Cheltenham Ladies' College, Cheltenham

Cheltenham Ladies' College
Bayshill Road
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL50 3EP
Head: Ms Eve Jardine-Young
T 01242 520691
F 01242 227882
E [email protected]
W www.cheltladiescollege.org
An independent school for girls aged from 11 to 18.
Boarding: Yes
Local authority: Gloucestershire
Pupils: 840; sixth formers: 320
Religion: Christian Inter-denominational
Fees: Day £25,740 - £29,280; Boarding £38,340 - £43,170 pa
Open days: Open Day events and visits are taking place virtually- visit school website
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..

Houses, most substantial and Victorian but pleasingly not too unsympathetically subdivided, are scattered in nearby leafy residential roads and strings of Ladies’ College girls walking to and fro are one of Cheltenham’s perennial sights. Sixth formers may wear navy pin-stripe trousers although to this reviewer the effect of these with regulation shirt and jumper is a curious half-bank worker, half-schoolgirl centaur. So sorry to undermine a popular cliche but we encountered no braying Henriettas or snooty aristos, just…

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Curricula

International Baccalaureate: diploma - the diploma is the familiar A-level equivalent.

Cambridge Pre-U - an alternative to A levels, with all exams at the end of the two-year course.

Sports

Unusual sports

Polo

Equestrian centre or equestrian team - school has own equestrian centre or an equestrian team.

Rowing

Fencing

What The Good Schools Guide says

Principal

Since 2011, Eve Jardine-Young MA (40s). Educated in Malawi, won a sixth form scholarship to the school she now leads, a place she credits with ‘changing her life profoundly.’ After graduating in engineering from Cambridge she worked for Ove Arup (structural engineers) before moving into teaching. Taught economics at Radley, moved to Epsom College where she was housemistress and head of sixth form, thence to Blundell’s as director of studies. Married, her husband also works in education. Hobbies include reading, music (she is, apparently, rather a good pianist) and gardening.

Her appointment surprised some, but the CLC Council has a record of selecting left field candidates although they’ve only had to choose 11 since the school was founded in 1853. Ms Jardine-Young described the protracted recruitment process as: ‘Extraordinary, the Council...

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Special Education Needs

We cater for girls with mild conditions, including dyslexia and dyspraxia; individual support on a weekly basis is highly personalised and addresses specific needs. We also provide specialist coaching in mathematics and English as a second language.

Condition	Provision for in school
ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
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	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
Cottesmore School	2020
Falkner House	2020	2	1	Academic Scholarship
Garden House School	2020	1
Hazlegrove School	2020
Kew College	2020	1
Trevor-Roberts School	2020	1

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