Poole Grammar School A GSG School
- Poole Grammar School
Gravel Hill
Poole
Dorset
BH17 9JU - Head: Mr Andy Baker
- T 01202 692132
- F 01202 606500
- E office@poolegrammar.com
- W www.poolegrammar.com
- A state school for boys aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Poole
- Pupils: 1,197; sixth formers: 310
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Open days: July and September
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Requires improvement 1
- 16-19 study programmes Requires improvement 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Requires improvement 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Requires improvement 1
- 1 Full inspection 2nd December 2015
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 26th June 2014
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Less of an academic sausage machine than you might expect. Surprisingly for a grammar, SEN is one of school’s specialisms - head sees it as truly cross-curricular and serving the needs of the most able, gifted and talented, as well as those with identified academic difficulties. Humanities and enterprise flourish, lessons evidently absorb attention and boys are enthusiastic about all aspects of school. Adding ‘cognition’ to the potentially ‘nerdy’ specialisms of maths and computing allows the staff to boost their…
What the school says...
Poole Grammar School is a selective boys' grammar school serving the Borough of Poole and its environs. It is a specialist mathematics, computing and cognition school with an international reputation for developing boys' literacy skills.
Boys take a set of entrance tests consisting of English, maths, verbal & non verbal - reasoning. There are 168 places available and the admissions policy is available on the school web site. At sixth form level 30 places are available for those from outside the school and the minimum entrance requirement is 344 points based on the candidate's best 8 GCSEs with an A*, A or B in the subjects chosen or in a related discipline. The DfE GCSE points are used 58-A*,52-A, 46-B 40-C, 34-D,28-E. An increasing number of courses are taught jointly with Parkstone Grammar School (Girls). Progression onto the second year of the course (A2) is dependent on successful completion and passing of two or more AS levels excluding General Studies.
The school is part of the South West Academic Trust (SWAT) with Bournemouth School for Girls, Torquay Girls' Grammar School, Torquay Boys' Grammar School, South Wilts Girls' Grammar School, Colyton Grammar School, Churston Grammar School and Exeter University which is an exciting developmental group aiming to raise standards across the South West with a focus on teaching gifted and talented individuals who will enrich our society. ...Read more
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since 2014, Andy Baker, previously deputy head. BA from Lancaster (politics and economic history), PGCE from Keele and MA from Middlesex (social and industrial history). Taught at schools in Essex before joining Poole as deputy head in 1993. Likes pottery, skiing, period property restoration, music (listener and performer). Married with two grown up children.
Academic matters
Specialises in maths, computing and cognition, so it’s no surprise that maths is top of the pops at A level, closely followed by the three separate sciences, which everyone does at IGCSE. All students take French, Spanish or German to GCSE, though no classics or eastern languages. Fantastic results in maths and chemistry but also, impressively, in English, RE, geography and history. Exciting ICT with everyone doing the short course ICT GCSE at the end of year 9. In 2016,...
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Special Education Needs
The school, though a selective Grammar school, is accutely aware that many very able pupils can hide conditions such as dyslexia through strategies that as time goes on become more difficult to sustain. Hence we are looking to take a more proactive role in early screening of pupils to then give appropriate support for their learning as early as possible. Dyslexia screening now being undertaken on entry and an 'in house' literacy advisor has been appointed to focus on needs in this area. The school has adopted a second specialism in SEN (Cognition and Learning) with a focus on supporting able boys with a wide spectrum of needs. Pupils who come to the school with a statement or who are on the feeder school special needs register are immediately put on our own register and the head of the induction year spends time with the feeder school ascertaining the needs that we will have to cater for when the pupil arrives. We have a Learning support coordinator in place on a 0.6 teaching timetable; a specialist teacher for SEN on the staff for two days per week and 6 LSAs available for indiviudal classroom support or outreach work depending on individual cases. 09-09
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Aspergers Syndrome [archived] | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders [archived] | |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Delicate Medical Problems [archived] | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Epilepsy [archived] | |
| 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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