Winchester House School A GSG School
- Winchester House School
44 High Street
Brackley
Northamptonshire
NN13 7AZ - Head: Antonia Lee
- T 01280 702483
- F 01280 706400
- E registrar@winchester-house.org
- W www.winchester-house.org/
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 3 to 13.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: West Northamptonshire
- Pupils: 312
- Religion: Christian
- Fees: Day £12,636 - £21,708; Boarding £27,216 pa
- Open days: October and November
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- ISI report: View the ISI report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Based in and around a former hunting lodge, approached directly from the charming high street, with grand wrought iron gates guarding an 18-acre, Tardis-like campus. It must definitely wow escaping Londoners, the main building so characterful it even moonlights as a wedding venue in the holidays. Delightful pre-prep setting (across a small road) with large, bright classrooms, every possible millimetre of space adorned with creative offerings and the ceilings festooned with bunting and mobiles. ‘Proper computer science’ is taught as part of the curriculum, and pupils have twice…
What the school says...
'The aim of Winchester House is to develop life-long learners with a spirit of resourcefulness and self-reliance within a warm and purposeful community.
As parents the greatest gift we can give our children is to create opportunities for them to develop their self-esteem to ensure that they are resilient, enabling them to tackle and overcome any obstacle they face. At Winchester House we encourage children to take up opportunities and embrace challenge with tenacity.
We strive to give each child a thirst for life-long learning through a stimulating and innovative curriculum which pursues excellence.
Winchester House has a long tradition of delivering a holistic education and we are constantly reflecting on how to evolve to provide an education relevant to young people facing the challenges of contemporary society.
I hope you will take up the opportunity either to visit us for an Open Morning or come on a bespoke visit. I feel very lucky to be part of such a vibrant learning community which has an energy and sense of fun where children thrive.
I look forward to welcoming you.' ...Read more
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Sports
Polo
Equestrian centre or equestrian team - school has own equestrian centre or an equestrian team.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2022, Antonia Lee, previously head of prep at St Helen’s School. She has taught in all-boys, all-girls and co-ed schools across all age groups and has successfully prepared pupils for scholarships to eg Magdalen College School and Cheltenham Ladies’ College, as well as for Oxbridge entry. She has also been a GCSE geography examiner. She is a governor at the Iffley Academy and currently serves on her district committee for IAPS, having been the association’s inaugural sustainability subject advisor. Educated at Eastbourne College, she studied geography at St Hugh’s College, Oxford alongside rowing for the college first VIII and serving as vice president of the Oxford University Rag committee before doing her teacher training at Homerton College, Cambridge. She has a son and daughter, both at university, and is a keen sports fan...
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Special Education Needs
We provide a broad, inclusive curriculum with all teaching staff recognising the full potential of each child. Support is provided through a variety of methods including extensive in-class support across the classroom range, small group work and individual withdrawal sessions. The school is fortunate in having an occupational therapist on site, a visiting speech and language therapist and an educational psychologist visits the school on a termly basis. Several learning support teachers also teach various aspects of the curriculum eg maths, history, classics. On entry to the school, in addition to a screening process, parents are requested to inform the school of any previous assessments. There are strong home-school links with regular meetings and workshops for parents. 10-09
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | Y |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | Y |
| 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 | Y |
| 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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