Bishop Wordsworth's Grammar School A GSG School
- Bishop Wordsworth's Grammar School
Exeter Street
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP1 2ED - Head: Dr Stuart Smallwood
- T 01722 333851
- F 01722 325899
- E admin@bishopwordsworths.org.uk
- W www.bishopwordsworths.org.uk
- A state school for boys aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Wiltshire
- Pupils: 1,200 ; sixth formers: 400
- Religion: Church of England
- Open days: Virtual webinars tours – details available via the school website
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- 16-19 study programmes Outstanding 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Outstanding 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1
- 1 Full inspection 15th November 2022
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
‘Salisbury is like a big village and this school is woven into the local tapestry,’ says Dr Smallwood. No other state academy in England enjoys the privilege of residing inside a cathedral close. ‘Exceptional’ and ‘exemplary’ are the words we heard most often from parents with regards to pastoral care. ‘They want the boys to excel without falling apart,’ a parent told us. Plenty of kit washing will be the norm...
What the school says...
Bishop Wordsworth's School offers a high quality education for boys in South Wiltshire & West Hampshire. Quality of learning and teaching is very high across the full range of the curriculum and results are very strong compared to other selective schools in terms of both grades and value added. The school is in the Cathedral Close, and many school events are held in the Cathedral each year.
Sport and Music are both very active and strong. Many pupils gain representative honours at county, regional and even national levels in a number of sports, especially rugby. From September 2020 the Sixth Form has become coeducational; there are currently approximately 30% girls in Year 12 and 13. ...Read more
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School associations
State grammar school
Sports
Polo
Fencing
Sailing
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since 2002, Dr Stuart Smallwood (50s) BSc PhD PGCE NPQH. To put flesh on the bones of this string of letters after his name, he initially gained a degree in earth sciences from Leeds – his enduring love of geology attested by a gallery of rocky trophies on his windowsill – and followed this up with a doctorate from Cambridge. After setting out on a career in research, a brief but perhaps unsurprisingly unhappy detour to HMRC saw him jump ship for teaching. Hailing from Kent an area rich in selective education, he’s very much a grammar school man. He rose from classroom teacher to head of faculty at Sir Thomas Rich’s School in Gloucester, before joining Bishop’s as deputy head 21 years ago.
Dr Smallwood strikes an imposing figure....
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
A qualified Learning Support Co-ordinator works full time to support boys with barriers to learning at any level within school. Provision is focused on helping those who face difficulties with hand writing, spelling, organisation etc. 09-09
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | Y |
| 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:
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most years
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infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
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