Lord Williams's School A GSG School
- Lord Williams's School
Oxford Road
Thame
Oxfordshire
OX9 2AQ - Head: Jon Ryder
- T 01844 210510
- F 01844 261382
- E office.4580@lordw…lliams.oxon.sch.uk
- W www.lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk/
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Read about the best schools in Oxford and North Oxfordshire and South Oxfordshire
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Oxfordshire
- Pupils: 2,270; sixth formers: 563
- Religion: None
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 17th May 2022
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
‘The school gives literally thousands of hours in voluntary service each year through D of E.' All take either French (the class we saw was being taught by a native – nous approuvons) or German in year 7. Strong faculty culture among staff, with a positive buzz around the staff room from teachers who seem genuinely happy to be there...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since September 2019, Jon Ryder. A scientist, he has taught at the school since 1991, becoming head of science in 1996 then deputy head in 2005. Went on the Fulbright exchange programme to Colorado for a year in 2001.
Attended a comprehensive school in west London before studying natural sciences at Cambridge (St John’s College) and later doing his PGCE at King’s College London.
Entrance
Non-selective. Oversubscribed from local primary schools within Thame and Chinnor, as well as applicants from Buckinghamshire over the county border. The Resource Base is filled by students with statements and by referral. New sixth form entrants (still non-selective) arrive from a range of state and independent schools.
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Provision for Brittle Bone disease. Provision on school trips/activities for medical conditions requiring stomach feed tubes and respiration aids.
| 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 | |
| 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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