St Teresa's Effingham School A GSG School
- St Teresa's Effingham School
Effingham
Surrey
RH5 6ST - Head: Mr Mike Farmer
- T 01372 452037
- F 01372 450311
- E a.charles@st-teresas.com
- W www.st-teresas.com
- An independent school for girls aged from 11 to 18 with a linked prep school.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Surrey
- Pupils: 640; 63 full, 18 weekly/flexi boarders ; sixth formers: 77
- Religion: Roman Catholic
- Fees: Day £9,735 - £17,085; Boarding £23,850 - £29,085 pa
- Open days: October and May
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- ISI report: View the ISI report
- Linked schools: St Teresa’s Effingham Preparatory School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
He has brought in a new assistant head (academic) who runs the Oxbridge enrichment society and the gifted and talented programme. She is like a glamorous Miss Jean Brodie, brainy and geeky but with spiky heels and stylish clothes. Just the job to have teenage girls hanging on her every word. Director of music effused enthusiasm as he showed us round the music department. A professional French horn player, he has performed with the most prestigious orchestras but is just as keen on bringing in local rock bands...
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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.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since 2012, Mr Mike Farmer (50s). First teaching job was as a sailing instructor, spending three years post-graduation in Greece and Turkey. He met his future wife Mary-Ann in Greece and looming marriage and family took him to a job in the real world at Godolphin School, Salisbury, where he taught economics, business and ICT. The head there, Hilary Fender, took him with her to be assistant head at Headington, Oxford in 1997. First headship was at Kilgraston in Perthshire (2003), where he achieved the gong of UK Independent School of the Year in 2011 and turned around a school that had been dubbed ‘the Marie Celeste’ to achieve the highest growth rate in its sector.
He has a sound business head, the confidence of his governors and a clear sight...
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Special Education Needs
Pupils with SEN may work on a reduced timetable; individual support is given either in periods thus freed up or outside curriculum time. Touch to type programmes available; extra time, readers, scribes available if need indicated by EP report; all staff made aware of each child's need with appropriate recommended strategies.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | Y |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coworth Flexlands School | 2015 to 2017 | 3 | 1 | Academic Scholarship |
| Halstead Preparatory School | 2017 | 2 | 1 | Academic scholarship |
| Newland House School | 2017 | 1 | 1 | Sports Scholarship |
| Rowan Preparatory School | 2017 to 2018 | 7 | 3 | Academic Scholarship; Drama Scholarship; Academic Scholarship |
| St Teresa’s Effingham Preparatory School | 2017 | Majority to the senior school |
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