Our success in supporting each girl to exceed her potential is proven by our incredible value-added scores, measures of how far beyond her baseline potential each girl has gone. Here, we are consistently placed among the top-ten schools in the country, proof of what Queen’s Gate enables our girls to achieve.
Outstanding University Destinations
University destinations are as varied and individual as our girls. We are able to boast of girls attending top UK universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, as well as overseas institutions such as Harvard and NYU. We have an incredibly strong record of sending girls onto some of the most elite art schools in the world, including Central St. Martins, Camberwell School of Art and Parsons School of Design (New York). With our strength in STEM subjects, many of our girls have gone on to courses such as Computer Science at St. Andrews, Mechanical Engineering at UCL and Creative Computing at the University of the Arts, London.
London as our Extended Campus
Housed in five of the iconic Victorian mansions that dominate South Kensington, we are ideally situated to take advantage of the nearby museums, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Academy of Music, and many parks and sporting facilities. Girls are able to pop into the Victoria & Albert Museum during a normal timetabled lesson, visit the Natural History Museum as a lunchtime club, and jump on the tube to reach the theatres of the West End and Southbank. London really is our playground, offering endless opportunities to extend our girls’ academic learning, enrich our co-curricular offering and enhance their personal development.
Personalised Teaching and Small School Community
As a smaller school, the staff at Queen’s Gate are truly able to get to know our girls as the individuals they are. Learning is more of a partnership between teacher and pupil, with close, personalised support throughout her academic journey with us. Our staff demonstrate their dedication through consistent provision of extra lunchtime clinics and holiday revision classes, designed to enable all learners to embark upon assessments and exams feeling as confident as possible.
Pastoral Care and Wellbeing
The wellbeing of our pupils guides us in all aspects of school life. High-quality pastoral care and the safeguarding of pupils underpin everything that we do. Our PSHE programme is regularly reviewed to ensure we are meeting the needs of our girls, while the strong staff-pupil relationships mean girls feel safe to come forward and share worries.
A Broad and Inspiring Co-Curricular Programme
Our co-curricular programme is broad and forward-thinking, spanning super-curricular options, creative activities and those choices that are simply there for fun and to give girls a space where they can relax and feel they belong. Music, Drama and Sport are all well-represented, while pupil voice is central, with girls having the opportunity to serve on a number of committees dedicated to giving them a forum in which to put forward ideas and share feedback. As we work to tackle societal gender inequality, it is especially important to us to encourage our girls to learn how to use their voices, and not hold back from sharing their ideas.
A Diverse and Inclusive London Community
As a cosmopolitan, central London community, we are naturally multinational and multifaith. Celebrating all our cultural traditions, including religious festivals, provides a rich environment for our girls to discover and explore the values of diversity and respect. All share in each other’s traditions, whether that’s Lunar New Year, Hanukkah, Ramadan or our Christian festivals, and embrace the meaning of inclusion. Families of all backgrounds enjoy gatherings such as our Carol Service, welcoming warmly the reflective, thoughtful and welcoming atmosphere we create.
It is our insistence on providing an experience that goes beyond pure academic education that our families most value. Our aim is for each girl to become the best version of herself – as a learner, as a friend, as a leader and as a future citizen.
Visitors routinely comment on how natural our girls are and how generously they welcome guests to the school.
