Girls First: Empowered, Encouraged, Engaged
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At a time when educational opportunities for girls were limited, the Lawrence sisters set out to challenge convention with an ambitious and progressive vision. Their founding principles continue to inspire our School more than 140 years later.
It aimed to provide ‘a thorough physical, intellectual and moral’ education with ‘as much liberty as is consistent with safety’. The founding Lawrence sisters believed that girls deserved an education which was at least as good as boys had – and articulated this in their founding vision:
Roedean moved to its current location in Roedean Way in 1898, where it has been situated since, except 1940-1945. During those years, the school was evacuated to Cumbria and the school site was used as a Naval Torpedo training base.
Today, Roedean continues to push boundaries. For instance, Maths and Science are the most widely taken subjects in Sixth Form, with a third of Year 13s progressing to study STEM-related subjects.
Roedean has a sister school in South Africa. The two schools were founded by the Lawrence sisters less than two decades apart, and they share the strong ethos of providing a quality education for girls.
