St Clare's, Oxford A GSG School Review
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What The Good Schools Guide says..
The IB programme, well liked by universities for its teaching of independent learning, certainly requires a high level of commitment. Lessons we observed were interactive, no room for a quick snooze first thing in the morning. Engaged students with enquiring minds, armed with laptops, were quizzed by their teacher in free-flowing two-way discourse, with all expected to contribute. And after lessons, students enjoy ...
Read more- St Clare's, Oxford
139 Banbury Road
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX2 7AL - Head: Duncan Reith
- T 01865 552031
- F 01865 310002
- E [email protected]
- W www.stclares.ac.uk
- St Clare's, Oxford is an independent school for boys and girls aged from 15 to 19. Day fees for St Clare's, Oxford are £23,592 pa and boarding fees are £49,310 pa. Interested in reading more? Access our unbiased St Clare's, Oxford review.
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- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Oxfordshire
- Pupils: 290; sixth formers: 270
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Fees: Day £23,592; Boarding £49,310 pa
- Open days: September, November, January and May
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- ISI report: View the ISI report
What the school says...
Ours is an education unlike any other in the UK. St Clare’s, Oxford is a remarkable place of global education for remarkable young people, advancing international education and understanding for 70 years.
We are a world-leading International Baccalaureate World School, the first in England, attracting students from over 50 countries and embracing internationalism and academic excellence as our core values. Our teachers write the IB textbooks and teach the teachers of the future, and our results are consistently sector-leading and far above global averages.
Everyone in our community is united by one key motivation: to step out of their comfort zones to grow, and to be the most globally aware and academically ambitious version of themselves. Ours is thus a culture of challenge. Walking around, you see individualism and character, engagement with the community, independence, responsibility and happy, fulfilled young people readying themselves for the world. This is just one reason why independent analysts show that our students consistently make more academic progress here than they would at most other IB schools in the UK.
To be at St Clare’s is to feel freedom and benefit of choice; to stand on top of a mountain with every direction available to you. Any career, any location, any direction for your future made possible. Our careers and higher education support is among the best in the world, sending students to the top-ranking universities worldwide but, more importantly, to the right university for them. This is where aspiration and ambition meet knowledge and experience.
We believe that academic achievement matters and lays the foundations for prosperous futures, and that independence is the greatest skill a person - and a mind - can learn. St Clare’s is a place for those who think differently. We help young people become academically successful, self-reliant and aware of the world. Be challenged, be independent, be remarkable. ...Read more
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Curricula
International Baccalaureate: diploma - the diploma is the familiar A-level equivalent.
Other features
International Study Centre - school has a linked, international study centre for overseas students wishing to improve their English.
Since 2022, Duncan Reith, educated at Glenalmond. With impressive academic credentials, more than twenty years’ experience in education management, and a long-held belief in the value of international collaboration and co-operation, he has a CV that equips him well for the role of principal of a complex business that includes an IB World School rated excellent (ISI), an international college, and £50m of prime Oxford real estate.
Having studied classics (Oxford) and English literature (OU), with a PGCE (Roehampton) and an MBA (Durham), he first worked in education as a teacher of English as a second language, initially in summer schools in Oxford, then in Greece before moving on to the independent sector as boarding housemaster at Walhampton. There’s not much he doesn’t know about pastoral leadership and life in schools, having been a senior housemaster...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Nov 09.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
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