St Catherine's School A GSG School
- 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…
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
What the parents say...
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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 |
| Prospect House School | 2018 | 2 | ||
| Rowan Preparatory School | 2017 to 2018 | 4 | ||
| St Catherine's Preparatory School | 2017 | Majority to the senior school | ||
| St Hilary's School | 2018 | 6 | 1 | Cello Award |
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