We recognise that choosing the right secondary school to suit your child’s needs can be a daunting process. Our Admissions team are on hand to help guide you through our admissions process and help to answer any questions that you may have along the way.
There are three main entry points to join Bloxham School at age 11, 13 and 16; however, we welcome students at other stages if there are spaces available.
Make an Enquiry
Our friendly and experienced Admissions team are pleased to guide you through each stage and arrange a visit to the school or answer any questions you may have regarding life and learning at Bloxham School.
Visit the School
To get the best feel for the school and its fit for your child, we recommend joining one of our open events or visiting for a personal tour.
Bloxham hosts open events throughout the academic year, enabling you to experience the life of the school on a working day, including Open Mornings. To book onto our next open event,.
We also offer a personal tour of the school on a date to suit you and your family, accompanied by a member of Bloxham staff who will be able to advise you as to what the school can offer in terms of curricular, pastoral, careers and extra-curricular support. Following your tour, you will be invited to meet the Headmaster or a senior member of staff, who can provide more detail about our educational ethos. To book your personal tour,
Choose Your Boarding Preference
Bloxham offers provision for boarding, day boarding and limited places for day house students. Offers of places will be tied to a boarding preference, so it is very important to make your choice clear when registering. To find out more about the boarding and day options available.
Register Your Child
Registering your child will secure a provisional place at the school, which will be confirmed if they achieve the grades required in their entrance exams. Each prospective child must be registered before they can sit these exams and must sit the exams to earn a place at the school. Once you have decided to register your interest in our school formally, you will be asked to fill out our registration form and pay a fee of £200. Methods of payment are detailed within the registration form.
Entrance Examinations
Entrance examinations are held for those wishing to join at age 11 or 13. Sample papers are available from our Admissions team.
First Form Entry
Registered candidates will join an Assessment Morning which includes an interview, English, maths and verbal reasoning papers and activities to help the children relax and enjoy themselves. Examinations are taken in the first term of Year 6. For entry, the 11+ entrance examination is on 16th November .
Third Form Entry
Registered candidates will sit the ISEB Common Pre-test in the first term of Year 7. The tests are in English, maths, verbal and non verbal reasoning. Providing the candidate’s overall score when taken as a combination of performance in the four tested areas reaches the benchmark standard, they will be invited to attend Bloxham’s Assessment Day. This includes an interview and a group exercise.
Performance on the day will be scored to standard criteria and considered alongside a report from the candidate’s current school with each of the elements – entrance exam, interview, group exercise and school report – considered together.
For children not sitting the pre-tests at their current school, the tests will be taken at Bloxham for September entry on 16th November .
Sixth Form Entry
For Sixth Form entry, candidates are required to complete an application form and to attend an interview with the Headmaster or another senior member of staff, following which we can make a provisional offer of a place. Places are confirmed following satisfactory performance in the GCSE exams.
We would normally expect students to achieve a minimum of six GCSEs, including maths and English, at grades 9 to 5 (or grade equivalent). Students should achieve a grade 6 or above in those subjects they wish to take at A Level (and a grade 7, if studying maths and the sciences). For subjects with no associated GCSE, the grades achieved in other subjects will be taken into consideration. Entry onto A Level courses will be at the discretion of the Deputy Head, Curriculum.
International Pupils
Our admissions process, including entrance examinations, differs a little for those students who join us from overseas. For more details, please head to our International Admissions page.
Offer and Acceptance of Place
Offers for 11+ and 13+ candidates are made in December. Offers for 16+ are provisional based on your child achieving the required GCSE grades.
On accepting the place, you will be asked to pay a fee of £1,500 (including a refundable deposit of £300 and a lifetime membership to the Old Bloxhamist Society, also at £300).
For 16+, you are asked to notify us of your child’s GCSE results and, providing these meet the required standard, we will confirm their place.
Induction
Once your child’s place is confirmed you will be sent a joining pack in the term before they start which includes a wealth of information to help you prepare for their start at Bloxham School. In addition, we hold a variety of social events and induction days to help the whole family settle into our community.
We organise a number of open events throughout the academic year, enabling our prospective families to experience the life of the school on a working day.
Open Days
We look forward to welcoming prospective families for a tour of the school by one of our pupils. There is also the opportunity to hear from our Headmaster, Paul Sanderson, view a range of activities across the site, and speak to members of staff. Refreshments and lunch will be provided.
Our next Whole School Open Morning will be held on Saturday 9th March .
Individual Tours
Due to high demand and to ensure that each visiting family has time with a senior member of staff, individual visits are limited. Priority will be given to those families interested in entry no further than three years in advance; those interested in a place for encouraged to get in touch. Those interested in a place beyond entry are asked to book a place at our next available Open Morning event.
We offer a personal tour of the school on a date to suit you and your family, accompanied by a member of Bloxham staff who will be able to advise you as to what the school can offer in terms of curricular, pastoral, careers and extra-curricular support. Following your tour, you will be invited to meet the Headmaster or a senior member of staff, who can provide more detail about our educational ethos.
At Bloxham, we extend a warm welcome to students who join us from overseas.
We are a friendly and inclusive school which celebrates diversity and values learning about other countries and cultures. Though only a small proportion of our community, international pupils settle very quickly into life here.
We are a small, nurturing school with an excellent reputation for pastoral care. International students are fully integrated into our pastoral system and placed alongside British students in seven senior boarding houses. This ensures they have every opportunity to meet and mix with British children, improve their English language skills and become fully engaged with our culture.
We welcome applications from students of all nationalities, with main entry points at age 13 (Third Form), 14 (Fourth Form) and 16 (Sixth Form).
Take our Virtual Tour for an introduction to the beautiful Bloxham campus, including classrooms, boarding houses and much more.
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