Enrichment Opportunities

• Head Girl
• Deputy Head Girl
• Head of Boarders
• Deputy Head of Boarders
• Head of Tilley
• Head of House
• Sports Captain
• Charity Prefect
• Music Prefect
• Drama Prefect
• Eco Prefect
• Lower School Prefect
• Middle School Prefect
• Chaplain's Assistant

Each year, all school officers take part in a Leadership Skills Training Weekend, which covers the framework for effective leadership, involves team building exercises and helps the students identify their strengths and weaknesses to enable them to become more successful leaders.

Activities

Students are encouraged to make the most of their spare time and there are over 120 clubs and activities on offer including textiles, tennis, life-saving, running, Japanese, Zumba, senior choir and orchestra. Girls can also continue or take up individual music, drama or public-speaking lessons, working towards grades.

Running School Activities and Clubs

Sixth Form students are encouraged to lead existing activities and clubs for the lower school or to create new ones. Girls have initiated a street dance club, a gospel choir, gymnastics club, a lacrosse club, a Japanese club and netball coaching - to mention a few. The possibilities are endless and give students the chance to gain valuable experience in leading and managing people, as well as developing organisational skills.

Careers Convention

Every two years the Careers Department hosts an evening where students can meet and take advice from various industry professionals from local businesses, as well as universities and colleges. Over 60 businesses, universities and colleges exhibited in 2017, offering friendly and informal advice to pupils interested in a particular career or still at the browsing stage. Businesses included wealth management, medicine, marketing, media, journalism, fashion, banking and PR amongst others. This is an event which offers fantastic opportunities for pupils to engage with the wider world.

Young Enterprise

Girls in the Lower Sixth have the opportunity to participate in the Young Enterprise scheme and to run their own business for six months. The scheme is a national educational charity and locally, the organisation is run by volunteers from business and education who form Young Enterprise Boards. Young Enterprise is supported by over 2,000 UK-based businesses who volunteer resources, funds and people to support students in the running of a real business. Over 9,000 volunteers from business act in partnership with education to provide this unique opportunity. Young Enterprise students, ‘Achievers’, discover for themselves how a company functions by taking up roles in management, marketing, selling, production and quality control. 

Duke of Edinburgh Awards

Students can start or continue to work towards the nationally recognised Bronze, Silver and Gold Duke of Edinburgh Awards.

Community and Charity Projects

The school’s Charity Committee has representatives from each form and is led by Sixth Form students. Each year the Committee organises a number of fund-raising events which raise thousands of pounds for charity. The largest of these events is the Sponsored Walk and senior students play a significant role in the organisation before and during the event.  This is a much-loved annual event which brings the whole school together.

Overseas Travel

The girls’ time in the Sixth Form is enhanced by many exciting experiences, including the chance to travel abroad either as part of their studies or on trips such as the bi-annual skiing holiday.

Recently, Lower Sixth students have been on an expedition to Nepal, both for their Duke of Edinburgh Awards and also to work and help in the Kent College School in Nepal which the school sponsors. Other trips have included Geography trips to Iceland and Morocco, Art trips to Venice and Paris, a Biology trip to Indonesia, Business and Economics trips to Prague and Paris and a Classics trip to Rome. Language students have the opportunity to practise their skills and experience in a new culture as part of foreign exchanges in countries such as Spain and Germany.