Adcote School for Girls

• Founded in: 1907
• Students age: 4 to 18 years
• The total number of students: 280 people (of them at the boarding house - 120 ).

Adcote School was founded in 1907 by the pioneering Amy Gough, whose vision was to provide excellent schooling for young women. Adcote School is an award-winning all-girls school based in the beautiful Shropshire countryside, just outside Shrewsbury. There are currently around 200 pupils, with around 50 boarders calling it home. There is an incredibly diverse boarding facilities where the girls make lifelong friends from all around the world.

Adcote School is located in a beautiful rural setting with a magnificent Grade I listed building. Adcote was originally a country house built for the Darby family and designed by the famous architect Norman Shaw RA. The 30 acres of beautifully landscaped parkland surrounding the school cannot be underestimated, not only as wonderful recreational space, with tennis and netball courts and a forest school site but also as a reminder of the school’s life story. These wonderful gardens provide an incredibly safe, secure, and idyllic backdrop to this historic school.

The school aims to inspire learners for their futures through high expectations and a supportive, caring environment which fosters personal pupil happiness and good relationships between all members of the school community including parents. Adcote helps to secure the core skills of confidence, leadership, engagement, achievement, and resilience so that students can thrive in the 21st century through our CLEAR learning programme. Thanks to this programme, in 2020 Adcote School achieved 70.3% A*-A in their A Level results, and 50.5% A*-A in their GCSE results.

Adcote School were the winners of the ISA Academic Excellence and Innovation Award 2019-20 and were finalists in the ISA Senior School of the Year 2020.

Mr Steven Allen

Fyling Hall School Principal

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The school uses modern technologies in the process of teaching its pupils. For example, using Google Workspace for Education, it provides girls with flexibility and accessibility in studying subjects, communicating with teachers, homework and research. Some lessons and workshops take place remotely using video recordings or live broadcasts, and homework can be found at any time in Google Classroom.

Foreign students have access to additional lessons in English - the ESL course. Depending on age, the number of classes will vary:

• Grades 3-9: 1 hour per week of General English,
• Grades 10-11: 4 hours per week (IGCSE English and Academic English support),
• Grades 12-13: 3 hours per week (IELTS and Academic English support).

At Adcote School we welcome boarders from the age of 9 years old through to the Sixth Form for international students, who are housed both in the main building and in purpose built boarding houses. Norman House is for girls aged 9-16, and is based in the main building, offering some twin rooms, and some rooms with 3-4 beds for the younger girls. All rooms are bright and airy with desks for study. There are several common areas with kitchen facilities and seating areas for the girls to relax.

Aston Hall is a brand new built boarding house for our sixth form, with en-suite twin rooms (although there is space for one girl to a room). Rooms are modern and bright with dedicated workspaces, and there is a large common area with a TV and games console, and kitchen facilities.

We offer a safe, caring and disciplined environment in a school where privacy and independence are respected, and where the girls can enjoy companionship, fun and a lively programme of boarding activities.

All of our pupils eat school meals in the Darby Restaurant. There are three sittings for lunch. First sitting is for Junior pupils, with two later sittings for Senior girls. Vegetarians and children with food allergies or those who are on special diets are fully catered for. The catering team at Adcote produce a wide variety of nutritional food sourced from local suppliers wherever possible.

Subject list: Art, biology, business, chemistry, design, English literature, history, music, physics, Religious studies
Activity list: bowling, dancing, excursions to Birmingham, gymnastics, Shopping, swimming, track-and-field athletics, visiting concert halls

The expertise of the sports staff has ensured that we have seen many successes in a range of sports, with National ISA victories for several individual and team events in both athletics and gymnastics. The gymnastics has a strong tradition and is therefore the forefront of the school’s sporting achievements in local, regional, and national events. Another promising Adcote sport is athletics, with successes gained at local and regional events. In addition to our competitive sport, we also cover a range of sports in PE lessons and as activities, with a focus on learning skills but also allowing the girls to engage in sport for fun. Dance, aerobics, badminton, basketball, dodgeball, and volleyball are a few of the activities taught. Our facilities include an airconditioned sports hall where most sports are taught, tennis courts, netball courts and beautiful large grass areas to play rounders on in the Summer term.

Adcote has a large range of extra-curricular activities including:

• Duke of Edinburgh Award
• Debating Club
• Horse Riding
• Gymnastics
• Combined Cadet Force
• Fencing
• Photography Club
• Netball
• Hockey
• Choir and Orchestra
• Badminton
• Product Design
• Drama
• Art
• Tennis
• Astronomy
• Ballet
• Swimming
• STEM club
• Tea Party Club.

A Level Results 2020:

70.3% A*- A achieved across all subjects

100% Pass Rate

Many of our girls apply to Oxford and Cambridge University as well as many other fantastic Russell Group Universities across the UK.

GCSE Results 2020:

50.5% A*- A (Equivalent 7, 8 and 9)

All Girls Environment - At Adcote we offer a nurturing and caring environment enabling all girls to thrive. As girls and boys mature at different rates and they learn in different ways, at Adcote learning is tailored specifically to meet our girls’ needs and development. Girls are free from stereotypes and just as likely to excel in typically male subjects like physics and technology as they are in the humanities.

The school is located on 27 acres of rural Shropshire, its territory is landscaped with lush trees and landscaped lawns. On it, the following are prepared for training:

• Main building: classrooms, specialized and computer laboratories, creative studios, dining room and library,
• Four tennis courts,
• Two residences,
• A large sports hall.

Modern equipment, qualified personnel and natural beauty contribute to the comfortable and effective learning of students. Entertainment and interesting leisure await girls not only on campus, but also outside it - you can get to Shrewsbury and Chester within half an hour, and the road to Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham will take about an hour.

Extra Fees:

• Registration fee - £200
• Refundable Deposit - £1500
• School Uniform
• Weekend Activities
• Some extra-curricular activities (Private music lessons or tutoring)
• Transfers to/from airport unless travelling on specific travel days.

Extras:

• Registration fee (for a programme/course) 200 GBP
• Deposit for a course/programme 500 GBP

The admission process includes several stages:

• Filling out an online form and submitting documents,
• Payment of the registration fee,
• Receiving a positive response from the admissions committee,
• Arrival on campus for entrance examinations in mathematics and English,
• Enrollment according to the results obtained, distribution by classes and residences.

The statistics of graduates of Adcote School annually consists of successful girls admitted to their chosen universities:

• 60% enrolled in UK universities that are part of the Russel Group,
• 41% of students were enrolled on the basis of excellent knowledge in STEAM subjects.

All students will be required to have an interview with the Regional Manager and sit an entrance test. Adcote School is a non-selective school.

Scholarships are available – please contact a SMAPSE manager to specify the details.

• Guardianship services during the studies
• Student supervision