Royal Grammar Junior School (Newcastle) A GSG School
- Royal Grammar Junior School (Newcastle)
Lambton Road
Jesmond
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4RX - Head: Mr James Millar
- T 01912 815711
- F 01912 120392
- E [email protected]
- W www.rgs.newcastle.sch.uk
- A mainstream independent school for pupils aged from 7 to 11 with a linked senior school
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Pupils: 273
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Fees: £13,917 pa
- Open days: November
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Linked schools: Royal Grammar School (Newcastle)
What The Good Schools Guide says..
The reputation for academic rigour is valued but while the head is keen to maintain this, you don’t get a sense of children feeling pressured. And while both staff and children talk openly and positively about the academic focus, they are also quick to emphasise the co-curricular opportunities and development of the whole child. Over 70 clubs at last count, ranging from ceramic art ninjas, coding, top trumps and Lego Explore to eight music clubs and all the usual sporting suspects. Draws from across the northeast and beyond, with good transport links...
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Sports
Fencing
What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2020, James Miller. At the school since 2009, deputy from 2012. As a keen cricketer, a sports science degree from Northumbria led to a development role with the English Cricket Board. Experience of working with children paved the way to teaching via the Graduate Teacher Programme, starting in the state sector in Whitley Bay as a maths teacher, before joining RGS.
Described by parents as an ‘incredible inspiration’ and ‘a ball of happiness and sunshine running around Newcastle’, he certainly makes an impression. Energetic and enthusiastic, casual in PE gear, his passion is breaking down stereotypes, about gender in particular, so that children are not ‘boxed in’ from primary age. His office door is always open. The colourful children’s artwork is lit up by flashing fairy lights and the...
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