Brighton Girls A GSG School
- Brighton Girls
Montpelier Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 3AT - Head: Rosie McColl
- T 01273 280280
- F 01273 280281
- E [email protected]
- W www.brightongirls.gdst.net
- A mainstream independent school for girls aged from 11 to 18 with a linked junior school
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Brighton and Hove
- Pupils: 287; sixth formers: 23
- Religion: Does not apply
- Fees: £16,533 - £17,070 pa
- Open days: Autumn and Spring (see school website)
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- ISI report: View the ISI report
- Linked schools: Brighton Girls Prep
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Regarded as down to earth and not as hothouse-y as near neighbour Brighton College, we met a few pupils who’d ‘defected’ from the latter, preferring the ‘less pressurised’ nature of Brighton Girls and its ‘well-rounded approach’. Now a proper all-through school, Brighton Girls is firmly back on local families’ radar, providing real value (both academic and economic) compared to...
What the school says...
We understand what makes girls tick and we support every student to learn without limits. We offer excellent teaching in all subjects and encourage innovative approaches to learning. This is supported by an exciting range of co-curricular activities, including skateboarding, netball, football, coding, dance and much more.
Located in the heart of Brighton, the creative capital of the UK, we tap into a rich cultural offering and are as dynamic and enterprising as the community that is on our doorstep.
Our values are Kind and Bold, and our aim is for our students to develop the confidence and the character to go out and make a positive difference in the world.
Part of the Girls’ Days School Trust (GDST), thought leaders in girls’ education. Scholarships and Bursaries are available. ...Read more
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Curricula
Cambridge Pre-U - an alternative to A levels, with all exams at the end of the two-year course.
Other features
All-through school (for example 3-18 years). - An all-through school covers junior and senior education. It may start at 3 or 4, or later, and continue through to 16 or 18. Some all-through schools set exams at 11 or 13 that pupils must pass to move on.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2020, Rosie McColl. Previously deputy head at Wellington College and before that, deputy head at Berkhamsted School. Studied at Oxford (English language and literature) and Trinity College Dublin (M Phil). Married, with a ten-year-old son.
We share a pot of school’s own-blend tea, aptly named ‘Chai to be kind’, a homage to the school’s mantra – kind and bold. Parents agree that the head has these attributes in abundance: ‘a breath of fresh air’, ‘dynamic’, ‘approachable’.
High praise too for head’s communications: ‘She never lets up engaging with parents,’ we were told. She’s ‘always listening’ and offers ‘very personal responses to emails'. All mentioned her ability to connect with the local community and how her different style and approach has ‘put Brighton Girls on the...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
A careful register is kept of special needs, and individual support clinics are offered, as needed. Teaching staff are advised regularly of developments and special support needed. In the Junior School pupils are supported within the class. In the Senior School there are, or have been, pupils with registered special needs. Some are dyslexic or dyspraxic, others mildly so. There are, or have been, pupils with hearing or visual difficulties, and others with motor difficulties of various kinds. No current pupils have EFL requirements.
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