What are the School's strengths?
The School aims to retain each curriculum area as a strength and it is meeting the emotional, intellectual, social and spiritual needs of the girl that drives our educational approach.
How would a girl's individual needs be met?
We believe in providing a curriculum that develops a girl's individual strengths whilst also offering her the opportunity to navigate her own route. We want girls to choose subjects and activities in which they are genuinely interested and that means all options should be open. Classes are small, staff adopt an up to date approach to delivering their specialism and facilities are impressive.
What opportunities are there outside the classroom?
The curriculum has two mutually distinct but complementary elements. It is this combination that delivers achievement and excellence. It is of course important to prepare our girls for public examinations and girls do extremely well, but of equal value is encouraging an enquiring mind and a love of learning, so we teach beyond the syllabus and girls enjoy a wonderful programme of academic enrichment activities.
Subjects taught
- Art
- Biology
- Business Studies
- Chemistry
- Critical Thinking
- Chinese
- Computing/IT
- Dance
- Design & Technology (CDT)
- Drama/Theatre Studies
- Economics
- EFL/ESL
- English Language
- English Literature
- Food Technology & General Cookery
- French
- Further Mathematics
- Geography
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- German
- Government & Politics
- Greek
- History
- History of Art
- Home Econ/Food & Nutrition
- Italian
- Japanese
- Latin
- Mathematics
- Music
- Photography
- Physical Education
- Physics
- Religious Studies
- Russian
- Spanish
- Sports Science
- Textiles and Fashion
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Not all subjects are taught at all levels.
Cambridge Pre-U at Downe House
Downe House continues to seek to remain at the forefront of educational development but most importantly to meet the needs of our pupils. As a result, with effect from September 2010, we will be introducing the Cambridge Pre-U qualification in place of the current A Level courses for many of the subjects taught.
If you would like to know more about the Cambridge Pre-U and how it will work at Downe House, please click on the link below.
Pre-U Information Sheet
For extra curricular activities click here |
