Cheltenham Ladies' College A GSG School
- Cheltenham Ladies' College
Bayshill Road
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL50 3EP - Head: Ms Eve Jardine-Young
- T 01242 520691
- F 01242 227882
- E enquiries@cheltladiescollege.org
- W www.cheltladiescollege.org
- An independent school for girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Gloucestershire
- Pupils: 870; 695 full boarders; sixth formers: 350
- Religion: Christian Inter-denominational
- Fees: Day £23,910- £27,210; Boarding £35,610 - £40,110 pa
- Open days: Saturdays throughout the year.
- 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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2015 Good Schools Guide Awards
- Best performance by Girls taking Physics at an English Independent School (IBO Higher level component)
2016 Good Schools Guide Awards
- Best performance by Girls taking English Literature at an English Independent School (Cambridge Int Certificate Level 1/Level 2)
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 |
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