Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary School
Voluntary aided Haredi boys’ primary school in Dollis Hill, Brent (URN 131916)
| Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary School
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Voluntary aided primary school |
| Founded | Independent school 1989; became voluntary aided 1 April 2000 |
| Location | Parkside, Dollis Hill, London NW2 6RJ |
| Key people | Mrs Lucinda Glasser (acting headteacher) Rabbi Ephraim Pearlman (menahel) |
Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary School (also Torah Temimah Primary School) is a one-form-entry voluntary aided Haredi Jewish boys’ primary school with nursery at Parkside, Dollis Hill, London NW2 6RJ, in the London Borough of Brent. Ofsted URN 131916; DfE number 304/3603. Age range 3–11; capacity 204; 193 pupils on the latest GIAS extract. Religious character: Jewish. Headteacher recorded on GIAS: Mrs Lucinda Glasser. The school website names her as acting headteacher and Rabbi Ephraim Pearlman as menahel. Telephone 020 8450 4377; email office@ttps.org.uk. Website: torahtemimah.wordpress.com (statutory information only).[1][2][3]
The school opened as an independent school in 1989. It became a maintained voluntary aided school on 1 April 2000 (reason recorded: former independent). Ofsted has judged it Good at successive inspections, most recently 13 June 2023 (quality of education, behaviour, personal development, leadership and early years all Good).[1][2]
Funds for the school are also applied by the charity Torah Temimoh Primary School (charity 1000146; spelling as on the Commission register). Objects: to raise funds, collect donations and apply the funds and income of the charity for the running of the school known as the Torah Temimah Primary School. Year to 31 August 2024: income £814,250 (almost entirely donations); expenditure £693,463. One unpaid trustee. Reporting on time. No trading subsidiary.[4]
A Brent internal audit of the school’s financial controls for 2015/16 was reported to the council’s Audit Committee in September 2016 (limited-assurance reviews are reported to that committee as a matter of course).[5]
People
| Name | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Mrs Lucinda Glasser | Acting headteacher (school site); headteacher on GIAS | BSc, QTS, NPQH |
| Rabbi Ephraim Pearlman | Menahel | Named on school website (from 2023) |
| Rabbi Yitzchak Freeman | Former headteacher | Addressed in Ofsted short-inspection letter, 28 September 2016 |
| Mrs Margulies | School manager | Named on school website |
| Miss Weisz | School secretary | Named on school website |
| Yoel Calitchi | Governor | Recorded term 1 September 2021 – 31 August 2025 |
| Dr Simon Freilich | Governor | Recorded term 23 December 2020 – 22 December 2024 |
| Zvi Freedman | Governor | Recorded term 22 December 2020 – 21 December 2024 |
| Simon Adam Levinson | Governor | Recorded term 22 December 2020 – 21 December 2024 |
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Department for Education, Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary School URN 131916, accessed 9 September 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ofsted, Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary School URN 131916, accessed 9 September 2026.
- ↑ Torah Temimah Primary School school website, accessed 9 September 2026.
- ↑ Charity Commission, TORAH TEMIMOH PRIMARY SCHOOL charity 1000146, accessed 9 September 2026.
- ↑ London Borough of Brent, Audit Committee public reports pack, 22 September 2016, Internal Audit Report – Torah Temimah Primary School.