Oxford High Preparatory School A GSG School
- Oxford High Preparatory School
1 Bardwell Road
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX2 6SU - Head: Jessica Williams
- T 01865 515647
- F 01865 510841
- E admissions@oxf.gdst.net
- W www.oxfordhigh.gdst.net/
- A mainstream independent school for girls aged from 4 to 11 with a linked senior school
- Read about the best schools in Oxford and North Oxfordshire and South Oxfordshire
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Oxfordshire
- Pupils: 231
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Fees: £10,515 - £14,241 pa
- Open days: March, May
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Linked schools: Oxford High School GDST
What The Good Schools Guide says..
While messages about progression aren’t pushed, they’re certainly present. Staircases in the pre-prep show examples of work from different ages and stages (some reception pupils are already producing accomplished cursive writing after just over a term at the school), and girls are conscious – and proud – of how far they’ve come. ‘When I was in nursery I knew a lot less than in year 2 or in year 3,’ an older prep pupil mused…
What the school says...
At Oxford High Junior School we offer a broad and exciting curriculum, with specialist teaching in Music, Art, PE, Science and French from Key Stage 1 to ensure that our pupils not only fulfil their potential but reach beyond it to the highest academic levels and personal development.
Based on two sites in North Oxford, we have excellent facilities so are able to provide a range of sporting and extra-curricular activities within the school day and beyond it, as well as well-regarded out of school care, that operates from 7.30am to 5.45pm. We are also proud of our pastoral care and the support offered to the girls. We welcome parents involvement in school life and enhance this through good communications based on our common aim to do the best for the girls.
Visitors are very welcome, either at open days, special events or individually; please contact the school. ...Read more
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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.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Head of junior school
Since 2019, Jessica Williams. Her first headship, preceded by six years at Ashfold School in Buckinghamshire as deputy head.
Hadn’t considered becoming a teacher until she started tutoring during her university years (physiology and psychology at Southampton) and loved it. Completed her PGCE at Cambridge in the late 1990s, took on her first post (all-boys Aylesbury Grammar) as a biology and science teacher and was promoted to head of year before taking maternity leave in 2002.
While she raised her daughters (three under three at one point, now grown up), she worked as an examiner and mentor for a pioneering, local authority funded online school. Moved to InterHigh, the online school then in its infancy, in 2008 and then to Llandovery College in...
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