Milton Abbey School A GSG School
- Milton Abbey School
Milton Abbas
Blandford Forum
Dorset
DT11 0BZ - Head: Judith Fremont-Barnes
- T 01258 880484
- F 01258 881194
- E [email protected]
- W www.miltonabbey.co.uk/
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 13 to 18.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Dorset
- Pupils: 216; sixth formers: 107
- Religion: Church of England
- Fees: Day £22,500; Boarding £42,825 pa
- Open days: Saturday 2 October 2021 | Lower School Open Morning, Saturday 6 November 2021 | Sixth Form Open Morning, Saturday 2 March 2022 | Lower School Open Morning
- 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..
With 76 acres of rolling countryside, it is one of the prettiest schools in the country. You can’t fail to be enchanted by the ancient abbey nestling in a wooded Dorset valley, one of the finest Capability Brown landscapes, 15 minutes’ drive from Blandford. ‘It’s deeply rural, but not remote.' Students eat all their meals in the Abbot’s Hall, a grand dining room complete with stags’ heads. Pastoral care highly praised by students and parents alike. 'The school is small enough to make sure no-one gets lost,’ and, according to students, there is always…
What the school says...
Milton Abbey is a traditional, yet modern, forward-looking boarding school that celebrates excellence, hard work, industry and endeavour. Our environment is inclusive, caring and ambitious for every pupil. Our small size allows for a level of care that is unsurpassed in bigger schools. We want pupils to have big achievements, big ambitions and big hearts. ...Read more
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School associations
Round Square - a network of 40 schools worldwide that share ideals such as internationalism, adventure and service.
Sports
Unusual sports
Polo
Equestrian centre or equestrian team - school has own equestrian centre or an equestrian team.
Shooting
Sailing
What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2018, Judith Fremont-Barnes MA MEd (early 50s), previously head of Duke of Kent School in Surrey. Her first teaching post at JAGS (‘just while I decided what to do with my life’) after her English degree at Oxford was the start of a love affair with teaching and a massive span of a career which has included Radley, King Edward VI Southampton and More House, a boys’ SpLD school in the home counties – oh and five years in Japan as a university lecturer plus her own masters studies. ‘I’m an educational magpie!’ she told us from her sumptuous book-lined study, adding that Milton Abbey felt like everything she had ever done, rolled into one. Such ‘a patchwork career’, as she disparagingly describes it, would seem ideal preparation for heading up Milton Abbey,...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Milton Abbey has a well-resourced Learning Support Department staffed by fully-qualified teachers. Learning Support Assistants support some mainstream lessons. Pupils come at mutually agreed times. The majority of support is for pupils with dyslexia, but a range of other conditions can be supported.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| 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 | Y |
| 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 | Y |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castle Court | 2020 | 2 | 2 | Scholarships: All Rounder and Polo and Head’s Entrance Award |
| Lockers Park School | 2020 | 1 | 1 | Entrepreneurial Scholarship |
| Sandroyd School | 2020 | 1 | 1 | Sports Scholarship |
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