Goldolphins Salisbury, Hampshire Colliegiate, or somewhere else for bright but dyslexic dd?

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Have to think about secondary education for dd soonish (she is in Y4 currently). Suspect she will do better in a private school given that she is dyslexic - hence will benefit from smaller class sizes. She has mananged fine in state so far - but it is a small village school rated Ofsted outstanding.

Apparently she is very bright (according to ed pysch CAT testing) but she is academically average-ish atm due to the combined effects of dyslexia and under confidence.

Wondering what private school would be best to achieve the optimal result from her (she should be doing better academically given that she is apparently on 98th percentile for cognitive ability) - but don't want to send her to a terrifying scary academic hothouse where she can't keep up due to her spLD

Any experiences?

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state?

Leehurst Swan in Salisbury has a great learning support department, have a look at the website.

If she's not hugely confident she might do better in a less academic school where she can be a bigger fish in a smaller pond so to speak, so like you I would be a bit hesitant about pure academic hothouses. I don't know the area, but I would look for a school with a wider academic intake where children achieve relatively well for their ability across the ability range - such a school is likely to be set up to deal with spLDs. It doesn't matter so much if the headline results are lower as long as the top performers are achieving well and you can be reasonably sure your child will be in that group.