Walthamstow Hall Junior A GSG School
- Walthamstow Hall Junior
Bradbourne Park Road
Sevenoaks
Kent
TN13 3LD - Head: Mrs Diane Wood
- T 01732 453815
- E registrar@waltham…owhall.kent.sch.uk
- W www.walthamstow-hall.co.uk
- A mainstream independent school for girls aged from 3 to 11 with a linked senior school.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Kent
- Pupils: 184
- Religion: Christian Inter-denominational
- Fees: £11,370 - £14,340 pa
- Open days: We invite parents to arrange an individual visit at a time which best suits them.
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Linked schools: Walthamstow Hall
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Emphasis on developing independent thinking and study skills and girls encouraged to think and find things out for themselves. Doing your best considered as important as being the best. A caring and nurturing school underpinned by Christian values, achievement is celebrated but house points are also awarded for effort and good manners. Parents have high expectations and are a supportive and happy bunch – some help run clubs or assist with activities such as swimming. Thriving…
What the school says...
Walthamstow Hall Junior School provides a broad and rich education to foster enquiring minds, independence, confidence and respect for others.
We aim to enable each girl to achieve her potential and are proud of our academic standards, caring ethos, wide range of opportunities and first-class facilities. High expectations in every sense enable exceptional results be achieved in all areas. There is both hard work and lots of fun in a positive environment which is happy and relaxed with a real sense of purpose.
From Reception upwards pupils benefit from being in optimum sized classes, usually of 16 pupils, with two parallel classes in each year group. This guarantees individual attention throughout with obvious benefits including a seamless and highly effective preparation for Senior School Entrance Exams with out the need for last minute cramming. ...Read more
What the parents say...
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Other features
All-through school (for example 3-18 years). - An all-through school covers junior and senior education. It may start at 3 or 4, or later, and continue through to 16 or 18. Some all-through schools set exams at 11 or 13 that pupils must pass to move on.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmistress
Since September 2013, Mrs Diane Wood BSc. Educated at Manchester High School for Girls and the University of Durham, where she stayed on to complete PGCE in primary education after studying psychology. Also has Certificate in Education from Oxford Brookes University.
After teaching in maintained schools in Hampshire and Buckinghamshire, Mrs Wood moved to the independent sector, spending more than a decade in two Girls' Day School Trust schools - Sheffield High School for Girls and then Sydenham High School in London where she was a senior teacher.
Entrance
Non-selective. Most children join in the nursery and entrance is via an informal chat with the parents and a one hour taster session for the children to make sure they are ready to start school. Older girls attend a taster day when their...
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| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Walthamstow Hall | 2017 | 25 |
| Weald of Kent Grammar School | 2017 | 5 |
| Kent College | 2017 | 3 |
| Tonbridge Grammar School | 2017 | 2 |
| Sevenoaks School | 2017 | 1 |
| St George's School (Ascot) | 2017 | 1 |
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