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