Why choose Frewen?
Why choose Frewen College?
In case you don't have time to explore the whole website, we bring together here a few of the main reasons you should consider Frewen for your son or daughter's education. Click onto the individual pages for more information.
Our location.... 
The school is based in beautiful surroundings in the Wealden countryside, on the borders of Kent and Sussex. Located on the edge of the village of Northiam, we encourage involvement in the local community. Our pupils benefit from 60 acres of playing fields, gardens, and grounds, and we have access to another 100 acres of ancient parkland for cross-country runs, orienteering, nature rambles and building camps.
We are within easy reach of London, Gatwick Airport, and the Channel Tunnel, and are the closest Specialist Provision school to the Continent.
Our facilities
We are small but perfectly formed! We have all the benefits of being a small rural school, but with teaching and sports facilities that many much larger schools would envy.
Our history....
Although its predecessor school Brickwall House had welcomed dyslexics since the 1940s, Admiral Sir John Frewen KCB re-established Frewen College in 1972 as the first school specifically focused on helping children with dyslexia. Subsequently we have extended our welcome to children with dyspraxia and dyscalculia, together with a small number with Asperger's Syndrome.
We are completely independent and a charity....
Frewen College is one of the few such schools which is a charity run by an independent educational trust. This means that unlike most other specialist independent schools, every penny of fee income is invested in the children's education or in maintaining and improving the facilities available to our pupils.
Our pupils
- We welcome children with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) such as dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculia, as well as speech and language, and sensory integration difficulties. We also welcome a small number of children with Asperger's Syndrome, usually in combination with dyslexia or other SpLD.
- We welcome pupils aged between 8 and 16, one of the widest age ranges of any such school.
- We offer day and boarding places, and are now fully co-educational. Our number of girls increases each year and boarding numbers have doubled in the last four.
- After just one year of offering boarding places for girls we are having to increase our provision!
- We have a separate junior school which welcomes children aged from 8 to 11, and is located next to the senior school.
Our staff
- The great majority of our classroom staff, including Teaching Assistants, have specialist dyslexia training.
- Our full time staff includes a Speech and Language Therapist and an Occupational Therapist, with postgraduate training in sensory integration.
Our teaching
- Our average teacher/ pupil ratio is maintained below 1 to 6, and one-to-one tuition is available where appropriate.
- Our curriculum is accessible yet demanding and pays due attention to the National Curriculum. It includes a significant creative element.
Over the last six years our pupils have averaged between six and seven GCSE passes. Over that period, all GCSE leavers have secured places in further education, job training schemes, or employment.
Boarding and care
- We take the pastoral side of our role as seriously as the educational. Our boarding care staff are supplemented by two trained counsellors with time to talk one-to-one with children about their problems.
- Boarding arrangements are very flexible, with full boarding available at no extra cost.
- Senior boys and girls are in one or two bedded rooms, and junior bedrooms have three or four sharing. Almost all bedrooms are en suite.
Come and see us....
We welcome personal visits from parents, prospective pupils, and education professionals. For further information, please click on the appropriate linked page or e-mail us.
