King Edward's School, Birmingham A GSG School
- King Edward's School, Birmingham
Edgbaston Park Road
Birmingham
B15 2UA - Head: Dr Mark Fenton
- T 01214 721672
- F 01214 154327
- E admissions@kes.org.uk
- W www.kes.org.uk
- An independent school for boys aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Birmingham
- Pupils: 856; sixth formers: 213
- Religion: Church of England
- Fees: £12,735 pa
- Open days: September, March and June
- 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..
Honours boards align the walls, there’s constant activity in the corridors and a feeling of fun and friendship prevails. Formalities are conspicuous by their absence and on our tour, a caretaker tidied a patch of lawn, ready for the scattering of a local benefactor’s ashes. Drama is legendary, with the senior annual productions - often hard-hitting musicals with casts of thousands - being the must-see event of the year. The unswerving professionalism of the whole thing is enhanced by the new Ruddock Performing Arts Centre...
What the school says...
One of the key aims of King Edward's School is to ensure that it is accessible to all pupils of ability, whatever their background. We do all we can to ensure that we get the boys who have the greatest potential to succeed here. To that end, as well as our entrance examinations we make use of other information to choose pupils: school reports are very important and we interview a very high proportion of applicants. Also, the school makes an exceptionally large number of awards of means tested Assisted Places, based on family income and academic performance, and Scholarships, based on academic performance alone. In 2012 over 30% of boys have some form of financial support and over 10% are here for free. Our long-term intention is to increase that proportion to an even higher level.
The school normally accepts boys at 11+, 13+ and 16+, although boys are admitted into other year groups in exceptional circumstances, for example when a family moves into the area.
11+ and 13+ entrance exam consists of English, Mathematics and verbal reasoning. 16+ interview and predicted grades. ...Read more
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2015 Good Schools Guide Awards
- Best performance by Boys taking Music at an English Independent School (IBO Higher level component)
Curricula
International Baccalaureate: diploma - the diploma is the familiar A-level equivalent.
Sports
Fencing
What The Good Schools Guide says
Chief master
Since September 2016, Dr Mark Fenton MA MSc PGCE PhD (40s), previously head of Dr Challoner's Grammar in Buckinghamshire. Educated at Brentwood School, Essex, followed by Peterhouse, Cambridge (history), graduating with a first. PGCE at the Institute of Education, followed by PhD (on how parents choose schools). An impressive career, hitherto exclusively in the state sector, starting at a mixed comprehensive in Chelmsford, then King Edward V1 Grammar, where he taught history and politics whilst rising to assistant head. Moved as deputy head to Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School in Rochester before landing at Challoner’s. Taught A level politics until 2014, when he took on an executive headship one day a week of a free school in Ealing. Is one of about 100 heads appointed a national leader of education by the National...
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Special Education Needs
By the definition of 'Gifted and Talented', virtually all pupils at King Edward's School would qualify. Therefore our curriculum provision incorporates teaching strategies to stimulate and stretch the most able as a matter of course. Within the school however, we take Special Educational Needs very seriously and to that end we employ both a SENCO and a part-time support teacher as well.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Aspergers Syndrome [archived] | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders [archived] | |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Delicate Medical Problems [archived] | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Epilepsy [archived] | |
| 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 | |
| Not Applicable | |
| 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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