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Acorn House has been providing quality education for children since 1999. We are an English-speaking international association with mother-tongue highly qualified teachers, and pride ourselves on being an inclusive schooling system that supports children according to their needs. The school is also affiliated with primary schools and teacher training centers in the UK and Italy, enabling us to keep up-to-date with curriculum and standards issues. We also provide a deep immersion into the Italian school system and culture, by following a stimulating bilingual English/ Italian curriculum that is developed around both curriculum requirements. Our children attend yearly government exams, to allow families the freedom of choice amongst two different learning paths, and support any possible sudden change that parents may encounter due to international work mobility and relocation. The foundations of learning and the security of independence that we support from an early age permeate through to all levels of ability and learning for each child. We coordinate a dual curriculum program and learning activities with one another, to prepare children for their passage into the next key stage level of learning. We care for the happiness, health, and confidence of each of our students, encouraging each child to build a positive self-image. From Early Years to the end of Key Stage 3, Acorn House children are surrounded by an acre of parkland to explore and use during free play and PE lessons, as well as during science experiments and theatre rehearsals. Acorn House students are exposed to an environment that stimulates their curiosity and creativity in learning. Since 1999, an inspiring performing arts department has also been established and offered as part of the life of all AHI children. Students participate in international art awards and some of their work has been displayed at the Saatchi Gallery in London. At AHI, our classroom teaching method acknowledges the child's voice, making learning child-centered, activating children's motivation and the learning process. We like to offer them experiences that bring learning to life, during specific cross-curricular projects or by publishing children’s stories in real books and organizing Author Day, after creative literature cycles. We also encourage students belonging to upper KS2 and KS3 classes to participate in Bocconi maths games and we are proud of their results. AHI offers an innovative and dynamic learning program covering Early Years KS1, KS2, and more recently KS3. The decision to extend the work done in these first 15 years at Acorn House allowed us to cover the learning itinerary progressively and continuously from 2 to 14 years old, in line with the recent Italian National Educational Guidelines, facilitating the link with the second educational cycle. Acorn House believes that every child has a right to the best education possible. We aim to develop both intellect and character within a stimulating and challenging dual curriculum, nurturing the development of conscientious and responsible global citizens, as well as life-long learners. Respect for each other and for the world we live in are central values at Acorn House. We teach and celebrate cultural diversity and individual differences. Through our project-based curriculum, we study aspects of life and geographical features within cultures other than our own. Through fundraising, the students are encouraged to adopt an endangered animal and donate to charities supporting schools and children in developing countries. We motivate our students to “develop the core competencies which allow them to engage with the world, and help make it a more just and sustainable world. Acorn House provides a stimulating dual curriculum program of study that engages each child through study, exploration, and inquiry. We inspire our students to be critical, creative, innovative, and enterprising problem-solvers and team-workers who are communicative and literate in multiple languages. We challenge our learners to strive for their potential and excellence, achieving the “knowledge, values, skills and understanding that they will require through their lifetimes and to apply them with confidence. View full school

Acorn House College is a leading private A-Level and GCSE College in Southall, West London, with a particular focus on the Sciences. We are committed to supporting each individual throughout their time at the school to secure a place in a fulfilling course at a top university. At Acorn House College, our ethos is simple and underpins everything we do. It can be summarised in one statement: “It is not where you begin that matters, it is where we will help you go”. We aim to ensure our students attain the highest possible results in their GCSE and A-Level examinations. Consequently, we foster the traditional values of consistent attendance, punctuality, and diligent work completion. We take care to provide rigorous preparation for all examinations through focused teaching, intensive revision, and past-paper practice. Our mission is to provide a world-class education for every student that chooses us. We believe that we can add value to every student and we strive to do this every day through outstanding teaching and market-leading pre-university advice. We will strive to enhance and develop a bespoke extra-curricular and enrichment program. We will be the first-choice private College in West London for students who wish to study A Level or GCSE courses. We will create a culture of world-class, innovative teaching and learning and parents will see joining us as an investment in their children’s future. Acorn House College will be deeply rooted and valued in the local community. Our students are at the center of everything we do. We are always engaging, always inspiring, always striving to deliver the best experience for our students and ourselves. We are passionate in our belief that a quality educational experience can change the life of a learner. We aim to inspire and empower students to aim high, as well as providing a first-class education. We aim to provide pathways to universities both in the UK and worldwide. We aim to build a personal relationship with our students and to train them to be independent learners setting personalized goals and developing their learning skills. We believe that the experiences offered at our College should feel as special as the students they are designed for and that they truly feel they have joined the market leader. Acorn House College was established in 1999 with a unique focus to provide academic success and achievement for all our students. We hope this prospectus gives you a flavor of what we believe in and what we do. We want you to use this document and our website as an introduction to the next stage in your child’s learning and progression. Also, we wish to invite you to visit the college at a time convenient to you to meet us and look at what we do. We share your determination to want the best for the future of your child