Maple Walk School
62A Crownhill Road, London NW10 4EB
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Please could you contact our admin office to sign up for these events - 0208 963 3890 or admin@maplewalkschool.co.uk
How to find us: Maple Walk School has a no car policy. We ask that you park your car in the designated areas and walk to the school using this map. If you are coming by public transport, please see the map links below.
Summer Term 2012 - Open Morning: Monday 21st May - tour by pupils 9:30, followed by talk from Head 10am.
Maple Walk School, founding school of the New Model School Company, opened in September 2004 with two pupils. The school’s early years were spent in a church hall in West Kensington, from which it moved in September 2009 to architect designed and purpose-built premises near Roundwood Park, Harlesden in the borough of Brent.
The school currently has over 140 pupils from Reception to Year 6. The headteacher, Mrs Sarah Knollys (left) has been with the company since January 2005.
New Model Schools all have the following characteristics: small class sizes; committed, high-calibre staff; a concentration on strong basic skills; an emphasis on knowledge; high expectations of behaviour, manners and respect and a fully involved parent body. The curriculum is broad and stimulating.
The school day starts at 9am and continues until 3:30pm when there are after school clubs from Monday -Thursday for children from Y1 upwards. Our timetable ensures that children receive a broad learning experience across the curriculum and we have specialist teachers for French, music, dance, drama and sport. Our reception class follows the EYFS curriculum. The children take part in Christmas nativities, church carol services and harvest festivals, music, dance and drama assemblies, national dance and in-school poetry and public speaking competitions and are all encouraged to embrace the range of opportunities offered to them during their time with us.
We look to our parents to support us in maintaining high standards of behaviour, the friendly atmosphere at Maple Walk School depends on good manners, respect for others, punctuality and neighbourliness from all the children and staff.
Ethos
The school offers a first class primary education for boys and girls, laying strong foundations in literacy, numeracy and spoken communication on which all later development depends. The ethos is firmly grounded in Christian values, but we welcome and embrace children from all faith backgrounds or none.
Policies and procedures
For copies of the following policies, please click on the links below:
Admissions Policy
Anti-Bullying Policy
Complaints Policy
Curriculum Policy
Discipline and Exclusions Policy (Behaviour Policy)
Educational Needs Policy
Educational Visits Policy
Food Policy
Pupils with Statements and English as an Additional Language Policy
Safeguarding Children Policy
School Uniform Policy
Annual Assessment Results
Home School Agreement
Information for new parents
Staff List
Registration and entry
New Model School Co Ltd
Unit 121
Buspace Studios
Conlan Street
London W10 5AP
Tel: 020 8965 7374
Email: Use this contact form to email us
Registration does not guarantee entry to the school, but candidates are considered in the order in which they were registered, so the sooner this is done, the better a child's chances of admission.
Interviews with parents and children generally take place in the autumn term of the year before entry. Maple Walk School is a non-denominational Christian school, but we welcome children of all faith backgrounds or none. There is no academic test for entry to Reception. If your child is offered a place and you decided to accept, you will be asked to complete the Form of Acceptance, and to pay a deposit of £1,000. This deposit is non-refundable and is held until your child's last term in the school, and it will be returned within two weeks of the end of that term.
Children can be admitted into reception with limited spoken English where it is an additional language as, with sympathetic support, they will quickly assimilate the language to a proficient level. Children joining in later years do need a progressively higher competence in English as specialist support is not provided within the fees charged. An interview and written test may be required in such instances.
Regarding Special Educational Needs (SEN), children may be admitted with mild learning difficulties but parents are asked to discuss the situation with the school to ensure we are able to meet the needs and that the child will thrive at the school.
Fees are payable by the end of the previous term. The school requires one term's notice of a child's withdrawal.
Places for older children sometimes become available. Selection of children after Reception Year is by interview, and where appropriate by a series of short tests in maths and English.
Buses: There are numerous bus routes nearby. Please see map.
Tubes/Trains: Wilesden Junction station is about a 12-minute walk away or buses outside take you nearer to the school. The station is served by the Bakerloo Line and the Overground Watford DC, West London and North London lines. Please see map.
Inspection Report
The governors of NMS have determined that a separate governing body should expressly look after the interests of Maple Walk School. The governors are:
- Simon Philips, Acting Chair of Governors, MD Structured Marketing Solutions
- Belinda Canham, Head of Gatehouse School
- Bertha Joseph, former Councillor for London Borough of Brent
- Dr Peter Scott, formerly Headmaster of Bancroft's School, Woodford Green
- Maureen Vivian, Maple Walk Parent
- Peter Wolton, CEO of New Model School Company Ltd
Proprietor
Robert Whelan
New Model School Co Ltd
Unit 121
Buspace Studios
Conlan Street
London W10 5AP
Tel: 020 8965 7374
Email: Use this contact form to email us
Headteacher
Sarah Knollys
New Model School Co Ltd
Unit 121
Buspace Studios
Conlan Street
London W10 5AP
Tel: 020 8963 3890
Email: head@maplewalkschool.co.uk
Chairman, Board of Governors
Mr Simon Philips
New Model School Co Ltd
Unit 121
Buspace Studios
Conlan Street
London W10 5AP
Tel: 020 8965 7374
Email: admin@newmodelschool.co.uk