Notre Dame School Curriculum

Consistent excellence at GCSE and A level testifies to the quality of education provided at Notre Dame, but there’s more to life than exam results!

Our objective is to give every girl a balanced perspective, based on motivation, achievement, enjoyment and high personal expectations. We recognise and nurture strengths, identify and resolve weaknesses, and encourage individuality and independence.

From their first day in the Senior School, well-motivated girls are challenged by a wide-ranging curriculum, delivered by highly qualified subject specialists. Enthusiasm is the hallmark of lessons at Notre Dame, whether for science or arts subjects, technology or mathematics.

Confidence is fostered by small teaching groups, so that academic rigour can be encouraged and enjoyed by all.

Excellence in Science and ICT

Information Communications Technology is vital to a progressive, modern education; our state-of-the-art Learning Resources and Sixth Form Study Centre, together with video-conferencing facilities, recently marked the beginning of a major capital expenditure investment programme.

We are a Centre of Excellence for Science as well as ICT; this excellence has been recognised not only by the Independent Schools Inspectorate, but by other schools. Our latest building programme has been the construction of a modern, eight-lab Science Teaching Block. We help to provide training to teachers in other educational establishments in areas of expertise such as DNA Fingerprinting, and this didactic specialism is also passed on to our pupils, who benefit greatly from this enhanced teaching practice.

A great many girls from Notre Dame read a science at university, whether in the form of medicine, veterinary practice, bio-chemistry or any other discipline; of these a number go to Oxford or Cambridge. Naturally, we are proud of our teachers and their continued efforts to achieve excellence, proud of our academic success, but most of all we are proud of our girls.