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Notre Dame School

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Senior girls appear wholesome and studious, rushing between classes with stacks of books in their arms and engaged in lessons. At breaktime, prep girls cartwheel their way across the playground and plait each other’s hair. ‘Girls remain innocent for longer at Notre Dame,’ said one parent.  School ‘accompanies’ students as they progress through their studies, delivering ‘academic rigour in an interesting way’ - and as the scaffolding is removed, girls are encouraged to...

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What the school says...

Mrs King has 20 years’ experience of secondary education, in a variety of settings. She has been involved in teacher training, as a visiting lecturer, a mentor in the Graduate Training Programme and as a PGCE mentor. Mrs King has written extensively for Oxford University Press for their Secondary Geography publications department. Mrs King is responsible for the management of the Senior School, working closely with the Mrs Morgan, Headmistress of the Prep School, to ensure Notre Dame School delivers excellence in education from Nursery to University. ...Read more

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Headmistress

Since 2013, Anna King, previously deputy head and before that in middle management at St George’s School, Ascot. Exudes the calm and quiet authority you’d expect of someone with over 20 years of secondary education experience. Is chair of the southeast region of the Girls’ Schools Association and passionate about ‘walking alongside young women as they build their lives’.

Since our last visit she has comfortably settled into the chair held by a small number of longstanding heads at Notre Dame over the school’s 80 year history and talks proudly of ‘the privilege of keeping the flame alive and carrying the vision’ of the school. Has also stepped back from teaching and turned her attention to the growth of the school - expanding the senior school 50 per cent in...

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