Description
Sacred Heart of Mary Girls’ School is leading State Secondary school for kids age 11 to 18 years (Gender - Girls)
The Sacred Heart of Mary Girls’ School is a warm and caring learning community with a strong family ethos and a distinctive Catholic identity. They were founded by the Sacred Heart of Mary Sisters and the school has been on this site since 1930 and followed in their Mission and purpose. They are justifiably very proud of the wonderful school. They enjoy an enviable reputation and they have been rated on 3 occasions as ‘Outstanding’ by both Ofsted and the Diocese of Brentwood with inspectors noting that they are a school with a “profound sense of being a warm and welcoming family”. The school motto, ‘Ut Vitam Habeant’ symbolises what they expect from all members of our school. The faith impacts every element of the academic and personal lives and they expect everyone, adult and child, to ensure that they learn something new each day, living their lives as Children of Christ. They seek to ensure that ‘all may have life, life to the full’.
Facilities
Key Stage 3 (Years 7-9)
On admission to the school, the girls are arranged into four mixed ability Form Groups. The forms are based on the House system, in which the four Houses (Lindisfarne, Rievaulx, Thanet and Whitby) are used for social and competitive purposes. A pupil stays in the same tutor group until she reaches the Sixth Form. Citizenship and Personal, Social and Health Education is delivered implicitly across the curriculum and explicitly in a weekly period delivered primarily by Year Teams.
Key Stage 4 (Years 10 – 11)
At Key Stage 4 (years 10 and 11) all girls follow a common GCSE course in Religious Studies, English (Language and Literature), Mathematics and Science (double certification), as well as non-examination courses in Physical Education, and Careers. Citizenship and Personal, Social and Health and Education (PSHE) and Relations and Sex Education (RSE)are taught primarily by the form tutor in their CP lesson, although Citizenship and PSHE elements are covered across the curriculum.
THE SIXTH FORM
The Sixth Form is open to all pupils likely to benefit from what it has to offer and the majority of our Year 11 girls stay to pursue their Post-16 education with us. Girls who enter it receive a general education in addition to their specialist studies and are encouraged to acquire new skills and undertake wider reading. They play a full and leading part in school activities and undertake responsibilities as Prefects, Mentors, Senior Prefects and House Officials, enabling them to develop maturity of judgement and qualities of leadership.
Features
Things to note
Extra Curricular Activities
“There is an exceptional range of opportunities for students to develop their spiritual, moral, social and cultural skills both in lessons and the wider curriculum. This includes a broad range of out-of-hours activities, visits and community-based projects. The promotion of the spiritual, moral, social and cultural awareness is evident in many aspects of school life and features events such as fund raising for the many charities that the school supports.” Pupils are encouraged to widen their interests, improve their skills and develop social skills by joining school clubs and associations. Hundreds of pupils take part in the Inter-House Competitions in Music, Drama, Sport as well as cooking and reading challenges. The creative arts have a high profile in the school. Choirs, bands, ensembles and orchestras flourish and there are a range of formal and informal concerts each year, quite apart from the significant musical contribution to the annual Prize-giving Ceremony and Mass of Remembrance. Tuition is available in stringed, brass, woodwind and percussion instruments and singing
Extra Curricular
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