Bloxham School A GSG School
- Bloxham School
Banbury Road
Bloxham
Near Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX15 4PE - Head: Mr Paul Sanderson
- T 01295 724301
- E [email protected]
- W www.bloxhamschool.com
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Oxfordshire
- Pupils: 530; sixth formers: 180
- Religion: Christian
- Fees: Day £18,300 - £27,225; Boarding £25,500 - £36,990 pa
- Open days: Saturday 24th September 2021, Saturday 9th October 2021, Saturday 5th March 2022 (all events Covid-19 permitting)
- 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..
We eavesdropped on an English class celebrating a successful spelling test with a box of chocolates, before moving on to discuss Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Pupils enthusiastically raised their hands to take part in the informal brainstorming. Elsewhere we visited the cookery class, where the chef was rustling up a pasta sauce. ‘It’s the best lesson’, said one boy, ‘sometimes he shouts at you - like Gordon Ramsay, a good shout - and you get to eat it afterwards’. It’s a long day - 8.15am to 6pm - with obligatory…
What the school says...
Bloxham School is an independent, co-educational boarding and day school for students aged 11-18. Situated in the beautiful Oxfordshire village of Bloxham, the school is only three miles away from the M40 London to Birmingham motorway. Our students enjoy superb facilities for academic work, sport, technology and the arts on a modern, single-site campus.
With around 440 students, Bloxham is small enough to ensure that each student receives individual attention, yet large enough to offer every opportunity a school twice its size could deliver. Our flexible approach to boarding responds to the demands of modern family living with all our students, Boarders and Day Boarders alike, being allocated to one of Bloxham's six senior Houses. The Houses are tight-knit communities of their own, providing a friendly environment where students feel welcome and secure. They celebrate the diversity of our community and are instrumental in developing confident and caring young people who have the knowledge and qualifications to go on to succeed in their chosen path.
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Sports
Equestrian centre or equestrian team - school has own equestrian centre or an equestrian team.
Shooting
Sailing
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since 2013, Paul Sanderson BSc MPhil (40s). A native Ulsterman who graduated in biology from St Andrew’s before training as a teacher at Oxford, then did an MPhil at Cambridge. Early posts in the science department at maintained schools including Lancaster Royal Grammar and Carr Hill High before moving to director of curriculum and deputy head at Gordonstoun. Genial and at ease in his comfortable study, he expounds on the wider remit of the school: ‘Our job is to educate, body, mind and soul…We’re trying to prepare kids for when they are thirty five, not for eighteen’. He has improved the exam results, ‘not by being selective, but through teaching and learning and making sure resources are available’ and has developed links to businesses by encouraging degree-level apprenticeships and direct consultation. ‘We asked employers...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Bloxham School runs a special three-year course for up to six dyslexic pupils each year from Year 9 to the GCSE year. This course, which replaces modern foreign languages on the timetable, was opened in 1985. For entry, pupils should have a WISC or BAS combined score of 120 or more. After-school tuition is also available for dyslexic pupils in Years 7 and 8, and for dyslexic pupils in Years 9 to 11 who are not on the course. Because the course has for so many years drawn high-achieving pupils to the school, dyslexia has a high standing in the school community.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | Y |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | Y |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | Y |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beachborough School | 2021 | 7 | 7 | Scholarships: 1 Music Scholarship, 2 Sport Scholarship, 1 Art Scholarship, 1 DT Scholarship, 1 DT Exhibition, 1 Music Exhibition. |
| Caldicott | 2020 | 1 | ||
| Chandlings Prep School | 2020 | |||
| Cothill House | 2020 | 1 | ||
| Davenies School | 2020 | |||
| Kitebrook Preparatory School | 2021 | 1 | ||
| St Hugh's School, Oxfordshire | 2021 | 1 | ||
| Winchester House School | 2020 | 6 | 3 | Music Scholarships (2); Sports Scholarship |
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