Windlesham House School A GSG School
- Windlesham House School
Washington
Pulborough
West Sussex
RH20 4AY - Head: Mr Ben Evans
- T 01903 874700
- F 01903 874702
- E [email protected]
- W www.windlesham.com
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 13.
- Read about the best schools in West Sussex
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: West Sussex
- Pupils: 357
- Religion: Church of England
- Fees: Day £11,700 - £28,080; Boarding £34,170 - £36,165 pa
- Open days: October, February and May
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Parents may well find themselves thinking, where do we sign, halfway down the school drive: stunning South Downs backdrop, imposing Queen Anne building, 25-metre pool, abundant cricket pitches with pavilion standing resplendent, nine-hole golf course, numerous tennis courts (grass and Astro) and adventure playground complete with zip wire. For a school so polished, it seems at odds that there’s such freedom of choice on uniform – in fact there is no uniform. Still a place where children can ‘roam free and be children,’ said one parent, although...
What the school says...
Windlesham House is one of the country's leading and oldest IAPS co-educational boarding and day preparatory schools. Set in 60 glorious acres on the South Downs, in West Sussex, the school is within easy reach of the Brighton, Horsham and Chichester districts, just over an hour from central London and close to Gatwick and Heathrow airports.
Established in 1837, Windlesham House was one of the first schools in the country to be established as a preparatory school and in 1967 became the first IAPS co-educational school.
Whilst academic excellence and success is a high priority, Windlesham House provides a warm, secure, caring and very happy family atmosphere. Our school encourages children to be children, giving them space to learn, discover and play, while ensuring academic excellence is at the heart of all we do. Our focus is on enabling every child to flourish and achieve their potential. Headmaster, Ben Evans, and his wife, Alex, take enormous pleasure in seeing children grow in what is a wonderful environment and an unrivalled setting.
"The school you dream you had gone to yourself." (Windlesham parent) ...Read more
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Sports
Equestrian centre or equestrian team - school has own equestrian centre or an equestrian team.
Fencing
Shooting
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since 2020, Ben Evans. BA (hons) history and archaeology, PGCE, University of Exeter. Formerly head of Edge Grove. Prior to that, junior head at British School, Colombo, deputy head of Bramdean, head of history at Brighton College.
Mr Evans is a true country boy with a genuine love of nature and the outdoors and spent most of his childhood on Dartmoor, where his mother breeds Dartmoor ponies. He met his wife, Alex (PhD in waste water management, now impressively wearing many Windlesham hats), while teaching at the British School, Colombo – she was working there as an environmental scientist. A well-travelled and adventurous partnership, although not many clues to these intrepid adventures or country roots on display in Mr Evans’s vast and elegant study; possibly reflective of his focus on...
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Special Education Needs
At Windlesham we cater for a broad range of abilities including the very talented and academically able children and those who may need learning support. Our curriculum is designed to meet the requirements of the Independent Schools Examination Board with their Common Entrance exams taken at 13+. We do have a number of children with special needs and aim to provide them with appropriate help, but these children must be of average ability or they are likely to find the broad curriculum too demanding and not appropriate to their needs. We assess the children briefly before they join the school (normally when they have an overnight stay) and we hope that any existing special needs will have been discussed with us by the child's parents. Once we have had access to any existing reports (e.g. from previous schools or from Educational Psychologists) we can arrange a programme to suit their needs. We have a team of specialist teachers, under the Head of Learning Support, who give a mixture of individual or small group lessons to the children. The number of lessons will vary according to need and to our resources. We offer support with reading, spelling, written language skills, handwriting, word-processing, touch-typing, maths, visual perceptual training, speech and language and occupational therapy and counselling. We make a charge for these lessons, and details are available on request. Other children, after an initial settling in period, may be identified by subject teachers as having some areas of difficulty and this leads to discussion with the Learning Support Department. In October, we give all children NFER Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning tests, Maths, Reading and Spelling tests and these will help identify any areas of concern. After observation and discussion with the child's teachers we may give a child diagnostic tests to ascertain where the problem lies. We will inform parents at this stage and discuss the support that may be needed. It is possible to arrange a full, in-depth assessment by a visiting Educational Psychologist who will make recommendations for the child's educational programme and we do have the services of a Speech and Language Therapist and Occupational Therapist when required. All children have a right to a broad and balanced education and we aim to provide the necessary support for each child. This is in line with the government's Code of Practice for the teaching of children with special needs, which emphasises that the needs of the children are paramount. In order to do so, many of the children requiring Learning Support do not study Latin, as this is an optional subject at Common Entrance. We use this time for support lessons. Learning Support lessons can also take place in the lunch hour, outside lesson time and, in a few cases, during other lessons in non-examined subjects. 09-09
Condition | Provision for in school |
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ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
Aspergers | |
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
Dyscalculia | Y |
Dysgraphia | Y |
Dyslexia | Y |
Dyspraxia | Y |
English as an additional language (EAL) | Y |
Genetic | |
Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
Has SEN unit or class | Y |
HI - Hearing Impairment | Y |
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 | Y |
SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | Y |
SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
VI - Visual Impairment | Y |
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