Bradford Grammar School A GSG School
- Bradford Grammar School
Keighley Road
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD9 4JP - Head: Dr Simon Hinchliffe
- T 01274 542492
- F 01274 548129
- E [email protected]
- W www.bradfordgrammar.com
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Bradford
- Pupils: 1,016; sixth formers: 233
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Fees: £13,905 pa
- Open days: 9.15am – 12.00pm Wednesday 1, January 2022: 9.15am – 12.00pm, Thursday 28 April 2022: 9.15am – 12.00pm
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- ISI report: View the ISI report
- Linked schools: Bradford Grammar Junior School (Clock House)
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Significant and continuous investment evident in the excellent facilities, thanks to generosity of a number of benefactors (including OB David Hockney, whose name graces the flexible performance area and whose gifted works are on display around the school). Really is sport for all here, on and off the timetable; pupils spoilt for choice with range on offer. Major focus on rugby though head would like ‘more juice and attention’ for other sports....
What the school says...
Bradford Grammar School is a selective co-educational day school. While we retain the traditional grammar school ethos, we are also forward-thinking and seek to combine the best of the old and the new. Our aim is to achieve excellence in all we do, both in academic and extra-curricular activities.
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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.
Sports
Rowing
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since January 2016, Dr Simon Hinchliffe BA MEd PhD (late 40s), previously deputy head, having joined the school in 2014. Geography degree from Durham, PhD from St Andrews in geography geoscience and international recognition for research into quaternary science led to a post as lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton. Masters in education leadership and management from the OU following a move to secondary education. Spent 14 years at Wolverhampton Grammar School, where he was latterly head of sixth form and head of outdoor education.
He places great significance on value added data, which shows cohorts of pupils are achieving one grade higher than expected per GCSE, across the range of subjects. Believes that Bradford Grammar is a ‘broad church’ (a much repeated term), and that it is ‘as far...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
School's description of their SEN provision:
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | Y |
| Dyslexia | Y |
| Dyspraxia | Y |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | Y |
| 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 | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | Y |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | Y |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | Y |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | Y |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| VI - Visual Impairment | Y |
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moorfield School and Nursery | 2021 | |||
| The Froebelian School | 2022 | 4 | 2 |
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