Queen Margaret's School

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Queen Margaret’s is an independent school for independent girls. We are a school that encourages every girl to pursue her interests confidently girls at Queen Margaret’s are recognized for their willingness to try everything that life has to offer them.

As one of the top private schools in Yorkshire, Queen Margaret’s exists to provide a holistic education, underpinned by warm-hearted pastoral care, inspiring every girl to develop and flourish in a safe and happy boarding environment, empowering her to achieve her life, academic, and career aspirations.

Queen Margaret’s is a forward-thinking school for girls who aspire to be leaders in every walk of life. QM girls take advantage of our vibrant and complementary program of studies and activities. In doing so, they will:

• Achieve excellence inside and outside the classroom
• Develop an enthusiasm for independent thought, learning, and research
• Grow with emotional maturity, social awareness, and respect for individuality and difference
• Forge special friendships that will stay with them for the rest of their lives
• Be interesting, well-informed, happy, and confident members of the community.

Our Values are:

• Commitment and Excellence
• Honesty and Openness
• Bravery and Resilience
• Kindness, Respect, and Tolerance
• Friendship, Fairness, and Fun.

We are delighted to share with you the approach to our journey to next year, in the form of Queen Margaret’s Strategic Plan, which outlines our aims, values, and vision, as well as the goals required to fulfill them. The Strategic Plan has been developed to equip our girls to succeed in the modern and changing world, whilst maintaining the core qualities of Queen Margaret’s education.

As a single-sex school, QM is ideally positioned to educate, inspire and nurture the girls of today, who will be the leaders of tomorrow. In our school, every girl has a voice. Curricula are tailored and timetables are personalized for each student and all are given opportunities to develop and excel. Our girls can captain the Debating team, choose to study Physics, or be part of a Rugby team.

Our girls enjoy not only equal opportunity but every opportunity. All activities are open to them they participate, influence, and lead. There are no gender stereotypes here – indeed our latest results showed that Mathematics and Science are amongst our strongest subjects.

QM girls can work through the challenges of adolescence without fear of embarrassment or distraction. We work hard at counteracting negative body imagery and ideals of how girls and women are portrayed in the media. Educators in girls’ schools believe strongly in helping girls to accept and be comfortable with ‘who they are.

On entering QM each girl also becomes a member of one of our vertical Houses and she remains in this House throughout her time at the School – this provides the opportunity to mix and socialize with other year groups encouraging a spirit of teamwork and friendly competition. There are regular inter-House competitions in Music, Cookery, Sport, Singing, and Dancing. For a school of its size, Queen Margaret’s provides an immense variety of activities, clubs and societies, and other Enrichment opportunities while never sacrificing the needs of the individual girl. As one parent recently noted, QM ‘benefits from being led and run as if it were a large school but has all benefits and familiarities you would expect of a small school.’

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