Address: Witley, Godalming, Surrey GU8 5SG
Website: kesw.org
Founded: 1553
Number of Pupils: 470
Ages: 11-18
Fees: Day pupils: £8,375 – £9,665, Boarding pupils: £14,810 – £15,840
Head Teacher: Joanna Wright BA
Religious Affiliation: Church of England
Entrance Procedure: Admission at 11, 13 and 16 via entrance examination and interview
Contact: Justin Benson, Registrar, 01428 686735
Email: [email protected]
School Visits: Prospective pupils are welcome at Open Mornings or individual visits. Please arrange visits through Admissions.
The Curriculum
A King Edward’s education is a rounded education. Academic staff are subject specialists, pupils take GCSE/IGCSE in Year 11 followed by a choice of A-level or BTEC courses in the Sixth Form. Young people discover skills, talents and enthusiasms they never knew they had and are encouraged to set their sights high and be ambitious in their learning.
Games and the Arts
Our overall aims are to encourage our pupils to explore and engage with a range of activities, and for them to want to continue those activities they have enjoyed once they leave the school, at a level of their choosing, whilst providing a supportive, high performance environment where pupils wishing to excel in their passions are supported in their goals, including through scholarships in art, drama, DT, music and sport.
Pastoral Care
All our pupils benefit from small class sizes and our House system with its supportive pastoral networks at the heart of school life. Each House is committed to strong connections uniting and blending flexi-, weekly and full boarders and day pupils into a single team. Each House has a pastoral team consisting of a House parent and assistant House parent, Matron and an academic tutor. There is a 24-hour Medical Centre and an on-site chaplain.
University Places
We have an extensive Next Steps careers and university discovery and preparation approach, commencing from year 7 and leading to a comprehensive sixth form counselling programme. Each year around two thirds of our pupils transition to Oxbridge and Russell Group universities; others progress to a range of other, often specialist universities, to apprenticeships or directly to their chosen careers.
Head’s Philosophy
We aim to provide a transformative education, a love of independent learning and an excellent foundation for adult life to a diverse range of enthusiastic, curious and kind pupils. We are mindful to work hard to enable our pupils to be excellent learners, but also to equip and inspire them for their futures as kind and responsible leaders, inventors, entrepreneurs and employees.
Outstanding Characteristics
Our educational provision dates back to 1553 as part of the Bridewell Royal Hospital Foundation, and reaches far beyond the exciting and challenging curriculum and the range of opportunities in all areas of school life we offer – sporting, artistic, social and cultural.
