St George's Weybridge?

[TicklishSwan]

I have hard-working children and live close to Weybridge. I'm looking at St George's Weybridge but have heard mixed reports (pupil behaviour/poor science provision). Can anyone share their experience?

I would urge caution. Pastoral care is poor and access to subjects in terms of teaching varies widely. The school had huge problems with GCSE computing last year and parents were forced to tutor their children. I would ask for their science A level results as no department achieved A* in 2023. A large number of the present fifth form have opted to go elsewhere for A levels. Good luck!

My two have thrived there although I did hear there were problems with the Computer Science teaching but I understand this is a nationwide recruitment problem and neither of mine did it anyway.
My lower sixth child is doing physics, chemistry and maths and so far so good. Very happy with all his teachers. My younger one still got a few years left but both happy with great groups of friends.

We all have different experiences it seems! Pastoral care has been excellent for my DC and older one achieved 8/9s in science at GCSE and A* in a science at a-level. For both DC, only about 10-20 left their years after GCSE out of 140/150, and they get more in. I’m guessing more are leaving this year as fees are expensive, and VAT.
I agree there was a computer science problem but haven’t heard issues with any other subject.

I too would urge caution. My opinion is that people are leaving St George's because it is just not value for money. In my experience, teaching is a lottery, teacher turnover is high and pastoral care is poor. Sure you can make use of the climbing wall or play on perfect pitches, but £10k is a lot for that. I would look at Epsom, Reeds etc.

OpalReader highly accurate. Have been told that A level leavers have had a lot of catching up to do at other schools as a result. Do some due diligence on the new leadership appointment from within. A possible sign for concern.

Pastoral care has been exceptional for my DC who are now in 6th form. They did extremely well in GCSE”s and got incredible support with their studies from all
teachers which has continued in the 6th form.

Very poor and uninspiring teaching, very poor pastoral care. State school feel. Avoid.

Personally I wouldn’t risk St George’s at the moment. We considered it, but I’ve heard too many concerns locally around staff turnover, inconsistency in teaching and some bullying/pastoral issues. Obviously that’s anecdotal and there will be plenty of families who are very happy there, but for us there were enough question marks that I’d look elsewhere.
Depending on where you live, I wouldn’t assume you need to stay around Weybridge either. There are very good school bus routes into Guildford, which opens up quite a few more options for both boys and girls.

How weird to drag up an old thread to post this. My DC just finished A-levels there and achieved his first choice RG uni and come away with the most lovely group of lifelong friends. I still have one there and it's been nothing but fantastic so perhaps rely on those with first hand experience rather than anecdotal.

Also the OP was March 2025, safe to say they have made their decision by now 🙄.

Yes you would be right to avoid. There are lots of good independent schools out there, this is not one of them.

I almost sent my DS to St George’s. We really liked it

@CleverGreenEagleCan I ask why you say that, please? Do you / have you had children there recently? We’ve just been to view it and were really impressed. Also have a few friends with DC there and they rate it very highly.