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Address:

Howell's School (Llandaff)
Cardiff Road, Llandaff, Cardiff CF5 2YD

Telephone:

02920 562019

Fax:

02920 578879

Email:

headsec@how.gdStnet

Website:

www.howells.cardiff.sch.uk

Authority:

Cardiff

Admissions:

Selective

Gender of entry:

Girls

Age range:

3-18

Number of students:

819

Affiliation:

GSA

Gender of sixth form:

Girls

Last inspection:

March 2000. Read the full inspection report.

General information

Headteacher: C Jane Fitz, appointed in September 1991.

Staff: 70 (men 7, women 63).

Background: Howell's school, Llandaff occupies an accessible site in the suburbs of Cardiff. The school boasts not only a distinctive range of facilities, but also the great advantage of having the junior and senior schools on one site; and so it can offer the possibility of a complete educational package from ages three to 18. The main building designed by the renowned Victorian architect Decimus Burton, provides the setting for a well-equipped learning resources centre, administrative offices, ICT suites, and communal facilities. An ICT network links all areas of the school, including four computer suites, which are available for use from 8am to 5pm hours. Eight well-equipped laboratories provide 18 practice rooms, an octagonal rehearsal and concert room, and computers linked to keyboards. Art is well served with two light and airy studios with a dark room for photography, a sixth-form studio, a ceramics room and kiln. The extensive playing fields are complemented by an excellent sports complex, an indoor swimming pool and fitness suite. Its separate sixth-form houses offer students spacious and independent accommodation with their own rooms and kitchens. There is a dedicated ICT suite for the sixth form in the main body of the school. The school aspires to give each girl at Howell?s an education to help her reach her full potential. Its broad aims are: to raise girls? confidence and self-esteem by persuading them of the importance respecting everyone as an individual; to offer an especially supportive climate for independent learning; to provide a foundation for acquiring the right skills to learn and to grow up at ease with oneself. .

Alumni: Lucy Cohen, television newsreader; Jane Crowley, first woam QC in Wales; Eleane Morgan, author;Professor Rosalie David OBE.

Streaming/setting: Setting takes place for mathematics form Years 8 to 11; no other subjects are set or streamed.

Approach to discipline: High standards of behaviour are expected of all girls who are made aware of code of conduct, which is displayed in all form rooms. Core values include respect for others and assuming personal responsibility.

Uniform: An up-to-date uniform list is available from the school office. All girls are expected to be smartly dressed at all times. The sixth form has its own dress code.

Homework: Average 11-year-old, 7 hours a week; 14-year-old, 10 hours; 16-year-old, 15 hours.

Higher education: 99% (5 Oxford 1 Cambridge).

Vocational qualifications: None..

Special needs: Under the auspices of a special educational needs coordinator (SENCO), provision is made for literacy and numeracy support, for girls who have special talents, and for dyslexics at an on-site satellite of the Dyslexia Institute.

Inspection: March 2000: 'Howell?s School is a very good school. Firm and decisive leadership provides the school with clear educational direction for its continuing development. Standards of achievement are consistently high with strong performance in relation to girls? ages and capabilities in both the junior and the senior schools. Pupil?s work hard, they are strongly motivated to do well and are keen to learn. They gain considerable benefit from the high quality of the teaching. Systems for welfare and support respond to pupils? individual needs. Behaviour and attitudes are excellent.'

Feeder schools: Elm Tree House School (13 pupils); Lakeside Primary School (3 pupils); Llysfaen Primary School (3 pupils); The Cathedral School (3 pupils); Rhiwbeina Primary School (2 pupils).

Boys' age range: 16 to 18.

Girls' age range: 3 to 18.

Over-subscribed: 1.4:1.

Before-school care: 08.00-08.45.

After-school care: 15.15-18.00.

Percentage admitted according to academic ability: 100%.

Senior boys: 0.

Senior girls: 539.

Senior girls 11-18: Y.

Average class size (juniors; under-11): 22.

Average class size (seniors; 11-16): 20.

Average class size (sixth form): 9.

Principle admission ages: 3 years (31); 11+ (63); 16+ (6).

Gifted pupils: 31.

Bursary pupils: 135.

Bursaries: Music, Sport.

Howell's School (Llandaff) Statistics

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