | |||
| Mill Hill School | 2020 | |||
| Northwood College for Girls | 2020 | |||
| Parmiter's School | 2020 | |||
| Royal Masonic School for Girls | 2020 | 2 | Scholarships: All Rounder & Performance Arts & Music | |
| St Albans Independent College | 2020 | |||
| St Bernard's Catholic Grammar School | 2020 | |||
| St Helen's School | 2020 | |||
| St Paul's School for Girls | 2020 | |||
| The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School | 2020 | 3 | Scholarships: Academic x 3 | |
| The John Lyon School | 2020 | |||
| Westminster School | 2020 |
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