Nailsea School
- Nailsea School
Mizzymead Road
Nailsea
Bristol
Somerset
BS48 2HN - Head: Mrs Dionne Elliott
- T 01275 852251
- F 01275 854512
- E delliott@nailseaschool.com
- W www.nailseaschool.com
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: North Somerset
- Pupils: 1042
- Religion: Does not apply
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Requires improvement 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Requires improvement 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Requires improvement 1
- 1 Full inspection 11th March 2020
- Previous Ofsted grade: Good on 18th June 2015
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
This is not currently a GSG-reviewed school.
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
At Nailsea School students are identified as having Special Educational Needs through information supplied by our primary partner schools, data from CATS tests on entry to school and open referral by teacher, student or parent. Once identified students are supported in-class by a team of 8 Teaching Assistants and through withdrawal work in tutorials. Tutorials are taken by one of our team of 5 teachers. Students are mostly in pairs or some receive individual support. These are high quality and focused on the students specific needs. IEPs are issued to all staff to inform them of their specific difficulties. Tutorials are weekly and SEN students are taught in class with their peers for the remainder of the week. At Key Stage 4 students follow the ASDAN programme of study and there is a link course with Weston College to provide a more appropriate curriculum. We also offer a centre called the Small School to support students with emotional and behavioural difficulties support and provides social skills work and counselling support for students in temporary crisis. The emphasis at Nailsea is very much on individual needs being met.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| 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 | |
| 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
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| The Downs Preparatory School | 2023 | 1 |
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