Packwood Haugh School A GSG School
- Packwood Haugh School
Ruyton XI Towns
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY4 1HX - Head: Mr Robert Fox
- T 01939 260217
- F 01939 262077
- E [email protected]
- W www.packwood-haugh.co.uk
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 13.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Shropshire
- Pupils: 220
- Religion: Church of England
- Fees: Day £15,525 - £21,855; Boarding £27,930 pa
- Open days: October, March and May
- 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..
Girls wear kilts and despite the best efforts of Mr and Mrs Fox, boys still wear grey corduroy trousers. According to parents, who voted overwhelmingly to keep the said trews, they ‘wash well and take a lot of hammering’. Parents like the fact that ‘there’s no sloping off to the shop’. Because there is no shop. Difficult to know whether compliment or insult that the head’s own son chose to board even though he could see his own bedroom window from the boys’ house ...
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Sports
Equestrian centre or equestrian team - school has own equestrian centre or an equestrian team.
Fencing
Shooting
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since 2019, Rob Fox BSc, PGCE (1997) taking up his first headship after returning from six years in Hong Kong as head of pastoral care and part of the team setting up Harrow International School. On paper his wife Kate is head of admissions, but this seems to be a wildly elastic role which involved the swift procurement of multiple summer play costumes on the day of our visit. Parents remark that they got ‘more than just a new head’ out of the deal. Their three children all now attend Shrewsbury, the youngest glimpsing two years at Packwood before his departure.
Within weeks of joining, Mr Fox was smiling all over the local press, heartily shaking hands (how retro) with the head of Shrewsbury, confirming that Packwood was joining the...
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Special Education Needs
One-to-one support is available through our learning support department. 10-09
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | Y |
| Dysgraphia | |
| 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 | Y |
| 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 | Y |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
Leavers' destinations
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shrewsbury School | 2023 | 20 | 10 | 3 Academic Scholarships; 3 All Rounder Scholarships; 2 Sport Scholarships; 1 Music Scholarship; 1 DT Scholarship |
| Eton College | 2023 | 3 | 4 | 2 All rounder Scholarships; 1 Sport Scholarship; 1 Drama Scholarship |
| Sedbergh School | 2023 | 3 | 6 | 2 All rounder Scholarships; 2 Academic Scholarships; 1 Sport Scholarship; 1 Drama Scholarship |
| Ellesmere College | 2023 | 2 | 2 | 1 All rounder Scholarship; 1 Sport Scholarship |
| Harrow School | 2023 | 2 | 1 | 1 Music Scholarship |
| Oswestry School | 2023 | 2 | ||
| Ampleforth College | 2023 | 1 | ||
| Concord College | 2023 | 1 | ||
| Malvern College | 2023 | 1 | ||
| Oundle School | 2023 | 1 | 1 | 1 Music Exhibition |
| Repton School | 2023 | 1 | ||
| Rugby School | 2023 | 1 | ||
| Shrewsbury High School | 2023 | 1 | 2 | 1 Academic Scholarship; 1 Music Scholarship |
| Wrekin College | 2023 | 1 | 1 | 1 Sport Scholarship |
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