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The Godolphin and Latymer School, London

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The Godolphin and Latymer School details

Address:

The Godolphin and Latymer School
Iffley Road, Hammersmith, London W6 0PG

Telephone:

020 87411936

Fax:

020 8735 9520

Email:

registrar@ godolphinandlatymer.com

Website:

www.godolphinandlatymer.com

Authority:

Hammersmith and Fulham

Gender of entry:

Girls

Age range:

11-17

Number of students:

720

Affiliation:

GSA

Gender of sixth form:

Girls

Last inspection:

December 2003. Read the full inspection report.

General information

Headteacher: Margaret Rudland, appointed in 1986.

Staff: 115 (men 21, women 74).

Background: Developing current and potential interests, broadening horizons while maintaining tradition, The Godolphin and Latymer School, The Sunday Times Independent Secondary School of the Year in 2002, is a forward-thinking institution ready for the 21st century. Continuous development ensures up-to-date facilities. Current projects include building a music school and additional classrooms through the renovation of a church and vicarage, which will eventually be used as a performance space and assembly hall. Initially girls study a wide range of subjects including two modern languages alongside Latin. Pupils are expected to take responsibility for their work and actively participate through discussion, role play and practical activities. In the sixth form, girls can choose from 26 subjects and most take four or five courses in their first year, then three or four in their second. Drama thrives with many opportunities for performance. Pupils have taken to the stage at London's West End theatres and at the Edinburgh Festival. The school has three choirs, an orchestra and smaller ensembles and pupils perform at formal and informal events. The sports department offers a wide range of extracurricular options including karate, dance, yoga and fencing. Girls visit places to complement their academic work such as Hampton Court and the Imperial War Museum. Trips abroad allow the history of art in France or Italy to come alive. Pupils undertake a Spanish study tour to Granada, language exchanges and European work experience schemes.

Alumni: Davina McCall, television presenter; Baroness Susan Greenfield, scientist; Nigella Lawson, domestic goddess; Kate Beckinsale, Samantha Bond, actors.

Approach to discipline: In an environment with high expectations, it is important to provide a secure pastoral support network with which girls feel comfortable. Development of self-esteem and respect for others is an integral part of any pastoral system. .

Uniform: Girls are expected to wear uniform. The school seeks the co-operation of parents in ensuring that uniform is clean, tidy and that it meets the requirements.

Higher education: 100% (8 Oxford 6 Cambridge).

Special needs: A study support co-ordinator is available to girls with special needs including dyslexia and dyspraxia.

Inspection: December 2003: The Godolphin and Latymer School provides its pupils with a very good education in which they are enabled to achieve high academic standards and develop their interests and capabilities in cultural, aesthetic and other activities. Their welfare is very well promoted by the school and they learn to accept responsibility for others. They have many outstanding qualities, largely the product of excellent features in the school's moral, social and pastoral provision. They grow into independent-minded, mature and well-balanced young women, at ease with themselves and others and very well prepared for the next stage of their education. The school has no major shortcomings and few areas for improvement.

Feeder schools: Bute House Prep; Kensington Prep; Glendower Prep; John Betts Primary; The Fox Primary.

Girls' age range: 11 to 18.

Percentage admitted according to academic ability: 100.

Average class size (seniors; 11-16): 21.

Average class size (sixth form): 10.

Gifted pupils: 11.

Bursary pupils: 36.

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