Co-educational Opportunities
At the College, pupils enjoy all the benefits of a single-sex education, with the additional opportunity of learning in a co-educational environment. We use our links with local girls’ schools such as James Allen’s Girls’ School (JAGS) and Sydenham High School GDST to organise bespoke co-educational activities where boys and girls work together on a given project in small, mixed teams. In the Lower and Middle School, we run regular scientific and creative collaboration days with JAGS and there are a wide range of co-educational opportunities available with joint drama productions and musical performances. The Combined Cadet Force (CCF) and Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) is run jointly between the College and JAGS, and the Union of Societies and charitable fundraising ventures have a number of events organized by the prefect teams from each school. Moreover, the Young Enterprise Programme enables pupils to work in partnership with students at Sydenham High School, developing entrepreneurial skills and working as a team to set up a small business; girls at Sydenham and at JAGS also have joint rowing training sessions at the College during the week and on the Thames at weekends. In the Sixth Form, pupils choose Liberal Studies courses and Advanced Electives, weekly academically enriching courses which are not found on A level curricula run in mixed groups of pupils from the College and JAGS spread across the two schools. A diverse range of year-round events, across a range of disciplines, is also offered with our partner schools as part of SSLP (Southwark Schools’ Learning Partnership): this also affords our pupils many opportunities to meet other young people across the borough and beyond. All of these ventures are underpinned by a strong pastoral emphasis, where there is a focus on the positive interactions between the pupils from both schools, and the friendships which ensue.
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