Collegiate School A GSG School
- Collegiate School
Bell Hill
Stapleton
Bristol
BS16 1BJ - Head: Mr Jeremy McCullough
- T 0117 965 5207
- F 01179 585652
- E [email protected]
- W www.collegiate.org.uk/
- A mainstream independent school for pupils aged from 11 to 18 with a linked junior school
- Read about the best schools in Bristol
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Bristol
- Pupils: 789; sixth formers: 139
- Religion: None
- Fees: £18,225 pa
- Open days: Please see website for open events
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- ISI report: View the ISI report
- Linked schools: Collegiate Prep School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Lessons were engaging and relevant: a geography class was considering the difficulties in getting an agreement signed post COP 26, a French class was having its accent honed by a native speaker. Our eyes popped… Seven pitches, netball and tennis courts and Astro on levelled ground run down to the river forming one boundary of the school. It was founded by Edward Colston in 1710 ‘in order to prepare boys from “poor families” for meaningful apprenticeships’. His legacy is unquestionably complex…
What the school says...
Colston's is a happy, thriving & busy co-educational day school, with all facilities set within our beautiful 30-acre site.
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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.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since 2014, Jeremy McCullough MA (Oxon) PGCE. Educated at a Nottingham comprehensive with a degree in chemistry from Oxford, he switched to maths for his PGCE at Cambridge, the springboard to an impressive trajectory of schools, starting with Bishop Stortford High School, then a jump into the independent sector (Fettes as a housemaster and Lancing, where he cut his teeth for headship) where he remains. ‘I enjoy being able to concentrate on coaching and the pastoral side as well as teaching,’ he told us.
Alas, we don’t have room for the much longer, more entertaining, account of his career that he sent before our visit but you can find his jocular style on the school’s website. Not that the jocularity strays into flippancy – this is a man unambiguously committed to...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | Y |
| Dysgraphia | Y |
| Dyslexia | Y |
| Dyspraxia | Y |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | Y |
| Genetic | Y |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | Y |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | Y |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | Y |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| 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 |
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