Norland Place School A GSG School
- Norland Place School
162-166 Holland Park Avenue
London
W11 4UH - Head: Mr Patrick Mattar
- T 020 7603 9103
- F 020 7603 0648
- E registrar@norlandplace.com
- W www.norlandplace.com
- A mainstream independent school for girls and boys, from 4 – 11.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Kensington & Chelsea
- Pupils: 215
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Fees: £20,463 - £22,746 pa
- Open days: Email school to arrange for an individual tour
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- ISI report: View the ISI report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Parents are voluble in their support for the school. ‘It’s the greatest decision we have made for our daughter,’ said one. Not the most spacious of schools but it makes good use of its two small playgrounds (complete with netball hoops and two climbing walls). A plethora of opportunities to tread the boards. ‘I’m a tough audience,’ a father told us. ‘I leave most plays at the interval but at Norland Place I have sat through extraordinary...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since 2002, Patrick Mattar LRAM MA. Educated at Solihull School and the Royal Academy of Music. He originally hoped to play the piano professionally but despite performing in Germany, Holland and the US he realised that a classical music career is ‘a very rare thing’. When he spotted an ad for the director of music role at Norland Place he applied for it and got it. ‘The first thing I noticed when I came here was that the children were happy and relaxed and there was such a nice rapport between the teachers and the children,’ he says. He moved to Wetherby School in 1996, first as director of music and then deputy head, studying for a master’s in education management and administration at UCL Institute of Education along the way. Six years later...
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Special Education Needs
We have a part-time special needs co-ordinator and a part-time speech and language therapist, along with a school counsellor who visits once a week. External agencies are used for support with occupational therapy needs, for example.
| 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 | |
| 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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