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One thing we aim to achieve within our PE curriculum is to prepare students for lifelong potential, not just short term success, so we can support them in keeping their options open.

“We often talk about late specialisation. We want multisport athletes. We want young people to have a range of things available to them. All of the research out there suggests that for both lifelong participation but also for talent progression… having different options is really important.” 

“It’s the long term piece. It’s who they go on to become. So everything we do here at College is investing in the future. What we’re really interested in, particularly when it comes to pupils with real talent, is can they fulfil their potential in the long term – not just while they’re here. We don’t want to push them hard early – we want to know that they’ll go on to be the best they can be and peak at a later point in life.” - Mr Parker

Being an all girls environment offers our students many benefits, especially when it comes to their physical education and taking part in exercise. In a recent report, GSA found “girls in girls’ schools have higher levels of sport participation on average” and “participate in 25% more curriculum PE than the national data”. They also found that between KS4 and KS5 there is 65% drop off in the time spent playing sport nationally, but for girls’ schools, this drop off is only 25%.

“For us it starts at a younger age. We empower the girls by LC3 so that they get to choose and they get ownership over what they want to do, what makes them happy and what they enjoy…We facilitate for each individual to have success depending on what that looks like for each person.” - Mrs Najim

“If I think about the gym environment…what we see after school when girls are coming in to train is that their hair is scratched back and they’re cracking on and they’re training. They’re not queuing up and waiting for some of the others to get out of the way…There aren’t rugby boys here who are dominating the weights area so that some of the girls can’t go an access it. It’s their space, it’s their area. The pupils here train incredibly well and incredibly diligently, so they’re not having some of those external pressures, that not everyone would feel but some might feel, where they might be put off from taking part to the level they want or from taking it as seriously as they want because of those external pressures.” - Mr Parker  

“At an all girls school, there’s so much on offer, and it’s not limited to ‘just boys sports’. The genders aren’t split up. So there’s people playing football, rugby, cricket and you get to try everything.” - Bea