Copthill Independent Day School & Nursery A GSG School
- Copthill Independent Day School & Nursery
Barnack Road
Uffington
Stamford
Lincolnshire
PE9 3AD - Head: Mrs Helen Schofield
- T 01780 757506
- F 01780 766 643
- E [email protected]
- W www.copthill.com/
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 2 to 11.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Lincolnshire
- Pupils: 242
- Religion: None
- Fees: £10,770 - £12,630 pa
- Open days: Autumn Term Open Mornings October
- 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..
Copthill embraces outdoor learning. ‘On warm summer days children should not be cooped up inside,’ says the principal. The curriculum is still followed but a lot can be done outside, and it is. ‘Whatever they learn in the classroom is taken outside.’ There are Roman forts and genuine Roman remains, trenches and battlefields for history (even a smoke grenade), an Anderson shelter, the river for damming and kayaking. You think it, they will be outside doing it. The younger children spend more time…
What the school says...
From our humble beginnings in 1969 around the kitchen table at Copthill Farm, our school has grown steadily and today, Copthill School is a thriving, purpose-built independent school, catering for 300 boys and girls aged between 2 and 11. Still situated on the 350 acre farm land and under the direction of the same founding family, our unique location is innovatively used to enhance the education we offer. To this day, we have never lost that original family atmosphere, nor our founder’s deeply ingrained commitment to a truly well-rounded education. ...Read more
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Principal
Principal Jonathan Teesdale is part of the family consortium that owns the school. Set up originally by his mother as a nursery school in 1969 at the family’s farmhouse on their dairy farm, it morphed into a junior school, initially for up to 7-year-olds. It has been at its present site in the corner of the farm since 1991. After a business degree and PGCE, Jonathan was teaching in Dorset but returned to Copthill at the tender age of 25 when his mother wanted to take a step back and the then head didn’t work out. ‘It was a case of come home and run the school or mother would sell it.’ He’s been here ever since, initially as the head and now as the principal as the school has grown and evolved. His...
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Special Education Needs
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | Y |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| 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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