B.G.G.S. successfully combines a tradition of academic excellence with a programme of continual reappraisal and improvement.
We aim to maintain and develop excellence; to promote the importance of the individual, and to provide the best opportunities and facilities to develop talents.
Academic excellence is extremely important. In the past three years 100% of girls have achieved a minimum of 5 GCSE subjects grades A-C. In 1995 and 1996 over 30% of results were obtained at grade A*. The Advanced Level pass rate is regularly over 98%. 90% of girls leave us at 18 to enter higher education including Oxford and Cambridge.
Our curriculum is broad and encompasses traditional values with the best of modern thinking. Subjects taught range from Latin to Russian; from Physics to Psychology; from Information Systems to Business Studies. In the Sixth Form approximately one-third of the girls study arts, one-third sciences, and one-third languages.
We also place great emphasis on music, art and sport. The major games are hockey, netball and tennis and in all these we have representation at city and/or county level and in hockey also at National level.
We aim to make the School a community, where the individuals in it are all known and considered as people, and where the discipline of our orderly life increasingly comes from within.
Excellence is encouraged wherever it is found: and the development of social consciousness and conscience is extremely important.
