Haywood Grove School
Community special school in Hemel Hempstead (Hertfordshire).
Location
iSchool location from Get Information about Schools. Nearby schools are coloured by phase. Open Map+ for a full-screen map with neighbourhood deprivation (England only).About
iWritten by WhatSchool from official school data (Get Information about Schools, DfE and Ofsted).Thank you for taking the time to visit our school website. Haywood Grove is a Hertfordshire maintained special school for primary aged children with social, emotional, and mental health difficulties (SEMH).
This means that they have extremely complex needs and experience high levels of stress that impacts on their daily functioning through behaviour that is detrimental to their own well-being and sometimes to the well-being of those around them.
As professionals at Haywood Grove, we are always teaching, both academic knowledge and skills and the development of positive social and emotional behaviours. When a child struggles with their learning we differentiate the work and support them with it. We are patient and accepting of their struggle.
The same is true for their behaviour – we differentiate the discipline and support the children to learn to cope with their stress better. This means that the emotional and social tasks and expectations we have of our children are informed by their developmental stage, their capacities and vulnerabilities and their regulatory state.
Enrichment
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Key facts
- URN
- 131319
- Type
- Community special school
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Ages
- 5 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 1996
Governing body (1 current, 0 former)
Special schools governing body.
Governors
| Name | Role | How appointed | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Catherine Smith | Governor | Ex-officio by virtue of office as headteacher/principal | since 2014 |
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools (governance records, as at 25 October 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Names are shown as published; there are no addresses or contact details. Current and former are worked out from term end dates when the page loads. Object or ask for removal · Report an issue with this record