EDUCATION
Roedean
THE TOP GIRLS’ SCHOOL IN SUSSEX AND SECOND OF ALL SCHOOLS IN THE AREA
A ROEDEAN EDUCATION IS A UNIQUE AND WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE, which combines academic excellence while providing girls with the space to grow up at their own pace and realise their full potential; they thrive in this environment, happy and confident in their abilities.
The Department for Education’ s new A Level league tables, published in the The Telegraph in January 2017, rank Roedean as the highest performing girls’ school in East and West Sussex, and second of all schools in the area. 51.9 % of Roedean girls last year achieved A Level grades of AAB or higher in at least two facilitating subjects – success in facilitating subjects is what is required by the highest ranked UK universities, such as those in the Russell Group.
Roedean celebrated both its best ever A Level( 62 % A *-A) and GCSE( 45 % A *) results last summer, and this came hot on the heels of an outstanding ISI Inspection report in May 2016, which judged the school to be excellent in every area, highlighting its remarkable strengths.
As an academic school, Roedean aims to inspire curiosity and a love of learning in all its girls without losing the enjoyment and delight of an all round education. Girls are given the freedom to develop their talents and passions, whatever they are – the school’ s holistic vision of education also places a very high value on all the experiences that happen beyond the classroom, in sport, art, drama, music, and dance.
There are two sporting national champions at the school, in athletics and street dance, and one world champion in karate; two students achieved RAD Advanced Level 2 in ballet in the summer; many girls are working at post-grade 8 standard on a variety of instruments, and each year girls win places to study at the highly respected Central St Martin’ s art school. At Roedean, co-curricular activities complement academic achievement and they make up an essential part of life at the school. It is precisely this rounded education that produces independent and creative young women who will make their mark in the world.
Founded in 1885, Roedean combines the tradition and heritage of a school for girls with dynamic teaching and exceptional accommodation and facilities. These include the a farm, opened in September, with chickens and sheep, a floodlit all-weather pitch on the school site in the near future, and the recent impressive £ 500,000 refurbishment of the sixth form facilities, which is just the first phase of the development of the Sixth Form Centre. Having grown by 70 students this academic year, Roedean now numbers 500 girls, of whom 90 % in Key Stage 3 are UK and local, and the school is expected to grow further next year. The mix of local, London, and international girls from over 30 countries gives the school a special and dynamic atmosphere.
Roedean is one of the UK’ s leading girls’ schools – the girls play sport with the sea’ s blue behind them and the green of the South Downs in front of them, the maths and humanities classrooms have perhaps the best view of any school in the country, and which other boarding houses have been likened to a boutique hotel? Roedean is simply unique.
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