St Catherine's School, Guildford | The Good Schools Guide

St Catherine's School
Station Road
Bramley
Guildford
Surrey
GU5 0DF
Head: Mrs Alice Phillips
T 01483 899609
F 01483 899 608
E admissions@stcatherines.info
W www.stcatherines.info
A mainstream independent school for girls aged from 11 to 18 with a linked junior school
Boarding: Yes
Local authority: Surrey
Pupils: 653; 89 full, 37 weekly boarders; sixth formers: 169
Religion: Church of England
Fees: Day £17,895; Boarding £29,490 pa
Open days: Please telephone or see website
Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
ISI report: View the ISI report
Linked schools: St Catherine's Preparatory School

What The Good Schools Guide says..

Now boasts a ‘fantastic’ £15 million complex - the ‘125th Anniversary Halls’ arts and sports building with an unrivalled auditorium (seats 300 and has ‘better acoustics than the Barbican’) plus other studios and backed by the sports hall, gyms, dance studios etc. All carefully, thoughtfully and skilfully integrated and an exceptional new resource with which the girls are clearly thrilled. Fifty per cent of boarders from overseas. Bedrooms and dorms are spacious enough, welcoming and homely. Most in two-bedders, often with…

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What the school says...

St Catherines, Bramley, provides an all-round, outstanding education for girls in an environment where there is no embarrassment in working hard or being successful. The vast majority of leavers secure their first choice universities including Oxbridge. But this is no academic hot-house. There is a raft of extra curricular activities - Art, Drama, Music and Sport and, with the completion of the Anniversary Halls, there are superb facilities both for sport and the performing arts which are second to none.
St Catherine's is located in Bramley, 3 miles south of Guildford in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the Surrey Hills. We are within an hour of central London by train and convenient for both Heathrow and Gatwick International Airports. ...Read more

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Other features

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.

Sports

Equestrian centre or equestrian team - school has own equestrian centre or an equestrian team.

Rowing

What The Good Schools Guide says

Headmistress

Since 2000, Mrs Alice Phillips MA Cantab (50s). First teaching post was at the Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth, where she rose to being head of English. Thence to deputy headship at Tormead in 1993. She impresses at once as being full of brisk common sense, good humour and get-up-and go. But she is also super-bright, super-articulate and super-focused on the highest of standards for her staff, her charges and herself. ‘She is utterly determined for her girls,’ one mother told us. And this blazes forth in her dedication to the job of equipping girls for the future - ‘girls need to be in an environment which demonstrates that there’s nothing you can’t do’.

Mrs Phillips relishes the process of turning her ‘rough-cut GCSE diamonds into highly polished gems’ – and the...

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Special Education Needs

All girls are screened shortly after entry to the school to help identify any extra provision they may require. This enables all members of staff to accommodate each girl's particular strengths and weaknesses. Should it be deemed necessary, on consultation with parents, the School is able to provide individual support for pupils. This support is closely monitored and reviewed on a regular basis. Nov 09.

Condition	Provision for in school
ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Aspergers
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders	Y
CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia
Dyscalculia
Dysgraphia
Dyslexia
Dyspraxia
English as an additional language (EAL)
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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Who came from where

School	Year	Places	Scholarships	Description
Amesbury	2017	2
Coworth Flexlands School	2015 to 2017	4
Halstead Preparatory School	2017	10	2	Academic scholarships (2)
Holy Cross Preparatory School	2016	1
Newland House School	2015 to 2017	5	2	Sports Scholarship; Sports Scholarship
St Catherine's Preparatory School	2017			Majority to the senior school

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