Walderslade Girls' School
Address
Bradfields Avenue Walderslade , Kent , ME5 0LE England
Coordinates	51°21′10″N 0°31′30″E / 51.3529°N 0.5251°E / 51.3529; 0.5251
Information
Type	Secondary comprehensive (non-selective)[1] Academy
Trust	Skills for life trust UID: 3243
Department for Education URN	137630 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Head teacher	Louise Campbell
Gender	Girls
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	909 as of January 2015[update]
Website	sflt.org.uk/waldersladegirls
2km 1.2miles Walderslade Girls School

Walderslade Girls' School is a secondary school and sixth form for girls located in Walderslade in the English county of Kent.^[2]

Governance

The school was designed by Richard Sheppard, Robson & Partners and opened in the late 1950s.^[3] It was a community school administered by Medway Council, however the school was converted to academy status on 1 April 2012. Walderslade Girls' School continues to coordinate with Medway Council for admissions.^[4]

From the summer of 2018 Walderslade Girls school joined the Skills for life trust (Greenacre Academic trust).^[1] Schools within the academy consist of: Greenacre Academy, Walderslade Girls School, Warren Wood Primary Academy, Chantry Community Academy (primary), Hilltop Primary Academy, Kloisters Kindergarten and Pre-School, PGW Sixth Form and Greenacre Sports Partnership.^[5]

Academics

The school sees itself as a traditional girls school with a sense of togetherness pervading the school. Diversity, aspiration, honesty and personal integrity are encouraged leading to motivation, self-discipline, self-resilience and individual responsibility. Students are expected to show kindness to others.^[6]

Though pastorally the school divides into Lower School (Year 7-Year 8), Middle School (Year 9 Year 10) and Upper School (Year 11 & Sixth Form) it runs a three-year Key Stage 3, and a two-year Key Stage 4, and shared sixth-form provision.^[6]

Key Stage 3

Based on the Key Stage 2 SATs, incoming students are divided in to mixed-ability or Alpha sets.^[6]

Key Stage 4

Walderslade Girls' School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils. All pupils study English, English Literature, Maths, and Science. As a first option: they select either History, Geography or a language. As a second option: from a Creative Art, a Performing Arts, or an additional humanities, sports or Food, and Ethics.^[7]

Shared Sixth form

The school also operates a sixth form provision in partnership with Greenacre Academy, with students having the option to study from a range of A Levels and further BTECs.^[8]

References

External links

• Walderslade Girls' School official website