Sherborne Girls is an independent day and boarding school

Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...

 for girls located in Sherborne

Sherborne

Sherborne is a market town in northwest Dorset, England. It is sited on the River Yeo, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, east of Yeovil. The A30 road, which connects London to Penzance, runs through the town. The population of the town is 9,350 . 27.1% of the population is aged 65 or...

, North Dorset

Dorset

Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...

. The school was founded in 1895 by Mr. and Mrs. Kenelm Wingfield Digby. There are currently almost 400 pupils attending Sherborne Girls with over 90% living on campus and residing in the seven boarding houses.

Curriculum

All girls are required to take English, Maths, a Science subject, Religion and a Foreign Language. Most girls take nine to ten GCSEs and three to four A Level subjects. Some subjects are taught jointly with Sherborne School

Sherborne School

Sherborne School is a British independent school for boys, located in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset, England. It is one of the original member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference....

 as part of the joint co-operation enjoyed between the two schools.

Sherborne Girls offers the IB programme through a partnership with Sherborne School. Both schools also collaborate in various school activities and functions such as theatre productions, joint societies and social activities.

Houses

Girls are divided into 7 boarding houses as most are boarders. Approximately 10% are day pupils but they are fully integrated and encouraged to participate in weekend activities.

There are 7 boarding houses on campus:

• Aldhelmsted East (AE)
• Aldhelmsted West (AW) (L4th and U4th ages 11–13)
• Dunholme (DH)
• Kenelm (K)
• Mulliner (M) (U6th)
• Reader Harris (RH) (formerly Eahlstan (E) and Thurstan (T))
• Wingfield-Digby (WD) (formerly Aylmar (A) and Wingfield (W))

Facilities

The campus includes a sports centre, newly opened in 2007 and benefiting from a 25m six lane swimming pool and a fully equipped fitness suite. Sherborne Girls also has squash courts, badminton courts, 27 tennis courts, a floodlit Astro Turf hockey pitch, climbing wall, grass pitches and dance studio.

Notable Old Shirburnians

• Camila Batmanghelidjh
  Camila Batmanghelidjh
  Camila Batmanghelidjh is a British businesswoman, charity leader and author of Iranian and Belgian origin. She has been living in England since the age of 11 and founded two charities - the place2b and Kids Company where she and her team care for 14,000 vulnerable children and young people in London...
  
  
• Diana Reader Harris
  Diana Reader Harris
  Dame Muriel Diana Reader Harris was an English educator, school principal and public figure.-Early life:...
  
  
• E. Arnot Robertson
  E. Arnot Robertson
  Eileen Arbuthnot Robertson was a British novelist, critic and broadcaster.-Family:...
  
  
• Emma Kirkby
  Emma Kirkby
  Dame Carolyn Emma Kirkby, DBE is an English soprano singer and one of the world's most renowned early music specialists. She attended Sherborne School For Girls in Dorset and was a classics student at Somerville College, Oxford, and an English teacher before developing a career as a soloist...
  
  
• Juliet Wheldon
  Juliet Wheldon
  Dame Juliet Louise Wheldon DCB, QC is a British civil servant, currently the legal adviser to Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England. From July 2000 until 2006 she was the first British woman to serve as Treasury Solicitor/Head of the Government Legal Service...
  
  
• Maria Aitken
  Maria Aitken
  Maria Penelope Katharine Aitken is an English actress, writer, producer and director.Aitken was born in Dublin, the daughter of Sir William Aitken, a Conservative MP, and socialite Penelope Aitken, whose father was John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby. She is a great-niece of newspaper magnate and...
  
  
• Nina Coltart
  Nina Coltart
  Nina Coltart , a British psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, and essayist, was born in Kent, England. Her father was a medical doctor and her mother, a housewife. In 1940 she and her younger sister Gill were evacuated to Cornwall, where they lived with their maternal grandmother and a nanny who, years...
  
  
• Princess Rahma bint Al Hassan
• Princess Sumaya bint Al Hassan
• Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
  Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
  Dame Rajkumari Amrit Kaur DStJ was the health minister in the Indian Cabinet for ten years after India's independence from the British Raj in 1947. She was an eminent Gandhian, a freedom fighter, and a social activist....
  
  
• Santa Montefiore
  Santa Montefiore
  Santa Montefiore, born Santa Palmer-Tomkinson, is a British author.Santa is the sister of Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. Her parents are Charles Palmer-Tomkinson and Patricia Palmer-Tomkinson, of Anglo-Argentine background. Her father represented his country in skiing at Olympic level...
  
  
• Tara Palmer-Tomkinson
  Tara Palmer-Tomkinson
  Tara Palmer-Tomkinson also known as T P-T, is an English socialite, "it girl", television presenter, columnist and model...
  
  

External links

• Sherborne Girls (Sherborne School for Girls)
• 2009 Ofsted inspectors' report: Retrieved 29 April 2011.
• 2010 Independent Schools Inspectorate report: Retrieved 29 April 2011.