The Crypt School A GSG School
- The Crypt School
Podsmead Road
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL2 5AE - Head: Nicholas Dyer
- T 01452 530291
- F 01452 530292
- E [email protected]
- W www.cryptschool.org/
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Gloucestershire
- Pupils: 1,100
- Religion: None
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- 16-19 study programmes Outstanding 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Outstanding 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1
- 1 Full inspection 12th March 2024
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 16th May 2012
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
The school struck us as exceptionally kind, a place where staff and pupils really look after each other. ‘They’re always talking about the importance of mental health and wellbeing,’ said a pupil. Pupils say teachers are ‘really engaging – you never see them just reading off a PowerPoint’. Praise too for them ‘reading the room and adapting the pace’ – as we saw in a year 7 maths class where the teacher went painstakingly through a test paper, while in English a teacher made sure everyone understood how to identify different poetry forms, throwing in some super examples to bring it to life. Excellent support system includes ‘masses of tracking and monitoring’, backed up with…
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2015, Nicholas Dyer BA MA PGCE NPQH. Educated at Colston’s School (now Collegiate School) in Bristol and Nottingham University, where he studied history. Toyed with joining the army but decided to follow in his mother’s teaching footsteps, the ‘sense of purpose and community, and my love of history’ drawing him in (he still teaches history and politics).
Started out at Wycliffe College as history teacher (training on the job) and house assistant, moving to Bishop Wordsworth’s Grammar School, Salisbury, becoming head of history and politics, director of sixth form then assistant head before arriving here as deputy head in 2009 when the school was ‘very different to how it is now, rumbling along in the bottom 50 grammar schools’. Indeed, resources were sparse, the fabric of the school wasn’t great...
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Interpreting catchment maps
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Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
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Further reading
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Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
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Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Beaudesert Park School | 2024 | 1 |
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