King's Hawford School A GSG School
- King's Hawford School
Hawford Lock Lane
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR3 7SD - Head: Mrs Jennie Phillips
- T 01905 451292
- F 01905 756502
- E [email protected]
- W www.ksw.org.uk/
- A mainstream independent school for pupils aged from 2 to 11 with a linked senior school
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Worcestershire
- Pupils: 222
- Religion: Church of England
- Fees: £7,983 - £14,367 pa
- Open days: Next Open Morning will be held on Saturday 9th October 2021
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Linked schools: The King's School (Worcester), King's St Alban's School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
The school believes in giving children lots of opportunities to try out new things so the extracurricular programme is vast. For years 3-6, there’s a life skills based enrichment programme every Friday afternoon – children choose anything from first aid to cooking – and all pupils get the chance to earn up to 14 scout-like badges that they sew on their jumpers. The pupil-run school radio station is inspired, with an…
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since April 2021, Jennie Phillips, the first female head of the school and indeed in the King’s Foundation. Previously head of Monmouth School Girls’ Prep School, she was educated at Oxford High School and studied education at Exeter. ‘It was only ever teaching for me,’ she grins - she got a kick out of doing reception break duty even when she was still at school herself. Work experience at a primary school when she was 14 nailed her decision despite spending most of her time knee deep in sticky back plastic. First teaching post was at St Peter’s Prep, Devon, thence to Badminton Prep for a long stint before Monmouth. Covering other teachers remains her favourite bit of the job, even now.
Smiley, unassuming and very much one of the...
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Special Education Needs
The school employs a number of support staff to assist both in the classroom and in individual support lessons. All support lessons are an integral part of our provision and there is no additional charge for such provision. 09-09
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| 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 |
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