Nonsuch High School for Girls A GSG School
- Nonsuch High School for Girls
Ewell Road
Cheam
Sutton
Surrey
SM3 8AB - Head: Alexis Williamson-Jones
- T 020 8394 1308
- F 020 8393 2307
- E [email protected]
- W www.nonsuchschool.org
- A state school for girls aged from 11 to 19.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Sutton
- Pupils: 1,496; sixth formers: 428
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Open days: Sixth Form Open Evening: November; Entry to Year 7: July
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 25th May 2021
- Previous Ofsted grade: Good on 3rd July 2013
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Parents stress school's focus on preparation and results. ‘They’re fantastic, pushing and pushing and monitoring the children, and obviously want them to obtain A*s and As all the way through,’ said one. Art room with high ceilings and wide windows spills over with colour and interest, from year 7 drawings of portraits of backs of heads (pigtails so detailed that every hair appears to have been accounted for) to attractive wire sculptures...
What the school says...
A popular and highly successful selective school for girls. The school benefits from state-of-the-art laboratory and ICT facilities - and even has its own astronomy dome. An innovative project with David Lloyd Leisure has given girls access to superb sporting facilities on site. The arts flourish at Nonsuch too; curriculum choices to A-level include 6 languages, music and drama. ...Read more
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School associations
State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since September 2024, Alexis Williamson-Jones, a geography and sports science graduate from Loughborough, with an MSc in educational leadership from Leicester University and an NQPH from UCL. Previously worked in the independent sector, including 7 years spent at a large girls’ school trust, and joined Nonsuch in 2021 as deputy head pastoral. In her spare time, she is a governor at a primary school in Hammersmith where she chairs the safeguarding committee.
Entrance
Realistically, need to be comfortably within top 10 per cent of ability range. ‘Otherwise may not be happy,’ says head, who also emphasises manageable commute, so that trade off for gaining a place isn’t death of social life. She urges perusal of bus and train routes in advance: ‘Girls should be able to travel here easily.' Would that put parents off? We very...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
A pro-forma is sent out to teachers and parents of prospective pupils in Year 6 requesting information relating to SEN. This practice ensures effective continuity of provision as well as yielding valuable knowledge about potential difficulties or pastoral issues. The progress of girls with known special educational needs is reviewed termly, generally in November, February and June. Some girls may warrant closer monitoring and therefore have a monthly review. All departments, in addition to year teams, have a mandatory agenda item of ‘Pupils Causing Concern’ so that both academic and pastoral needs are monitored regularly. Initial testing for dyslexia is provided in school. Initiatives are developed for supporting individual pupils and arrangements made for any further testing so that applications for special consideration can be made for public examinations. The school liaises closely with the Educational Psychologist who provides valuable professional advice on those girls with special needs. Regular discussion takes place with staff concerned throughout the school and particularly through the school’s well-established pastoral system. Most importantly, communication is maintained with parents so that strategies for monitoring pupils with special needs are clearly understood by both home and school. All students diagnosed as having an SEN have Individual Education Plans that are subject to termly review. Parents are invited to attend review meetings and each student is withdrawn from a single period to enable the appropriate attention to be given to the review process. After review, a new IEP is drafted with appropriate targets. A Guide for Students and Parents of girls with dyslexia is available. Those girls requiring extra enrichment for dyslexia benefit from a lunchtime session. Alterations have been made to the school buildings to make them more accessible to students and other visitors with physical disabilities. A lift and a platform lift have been installed and toilets have been adapted. The school is large, housed in six buildings, three of which are detached from the rest. Both the new and old parts of the school have three floors and there are a number of staircases and steps to negotiate. Support is provided for students whose first language is not English. 09-09
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | Y |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| PD - Physical Disability | Y |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | Y |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| VI - Visual Impairment | Y |
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Holy Cross Preparatory School | 2024 | 3 |
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