Greek Secondary School of London

Inspection of Greek Secondary School of London 22 Trinity Road, Wood Green, London N22 8LB

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Inspection dates: 16 to 18 September 2025

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Overall effectiveness Good

The quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Sixth-form provision Good Overall effectiveness at previous inspection Inadequate

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Overall effectiveness Good

Does the school meet the independent school standards?

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What is it like to attend this school?

Pupils enjoy coming to school. They form close bonds with each other in this small and caring community. The school’s atmosphere is calm and focused on learning. Pupils are polite, respectful and treat each other well. They attend regularly and behave well in lessons and around the school. They feel safe here. There is always somebody available to help, which pupils appreciate.

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What is it like to attend this school?

The school has high expectations of pupils’ achievement. Teachers work effectively to ensure pupils learn the curriculum and gain the qualifications that they need to take their next steps. This includes sixth-form students, who typically proceed successfully to study at university.

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What is it like to attend this school?

The broad curriculum is enhanced by regular assemblies, workshops, trips, and events. These help to build pupils’ knowledge, skills, and cultural awareness beyond the classroom. Pupils especially enjoyed recent local trips in London to museums, art galleries and London Zoo, and residential trips to Italy and Spain.

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What is it like to attend this school?

Pupils articulate and debate their different views confidently and respectfully in personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education lessons. As a result, they develop empathy and tolerance, and the ability to make informed decisions. Pupils are well prepared to recognise and respect both British and Greek values.

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better?

Leaders ensure that the education provided at the school has a positive impact on all pupils. Pupils study a broad range of subjects, which make up the Greek national curriculum, including art, computer science and physical education. Older pupils and students in the sixth form work towards Greek national examinations. Teachers are specialists in their subjects. Drawing on their strong knowledge and teaching skills, teachers plan lessons in line with the planned curriculum that enable pupils to enjoy learning and achieve well. Teachers use assessment information effectively to identify any gaps in pupils’ learning, and to adapt their teaching. Pupils learn the intended curriculum effectively. All recent school leavers achieved good grades and successfully proceeded to study at universities in Greece.

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better?

The curriculum includes English as a foreign language. All pupils are actively encouraged to read for pleasure in both English and Greek. Pupils who arrive at the school at the early stages of learning English are quickly identified and supported effectively to learn to read. Staff quickly and accurately identify, and provide effective support to, those pupils who need additional help, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). For those pupils falling behind with their reading in English, high-quality additional teaching is provided to ensure that they gain the necessary skills and knowledge to become confident readers of English. 16 to 18 September 2025 The school prioritises pupils’ personal development, including through a high-quality PSHE education curriculum. Pupils learn about fundamental British values, careers and safety through lessons, assemblies, workshops and visiting speakers. The high-

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better?

quality careers information, education, advice, and guidance (CIEAG) provision includes access to a careers advisor and visiting speakers from a range of professions. Opportunities beyond the taught curriculum include annual drama performances, sports days, and a wide range of trips. Pupils are regularly asked for their views, for example, on the available activities at breaktimes, which were recently enhanced in response to their requests for more board games and sports resources. Pupils complete first-aid training and learn relationships and sex education in line with the requirements. The school helps pupils to make decisions about their futures and prepares them well for life in modern society.

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better?

Sixth-form students are fully integrated into the wider school. They benefit from high-quality specialist teaching and personalised academic guidance in preparation for the Panhellenic examinations. They are taught independent study skills, critical thinking, and research-based learning, which prepares them well for the demands of higher education. Effective CIEAG provision, including university application support, ensures that students progress confidently to university.

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better?

Leadership has been strengthened since the previous standard inspection. The proprietor has ensured that leaders understand more fully the requirements of the independent school standards in England, which are fully met. However, relative weaknesses in knowing and organising some of the required information, for example, in relation to fire safety, remain. The proprietor is in the process of convening a governing body to provide leaders with external support and challenge.

