insideKENT Magazine Issue 36 - March 2015 | Page 116

EDUCATION Aiming High – Giving Girls a Leading Edge At Bromley High School, we teach girls to be properly ambitious – to aspire not simply to excel, but to innovate and to lead. The education we offer is one of all round opportunity but perhaps the greatest inheritance from Bromley High's long history has been the tradition of challenging girls to take on significant leadership roles. Fundamental to this philosophy, at the pinnacle of the school, is our Head Girls’ Team, sixth-formers who provide role models of creative, fun and dynamic female leadership, which sometimes runs counter to the representations of women that girls encounter in modern media. This year, our youngest pupils can look up to Prefects who row or run at national level; who are applying for Sports Scholarships at Princeton; Politics at Oxford; Languages at Cambridge; who dance at a professional level; and who sing and play to an exceptional standard. These impressive young women are at the heart of our school chairing the School Council; captaining sports teams; leading assemblies; organising our charitable, entrepreneurial and environmental initiatives. Enterprising, enthusiastic and outward look