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young women, which is exactly what single-sex schooling does. Until we have gender parity in the workplace, there is absolutely a role for single-sex education,” she said.
Is it important that the school makes provision for mixing with the other sex? In responding, Ms Gardiner Legge describes Heathfield’s intellectual debating partnership with Eton, where societies from the two schools come together to discuss hot topics. She said that it was important for boys to see strong, intelligent girls who could hold their own in an intellectual debate. A comment from Lucy Elphinstone, headmistress of Francis
Holland School, Sloane Square, London, supports this belief. Mrs Elphinstone referred to her recent interview in The Telegraph, which was Sensitive girls should be taught banter at school to toughen them up for the workplace – in which she explained the importance of girls learning to ‘blag it’. “Sometimes we need to be able to take risks, to be braver,
and sometimes learn how to wing it a bit,” she said. Ms Gardiner Legge went on to say that male role models are
just as important in girls’ schools as they are in boys’ schools – Heathfield’s head of boarding is male.
At what age should parents consider single-sex education for their child? “It is important for children to grow up around the other sex while they are young,” said Ms Gardiner Legge. She counselled that co-educational preparatory or state schools are a good option and
that if they have to prioritise, parents should choose fee-paying schools when a child is older, as that is when the child will reap the most benefits.
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