Westonbirt School A GSG School
- Westonbirt School
Westonbirt
Tetbury
Gloucestershire
GL8 8QG - Head: Mrs Natasha Dangerfield
- T 01666 881301
- F 01666 880364
- E [email protected]
- W www.westonbirt.org
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 2 to 18.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Gloucestershire
- Pupils: 691; sixth formers: 100 (26 boys, 74 girls)
- Religion: Church of England
- Fees: Day £9,885 - £19,335; Boarding £28,245 - £38,340 pa
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- ISI report: View the ISI report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
The curriculum here really is, in that well-worn phrase, ‘broad and balanced’ with enough options at GCSE and sixth form to cater for the wide range of ability the school attracts. Exceptional results in further maths, physics and drama. Business studies BTec particularly successful with 90 per cent of entries being awarded a distinction. Several tests were in progress when we visited and the male teachers in suits gave the senior school rather a formal impression, dispelled somewhat by a lively drama class warming up for their modern melodrama. Laboratories not quite…
What the school says...
Westonbirt School encourages every student to achieve their full potential, instilling confidence without arrogance in a secure and stimulating environment. This is achieved through our boarding ethos, which is shared by day pupils. Weekends are packed full of activities. Education is delivered by passionate, specialist teachers in small class sizes. The academic, cultural and recreational elements of school are balanced within a strong spiritual framework in an inspiring rural setting in the heart of the Cotswolds.
Westonbirt offers a robust Skills for Life programme which includes financial management, interview preparation and specific guidance for University entrance. Students are offered national and international trips that expand horizons; speakers and lecturers are brought into school to explore the diversity of the workplace and promote a passion for industry and vocation with a mentor programme that invites internship experience.
iPad's are part of the requirements for students and all classrooms are WiFi enabled for educational learning.
Westonbirt has extensive playing fields and wonderful facilities for sport, including lacrosse, netball, tennis, rounders, swimming, golf and polo. The Sports Centre has an impressive 25m indoor swimming pool, a sports hall, an aerobics room and a fitness suite. Many students participate in our popular tennis programme and enjoy playing golf on our superb nine-hole golf course. Our sports teachers and coaches are experts in their fields and many of the students go on to play at county level and beyond.
The students are encouraged to participate in extra-curricular activities which are not only enjoyable but which also enable them to become well-rounded and confident individuals. A broad range of clubs and activities are offered in addition to sport, music and drama. The students may choose to improve their culinary skills in the Sixth Form with Leiths Certificate in Food and Wine. Many students also participate successfully in Young Enterprise, World Challenge and the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme.
Outdoor pursuits range from surfing and mountain biking to trapeze jumping, as well as overseas trips to countries including France, Italy, Spain the USA and Peru. Community and fundraising projects are strongly supported at the school and the students often initiate projects themselves for causes which are close to them. Last year a group of Sixth Form students visited India. ...Read more
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Other features
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.
Sports
Polo
Equestrian centre or equestrian team - school has own equestrian centre or an equestrian team.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmistress
Since 2013, Natasha Dangerfield BA QTS. Degree in PE with English from Brighton. Her career has taken her through various roles in several of the UK’s top girls’ boarding schools: Downe House, North Foreland Lodge and Harrogate Ladies, plus a spell at Gordonstoun. As a promising schoolgirl lacrosse player, she had played at Westonbirt; her youthful verdict was ‘Crikey! This place is really spooky!’ but this has mellowed into an appreciation of its rural situation, its heritage and not least, its commercial possibilities. Her first three years, she readily admitted, were a question of ‘keeping the place going: we had boilers breaking and waterfalls down the stairs!’ but since then she has turned her attention to the longer-term sustainability of the school, embracing the sale to the Wishford Group, looking closely at affordability and...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| 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 |
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heywood Prep | 2023 | 8 | 5 | |
| St Hugh's School, Oxfordshire | 2023 | 1 | All Rounder Scholarship |
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