Writhlington School A GSG School
- Writhlington School
Knobsbury Lane
Writhlington
Radstock
Somerset
BA3 3NQ - Head: Mr Keith Howard
- T 01761 433581
- F 01761 432307
- E info@writhlington.org.uk
- W www.writhlington.org.uk
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Bath and North East Somerset
- Pupils: 1,000; sixth formers: 170
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 27th September 2023
- Previous Ofsted grade: Requires improvement on 14th May 2019
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Very much the comprehensive of choice for the area now, where students are given myriad opportunities to shine, and where success of all kinds is recognised. The new buildings, insistence on higher standards of turn-out than many schools we know and the weekly appearance of the CCF in their uniform make for a smart, clean, rather business-like school. Appears to be a school where concerns are acted upon, and where students have places to go when things go wrong. ‘The support and guidance staff sort you out and cheer you up,’ was the consensus from the group we spoke to. Parents generally approve of…
What the school says...
Converted to an academy 2011.
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since Spring 2021, Keith Howard. Has worked in schools within the Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership for 16 years, spending 11 years at Somervale School, one of the founding partners, where he led on pastoral care and curriculum. For the last five years he has been head at St Dunstan’s School in Glastonbury.
Entrance
An open day in September and subsequent open mornings helps decision-making, thence applications are made through the local authority, BANES. Year 7 intake is around 175 from several local primary schools and other years are already oversubscribed. Sixth form numbers are lower: entry requirements are five GCSEs at 4+ including English and maths; some A level choices will require specific grades. Open day in November each year. Great care taken over information available for new students on the website, such as several student...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | Y |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
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