Haberdashers’ Adams A GSG School
- Haberdashers’ Adams
High Street
Newport
Shropshire
TF10 7BD - Head: Mr Gary Hickey
- T 01952 953810
- F 01952 386301
- E reception@adamsgs.uk
- W www.adamsgs.uk
- A state school for boys aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Telford and Wrekin
- Pupils: 1,066; sixth formers: 344
- Religion: None
- Fees: Day free; Boarding: £13,857 pa
- Open days: Open events take place annually in Jan/Feb with all dates communicated via School website.
- 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 Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 10th May 2022
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 27th November 2013
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
The sixth form pupil who showed us round was a poster for the well-rounded Adams’ student; studying double maths and physics at A level, he had a place at a top university to read music. Vast array of clubs which is quite astounding for the state sector: astronomy, debating, creative writing, raspberry pi robot building, engineering, sculpting, taiko drumming. If the Adams pupil of today likes rugby (and plenty do), it will be rugby plus Chekov ...
What the school says...
A selective state grammar school for day pupils and boarders, located in the market town of Newport, Shropshire. We welcome boys aged 11-18 as day boys or boarders and girls aged 16-18 as day girls in our sixth form. From September 2024 we will welcome girls aged 11 as day students. ...Read more
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School associations
State boarding school
State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since 2015, Gary Hickey BA (music, Manchester Metropolitan), MA in education (Birmingham) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Previously deputy head at Ercall Wood Technology College in Wellington, became deputy head at Haberdashers’ Adams in 2009, head in 2015. Since then, he has set about transforming the outlook and ethos of this boys’ state grammar (also offers boys’ boarding and open to day girls at sixth form) with great vigour and a clear social focus.
Ten years ago, he tells us, Adams was perceived as a closed shop to locals. One parent described it as ‘the Willy Wonka’ factory, iron gates firmly shut. ‘Elitist and inward looking’ is how he himself sums up the ghost of Adams’ past, a school turning out hearty medics with a penchant for rugby...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Haberdashers’ Adams is a selective school but one which is inclusive within its remit. The school ensures that all pupils with SEN are identified and appropriately supported to ensure both academic and personal development. Haberdashers' Adams takes seriously the needs of pupils and recognises its duty to provide a suitable education for every pupil; we always seek to work closely with parents and others to that end. There is a vast amount of expertise amongst the staff which is used to good effect. In the event of the school needing further help, this is provided by any one of a number of qualified individuals brought in by school. A well-established tracking system aids the process of support and the Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) and the Head of Learning Support meet regularly with parents and pupils.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | Y |
| Dysgraphia | Y |
| Dyslexia | Y |
| Dyspraxia | Y |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | Y |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | Y |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | Y |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | Y |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | Y |
| 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.
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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
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| The Old Hall School | 2023 | 2 |
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