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FURTHER INFORMATION Managing personal and educational change


The Cheltenham Ladies’ College is distinctive in a number of areas, particularly in the way it approaches changes in the educational world, and in the way it guides your daughter through the changes in her own life.


The planning of change is an integral part of the work of all staff. Our subject departments plan development for the coming years, and committees of staff and of governors (we call them Council Members) plan in order to meet the changing needs of your daughter’s education in good time. For every discussion about the fine detail of next week or next term there will be detailed and well-informed discussions about next year and the years far beyond that. We seek to be prepared, in all areas, to negotiate the route to the future and to be able to judge critically the benefits of changes proposed.


Your daughter, therefore, belongs to a community in which her happiness and success are not dependent on luck or on a particular combination of haphazard factors. They rest on, and are enhanced by, the sure foundations of the whole organisation. Your daughter will join a school where the future is viewed with the confidence that comes from careful planning, searching analysis and wide consultation.


If staff change – subject teachers, Heads of Department, Class Tutors, Heads of Division, Housemistresses – you can be confident that time and resources are allocated to the training, induction and support of new staff. This support will come in many forms – the expertise available from Council, mentoring by senior staff, timetable allocations, secretarial and administrative back-up – in short, from wherever is required to ensure that College continues to reach for, and attain, its traditional high standards. Our aim is to remain a centre of teaching excellence and to continue to be a place where teachers want to come to work.


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