Streatham and Clapham High School - Senior

From the moment you become a pupil at SCHS you are part of an inspiring network of fearless women who are passionate about supporting each other.

Your alumnae network is an active community and we offer you event invitations, dedicated reunions, regular news updates and networking and volunteering opportunities. Furthermore, you are a part of the unique GDST Alumnae Network of over 70,000 women in the UK and around the world.

Our alumnae are invited to a wide variety of events including guest lectures, panel discussions, annual reunions and school shows and concerts. You are also welcome to participate in educational, informative and enjoyable activities hosted by the GDST, through which you can network with many of the 70,000 alumnae that make up the GDST family.

Every day brings new discoveries and experiences. We open minds to endless possibilities. We foster imaginations through meaningful play and social interaction. Girls receive almost one-to-one support as we start to build the academic foundations and encourage them to find their own voices.

Nursery and Reception are the two stages of our Early Years Foundation programme for girls aged 3 and 4. We focus on making sure our girls develop the strong foundations they need for happiness and self-confidence as much as academic success.

Our girls enjoy a broadly intellectual and well-rounded education. We create a vibrant, stimulating curriculum, tailored to fit the needs of the individual, ensuring girls succeed in a myriad of different subjects. A diverse spectrum of enrichment activities provide unlimited opportunity to develop new skills and confidence.

We believe that all members of the school should be inspired to outperform expectations on a daily basis. The pursuit of excellence is thus a defining feature of our Senior School. This is reflected in our examination results, which place us in the top tier of independent schools nationally.

We nurture our girls to attain success across the widest spectrum of activity, extending far beyond the conventional ‘academic’ horizon. In so doing, they learn the beauty of reason, the allure of the aesthetic, and the vitality of the physical throughout their secondary education.

Our excellent examination results, which place us in the top tier of UK independent schools, pay tribute to this rigorous focus on achievement. Likewise, recent inspection reports for both the Prep and Senior Schools are fulsome in their praise of the exceptional education we offer right across the academic spectrum.

From the age of 3 to 18, our pupils enjoy a broad, challenging and enriched curriculum. Their academic success is promoted by small classes and high expectations. We ignite their curiosity with the Early Years Foundation Stage in our Nursery.

A vibrant academic programme of study, reaching far beyond the limits of the National Curriculum (for instance in offering a choice of languages such as French, Spanish, Mandarin and Latin), takes them through to Year 6.

In the Senior School, pupils embark on exciting new subjects such as Ancient Greek, and enhance their core GCSE selection with a rich choice of subjects across the disciplines.

In English and Mathematics, we offer IGCSE courses, valued by leading universities for their rigour. In addition, all pupils participate in the school’s ground-breaking enrichment programme, ‘Kinza’, which introduces them to a huge range of subjects and activities.

We’re extremely proud of our 2019 GCSE results; the highest possible score, 9 (which is considered higher than the A*, really an ‘A**’), rose by 35% and Number of grades 7-9 (A* to A**) increased 10% year on year.

In the Sixth Form, students may choose from a substantial portfolio of 23 subjects. In recent A Level results, over 89% of grades were at A*- B, and thus it is no surprise that the majority of our students progress to some of the most competitive Russell Group universities.