The Holmewood School London A GSG School
- The Holmewood School London
88 Woodside Park Road
London
N12 8SH - Head: Ms Lisa Camilleri
- T 020 8920 0660
- E enquiries@thsl.org.uk
- W www.thsl.org.uk
- A special independent school for boys and girls aged from 7 to 19 with high functioning autism, ADHD, and speech language and communication needs.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Barnet
- Pupils: 76 (70% boys; 30% girls); sixth formers: 22
- Religion: None
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
At break there was no sign here of lost souls as children are ready to make friends with their peers, together in groups of four, five and six, with a number of staff present, unobtrusively modelling inclusive play. Autism is the norm here – one parent reports her child saying, ‘I’m no longer the odd one out’...
What the school says...
A specialist SEN school for children with high functioning autism.
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Executive Head Teacher
Since 2016, Lisa Camilleri BA QTS PGDip autism, PGCert educational leadership; twenty years’ autism experience, previously deputy principal at NAS Radlett Lodge School. As a primary teacher for three years Camilleri saw autistic pupils struggling in mainstream education which led to contact with the autism outreach service and, impressed by what she saw, to working with them teaching in a primary school for autism for four years. Living locally, she passed the Holmewood School without knowing it to be an autism school until, sharing professional experience, she arrived for a meeting only to be asked whether she was applying for the head’s job - applications closing that day. Six months after her joining, the school became part of the Cavendish Group for ‘neurodiverse and cognitively-able learners’, which Camilleri equates to being within...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Special Education Needs
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | Y |
| Has SEN unit or class | Y |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
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