Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School A GSG School
- Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School
Oxford Road
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire
HP21 8PE - Head: Mr Sam Holdsworth
- T 01296 424781
- F 01296 424783
- E office@sirhenryfloyd.co.uk
- W www.sirhenryfloyd.co.uk
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Read about the best schools in Buckinghamshire
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Buckinghamshire
- Pupils: 1,338
- Religion: Does not apply
- 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 20th February 2024
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 28th January 2016
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Grades, while impressive, don’t quite hit the dizzying heights of some of the other Bucks grammars but this doesn’t mean the school is the poor cousin it was once perceived to be. Not only does it excel at value added, but students say they are kept sane by the focus on wellbeing, as well as loving the more rounded education offered here. ‘You don’t have to pick academics at the cost of everything else,’ summed up one. Commendably high standards in the performing arts. Students say if you’re not interested in this area when you arrive, you probably will be by the time you leave. Impressively, there’s no taint of elitism, with...
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Curricula
International Baccalaureate: diploma - the diploma is the familiar A-level equivalent.
School associations
State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since June 2023, Sam Holdsworth BA PGCE NPQH, previously acting head for six months. Educated at Epsom College, Surrey, and University of York, where he studied English literature with philosophy. After completing his PGCE from Froebel College, Roehampton, he taught English at George Abbot School, Guildford (one of the largest comps in the country), then joined the Highcrest Academy in High Wycombe where he rose to assistant head before coming here as deputy head in 2018. He is a facilitator for the National Professional Qualification for Senior Leaders (NPQSL), training senior leaders across the county.
If we’d met him in another setting, we’d never have guessed he’s a headteacher – and we can usually spot headteachers a mile off. Maybe it’s his relaxed manner (and attire – top button undone...
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Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
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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