Alleyn's School A GSG School
- Alleyn's School
Townley Road
London
SE22 8SU - Head: Jane Lunnon
- T 020 8557 1500
- F 020 8557 1462
- E [email protected]
- 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: 1,063; sixth formers: 306
- Religion: Church of England
- Fees: £20,850 pa
- Open days: Currently virtual - please see website.
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- ISI report: View the ISI report
- Linked schools: Alleyn's Junior School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
The school is proud of its sporting heritage and parents feel it is ‘taken seriously, but enjoyable’. An extensive sporting co-curricular: almost 400 girls and boys attend football club. The vibrancy of the science co-curricular dazzles, with a scientist and broadcaster, working as a scientist-in-residence, going into classes and curating a programme of Friday science lectures, not to mention the roof-top observatory...
What the school says...
Founded in 1619, Alleyn's is an academically selective school that has been fully co-educational for over 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 the three. ...Read more
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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
Head
From January 2021, Jane Lunnon BA, the first ever female head of Alleyn’s. Previously head of Wimbledon High School for six years, where she oversaw the site redevelopment and expansion. After her education at North London Collegiate School and the University of Bristol (reading English), she began her career by dabbling in the world of marketing and research and enjoyed the excitement of a daily London commute until she saw the light, ditched the heels and the shoulder pads and became an English teacher. This, she quickly discovered, was the best job in the world - ‘getting paid to read books and talk about them’. She has had experience of both single-sex and co-educational environments, working at Wellington College and Prior’s Field School in a variety of roles including head of English, assistant director...
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Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
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 |
| 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 |
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alleyn's Junior School | 2020 | 47 | 6 | Academic Scholarships (4); Art Scholarship; Sports Scholarship |
| Charterhouse Square School | 2020 | 1 | ||
| Dulwich Hamlet Junior School | 2020 | 1 | ||
| Eaton Square School | 2020 | 1 | ||
| Finton House School | 2020 | 1 | ||
| Hill House | 2020 | 2 | ||
| Hornsby House School | 2020 | 13 | 5 | Academic Scholarships(2); Sports Scholarships(3) |
| Knightsbridge School | 2020 | 1 | ||
| Rosemead Preparatory School | 2020 | 3 | ||
| Thomas's Clapham | 2020 | 5 | 2 | Sports Exhibition(2) |
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