St Swithun's School, Winchester is set on an impressive and attractive campus of 45 acres overlooking open countryside, and offers girls exceptional teaching, sporting and recreational facilities. The school offers day, weekly boarding and full boarding options for girls aged 11-18. There is an adjoining Junior School for girls aged 3-11 and boys up to the age of 7 years.
St Swithun's has a reputation as a school with a high level of academic achievement. This is true, but it can also give the false impression that we select only the most academic girls and focus on the academic to the exclusion of all else. Academic success is undeniably important, but it is only one facet of the rounded education that young people today need to equip them for a successful and fulfilled adult life. |
A parent, quoted in The Good Schools Guide said, "Girls go in here and with no particular song and dance seem to come out with incredible A-level results". The school features strongly in the league tables and almost all girls continue to University, including Oxford and Cambridge, and all continue to some form of Higher Education and training. A talented teaching staff provides considerable added value to each girl's education.
The school has a strong musical tradition, with two choirs and numerous orchestras, ensembles and chamber groups; tuition is available on 20 instruments. A Performing Arts Centre with a 600 seat auditorium was opened in 2003.
There are extensive playing fields: the school |
plays lacrosse, netball and tennis and there is a spacious sports hall plus a 25 metre swimming pool. Technology is very active; members of the Engineers' Club regularly win national competitions with their designs and inventions. There is an extensive range of extra-curricular activities and an organised programme of visits and activities at the week-end.
The School grows and flourishes in a way appropriate to the present day, but it is very firmly rooted in its traditions and the fine things of its past. Within a framework of sensible discipline, there really is a remarkably friendly and caring atmosphere in the School. |
