St Martin's School A GSG School
- St Martin's School
40 Moor Park Road
Northwood
Middlesex
Northwood
Middlesex
HA6 2DJ - Head: Mr Simon Dunn
- T 01923 825740
- F 01923 835 452
- E [email protected]
- W www.stmartins.org.uk
- An independent school for boys aged from 3 to 12.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Hillingdon
- Pupils: 396
- Religion: None
- Fees: £17,340 - £18,705 pa
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- ISI report: View the ISI report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
High calibre teaching is a given – these parents are ambitious for their children and expect nothing less. ‘The school does expect the boys to perform,’ approved one, but added that they’re also ‘good at getting them not to worry too much about the entrance exams and pulling the boys back from any unhealthy competitiveness’. Parents say school is ‘caring’ and ‘in tune with each child’. Staff have weekly pastoral meetings and there’s a wellbeing/counselling room with a visiting mental health practitioner for pupils and staff. The school is known for its music, with 40+ boys rocking up well before school every day for rehearsals. ‘It was the school that spotted the talent in my son, he’d never…
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2019, Simon Dunn BEd (University of Liverpool), previously head of Bronte House School in Yorkshire. Both scholarly and fatherly, he struck us as tailor-made for the life of a headmaster, yet he laughs that teaching ‘was the last job I’d have wanted’ when he left his (now defunct) school in Dorset but later concluded it was a good way to put his passion for music to good use.
Started out in the primary schools of Liverpool, where he met his wife, Kath, a dyslexia teacher, whose claim to fame is teaching Robbie Williams (‘still her dinner party story’). Thence to Fulneck School in Leeds as boarding master and music teacher – ‘a dream because I was given complete freedom’. Moved 11 years later to Lady Lane Park School, Bingley as...
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