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| Senior School |
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A particular strength of the school is that girls are taught in small classes and are able to benefit from teaching and support directed to their individual needs. |
| In the first three years of Senior School (Years 7-9) all the girls follow a common curriculum comprising English, Mathematics, Sciences, Religious Education, French, Latin, History, Geography, Technology, Information Technology, Art, Music, Drama and Physical Education. Taster courses in Spanish and Italian are offered in Year 9, and there is a cross-curricular Health Education programme. |
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About 20 subjects are offered at GCSE level. For the
two-year GCSE course girls usually study 10 subjects, a mixture of options and core
subjects (including Co-ordinated Science, a double award subject). Younger boarders live at Langley Lodge and older boarders live in the Croft. Girls share rooms mostly in groups of three to five. Girls have access to their houses during the day, and day girls frequently join the boarders at lunch time and after school. There is a full programme of evening and weekend activities, and also space and time for solitude. For sport and other activities each girl belongs to one of four houses - Hendred, Stonor, Binsey and Holywell. |
| Girls meet their form tutors twice a day. Form
tutors help the girls to organise their studies and other activities efficiently and
happily. On taking up her place each girl is given a Housemother, a member of the Sixth Form who will help her to become familiar with school procedures and routines so that she can settle quickly and easily into the school community. |
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The two School Nurses work closely with the School Doctor
who holds a weekly surgery at the School and who also sees girls at her nearby Health
Centre. Dental and orthodontic treatment can be arranged locally, and the John
Radcliffe hospital is five minutes away. Fieldwork, conferences, lectures, art exhibitions, plays and concerts give girls an interesting programme of visits within the UK. Visits aboard include study courses, exchanges, sports tours and skiing holidays, and the school regularly hosts visiting groups from schools overseas. |
| The Duke of Edinburgh's Award was launched by HRH Prince Philip in 1956. The purpose of the Award is to give challenge, responsibility and adventure to young people, thus encouraging them to develop independence, initiative and team-skills. |
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Opportunities are provided for a range of activities in all sections, and girls can also use interests which they follow outside school. Girls normally work for their Bronze Awards in Year 9, their Silver Awards in Year 10 and their Gold Awards in Sixth Form. The School has an outstanding record in the Scheme, an average of 80 girls achieving awards each year. |
| Younger girls are able to participate in the Fox Scheme, an Oxfordshire scheme modelled on the Duke of Edinburgh's Award. |
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