Curriculum

Our curriculum is designed to give a balanced education of the highest quality with both breadth and depth of experience. We acknowledge as our baseline the provision of the National Curriculum and then seek, through a variety of teaching strategies, to maximize the academic, emotional, social, cultural, spiritual and physical development of each child. Generous staffing ratios permit the flexibility to teach children either in whole classes or, often, in half groups.

As you would expect, the curriculum consists of the core curriculum subjects English, Maths and Science and the foundation subjects of Art, Design and Technology, Information and Communication Technology, French, Religious Education, Music, Drama, Personal Social and Health Education, the Humanities, Physical Education, Religious Education.

These subject areas cover the range of knowledge, skills and understanding generally accepted as necessary for a broad and balanced curriculum.

Learning Support

We are a non-selective school and value all children as individuals. As such, children, for any number of reasons, may have need of extra support in the short or long term and therefore we have a specialist Learning Support teacher who gives additional help, on an individual basis and in groups, to those children who benefit from it. Where necessary Individual Education Plans are carefully tailored to individual needs.

Visits

Frequently, educational and cultural visits are arranged to add depth and first-hand experience to classroom learning and we welcome speakers on a range of subjects into the school. Girls in their final two years are offered the opportunity of residential field study trips when they combine the experience of studying in a different environment with that of living together for one week.