Westminster Under School A GSG School
- Westminster Under School
Adrian House
27 Vincent Square
London
SW1P 2NN - Head: Mr Mark O'Donnell
- T 020 7821 5788
- F 020 7821 0458
- E [email protected]
- W www.westminsterunder.org.uk/
- An independent school for boys aged from 7 to 13.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Westminster
- Pupils: 300
- Religion: Church of England
- Fees: £20,502 pa
- Open days: Autumn term
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- ISI report: View the ISI report
- Linked schools: Westminster School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
The school is top of the tree academically. Well-qualified, very committed staff provide lively, challenging teaching. One teacher told us: ‘It’s the happiest school I’ve ever worked in. It’s teaching heaven.’ The pupils we met brimmed with energy and enthusiasm too. On the day of our visit the results of the national Townsend-Warner History Prize for prep schools had just arrived and boys flocked round the noticeboard, eager to see how they’d fared...
What the school says...
A happy school with high academic standards and providing an all - round education in which the individual is nurtured and valued. Strong music and sporting provision. Excellent art.
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Master
Since 2016, Mark O’Donnell BA MSc (Arch), previously head of St Martin’s Ampleforth, the prep school for Ampleforth College, and before that head of Alleyn’s Junior School in south London. Educated at St John’s Beaumont, Stonyhurst and Saint Ignatius’ College in New South Wales, then studied history and linguistics at Macquarie University. He originally planned a career in architectural conservation but discovered that he loved teaching. He has a masters in education from Harvard and a postgraduate diploma in education from Oxford. He‘s also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Duke of Edinburgh’s Award assessor and an Alpine ski leader. He organises skiing activities and events for the Independent Association of Prep Schools (IAPS).
Alongside his head’s duties, he teaches year 7 English and sport and describes himself...
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Special Education Needs
We have no special Needs Unit. We do have a part-time Study Skills Co-ordinator who offers support to boys experiencing difficulties with handwriting, learning, organisation etc. 09-09
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Alleyn's Junior School | 2020 | 1 |
| Connaught House School | 2019 | 1 |
| Eaton House Belgravia | 2020 | 4 |
| Falkner House | 2020 | 2 |
| Garden House School | 2020 | 2 |
| Hawkesdown House | 2020 | |
| Knightsbridge School | 2020 | 1 |
| Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School | 2019 | 1 |
| The Mall School | 2019 | 1 |
| Wetherby School | 2019 | 10 |
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