Bromley High School, founded in 1883 by the Girls' Public Day School Trust, was situated for nearly 100 years in the centre of Bromley. In 1981 it moved to Bickley to occupy new buildings set in 24 acres of beautiful grounds and playing fields. As well as fine entrance and assembly halls, a well-resourced library and lecture theatre, there is a science wing of seven laboratories and the main Information Technology centre. The technology wing re-modelled in 1996 includes a small network room, two ceramics and two art studios together with a sixth form art/display gallery and a specialist food studies room. There are a further two design technology rooms each fully equipped for the exciting new syllabus now offered by the examination boards. The Music school includes practice rooms and its own Recital Room and a separate buildings complex houses the large gymnasium and a six-lane, indoor, heated swimming pool. The additional, newly-built sports centre should be open in 1997.
The school helps each girl to develop her abilities to the full within a caring, outward-looking community. A high value is set on academic studies with an established 'Oxbridge' tradition and a curriculum making equal provision for arts, sciences and practical subjects, thus ensuring that each girl follows a broad and balanced programme of study which enhances the framework of the National Curriculum. The large Sixth form enjoys its own facilities, a generous provision of A-level subjects supported by a wide minority studies programme and opportunities to take responsibility. Pastoral care is initially by the form tutor who meets each girl individually on a regular basis, building up a profile of her work and activities.
This selective school has an excellent record in sport, music, drama and dance There are Community Service, work experience and Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme programmes and annual foreign exchanges.
