Queen Elizabeth's Hospital A GSG School
- Queen Elizabeth's Hospital
Berkeley Place
Clifton
Bristol
BS8 1JX - Head: Rupert Heathcote
- T 01179 303040
- F 01179 293106
- E headmaster@qehbristol.co.uk
- W www.qehbristol.co.uk
- A mainstream independent school for boys aged from 11 to 18 with a linked junior school
- Read about the best schools in Bristol
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Bristol
- Pupils: 660; sixth formers: 222 (156 boys; 66 girls)
- Religion: Not Applicable
- Fees: £17,085 pa
- Open days: November and March
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- ISI report: View the ISI report
- Linked schools: Queen Elizabeth's Hospital Junior School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
School makes much of the virtues of single sex education; they apply as much to the performing arts as to academic matters, where boys in their younger teens are free to express themselves artistically without fear of ridicule from peers or girls. An unashamedly academic school with expectations to match. From the outset boys are set in maths, and sciences are taught separately leading to GCSE – no dual science options here. Absolutely
What the school says...
QEH is a small school with only 600 boys in the Senior School and 100 in the Juniors. It is academically selective but not socially exclusive. Academic results for boys are second to none in Bristol and the South-west. A-level results generally put QEH amongst the top schools in the country. The school is well situated, in Clifton, close to city centre facilities. ...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
Headmaster
Since 2020, Mr Rupert Heathcote BSc PGCE, previously second master at King Edward’s School Birmingham. Brought up in the idyllic setting of Monkton Combe just outside Bath, Mr Heathcote boarded at the school even though his parents lived in the village. ‘I could see my house from my sixth form room!’ he said in tones of wonder. A degree in geography from Nottingham, preceded by time as a ‘gappie’ in a school, led on to a couple of years at Accenture as an IT consultant. It was then, as he sat at a vast boardroom table, that he asked himself ‘what on earth I was doing’. After a flexible PGCE at Liverpool Hope University on Accenture’s time, his career path was set.
Significantly, that career has unfolded predominantly in boys’...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | Y |
| Dysgraphia | Y |
| Dyslexia | Y |
| Dyspraxia | Y |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | Y |
| Genetic | Y |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | Y |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | Y |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | Y |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | Y |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | Y |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| PD - Physical Disability | Y |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | Y |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | Y |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| VI - Visual Impairment | Y |
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Lyon School Prep | 2023 | 2 | ||
| Queen Elizabeth's Hospital Junior School | 2023 | Majority to the senior school | ||
| The Downs Preparatory School | 2023 | 6 |
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