St George's School (Ascot) A GSG School
- St George's School (Ascot)
Wells Lane
Ascot
Berkshire
SL5 7DZ - Head: Mrs Liz Hewer
- T 01344 629900
- F 01344 629901
- E [email protected]
- W www.stgeorges-ascot.org.uk
- An independent school for girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Windsor and Maidenhead
- Pupils: 270; sixth formers: 75
- Religion: Church of England
- Fees: Day £28,560; Boarding £42,180 - £45,435 pa
- Open days: Multiple, tailored open mornings each term.
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
What The Good Schools Guide says..
A small school with phenomenal facilities and dedicated teachers who give girls with a wide range of ability huge personal attention. Flexi boarding is king and day girls benefit from an extended timetable that includes clubs and supervised homework time, but who still want to be home in the evening for dinner…
What the school says...
Here at St George’s, we want our girls to know what it is to be confident. From the moment the girls first arrive at the school, we encourage them to be themselves and try new things.
The size of our school is one of our greatest strengths; we are intentionally small, ensuring that all our girls are truly known and are quickly bedded into our close-knit community. Yet, there is an impressive breadth and depth to our academic and co-curricular provision to challenge the girls to reach their potential and explore new ideas and interests.
We help the girls to work to find balance in every part of their life. We believe that one of the building blocks for life is learning how to get along with a broad cross-section of people, and our house structure and strong boarding ethos contribute significantly to building the inclusive community for which we are renowned.
We also believe in the benefits of an all-girls education; our girls are very lucky to be in this single sex environment for their precious teenage years. Being a teenager can be tough, being a teenage girl can be especially tough. Our girls aren’t self-conscious in class, they put up their hand and have a go because we are committed to nurturing and protecting the confidence that fosters success. We are consistently proud of our girls’ confident ambition and developing this inner strength and resilience is a core pillar of the St George’s ethos.
St George's girls are wonderfully capable individuals – capable in a whole variety of areas, academic and beyond, and it is central to our ethos to support and nurture our girls’ abilities wherever their interests and talents may lie.
One of our recent sixth form leavers reflected that it was the village of St George’s that had prepared her for her Oxbridge application; we are a school where no stone is left unturned in realising our pupils’ aspirations. Our small class sizes allow the teachers to bring out the very best in each pupil and the size of each year group allows us to stretch the brightest and give time to those who need more support. Our value added is something of which we are very proud and regularly puts us in the top five of schools nationally.
At St George’s, we are committed to preparing our girls for life beyond school. We want our girls to not just survive, but thrive in an increasingly connected world, we want them to look up and out, not just down and in - we want for them to ‘connect’.
We ultimately believe that to be truly ‘connected’, one must be connected to oneself. Our girls are encouraged to be confident in and own who they are. Our greatest priority is to develop the strong sense of self that is pivotal in building both self-esteem and the resilience to deal with life’s inevitable ups and downs. We believe this is the most valuable education of all. ...Read more
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2016, Liz Hewer. A teacher’s daughter, she progressed from school in Warwick to Cambridge, notching up numerous hockey Blues alongside a geography degree. Dabbled with computers at IBM but wasn’t smitten with office life, plumped for a PGCE and loved it. Has experience of co-ed (Marlborough) but passionately supports single-sex education: ‘Girls develop a strong sense of their own identity and self esteem, which is one of the greatest things we can give them.’ Previously deputy under the legendary Mary Breen at St Mary’s Ascot, whose guidance she sought when making early key appointments here.
With two predecessors having used this headship as a springboard to bigger schools, Mrs Hewer stresses her longer-term commitment: ‘That trust in me is important – every girl in the school has now had me...
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Special Education Needs
Whilst St George's is not a specialist school for SEND provision, girls who join us with a SEN need do exceptionally well, because of the support and focus on their learning, and the excellent team which are in place to support them. The same is true of EAL where our expert team work with pupils whose first language is not English, as they go through the school, up to and including preparation for university, enabling them to attain the requisite IELTS points.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| 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 | Y |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | Y |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | Y |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| 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 | |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hall Grove School | 2024 | 3 | 1 | Scholarships: Performing Arts |
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