Sutton High School A GSG School
- Sutton High School
55 Cheam Road
Sutton
Surrey
SM1 2AX - Head: Beth Dawson
- T 020 8642 0594
- F 020 8642 2014
- E admissions@sut.gdst.net
- W www.suttonhigh.gdst.net/
- A mainstream independent school for girls aged from 11 to 18 with a linked junior school
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Sutton
- Pupils: 519; sixth formers: 100
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Fees: £20,313 pa
- Open days: See website
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- ISI report: View the ISI report
- Linked schools: Sutton High Prep School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
School claims to offer a bespoke approach where girls learn ‘without limits’ and ‘with joy’. Bears out in a physics class where we join a circle of pupils physically testing how centres of mass affects our own balance, to much hilarity. Other lessons are more traditional with heads down and hands up. With a drama graduate at the helm of the school, and a fabulous new amphitheatre in the centre of the school site, it’s no surprise the arts department is burgeoning. Plenty of year group productions, plus annual joint musical with boys from...
What the school says...
Sutton High School provides an academically rigorous and challenging education for girls within the framework of a caring and supportive community, where there is no embarrassment in working hard or being successful. The vast majority of leavers secure their first choice universities including Oxbridge. But this is no academic hot-house. There is a raft of extracurricular activities - Art, Drama, Music and Sport, as well as a wide range of exciting trips at home and overseas. ...Read more
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All-through school (for example 3-18 years). - An all-through school covers junior and senior education. It may start at 3 or 4, or later, and continue through to 16 or 18. Some all-through schools set exams at 11 or 13 that pupils must pass to move on.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmistress
Since 2019, Beth Dawson. After graduating in drama with education from the Central School of Speech and Drama, she taught in both the state and independent sector (Reigate Grammar, Surbiton High and Emanuel Wandsworth) before joining Sutton High as deputy head in 2017.
Grammar educated down the road, she is driven by a desire to ensure every one of her charges has a positive, happy experience at school. ‘I didn’t always,’ she reveals. Therefore, her focus, she says, is ‘love and happiness’. ‘This is honestly the best job in the world, the girls give me life. This school is my third child.’ It may sound gushy, but we find her to be quite the opposite, with feet firmly on the ground (in her Veja trainers) and entirely unpretentious. Instead of...
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Special Education Needs
In both Junior and Senior School the Learning Support Co-ordinator works with staff to ensure that teaching meets the special needs of those girls who have been identified by the educational psychologist as having dyslexia or dyspraxia. In Junior School individual EAL support and dyslexia provision is available from two specialists. In Senior School individual EAL support is available from a specialist and girls wishing to take 9 rather than 10 GCSE's receive Study Support from the Learning Support Co-ordinator. Teachers have many years' experience with gifted and talented children. The range of extra-curricular activities and the challenges inherent in the teaching and learning approach ensures gifted and talented pupils thrive.
| 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 |
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feltonfleet School | 2023 | 1 | ||
| Rowan Preparatory School | 2023 | 1 | ||
| The Study Preparatory School | 2023 | 2 |
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