Wellsway School A GSG School
- Wellsway School
Chandag Road
Keynsham
Bristol
BS31 1PH - Head: Mr Rob Pearsall
- T 01179 864751
- F 01179 161039
- E enquiries@wellswayschool.com
- W www.wellswayschool.com
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Bath and North East Somerset
- Pupils: 1,316; sixth formers: 207
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Open days: See website
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 11th June 2019
- Previous Ofsted grade: Good on 12th February 2014
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Sport is a strength of the school, which is lucky enough to have plenty of space for pitches, tennis courts, an Astro and a sports centre which it shares with the public. School lays on an impressive range of academic options by milking its links with the rest of the academy trust it helped to found. The school has its own social, emotional and mental health manager, plus voluntary counsellors, and we picked up good reports of, for example, the befriending of lone students. Possibly not such a glowing picture for...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Principal
Since September 2021, Rob Pearsall. Previously at Plymstock School in Plymouth where he was assistant head for eight years, deputy head for two years and finally head for two years. Has been a teacher for over 25 years, having started out teaching business studies, ICT and economics before realising that ‘my passion was for the pastoral side of my work.’ Has led on behaviour, safety and welfare for students, been a SENCo and worked on reducing the gap between disadvantaged students and their peers.
Outside school, he gets outdoors as much as he can, whether that’s walking, running or gardening. His wife, also a teacher, and he have two sons, both in their 20s.
Entrance
There are 230 places available in year 7, all done through the local authority where the child lives...
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Special Education Needs
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
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.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
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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