The senior school is a vibrant place where academic excellence is encouraged and expected. Our highly qualified and experienced staff prepare an exciting curriculum, which stretches and challenges all senior school pupils, leading to continued exam success. Whether that be a love of science, the creative arts, a passion for literature or achieving sporting excellence, we shape and develop our teaching to meet the needs of our senior school pupils.
We pride ourselves on our excellent pastoral care. The relationships senior school pupils develop with the staff and their peers epitomises ‘the Rookwood family’. We strive to support, champion and encourage individuals to be the very best version of themselves.
Our Senior School places pastoral care at the heart of everything we do. This starts with form tutors who build positive relationships with their tutees. We also follow the Emotional Assertiveness programme, which teaches students the importance of respecting their own emotions and those of others. For those times when a senior school student needs some extra support, they are able to visit our ELSA-trained Pastoral Support Assistant, Mrs Newton, in The Hub or our Counsellor, Mrs Taylor.
Through a combination of small classes and focused teaching from experienced and dedicated teachers, our senior school students achieve excellent GCSE grades. With more than 40% of results at the highest Grades 7 to 9, we are in the Telegraph’s top 200 independent schools for GCSE grades. This is particularly impressive given that Rookwood is a non-selective independent secondary school.
We recently celebrated success in the Youth Speaks District Final, where both our intermediate and senior teams delivered outstanding…
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As the school holiday approaches, and we all begin to look forward to some time away from school or work,…
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We were thrilled to recently welcome back Yaviin Jayasoma, a former Rookwood pupil from Reception to Year 11, whose journey…
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We are delighted to announce our upcoming Sixth Form Scholarship Week taking place from Monday 28th April to Friday 2nd…
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Reflecting on all that has taken place in the last seven months or so, I recognised that I have the…
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Meet Mrs MacKrell at our Meet our Head of Prep event taking place from 08.30 – 09.45 on Thursday 3rd…
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We are delighted to introduce Betty, our newest (and fluffiest!) member of the Rookwood family. Betty is a Sprocker Spaniel…
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This week, we have celebrated both World Book Day and National Careers Week. I’m not certain if these two events…
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Rookwood School had a fantastic evening at this year’s Rotary ‘Young Writer’ presentation, held at Andover’s Guildhall. With 28 outstanding…
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