Wigmore School A GSG School
- Wigmore School
Ford Street
Wigmore
Leominster
Herefordshire
HR6 9UW - Head: Dr Rob Patterson
- T 01568 770323
- F 01568 770917
- E [email protected]
- W www.wigmoreschool.org.uk
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 3 to 16.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Herefordshire
- Pupils: 608
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 2
- 1 Short inspection 29th June 2023
- 2 Full inspection 13th March 2018
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.
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Primary classes are small in the lower years but grow in the older years as parents are keen to secure places for the high school. What struck us most were the fantastic displays on every wall; this school truly celebrates pupils’ work and encourages them to be creative. Many parents attended the school themselves and several staff have children at Wigmore. The pupils we met were well-behaved and polite, even the youngest primary pupils held…
What the school says...
Following the Outstanding Ofsted the High School has been designated as a National Support School and the Headteacher a National Leader of Education. From July 2009 the school has become an Academy with a Trust acquired. The school was Hard Federated in 2007 with Wigmore Primary School and has a nursery.
Converted to an academy 2011. ...Read more
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Executive Headteacher
Since September 2020, Dr Rob Patterson, previously deputy head at Whitecross High School for 13 years and before that assistant deputy head. Has also been head of science at Kingstone High School.
Entrance
Nursery from 3 years. Pupils are well prepared for full time school and ‘take this huge step in their stride,’ parents told us. Those starting primary school have a home visit plus several class sessions before September.
Primary classes are small in the lower years but grow in the older years as parents are keen to secure places for the high school (entry is not guaranteed, but primary school pupils are always accepted). Families tend to join the school when children are old enough to travel independently.
Entry to the high school is oversubscribed. Based...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
SEN provision is of a very high order. A highly skilled and committed team of Teaching Assistants led by a very experienced Inclusion Officer provide support for all pupils in our care. Great pride is taken in supporting all children and innovative approaches to learning support enable children to achieve very well. 09-09
| 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 | 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 |
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
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