Aldro School

Aldro School

A coeducational day and boarding school for about 220 students between the ages of 7 and 13 is called Aldro School. Aldro, which is 30 miles southwest of London and is tucked away in the charming and unmistakably English village of Shackleford, is conveniently close to both Heathrow and Gatwick airports. Aldro School welcomes children from all over the world, as well as those seeking a dreamy country education outside of the capital, and many who join us daily from the towns and villages surrounding the stunning rural location in the county of Surrey. Aldro School also offers full, weekly, and family-friendly boarding.

Programs in Aldro School

A small number of students leave Aldro School at age 11 to enroll in their senior schools, while the great majority stay until age 13 in order to sit for the ISEB Common Entrance exam or to be awarded a scholarship to enroll in their senior schools. The students take two sets of practice tests—one during the Christmas term and the other during Lent—before the actual exams in June. This exam preparation offers you plenty of time to pinpoint any areas of weakness and enables for intervention and development.

The track record of Aldro School, which routinely produces excellent Common Entrance and Scholarship results, speaks for itself. We want to keep it that way, so Aldro School's teachers are always considering how best to meet the demands of the senior schools.

The daily schedule followed by all students at Aldro quickly becomes routine, but it varies based on the day of the week.

There are classes in the morning and matches in the afternoon on Wednesday (Seniors), Thursday (Juniors), and Saturday.

Every day of the week has a sporting event. Every day at school, students participate in a variety of co-curricular activities as well as academic preparation.

All students are educated at Aldro School. Due to their aptitude or ability, some students' needs are different from those of other students.

Of course, individual teachers have always made an effort to recognize, respond to, and accommodate the requirements of gifted students. To this aim, the school runs a "Gifted and Talented" program.

This program helps the school to set up plans for addressing the needs of students with aptitude and talent.

These might be by means of:

• Enrichment competitions
• Activity clubs
• One-to-one lessons
• Links with associations outside of Aldro School
• Productions and performances
• School trips
• Guest speakers

The following Core Skills can be supported and developed at the school thanks to this curriculum:

• Independence
• Teamwork
• Responsibility
• Creativity
• Perseverance
• Communication

Aldro School promotes a whole-school strategy for assisting students with learning/SEND challenges. Together with pastoral and learning support personnel, form and subject teachers offer support, encouragement, and understanding in all facets of a student's school life.

The majority of the time, a student's needs may be satisfied in the classroom setting with teaching that is differentiated correctly and focused on their areas of need. The goal of the school is to keep students in class so they can learn with their peers. The subject teacher will start evaluating whether a student has learning or SEND challenges if, in some situations, the student does not make acceptable progress with a modified curriculum. This assessment will be done with the help of the Head of Learning Support. At this point, a student may be given small group work—possibly in conjunction with individual lessons—to assist them catch up with their peers, such as Math Club.

Most of the students at Aldro School who get support have mild disabilities. If it is determined that a student needs one-on-one instruction, an individualized education plan will be created for him or her to focus on and address areas of weakness and to increase self-esteem and confidence. At all times, the Department maintains constant contact with parents.

The Learning Support Department at Aldro is well-equipped and staffed by skilled specialists qualified to teach kids with dyslexia and other particular learning challenges.

English as an extra language (EAL) students receive specially designed EAL packages. These are made to hasten their English fluency so they can access the entire Aldro School curriculum in time for admittance into the senior school of their choice. During the admissions process, the price of the EAL packages will be established, and it will be reevaluated as the student moves through the school.

All of the students' lives at Aldro and in general revolve heavily around sports. The goal of the school is to encourage participation in all sports while working to raise skill levels and foster a knowledge of the principles that support team sports.

Every student participates in sports on a daily basis, and Aldro School takes pride in fielding representative teams on Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday match days that include players of all skill levels. Football, Netball, Rugby, Rugby Sevens, Hockey, and Cricket are the main sports played at school, but it also has a variety of other sports.

All students at Aldro School take Design Technology (D&T) as a required course. On a whole, Key Stages 2 and 3 adhere to the National Curriculum. A series of design and make projects are used to give the students a taste of all D&T strands. The aim of Aldro School is to equip its students with a variety of topic knowledge and practical skills so they can confidently start taking GCSEs in this subject area at their future schools. Every student receives weekly instruction in D&T that amounts to one hour. This is scheduled as a 2-hour course once every two weeks, alternating with art, for Forms 6 through 8. The 2 purpose-built classrooms, located in the Art and D&T block, have a timetable for every instruction.

School Life

All year groups of kids participate in weekly art classes for an hour. Junior courses can participate in art-related events on Mondays and Tuesdays, while senior classes can participate on Tuesday evenings. Each week, there are four Art in Games sessions, during which students may choose to forgo participating in a game and instead visit the art department to work on their own projects. Students sign up on a termly basis and are permitted to attend one of these classes every week.

Pupils take part in excursions to a gallery or museum as a full form at least once throughout their time at Aldro. In previous years, Form 7 has enjoyed a combined art and history trip to Winchester or Alton, where we visited the cathedral and marveled at the building's architecture as well as the artwork that adorned it. In Winchester, we visited the Allen Gallery, which has a large collection of local ceramics through the ages. Students have the opportunity to visit the Rural Life Centre in Tilford, where they look at how Surrey's rural landscape has changed over time. They get lots of opportunities to draw and learn about regional crafts firsthand. Smaller groups have been to the Mortuary Chapel and Compton's Watts Gallery.

Drama at Aldro School is enjoyable and uplifting, and it exemplifies the key ideals of the Aldro Baccalaureate. In addition to fostering independent work, constructive group interaction, negotiating skills, maintaining proper answers, and facilitating creative expression, Aldro's drama program places a high priority on the development of language and communication skills.

The school provides one drama class each week for each form of students in grades 3 through 8, with the goal of enhancing the students' self-confidence, self-esteem, and dramatic abilities.

Since LAMDA was reintroduced to Aldro School in 2016, approximately 50% of students have chosen to enroll in these extra lessons, which are offered on a weekly rotational basis. At Aldro School, there are twice-yearly test sessions and termly casual displays where students can perform.

Aldro School has a rich musical history that is founded on both excellence and enjoyment in equal measure. The Department's philosophy is centered on practical music-making, and students are encouraged to strive for the greatest standards in their private music classes and extracurricular group projects.

Students participate in stimulating and difficult writing, listening, and performing tasks during curricular lessons. Students are encouraged to acquire independent thinking and citizenship skills that can better prepare them for later life through a variety of tasks that include both individual and group activities.

Annual Aldro Young Musician of the Year competitions are held at Aldro School. Brass, strings, woodwind, piano, singing, guitar, and percussion all have categories.

Future Prospects

The leading senior schools in the South of England have longstanding links with Aldro School, which is fortunate.

Depending on each student's unique strengths and interests, it frequently sends them to a variety of schools. Aldro School alternately organizes a Senior Schools Fair and a Headmasters' Forum every two years. Downe House, Harrow, Lancing, Bradfield, Canford, Charterhouse, Cranleigh, Marlborough, RGS Guildford, Sherborne, Tonbridge, St. John's Leatherhead, St. Swithin's, Wellington, and Winchester have all had students attend in recent years.

 

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