Working at Frewen College

Frewen College is an independent school providing specialist education for young people between the ages of 7 and 19 with dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia and related speech and language disorders.

It is situated in Brickwall, House, a 400 year-old country house, in a 160 acre estate, in East Sussex. The school was founded in 1910, making it, we believe, the oldest dyslexia school in the Uk and possibly the world.

Students follow a mainstream curriculum leading to GCSE and Sixth Form. Maximum class size is 8, and all classroom staff hold dyslexia qualifications in addition to standard teaching qualifications.

In 2018, the school won the Dyslexia Friendly School category of the British Dyslexia Association's Dyslexia Awareness Week competition. 

Frewen is unique in many ways. Students join the school having struggled in mainstream schools, and often having lost self-confidence. Our first task is to restore their confidence, and to get them into a state where they can start learning. The next challenge is to make the learning accessible by using a range of specialist strategies and a lot of ingenuity and creativity. The students want to learn, and will typically go on to exceed all expectations. Bringing about this transformation, and seeing our students leave Frewen for a bright future, makes the school an especially rewarding place to work. The students are at the centre of everything we do, and the commitment of the staff is second to none.