Hornsey school for girls

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Permalink Reply by Harringay 4eva yesterday

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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Permalink Reply by Eric Easter yesterday

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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Permalink Reply by Angela 2 hours ago

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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Permalink Reply by Angela 3 hours ago

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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