Walthamstow Hall Junior A GSG School
- Walthamstow Hall Junior
Bradbourne Park Road
Sevenoaks
Kent
TN13 3LD - Head: Miss Stephanie Ferro
- T 01732 453815
- E [email protected]
- 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: 150
- Religion: Christian Inter-denominational
- Fees: £12,135 - £15,540 pa
- Open days: February 2022
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Linked schools: Walthamstow Hall Senior
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Emphasis on developing independent thinking and study skills, with girls encouraged to think and find out for themselves. Doing your best considered as important as being the best, with teachers (some of whom attended the school themselves) described by children as ‘fun’ and ‘nice’. Parents say the school is good at seeing the girls as individuals which ‘really brings them out of themselves’. They ‘cater to different abilities very well within the same classroom’. Lots of cheerful art work about the place and three lessons a week with specialist teaching from year 3. Own kiln for pottery and carpentry also offered and we saw some fabulous nursery pop-up books in the making. However, girls said it can be...
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. 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
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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 January 2018, Stephanie Ferro, most recently senior assistant head at Lady Eleanor Holles. Degree in ancient and modern history from Oxford, PGCE in classics and history from St Mary's Twickenham, and a masters in classics from UCL. A gap year as a youth worker in Essex after her Oxford degree inspired her to train as a teacher, a decision confirmed from her first lesson on teaching practice where she discovered the truth of the adage, ‘Find a job you love and you will never work a day in your life.’ She has taught in independent girls' schools for the past 25 years, with posts including head of sixth form at Tormead, deputy head pastoral at Wimbledon High and head of Redland High (now Redmaids’ High).
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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 | |
| 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 |
Leavers' destinations
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walthamstow Hall Senior | 2021 | 25 | 5 | Academic Scholarship; Sports Scholarship; Sports Exhibition; Open Exhibitions (2) |
| Sevenoaks School | 2021 | 2 | ||
| Tonbridge Grammar School | 2021 | 2 | ||
| Cheltenham Ladies' College | 2021 | 1 | ||
| Hillview School for Girls | 2021 | 1 | ||
| Weald of Kent Grammar School | 2021 | 1 |
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