Hazlegrove School A GSG School
- Hazlegrove School
Hazlegrove
Sparkford
Yeovil
Somerset
BA22 7JA - Head: Mark White
- T 01963 442606
- F 01963 440569
- E [email protected]
- W www.hazlegrove.co.uk
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 2 to 13.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Somerset
- Pupils: 320
- Religion: Christian
- Fees: Day £9,048 - £18,345; Boarding £21,279 - £27,153 pa
- Open days: Both virtual and actual through the year
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- ISI report: View the ISI report
- Linked schools: King's Bruton
What The Good Schools Guide says..
A ‘90s building inside the kitchen garden walls houses the pre-prep – large, flexible classrooms with wonderful displays where plenty of hands-on creativity ensures motor skills develop alongside minds. The atmosphere is ‘positive, fun, caring, diligent’ and ‘happy and focused’, say parents. ‘Many people refer to Hazlegrove as a sporty school, but in my view, this does a disservice to the music department,’ said a parent...
What the school says...
The school is in a country house setting in a 200 acre park. Over eighty scholarships and awards in the last three years. Academic success is important at all levels. Lots of sport and a developing outdoor education programme. Music is a strength - fifteen ensembles a week and nationally acclaimed choir. Boarding numbers have increased to 100 in the last few years, largely through personal recommendation. ...Read more
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Sports
Equestrian centre or equestrian team - school has own equestrian centre or an equestrian team.
Shooting
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since 2017, Mark White (early 50s), educated at Eton College, read politics and modern history at Edinburgh University. He began his teaching career at a state senior school in Cheltenham, rising during his 10 years there to assistant head. He joined Hazlegrove following 12 years at the highly regarded Dragon School in Oxford, where he was deputy head academic. As a father of three children, two of whom are now at university, he can take the long view and finds he very much enjoys prep age children, particularly the ‘emerging adolescents’, tweens and teens, of 8 to 13-year-olds. Married to Serena, an early years specialist working in the pre-prep, he has a keen interest in sport and has coached teams in rugby and cricket.
We find him to be unflashy,...
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Special Education Needs
Hazlegrove provides an excellent education for its dyslexic pupils. They benefit from high quality specialist tuition from skilled and dedicated teachers as well as a broad, well balanced curriculum taught by staff with a good knowledge of dyslexia and how it impacts on a child's learning. We seek to help pupils with Special Educational Needs, or Learning Difficulties, to achieve their individual potential and to feel confident within the school community. The support unit comprises 3 dedicated rooms containing specialist equipment, up to date IT facilities and a library. Pupils usually have 2 lessons per week which are multi-sensory in design and meet individual needs. Each pupil has an IEP and there are close links between the unit and the class teachers. We are a CReSTeD Category DU school offering a Dyslexic Unit. 09-09
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | Y |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| 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 |
Leavers' destinations
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryanston School | 2020 | |||
| Canford School | 2020 | |||
| Cheltenham Ladies' College | 2020 | |||
| Eton College | 2020 | |||
| King's Bruton | 2020 | Around 30% of Hazlegrove Year 8 pupils move on to this school | ||
| Marlborough College | 2020 | |||
| Millfield School | 2020 | |||
| Wells Cathedral School | 2020 | |||
| Winchester College | 2020 |
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