Heathside School (Weybridge) A GSG School
- Heathside School (Weybridge)
Brooklands Lane
Weybridge
Surrey
KT13 8UZ - Head: Mr Gareth Lewis
- T 01932 846162
- F 01932 828142
- E info@heathside.surrey.sch.uk
- W www.heathside.surrey.sch.uk
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Surrey
- Pupils: 1,226; sixth formers: 160
- Religion: Non-denominational
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- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 1 Short inspection 15th November 2023
Short inspection reports only give an overall grade; you have to read the report itself to gauge whether the detailed grading from the earlier full inspection still stands.
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Winning combination of committed staff and eager students – state education as it should be. A real scrum to get in here from Weybridge, Walton and Hersham area. Parents prepared to go down the private route will try their luck here before shelling out fees. Strict? You bet, but students take it in their stride. The main building dates from 1966, when the school was built for just 750 students. This is the main beef for most parents but fresh-looking buildings have been added, along with other minor refurbs, and the students seem to barely notice...
What the school says...
Heathside is a Specialist Foundation Community, 11-19 School, affliated to the Diocese of Guildford. It is very popular and oversubscribed. Our mission is to value all individuals, enabling them to achieve their full potential, giving them the skills to move on to their next challenge successfully.
Our aim is to improve even further, continuing to raise standards and provision, working closely with the local Community and all our stakeholders. ...Read more
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head of school
Since 2021 Gareth Lewis.
Entrance
A real scrum to get in here from Weybridge, Walton and Hersham area. Parents prepared to go down the private route will try their luck here before shelling out fees. School is also the state school of choice for families coming from abroad. Average of 700 plus applications for 210 places – ‘My parents were very, very happy when they heard I got in,’ said one student. At 11+ students join from up to 20 primaries, but predominantly from Cleves School and St James CofE. Strong links with its primary feeders. Otherwise usual sibling and distance criteria in operation. No longer selects a percentage by aptitude.
To join the sixth form (and this goes for existing students, as well as new ones – around 10...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
The Learning Support department supports students with a range of SEN and works with all the relevant external agencies to offer individual programmes of support. Many of the students on the SEN register successfully undertake a full curriculum and achieve good results, allowing them to progress to further and higher education. Students within the department also take a full and active part in all areas of school life.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Might cover/be referred to as;
ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Aspergers, Autism, High functioning autism, Neurodivergent, Neurodiversity, Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), PDA , Social skills, Sensory processing disorder |
Y |
| HI - Hearing Impairment
Might cover/be referred to as;
Hearing Impairment, HI - Hearing Impairment |
|
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
Might cover/be referred to as;
Learning needs, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty |
|
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment
Might cover/be referred to as;
MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment, Sensory processing |
|
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability
Might cover/be referred to as;
Downs Syndrome, Epilepsy, Genetic , OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability, Tics, Tourettes |
|
| PD - Physical Disability
Might cover/be referred to as;
PD - Physical Disability |
|
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
Might cover/be referred to as;
Complex needs, Global delay, Global developmental delay, PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty |
|
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
Might cover/be referred to as;
Anxiety , Complex needs, Emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA), Mental Health, SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health, Trauma |
|
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication
Might cover/be referred to as;
DLD - Developmental Language Disorder, Selective mutism, SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication |
|
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
Might cover/be referred to as;
Complex needs, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty, Cerebral Palsy (CP) |
|
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
Might cover/be referred to as;
ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Auditory Processing, DCD, Developmental Co-ordination Difficulties (DCD), Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Handwriting, Other specific learning difficulty, SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) |
Y |
| VI - Visual Impairment
Might cover/be referred to as;
Special facilities for Visually Impaired, VI - Visual Impairment |
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.
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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.
Children get into the school from here:
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most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
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