Oxford Montessori Schools - Forest Farm School

A wonderful and supportive school, strong academic and pastoral care in beautiful surroundings. We have been so pleased with our son's education in the senior school and highly recommend it.

My daughter attended Forest Farm for four years. She developed both academically and personally and loved the learning environment. The combination of great teachers and the wonderful location made for a fantastic experience. I would highly recommend to any prospective parents.

education is alright, left this school emotionally scarred, all in all it's not that great. I hear they're making kids go into school in teir 4 lockdown, and they've banned social distancing and masks.

outstanding school!

Genuinely extremely disappointed with this school. We moved to the area in part for our two boys to go to this school. Whilst the concept sounds appealing and particularly the head teacher promises a lot, we have been let down on multiple fronts, including academic, social and emotional. The Montessori approach did not work at all for the two classes our boys were in and by all accounts chaos, and violence reigned with no meaningful learning or safety or security to grow. We were told that the school would “shadow” national curriculum which is not true, it was clear that teachers did not understand our children’s academic ability/level when questioned and stag could not quote or describe the schools reading policy, instead sighting a personal belief / philosophy which was vague and incomplete. Discipline was appalling, with “good” children being singled out to be the “judge” of others/the group, and directly compared to others “would XXX behave like that? No they wouldn’t” which shames both the good and bad behaving children. When raising concerns with the head her response was, effectively, “take it or leave it, we have a large waiting list”. Never usually write reviews but feel so strongly that I have a duty to warn other parents. We have taken both our boys out after a year which is obviously hugely disruptive.