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Welcome To Our Website

Message from the Joint Headmasters "Welcome to the Edington and Shapwick School website. We are a specialist dyslexic school and have taught a mainstream curriculum to children with dyslexia since 1974. We are category 'A' CReSTeD and Ofsted inspected dyslexic school.

Our specialist dyslexic boarding and day school is based on the beautiful Somerset levels. We welcome pupils aged between 8-18."


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Why Choose Us?

All of our pupils have dyslexia so your child will feel the same as everyone else at our specialist dyslexia school. Our pupils are taught coping strategies that allow them to deal with dyslexia.

"My dyslexic son was unable to participate at his last school. He left Shapwick with 7 GCSE's. I didn't even think he would be able to leave home."

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News

Edington pupils see their poetry in print

Pupils at Edington School are celebrating their literacy success again with Grace Battye from Year 8 coming third in the annual ‘Poetry in Print’ co...


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Watch our DVD online!

We have now put our new promotional DVD video online, we hope you enjoy watching it and discovering more about our happy and friendly school.



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Featured Articles

Edington pupils see their poetry in print

Pupils at Edington School are celebrating their literacy success again with Grace Battye from Year 8 coming third in the annual ‘Poetry in Print’ competition, which is a national competition for all school age children. 

Edington School pupils come face to face with reptiles

Year 7 pupils at Edington School recently visited ‘Tropiquaria’ near Minehead as part of their Life-Science studies.

Edington & Shapwick School celebrates Headmasters' 25th anniversary

David Walker, Joint Headmaster at Edington & Shapwick School has recently celebrated his 25th anniversary at the helm of the country's first and largest specialist school for dyslexic pupils.

Outstanding Examination results

Yet again our students continue to outperform national averages, this year over 70% achieved five or more GCSE Grades A* to C.

Boarding at Edington

At our boarding house there are chickens, dens and acres of space to play ballgames, hide in trees, set up water slides and have BBQ's. Girls and boys enjoy playing games of football together, swinging on the tree swing or just relaxing outside.