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The Granville School

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Parents praise the pastoral care, saying ‘every girl is known’ and that ‘even the smallest things are noticed’. A year 2 class was sensitively navigating age-appropriate consent when we visited, and we also passed a year 6 discussion about growing up. From pre-school and pre-prep to the more ‘grown-up’ classrooms in the main building, there’s an industrious buzz. In the early years, a phonics scheme gets pupils working in vertical groups so they can work at their own pace regardless of age, and we saw hands-on, interactive learning too – including opportunities for...

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Since September 2018, Louise Lawrance, previously head of Channing Junior School for 10 years and before that, head of pre-prep at the Hampshire School for five years. Brought up in South Africa where, as the eldest of three and having lost her dad at 12, she stepped up to help with her family. This, along with her experience teaching at a school for street children and volunteering in a township orphanage, taught her how to be resourceful – qualities still evident in her leadership style today. After her teaching degree in SA, she travelled to the UK to work in a state primary school in Burton on Trent where she introduced initiatives including whole-class computing lessons and installed an ICT suite from scratch. Following a stint in the central business district in Australia, she...

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