Academic Life: Playful Scholarship

We want our students to be disruptive thinkers for the 21st century. Our ambitious, intellectually curious girls are independent and ready to take risks in their learning. Playful approaches in the classroom encourage our girls to think critically, analyse situations, to cultivate their individual voice and to collaborate with an open mind to find creative solutions.

Within a Sixth Form culture of expertise and specialism, students go deep into their studies. You will hone a breadth of additional academic skills during your Open Minds courses and collaborative projects, which put playful scholarship at the heart of learning. See links below.

Sixth Form Academic Guide A Level Results

A student presenting her work to a group of younger students. She is pointing at a graph entitled 'how music association affects stress levels'

Novel Scientific Research

A stand-out feature of our academic sixth form offer is the opportunity to dive into a novel research project – working with professional scientists across Europe to analyse big data, investigate a thesis and eventually publish your research.

Novel research is something that we most often associate with postgraduate studies – work that is contributing towards a DPhil, perhaps. The aim is to foster independent research skills and encourage inter-disciplinary thinking. You can see examples via the link below.

The initiative is just one option in our Open Minds programme of enriching academic study mentioned above. Others include a Space Technology Diploma, the Extended Project Qualification, Film Studies and Beginners Mandarin – details in our academic guide.

Novel Research

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