and have tried to make this very clear in the different sections of this prospectus. We are very proud of the positive ethos and culture of success we are creating here at Acorn House College and we hope this website gives you a sense of our determination to be successful on behalf of your son or daughter. Over the last 18 years, we have supported many of our students to gain entry to study at top universities. Our teachers are qualified and experienced and provide a traditional education to all groups of students regardless of their initial academic backgrounds. In addition to our provision of quality teaching, we also explore their potentials by providing a caring pastoral environment, offering individual advice and support to your child during their time at the College and often beyond. In recent years significant investment has been made in the College’s facilities, resulting in several new classrooms and laboratories being built in the new building extension, thus providing a new and modernized environment for learning. The students have thrived in this new learning environment. In providing the best education we can for your son/daughter we are conscious of the sacrifice you are making to send your child to College. We share this commitment and will, through our joint efforts, gain the very best outcome for your child. We operate an open and transparent culture where you are welcome to discuss your child’s learning and progress, as we believe this will help us to achieve our mission and the best outcomes for your child. We hope your child will enjoy their time at Acorn House College, whilst working hard, benefitting from our purposeful and disciplined environment, access to good resources, and therefore becoming self-confident, independent learners. They gain our ethos of success and it is always a proud moment when we meet former students and share and celebrate their career accomplishments. We promote tolerance and diversity, actively promoting our motto: ‘The end of education is character’ as well as promoting our tradition of academic rigor. With a new era dawning for Acorn House College under the ownership of Regent Group, the education specialists, myself, and my team are strongly committed to providing a first-class education to all our students. We will continue to strive to have many more successes and we recognize that your amazing parental support contributes greatly to that success. View full school

We offer a truly child-centered learning experience for our pupils and we are proud of the outstanding outcomes that we create at every stage of our children’s development. We provide an ‘education for the future environment that encourages a love of learning and high standards, whilst instilling a strong moral foundation in every child. Children’s best interests lie at the heart of everything we do, and each child’s inner potential is unique and precious. We create the necessary space and structures to support the growth of balanced, outstandingly educated, creative individuals. A London Acorn School education is best received when a child’s home and school life are compatible. We believe this can be achieved through sharing a set of values that encompasses all aspects of their life. We encourage parents to be mindful of the need to maintain consistency. Refer to this School Handbook, the details of your family agreement, and your child’s class teacher for guidance on how to make the very most of a London Acorn School education with your child. Throughout the year, there are festival days and events where children, parents, and staff come together. Parents attend many of these occasions, where they fully enjoy what it means to be part of this community school. Although it is possible to teach young children academic subjects, we wait until the children are nearly seven to start this. We feel the extra time in Kindergarten is well spent, and are keen to protect children’s right to an unhurried childhood. We have a proven track record that our children soon learn the same skills as their peers who start formal lessons at four and a half. The London Acorn Kindergarten can offer your child from 3 to 7 years old a secure, unhurried, and beautiful setting where we believe that play is the serious work of childhood. In kindergarten the emphasis is towards learning through play, enabling your child to develop the skills for lifelong learning. The celebration of festivals throughout the year guides the child from one season to the next, whilst allowing the children time to wonder, be in awe, and have gratitude for the earth, others, and themselves. This requires a creative and mutually supportive partnership between parents and teachers. The Lower School starts with children aged 6 or turning 7 during the academic year, and proceeds to Middle School until the child reaches the age of 14. The curriculum for these younger students is designed to help them form an understanding of the world and their relation to it through lessons and activities that encourage the development of their inner senses, such as intuition and imagination, along with important skills such as literacy, numeracy, arts and crafts. These early years are when the children are actively discovering the world around them through their senses and growing faculties. Lesson subjects are therefore shaped to support this aspect of pupils’ growth and incorporate an abundance of physical and practical activities, which support this stage of development. The subjects took expand in range as the children get older and enter a second developmental stage with the emergence of feeling as a perceptive medium within the individual. The curriculum content, therefore, changes accordingly, to include more creative subjects and to provide an outlet and a platform for self-expression and exploration. The school offers a broad range of academic studies. Students study traditional subjects such as Maths, Humanities, English, French, and Science. One key strength of the academic curriculum, both in the Lower, Middle, and Upper schools, is the ‘main lesson’. These thematic lesson blocks allow pupils to explore a subject for four weeks at a time. The pupils produce beautifully illustrated books, written in their own words. They are proud of these academically and artistically. This intensive approach leads to lasting knowledge and encourages ongoing engagement with the subject. At our school, we recognize that the most fundamental requirement for all children is that they feel safe and secure, physically, emotionally, and socially. Students need to feel safe to thrive and learn. They need to feel secure to want to participate. We take very seriously our responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all the pupils in our care. Please read our Safeguarding Policy and Anti-Bullying Policy which set out the policies and procedures we have in place. We will take appropriate action if we have concerns about a child’s physical, emotional or social well-being, and please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any concerns. View full school