Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Hornsey school for girls
We have been allocated a place at this school (it was none of our preferences)
My daughter doesn't want to go either.
Can anyone share feedback about the school? Especially regarding how they support SEN children?
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Permalink Reply by Harringay 4eva
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It’s a great school, small class sizes with lots of support to students, loads of fun/interesting extra curricular clubs & activities & a lovely family atmosphere. They very much treat the students as individuals & I imagine are just as good for SEN kids. A smaller single gender school will probably really suit your daughter rather than the bigger, mixed schools.
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I've no experience relating to special education provision but shared my general concerns about the school in this discussion recently:
https://harringayonline.com/forum/topics/our-track-record-in-harrin...
Highgate and Channing schools are excellent independent schools. Otherwise, Greig City is superb as are Fortismere and APS but the latter two are catchment determined (although you might be able to get around that depending on your daughter's needs).
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The school roll at HSG started gradually falling around the time that Heartlands High School opened in September 2010 and which II think was initially only for Yr7 and Yr8 pupils, and then was available for all year admissions a couple of years later iirc. Also the 6th form roll at HSG started dwindling and then finally closed in 2020. HSG had 6 form entry when my daughter started in 2012/13 and I don't think it has changed much
The majority of state schools use catchment areas (PAN) to offer places
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Were the other schools you applied to oversubscribed?
Admittedly I don't have recent experience of HSG but my daughter was a pupil there from 2012/2013, ie, from Yr7 to Yr11 and I thought it was mostly fine, as did she and her friends. I know 2 families who had a daughter with additional needs and were happy with the provision at the school.
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Our daughter left Hornsey last year and I am loathed to recommend it. The high turnover of class teachers, which has been a running theme for years, had an impact on the standard of lessons across a number of subjects in her GCSE years, which meant there were serious gaps in learning that many parents ended up having to plug at their own expense with private tutors.
The pastoral care used to be superb and was why we sent our SEN child there in the first place, but it was streamlined after the departures of key staff a couple of years ago and that had a detrimental impact too.
Some of the staff are truly excellent though, especially the deputy head Ms Rooke.
I understand the SEN provision at Heartlands is great, and if we had our time again, we'd seriously consider Greig Academy too, which provides so many brilliant extra curricular activities for its pupils and is outperforming Hornsey in GCSE attainment.
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