Bournemouth School for Girls 3.7

Bournemouth School for Girls is a grammar academy school located in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. It is a girls grammar school and sixth form college, teaching girls aged 11 to 18.AcademicsSince September 2005, it has been a humanities specialist school. The headteacher is Alistair Brien. The school has roughly 1,100 students, including 300 in the sixth form. Until 2012, sixth form classes (including Theatre Studies, PE and Psychology) were open to boys from Bournemouth School, with whom the girls share a playing field.The school is represented by a Senior Team led by the Head Girl. There are then six house and deputy captains, making up the senior team. Within each house there are designated positions of a sports prefect, performing arts prefect and a charities prefect.Structure of the schoolThere are six forms per year group, denoted by their house initials, A, C, F, P, R and S . This switches in Year 10 at the start of GCSEs, from having lessons with the form, to having lessons with a teaching group. For this, 2-5 students from each form are allocated, alphabetically, into a new teaching group. This remains the same for all core lessons, and special groups according to choices are made for each student's individual choice of languages, humanities and arts. On Friday afternoon, year 11 have options in PE that include yoga and kickboxing. On a Wednesday afternoon the Sixth form have a Complementary Activities block in which many outside PE classes are run, including yoga, golf, urban funk and basketball. Students also spend time on work experience placements and doing work in the local community.House systemSince September 2006 a House system was reimplemented . The Houses were named after influential women with assigned house colours, as follows: Jane Austen, Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, Rosa Parks, Christina Rossetti and Mary Shelley . The emblem of the school is a snowdrop, which features on all the House badges.