The Holmewood School Upper (SEN)

Set within a leafy campus in north London, Holmewood has established a reputation as one of the country’s leading specialist autism schools. Its boys and girls are largely of average or above-average ability with a diagnosis of high-functioning autism, but it also caters for learning difficulties such as acute anxiety disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD. Pupils stay within chronological age groups as far as possible, but care is taken that each is grouped with others with whom they are compatible. Emphasis is placed on enabling positive communication: at lunchtimes, for instance, both...