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Introducing the New Head Girl Team

A huge congratulations to our new Head Girl Team who will take on their leadership roles next term. From left to right, Charlotte (Head Girl), Nia, Emily, Lizzy (Deputy Head Girls). We are also delighted to welcome 37 Prefects into the Leadership Team. We wish them all the best in their work in supporting our teachers, pupils, and…

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Deputy Head Girl Leads Kindness Campaign

As part of National Anti-Bullying Week, centred around the theme 'One Kind Word', Deputy Head Girl Lili, (pictured above), led all year groups in exploring what it means to take an active role in kindness, as committed allies. “The isolation of the last two years has brought into sharp focus the importance of kindness – highlighting how small acts of…

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Modern Foreign Language Society

The Sixth Form Modern Foreign Language (MFL) Society meet regularly to discuss various foreign affairs and culture. Recently, they watched 'Todo Sobre Mi Madre' (All About My Mother) written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar in 1999. The critically-acclaimed film charts a mother's griefs after her son is killed in a car accident, exploring the injustices…

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SCHS Cricketers Called up to Surrey Team

SCHS cricketers Ammy (L4) and Slyvie (U5) have been selected for Surrey Cricket, in the U13 and U16 teams respectively. For both girls, this is another accomplishment in an already impressive cricket career. Ammy (pictured above) represents Dulwich Cricket Club in the U13s as well as the adult ladies, the London School’s Cricket Association and Marylebone…

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Dr Kaposi’s Life Story Inspires SCHS Girls

Last term, Dr Agnes Kaposi FIEE FREng, a British-Hungarian engineer, educator, author and Holocaust survivor, addressed our girls with an unsettling, sobering and captivating account of her life. During the Q&A session that followed, the girls showed empathy and curiosity, exploring themes such as 'How did you keep faith during the war?' and, ‘How were you treated by your peers when you went back to…

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SCHS Singers Plucked from Thousands for National Youth Choir

Left to right: Sadie Crawford Music Scholar Adrianna (U5), Music Scholar Emmylou (L6) Two SCHS music scholars, Emmylou and Adrianna, have been awarded places in the famed National Youth Choir. Only awarding places to young singers with 'outstanding potential', our girls have been chosen from the hundreds that applied for this prestigious choir. As choristers, they will perform at some of the biggest concert halls…

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Upper School Shine in Smash-Hit Performance

Last term, the cast of the Upper School Production, Second Person Narrative by Jemma Kennedy, were showered in rapturous applause following two sell-out nights. Second Person Narrative is the story of ‘You’ – You are born, You grow up, You die – exploring how You establish your identity along the way. Written for ensembles, the play is designed to facilitate discussions on how our…

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U13 Football Tournament: A play by play

By Mrs Grant On Tuesday 16th November 8 students took part in the Girls Cup tournament which was held at Tooting and Mitcham FC. 18 teams entered the 6-a-side tournament and they were split into 3 pools. Games were 7 minutes one way with the top 2 teams in each pool progressing to the knock…

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Secret Garden Grand Opening

This week, the Prep school opened their Secret Garden – a brand new outdoor learning area. Complete with a story-telling chair, fire-pit for toasting marshmallows, mud kitchen, bug house, crawling tunnels and planting areas. Cheryl Giovannoni, Chief Executive of the Girls' Day School Trust (pictured above) attended the grand opening, commenting '[It was] The highlight…