Gosden House School A GSG School
- Gosden House School
Bramley
Guildford
Surrey
GU5 0AH - Head: Cindy O'Sullivan
- T 01483 892008
- E info@gosden-house.surrey.sch.uk
- W www.gosden-hou….surrey.sch.uk/
- A special state school for pupils aged from 4 to 16 (mixed primary; girls only secondary) with complex learning difficulties, speech and language difficulties, and autism spectrum disorder
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Surrey
- Pupils: 130
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Open days: Book through school website
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- Early years provision Outstanding 2
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 2
- 1 Short inspection 20th November 2019
- 2 Full inspection 8th December 2010
Short inspection reports only give an overall grade; you have to read the report itself to gauge whether the detailed grading from the earlier full inspection still stands.
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 10th March 2008
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
The GSG satnav mistakenly took us to the golf course across the road; but we still weren’t sure we were in the right place as we came up the drive. A few visiting parents have been known to nervously check on arrival that they were in fact at a state school. It’s set around a white Georgian mansion, one time home to the Sitwell family. Inside there are pictures on the walls of Edwardian ladies in voluminous skirts riding bikes and romping around in the 40 acre grounds which have been remarkably preserved and are truly lovely. Makes you want to grab a trug and snip roses...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head teacher
Since 2016, Cindy O’Sullivan. Not remotely headmistressy. If I tell you she’s a henna-haired New Zealander with a camper van, which in the holidays she loads with dog, cat and partner to head for the wilds of Scotland, you are probably picturing her correctly. Says she never meant to be in management, but she kept getting promoted.
She did a teaching degree before leaving New Zealand – which she explains is more comprehensive than the UK version, taking four years and encompassing SEN teaching as standard. Her Antipodean wanderlust then led to working as a hostess on cruise ships, picking up the odd bit of supply teaching between contracts. One such job was at Samuel Rhodes School in inner London; she was reeled in, and worked her way up...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Questionnaire details completed by GSG.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| 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 | Y |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | Y |
| 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.
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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:
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