Alleyn's School, London | The Good Schools Guide

Alleyn's School
Townley Road
London
SE22 8SU
Head: Dr G J Savage
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: 1,036; sixth formers: 307
Religion: Church of England
Fees: £20,850 pa
Open days: November
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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...

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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

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Headmaster

Since 2010, Dr Gary Savage MA (Cantab) PhD FRSA (40s). Having studied history, he topped this off with a PhD on the French Revolution. With a CV comprising the best names in education - he was under master at Westminster School, master-in-college and head of history at Eton - some parents wondered whether he would introduce a fearsome new academic regime on arrival, but one immediately realises this would not be his style. Instead he set out to ‘engage the community to have more academic confidence’. And how? ‘Let them breathe more, set the tone and create opportunities.' To this end he has introduced the sixth form governors' research project prize; and, fittingly for an arts-loving head, the headmaster’s review prize for years 9 and 10, where they write a critical review of a...

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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)

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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

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Who came from where

School	Year	Places	Scholarships	Description
Alleyn's Junior School	2019			Majority to the senior school
Dulwich Prep London	2019	7	4
Falkner House	2019	1
Finton House School	2019	4
Hill House International School	2018	3
Knightsbridge School	2018	1
Newton Prep	2018	4	3	Academic Scholarship (2); Sports Scholarship
Rosemead Preparatory School	2019	8	2	Art Scholarship; Academic Scholarship
The Lyceum School	2018	1
The Roche School	2018	1
Thomas's Battersea	2018	4	1	Sports Exhibition
Thomas's Clapham	2019	11	5	Academic Scholarship; Sports Scholarships (2 at 11+); Sports Scholarships (2 at 13+)
Thomas's Fulham	2018	1

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