FirstEleven PROMOTION Looking for the best start for your daughter? With nearly 140 years experience, no one knows more about educating girls than the GDST
Leading girls’ education
T e Girls’ Day School Trust is the largest single educator of girls in the UK (and the UK’s largest educational charity). We know about the education of girls – we understand how they learn and grow. We know the importance of building resilience and intellectual risk-taking, and we have a deep understanding of girls’ education and pastoral needs at every stage in their development.
A UNIQUE NETWORK At the same time, because we have twenty- four schools and two Academies, we are an extraordinarily eff ective network for knowledge sharing and for the dissemination of best practice (whether it is excellence in hockey, supporting all our medical school applicants to obtain places, or maximising our girls’ potential in public exams). We are also able to develop and promote talented teachers through our network. In our schools girls can fi nd their ‘maximum stretch’ – academically, physically and artistically – and being able to develop their talents uninhibitedly in a single sex environment is enormously important for them.
FULFILLING POTENTIAL T e results speak for themselves – GDST girls outperform the independent school sector as a whole at GCSE and A Level by a signifi cant margin. Nearly all our Sixth Formers achieve their choice of higher education destination, and our Oxbridge and Russell Group results continue to be impressive, even as competition for places mounts. And our Key Stage 2 results show the outstanding performance of our Junior Schools.
All but two of our schools are all-
through (3-18) and this gives us the unique advantage of being able to help a girl develop from her earliest years, building the foundations of curiosity, love of learning and adventurousness in the classroom and the sports fi eld. Characteristics that will make the GDST school leaver so recognisable both to university tutors and future employers, for her confi dence without arrogance, and her ability to take on every challenge, to ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’.
“In our schools girls can fi nd their ‘maximum stretch’ – academically, physically and artistically”
24 FirstEleven Summer 2011
For more information on the GDST please visit
www.gdst.net
www.fi rstelevenmagazine.co.uk
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