The Curriculum

Our primary purpose is to give each girl every opportunity and encouragement to flourish academically. Class sizes are small and the staff to pupil ratio is high. Girls move up in form annually in September and the more able ones may move ahead of their year group so that their academic ability can be developed without restraint.

The curriculum is ultimately governed by the syllabus laid down for the Common Entrance Examination which is required for entry to Senior Independent Schools. This encompasses more than the requirements of the National Curriculum and, in addition, a generous allocation is made in every girl's timetable for Music, Art and physical education. All girls study English, Mathematics, Science, French Technology, History, Geography and Scripture from the outset. They normally begin Latin in the third year and German thereafter. The school has a well equipped computer centre and computing is taught to all girls as a subject in its own right as well as being used in other subjects as an aid to learning.

Examinations take place at the end of the Autumn and Summer terms and full reports on each subject are sent to parents at the end of every term. In addition, to enable parents to follow their daughter's progress, a report sheet is sent out several times during each term showing a girl's attainment and effort in each subject.

Girls are prepared for entry to all the leading Senior Independent Schools with the more academically able streamed for scholarships. As our academic record unfolds, we expect to match the outstanding record of Brockhurst where over the past ten years better than 99% of its pupils have passed Common Entrance to the school of their parents' first choice and better than one in seven of pupils in their final year have won open scholarships. This record has been achieved without recourse to selective entry tests for pupils entering the school.