Sue Wallace-Woodroffe, Headmistress at The Queen’s School

What is your school’s ethos?
We offer a rigorous education in a stimulating learning environment, and the results speak for themselves. We are a Times Top 100 school for A-level results and girls make outstanding academic and developmental progress across the board.

But more than that there exists at Queen’s an atmosphere of supportive enterprise, and we work hard to create this warm, nurturing environment which both inspires and develops girls, offering exceptional opportunities that encourage them to embrace challenges and aim to achieve their absolute best.

Our goal for every Queen’s girl is that she leaves us with the abilities to think independently, collaborate confidently, and aspire globally.

When leaving your school where do your pupils progress to?
Every year girls go on to study at prestigious universities, both in the UK and abroad. The most popular courses over recent years have been:

Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Economics, International Business Management, Business Studies and Biomedical and Natural Sciences, Biology, Biological Science, Biomedical Science.

Do you have any specific success stories from alumni students you'd like to share?
With alumnae including mountaineers, Olympians, TV presenters, artists, scientists and entrepreneurs, it’s difficult to choose just one to include here! One of our more recent success stories is artist Kara Chins who won the hugely prestigious Woon Foundation Art and Sculpture Prize and received a £20,000 fellowship.

This follows her earlier success in 2013 when she was the recipient of the prestigious Piran Strange Award for Young Artists.

How does the school help pupils with career and higher education guidance?
Girls are taught by outstanding teachers who really know their pupils, care about their respective futures, and are empowered to develop each pupil beyond her expectations. In Sixth Form, our Queen’s School Baccalaureate introduces university-style learning. It combines rigorous scholarship, beyond A-level expectations, with experience and training in research and presentation. Our innovative Virtual Boardroom equips senior girls with experiences of business projects with industry mentors. Girls are encouraged to aim high and the vast majority do choose to go to university.

What sets you apart from other schools?
We are the only independent girls’ school in Chester, and we regularly top local league tables (top A* rate in Cheshire 2018). We’re also the only independent school in the north of England to be designated a Confucius Classroom and girls are taught Mandarin in both the Lower and Senior schools.

We were recently visited by The Good Schools Guide, and for me, this quote from their review perfectly captures what makes us such a special school: “A wonderfully empowering environment in which girls flourish academically but also personally.”

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