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better?

Staff appreciate the support leaders provide. They receive suitable training and express no concerns about workload. Staff are eager that the current leadership structure does not change again.

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better?

The school complies with schedule 10 of the Equality Act 2010.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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(Information for the school and proprietor)

 Leaders have not made sure that some of the required information, such as that relating to fire safety, is well organised. There are no consistent arrangements in place to check the work of leaders, and to provide support. This limits leaders’ ability to identify risks promptly and to ensure and be able to evidence compliance with all the independent school standards. The proprietor needs to ensure that leaders have the necessary knowledge to meet the requirements of all the independent school standards consistently. The proprietor should also 16 to 18 September 2025 realise their current plans to put in place a form of governance to provide leaders with ongoing support, challenge, and guidance.

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How can I feed back my views?

or to find out what other parents and carers think. We use information from Ofsted Parent View when deciding which schools to inspect, when to inspect them and as part of their inspection.

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How can I feed back my views?

The Department for Education has further guidance on how to complain about a school. 16 to 18 September 2025

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School details

Unique reference number 101959 DfE registration number 309/6081

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School details

Inspection number 10391700 Type of school Other independent school

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School details

Gender of pupils in the sixth form Mixed

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form

Date of previous inspection 7 to 9 November 2023 16 to 18 September 2025

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Information about this school

 The Greek Secondary School of London is an independent secondary day school for pupils aged 12 to 18 in the London Borough of Haringey. The Greek government funds free education at the school for Greek-speaking pupils.  The school is located on one site at 22 Trinity Road, Wood Green, London N22 8LB. The proprietor is in the process of securing new main premises for the school.  The current headteacher was appointed to her post in September 2025, as the previous headteacher has been appointed chair of the proprietor body.  The school mainly employs Greek-speaking teachers from England, who have knowledge and experience of teaching the Greek curriculum. Some staff, including teachers and the headteacher, are appointed on secondment from Greece by the Greek Ministry of Education.  The headteacher is responsible for ensuring that both Greek legislation and English statutory requirements are adhered to. The school is accountable to the

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Information about this school

education office of the Greek Embassy in London, the proprietor body.  The school does not make use of alternative provision.  The school’s most recent standard inspection was in November 2023. The school also received subsequent additional inspections in June 2024 and March 2025.

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Information about this inspection

Inspectors carried out this inspection under section 109(1) and (2) of the Education and Skills Act 2008. The purpose of the inspection is to advise the Secretary of State for Education about the school’s suitability for continued registration as an independent school.

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Information about this inspection

The school meets the independent school standards. These are the requirements set out in the schedule to the Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014.

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Information about this inspection

 Inspections are a point-in-time evaluation about the quality of a school’s education provision.  Inspectors discussed any continued impact of the pandemic with leaders and have taken that into account in their evaluation of the school.  Inspectors carried out deep dives in these areas of learning: mathematics, art, and PSHE. For each deep dive, inspectors held discussions about the curriculum, looked at curriculum plans, visited a sample of lessons, spoke to teachers, spoke to some pupils about their learning and looked at samples of pupils’ work.  Inspectors reviewed a wide range of policies and documents. Meetings were held with the headteacher and the chair of the proprietor body. Inspectors had meetings with teaching staff and groups of pupils. They also considered responses to staff and pupil surveys, and Ofsted Parent View. 16 to 18 September 2025  To evaluate the effectiveness of safeguarding, inspectors: reviewed the single

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Information about this inspection

central record; took account of the views of leaders, staff, and pupils; and considered the extent to which the school has created an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts pupils’ interests first.

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Inspection team

James Waite, lead inspector Ofsted Inspector

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Inspection team

Jonathan Newby Ofsted Inspector 16 to 18 September 2025 to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children’s social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, further education and skills, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments. It assesses council children’s services, and inspects services for children looked after, safeguarding and child protection.

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