Our school
There’s a knack to creating an atmosphere where girls can learn and thrive. We’ve been doing it for more than 100 years and now educate girls throughout their school career, from the age of four to 18.
We’re selective but diverse, welcoming girls with wide-ranging abilities, talents and backgrounds into a close community that is large enough to offer choice and flexibility but compact enough to ensure that no student is overlooked.
With small class sizes and individual attention, education here focuses on helping each student to achieve her personal best.
Our wide-ranging curriculum centres on credible academic subjects and offers many opportunities to explore new ideas, activities and environments. This educational core is complemented by our student development programme, which helps our girls to build the resilience and self-belief to face the complex world beyond the school gates with confidence and optimism.
Our parents – and their daughters – appreciate this approach to educating a whole person, rather than simply targeting exam results. In a recent survey, they cited “happy, confident girls in an environment that is productive and ambitious” and described us as a “friendly, inclusive school that provides a very good all-round education and achieves very good academic standards and results”.
Perhaps most telling was one mother’s summary. “Your girls are confident achievers, open-minded and able to communicate with everyone,” she said. “You can spot a typical SHS girl by the way she conducts herself – and that’s a real compliment.”
History
The School was founded in 1887 at a time when the suffragists votes for women was coalescing into a national movement.
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GDST
The Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST) is one of the longest-established and largest providers of independent education in the country, responsible for 24 schools and two academies throughout the UK.
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Facilities
We have considerable indoor and outdoor facilities for a London school with dedicated spaces for art, design, sports and music and science on site as well as an eight acre sportsground.
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Our ethos and values
We want girls to leave our school with the sound knowledge of a scholar coupled with the quiet confidence of a girl who is knows her own strengths and is comfortable in her own skin.
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Policies
Through our policies we embody the ethos and values of our school and the standards of behaviour we expect.
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Reviews and inspections
OFSTED inspect schools every six years; there is one inspection for the whole school and a separate inspection for Early Years which is our Reception. Our last whole school inspection was published in 2006 and the Early Years inspection was published in 2008.
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