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The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls A GSG School

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The smell of fresh paint blends in with the scent of freshly cut flowers. There is a hotch-potch of different styles: Victorian, polished wood floors and high ceilings, lined with gold leaf embossed honours boards, and a tranquil Japanese garden surrounded by 60s two storey blocks, where the girls can enjoy lunch in the warmer months. Lots of outdoor space, with grass and all weather hockey pitches as well as tennis and netball courts enabling the school to host a number of competitions across the borough. Ellen Wilkinson prides itself on being a ‘sports leadership academy'...

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The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls is a Specialist College for Science and Mathematics providing single-sex education in a culturally diverse, vibrant, learning community. Our pupils achieve 'excellent results in examinations because teachers encourage you to have high expectations to achieve your best'. We have an outstanding flexible and personalised curriculum and excellent personal development and well-being. Our large cohort of higher ability girls go on to the best selective universities. ...Read more

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Headteacher

Since 2014, Rachel Kruger. She arrived here in 2012 as deputy head, and taught maths and music (she has a music education degree from the University of Stellenbosch and a pure maths degree and an MBA from the OU). In 2013 she became acting head and took over as permanent head in March 2014. She started her career teaching music in Stellenbosch, moving to the UK in 1999 to a post as music teacher at Uxbridge High, then maths teacher and assistant head at Dormer Wells High. She now feels she has come full circle, relishing the atmosphere of this all-girls school. She is clear about the benefits of single-sex education for girls. ‘I love seeing the girls in year 7 playing hide and seek,’ she says. ‘I doubt you would find that in...

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