Alleyn's School A GSG School
- Alleyn's School
Townley Road
London
SE22 8SU - Head: Dr G J Savage
- T 020 8557 1500
- F 020 8557 1462
- E registrar@alleyns.org.uk
- W www.alleyns.org.uk
- A mainstream independent school for pupils aged from 11 to 18 with a linked junior school
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Southwark
- Pupils: 1,009 ; sixth formers: 303
- Religion: Church of England
- Fees: £18,852 pa
- Open days: November
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- ISI report: View the ISI report
- Linked schools: Alleyn's Junior School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Parents attracted by its reputation for a liberal, stimulating environment, with its history as a direct grant grammar school and perhaps less pretension than some more traditional public schools - ‘We weren’t interested in putting our children through a system that gave them an over-inflated view of their position in society,’ said one parent. Pupils tend to be ‘charming, articulate, incredibly polite.’ Has produced an unusual number of well-known actors, musicians and writers. Ex-pupils include…
What the school says...
Founded in 1619, Alleyn's is an academically selective school that has been fully co-educational for nearly 40 years, and sets high academic standards for all its pupils. The School is known for its excellent pastoral care, and for encouraging pupils to engage in the widest possible range of co-curricular activities. Our most recent inspection report comments that the quality of pupils personal development is outstanding by the time they leave and is a great strength of the school.
Alleyn's provides a broad academic education, both for its own sake and to meet the demands of universities and other institutions of higher education. At the same time we also seek to nurture personal qualities of initiative, independence and leadership, and attach great importance to the development of other interests and skills, whether cultural, sporting, adventurous or a combination of all three. ...Read more
What the parents say...
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2015 Good Schools Guide Awards
- Best performance by Boys taking Latin at an English Independent School (GCE A level)
2016 Good Schools Guide Awards
- Best performance by Girls taking Biology at an English Independent School (Level1/2 certificates)
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.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since 2010, Dr Gary Savage MA PhD Cantab (40s). Previously under master at Westminster School, joining after 10 years' teaching at Eton, where his roles included head of history, community service coordinator and housemaster of the scholars’ house. A historian of 18th century France, has a passion for watching sport (Ipswich Town supporter – he grew up in Suffolk and was state school educated) and for the arts. Has taught himself German, and he and his wife Natalie (a television and film producer) have a pied à terre in Berlin. Would like to encourage in his pupils his own appetite for learning.
‘Imaginative….very charming…a good hand on the tiller,’ say parents. Certainly a suspicion that he is more elitist in outlook than his predecessors, and parents fear that the school’s liberal,...
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Special Education Needs
The school works with parents, staff and external professionals to identify conditions relating to specific learning differences. The school has a Learning Support Coordinator who will give advice and support to students with specific learning differences to help them achieve their potential. Where appropriate external support can also be enlisted.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Aspergers Syndrome [archived] | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders [archived] | |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Delicate Medical Problems [archived] | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Epilepsy [archived] | |
| 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 |
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