Coombe Girls' School
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Coombe Girls' School is an all-female secondary school
and 6th Form Centre in New Malden
, England.The school is a Specialist Language College
, Leading Edge School and now a high performing Training School.
The Federation with Coombe Boys' School
has ensured a mutually beneficial relationship for both schools, with pupils at each centre gaining new and innovative learning opportunities that are having a positive impact on results at each school.
Each groups has a form tutor who will be with them for registration before school and before fifth period. This tutor will stay with their class, unless they leave the school, for the whole five years in which the girls are pupils of the school.
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
and 6th Form Centre in New Malden
New Malden
New Malden is a town and shopping centre in the south-western London suburbs, mostly within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and partly in the London Borough of Merton, and is situated from Charing Cross...
, England.The school is a Specialist Language College
Language College
Language Colleges were introduced in 1995 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, modern foreign languages...
, Leading Edge School and now a high performing Training School.
The Federation with Coombe Boys' School
Coombe Boys' School
Coombe Boys’ School is an inclusive foundation secondary school located in the Royal Borough of Kingston, England. It was known as 'Beverley Boys' until federating with Coombe Girls' School. Coombe Boys' is now designated a Specialist School...
has ensured a mutually beneficial relationship for both schools, with pupils at each centre gaining new and innovative learning opportunities that are having a positive impact on results at each school.
History
Coombe Girls' School, formerly called Coombe County Secondary School for Girls, was established in 1955, and has remained an all girls school ever since. The school is linked with Coombe Boys and also with King's College Wimbledon.Houses
The school sorts the pupils into house tutor groups. These are named after seven of the planets in the solar system:- Venus
- Mercury
- Mars
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Pluto
- Neptune
Each groups has a form tutor who will be with them for registration before school and before fifth period. This tutor will stay with their class, unless they leave the school, for the whole five years in which the girls are pupils of the school.