Kingswood School A GSG School
- Kingswood School
Lansdown Road
Bath
BA1 5RG - Head: Mr Simon Morris
- T 01225 734200
- F 01225 734305
- E [email protected]
- W www.kingswood.bath.sch.uk
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Bath and North East Somerset
- Pupils: 799; sixth formers: 237
- Religion: Methodist
- Fees: Day £15,624; Boarding £24,561 - £33,675 pa
- Open days: May and September
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- ISI report: View the ISI report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Even on a grey day, the views from the school are magnificent. It is ideally placed – a 20-minute walk down the hill into the city, but with a country feel about it. Even though day pupils outnumber boarders, Kingswood feels like a co-ed boarding school with day pupils. The arts are outstanding and there is an annual award ceremony for artistically talented pupils in art, drama, DT and music. A third of pupils learn a…
What the school says...
Kingswood School is one of the finest independent schools in the South West of England, providing an atmosphere of happiness and excellence in which children thrive. Day and boarding pupils are fully integrated. They benefit from and enjoy a dynamic curriculum with a breadth of teaching and learning to enable them to reach their own true potential. ...Read more
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Other features
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.
Sports
Equestrian centre or equestrian team - school has own equestrian centre or an equestrian team.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since 2008, Simon Morris MA PGCE NPQH (early 50s). Educated at Ipswich School (he is one of three current HMC heads – the others are Mark Bailey, high master of St Paul’s, and Nick Gregory, head of Wycliffe College – to have attended the school). Read modern and medieval languages at Cambridge, then went into the City, where he qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen. He grew up in a boarding school (his father was deputy headmaster of The Royal Hospital School) and admits that ‘the call of teaching was pretty strong’. PGCE at Canterbury Christ Church University, followed by first job at Warwick School (he became head of German after a year). Head of modern foreign languages, then housemaster at The Leys. Deputy head at St John’s, Leatherhead for seven years...
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Results by exam and subject
Subject results
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Special Education Needs
Kingswood School offers a limited level of learning support for pupils with mild difficulties such as Dyslexia.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| 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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Who came from where
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaudesert Park School | 2019 | 1 | ||
| St Hilary's School | 2018 | 1 | 1 | Art Scholarship |
| The Downs Preparatory School | 2018 | 1 | 1 | Academic Scholarship |
| The Paragon School | 2018 | 2 | 2 | Drama Scholarship; DT Scholarship |
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