The Girls' School seeks to provide a broad and balanced education in a lively environment. Each girl is encouraged to develop her individual talents and abilities as far as she can in a community which strives to respond to the challenge of change whilst retaining traditional grammar school virtues - sound learning, sensible discipline and good manners.
The distinctive Edwardian building is conveniently situated near the centre of the town and the bus-rail interchange. Facilities are regularly improved and updated; significant additions and modifications to our buildings have been made and recently these include the Dorothy Lester library, new Sports Hall, Geography rooms, a computer area and additional specialist teaching rooms for Science, Design and Technology and Textiles, History, Religious Studies and English and a Music Technology Centre and Studio added. All girls follow courses in Computing, CDT, Electronics, Latin and a second modern language in addition to the traditional curriculum.
Some of our greatest changes, largely as a response to the National Curriculum, are in the way that we teach and in the way that the girls learn. Whilst we continue with traditional teaching methods where appropriate, many groups are smaller, particularly in practical subjects. There has also been the necessary change towards pupil-centred learning, group work, investigative work and a problem-solving approach. These new initiatives along with PSE, careers advice and extra-curricular activities - clubs, visits, holidays in England and abroad, charity work and school productions - offer wide educational opportunities and encourage links to be forged with industry and commerce and with the community in Bury.
