Prior's Field A GSG School
- Prior's Field
Priorsfield Road
Godalming
Surrey
GU7 2RH - Head: Mrs Tracy Kirnig
- T 01483 810551
- F 01483 810180
- E admissions@priorsfieldschool.com
- W www.priorsfieldschool.com
- An independent school for girls aged from 11 to 19.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Surrey
- Pupils: 382; sixth formers: 48
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Fees: Day £22,425 - £22,905; Boarding £33,600 - £37,425 pa
- Open days: Please check school website.
- 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..
‘Parents are as varied as their daughters,’ says head. We’d characterise both as laid-back but ambitious. Pupils work collaboratively. The spirit is creative and enterprising. Lessons are quiet and purposeful. ‘Let success make the noise!’ screams the motivational word art in the sixth form quiet study area. Average class sizes of 15 ensure teaching is…
What the school says...
Prior’s Field offers a distinctive route to high achievement. It’s a school where girls are encouraged to grasp the opportunities created for them – from taking the floor in national debating competitions, adopting leading roles in a West End calibre cast, designing electric guitars at lunchtime, creating artwork worthy of a public exhibition, scaling a glacier or rising to the challenge of young chemist of the year. It’s where they can be happy and inspired by talented teachers and enjoy positive, engaging relationships.
The conclusion of independent school inspectors in 2016 was that Prior’s Field pupils are 'extremely well educated'. The school received the highest accolade, ‘excellent’, in all nine areas of inspection – an exemplary standard, similarly achieved in its previous inspection five years ago.
Prior’s Field offers 26 subjects at A-Level. Girls go on to a wide range of universities, including Oxbridge, to study courses as diverse as medicine, philosophy, law and music.
Excellent facilities include an all-weather sports pitch, on-site tennis academy, superb Creative Arts centre and separate Sixth Form House. Boarding is at the heart of the school; the School House (Boarding House for Years 7 - 11) includes ‘extra bouncy’ carpets in bedrooms and sparkly bathroom floors, at girls’ request. A combined Science, Music and Technology centre opened in Autumn 2016: named The Arnold Building, after the acclaimed, intellectual Victorian family into which Julia was born – she was a niece of the poet Matthew Arnold and granddaughter of Dr Thomas Arnold, legendary headmaster of Rugby School – the centre provides 8 additional laboratories and 2 prep rooms fitted to the highest standards, for Science; an 80-seat recital hall, recording studio, dedicated classrooms and practice rooms, all furnished to deliver optimal acoustics, for Music; a purpose-built suite of rooms for Food Technology and an additional 5 general classrooms to benefit other departments and the entire school.
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2015, Tracy Kirnig. State-educated in London, studied RE and philosophy at Aberystwyth before taking a master’s in education at King’s London and a PGCE at Lancaster. Taught at a variety of boys’, girls’ and mixed schools within the state and independent sectors before her last role as deputy head of co-ed Caterham School. ‘I love, love, love teaching!’ she exclaims, adding that she always knew she wanted to end up at a small girls’ school.
Warm and welcoming, she opines on the diverse ways boys and girls learn (girls need more narrative and reassurance) before concluding that ‘being head at Prior’s Field is a dream come true because we really are changing the world one girl at a time.’ The school’s founder Julia Huxley, an Edwardian pioneer of educating young...
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Results by exam and subject
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Special Education Needs
Prior's Field School has a whole-school approach to special needs provision. The majority of our special needs pupils have mild dyslexia/dyspraxia and typically, provision will include a session each week with a specialist teacher as well as sympathetic help in class.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | |
| 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 |
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amesbury | 2023 | 1 | 1 | academic scholarship |
| Barfield School | 2023 | 1 | 1 | |
| St Catherine's Preparatory School | 2023 | 3 | 3 | Exhibitions (3) |
| St Hilary's School | 2023 | 7 | 2 | Art Scholarships (2) |
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