Frensham Heights A GSG School
- Frensham Heights
Rowledge
Farnham
Surrey
GU10 4EA - Head: Mr Rick Clarke
- T 01252 792561
- F 01252 794335
- E [email protected]
- W www.frensham.org/
- A mainstream independent school for pupils aged from 11 to 18 with a linked junior school
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Surrey
- Pupils: 522; sixth formers: 88
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Fees: Day £18,900 - £21,060; Boarding £27,450 - £32,070 pa
- Open days: see website
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- ISI report: View the ISI report
- Linked schools: Frensham Heights Junior School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
It would be disingenuous to suggest Frensham is anything other than selective, but they are more interested in you fitting in with the school’s broad-minded ethos than helping them soar to league-table-topping prominence. Arguably, the most impressively led art department in the country, offering oodles of GCSEs and A levels (eight in total). Art school vibe – and it looks like one too, with the students relishing every inch. No uniform and teachers called by first names. Reasonable expectations and modelling of good behaviour substitute rules, all accompanied by heaps of personal responsibility. Even extends to...
What the school says...
Frensham Heights is a highly distinctive school in a world of educational conformity. From a strong foundation of mutual respect and tolerance and through a dynamic modern curriculum, we build on each child’s innate strengths to ready them for life as courageous independent thinkers, problem solvers and socially conscious change makers who are committed to making the world a better place. ...Read more
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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
Head
Since January 2019, Rick Clarke BA PGCE (40s). Previously deputy head at Warminster School. Born and raised in South Africa, his career choice must have delighted his parents (father was a teacher and mother was an ed psych; he did his degree in English and psychology at the University of Natal then PGCE). Worked his way up the ranks in South African schools to head of English at St John’s College in Johannesburg before heading to the UK where he became a protégé of the transformational head Sir Anthony Seldon when he was head of English at Brighton College and housemaster at Wellington College. But parents (and there were some) who worried he was going to Wellington-ise Frensham need not have fretted. ‘He’s just the breath of fresh air we needed – pulling the...
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Special Education Needs
Frensham Heights provides group lessons from Year 1 for those considered to have mild learning difficulties. These lessons not only offer support, but enable the teacher to monitor individual progress. From Year 7, the school uses diagnostic tests to assess the learning needs of all pupils. This then influences how lessons are planned and how those with learning needs are managed. Frensham Heights does not have a Special Needs Unit. Our provision is managed by a Director of Support for Learning and a Head of Support for Learning (Junior School). They work with a team of peripatetic specialist teachers who also provide support on a one-to-one basis. Where this is required, it is charged separately. Support teachers and tutors attend a number of continuing professional development courses annually to ensure that they are fully conversant with current theories and strategies in order to support students.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
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Who came from where
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finton House School | 2019 | 1 | ||
| Yateley Manor | 2019 | 2 |
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