Announcements

Students at Gildredge House are celebrating today as they receive their GCSE results after months of waiting. Amid the chaos of the A Level results last week, Year 11 students waited with baited breath to see what was going to happen to their grades. Fortunately, they were awarded the Centre Assessed Grades they so richly deserved.

As a school, we are extremely proud of our students’ hard work and achievements. I am delighted that, despite the difficult circumstances, the majority of our students have progressed onto the next stage of their educational journey. Despite the obvious challenges that this year group have faced, we are excited to see so many of our students offered places at high achieving universities. The majority of our students have achieved grades that enables them to attend their first choice university, apprenticeship programme or enter into employment. As a small, student-focused Sixth Form, we pride ourselves on developing a range of skills and attributes, allowing students to leave us with much more than just academic results.

Gildredge House has been recognised nationally by receiving a prestigious award for their outstanding Key Stage 5 results last year. The award is based on 2019 data provided by the Department for Education and Ofsted, and for the school’s commitment to collaboration, analysed by SSAT, the Schools, Students and Teachers network.

The government has asked parents to keep their children at home, wherever possible, and asked schools to remain open only for those children who absolutely need to attend.

We continue to follow advice from the Government. Staff are working incredibly hard to provide an educational provision for your children both at school and at home. We are still awaiting further advice on what constitutes a Key Worker and, when we receive this, we will resend the recent survey to establish which parents will be sending their children to school on Monday.

You will be aware that the Prime Minister has today announced that schools will be closed for all but the most vulnerable of students and for children of key workers. Therefore, Gildredge House will close from Friday 20th March for the majority of children. We will be operating a reduced staff structure in order to provide for a small number of students. The students I expect in school are from two key groups:

Please follow the latest Government advice with regards to whole household isolation should you, your child, or any other family member display symptoms of a new, persistent cough or fever.

Please follow the latest Government advice with regards to whole household isolation should you, your child, or any other family member display symptoms of a new, persistent cough or fever.

We are very sorry to hear of the recent passing of Peter Pyemont. Peter was a Founder and Governor of Gildredge House from our inception in 2012. He was Headmaster of Bede’s Prep and the Founder of Bede’s Senior school. Peter was very well known throughout Eastbourne and further afield. All of us at Gildredge House would like to offer our condolences to Peter’s wife and family and to the huge number of people that Peter’s life touched. We will remember you with great fondness.

Following another confirmed case of the Novel Coronavirus in the United Kingdom, East Sussex County Council has asked us to share the following information with you: