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Putney High School GDST 普特尼中学,（普特尼高级学校）GDST, 35 Putney Hill,
London SW15 6BH 
Tel: 020 8788 4886 Fax: 020 8789 8068
• GIRLS, 4–18, Day
• Pupils 800, Upper sixth 72
• Termly fees £2243–£2883
• GSA, GDST
• Enquiries to the Headmistress

What it’s like
Founded in 1893, it is single-site on Putney Hill and has the bonus of unusually beautiful gardens. The main buildings are three large late-Victorian houses to which there have been important additions in recent years. Facilities are good and include laboratories, a technology and computing centre, a sports hall and art studios. The junior department is separate in Lytton House within the school grounds. Examination results are excellent. Tennis, netball, gymnastics and lacrosse are very strong, with courts on site; pupils attend a local leisure centre for swimming and multi-gym. Rowing is a growing activity with membership of Thames Rowing Club. There is a very strong music department and a variety of ensembles; also considerable strength in drama, dance and art. Several girls within the school are highly gifted at music and sport: they benefit from a curriculum which enables them to further their talents alongside their academic subjects.

School profile

Scholarships, bursaries & extras 9+ pa academic scholarships, value £500–£2500, awarded at 11 and 16, plus music scholarships. 10 bursaries at 11 and 16. Parents not expected to buy textbooks; music tuition extra £154 per term.

Head & staff
Headmistress: Dr Denise V Lodge, in post from 2002. Educated at Bury Grammar School, and at Royal Holloway (botany and zoology) and Chelsea College (applied hydrobiology). Previously Headmistress at Sydenham High, Deputy Head at Sheffield High, and Head of Sixth and of Chemistry at Sir Roger Manwood’s School, Sandwich.
Teaching staff: 33 full time, 18 part time in the senior department.

Exam results
GCSE: In 2003, 77 pupils in Year 11, all of whom gained at least grade C in 7+ subjects. Average GCSE score 64 (over 5 years).
A-levels: 69 in Year 13: 99% passed in 3+ subjects. Average final point score achieved by upper sixth formers 265.

University & college entrance 97% sixth-form leavers in 2003 went on to a degree course (46% after a gap year, 3% after an art foundation course), 10% to Oxbridge. 10% took courses in medicine, dentistry & veterinary science, 17% in science & engineering, 58% in humanities & social sciences, 12% in other vocational subjects eg accounting.

Curriculum GCSE, AS and A-levels. 26 subjects offered (including economics, business studies, ICT and history of art), 24 AS-level, 22 A-level.
Sixth form: Most take 4 subjects at AS-level, 3–4 at A-level; in addition, all take general studies. 13% took science A-levels; 42% arts/humanities; 45% both.
Vocational: Work experience available.
Languages: French from age 11, Latin from 12, German or Spanish from 13 – all offered at GCSE and A-level. Exchanges to France and Germany; annual visit to Spain.
ICT: Taught both as a discrete subject (2 lessons a week in Years 7–9) and across the curriculum, eg spreadsheets in maths, essays and poetry in English, world religions etc. 200 computers for pupil use (11 hours a day), all networked and with email and internet access. Large school intranet; radio networking; fully searchable library database.

The arts
Music: Over 50% of pupils learn a musical instrument; instrumental exams can be taken. Some 18 musical groups, including orchestras, choirs, jazz band, chamber groups, 8 choirs specialising in close part harmony. Pupils are members of National Youth Orchestra; several in county youth orchestras; finalists in Youth and Music and Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year; recordings; composition winners and commissions; opera performances with Opera Box; large in-school music festival. Choral works performed include requiems, Carmina Burana, Dream of Gerontius and Elijah.
Drama & dance: Majority of pupils are involved in school and group productions. Drama competitions; recent productions include Oh What a Lovely War, Antigone, Our Country’s Good, Arkwright’s Amazing Aquatic Adventure, Hard Times, The Three Sisters. Large numbers involved in drama, poetry and music festivals.
Art & design: On average, 40 take GCSE, 15 A-level. Weekly life class; A-level course can include work in painting, drawing, design, textiles, sculpture, mixed media. Regular entrants to art school.

Sport & activities
Sport: Netball, lacrosse, gym, dance, tennis, swimming, athletics, badminton, sports acrobatics, rhythmic gym, games foundation course, trampolining compulsory. Optional: touch rugby, aerobics, girls soccer, volleyball, rowing. Sixth form only: multigym. Community Sports Leader Award, LTA. Tennis Leaders Award, ESNA Netball Leaders Award. Regular county tennis players; tennis, cross country, gymnastics and sports acrobatics teams successful nationally; netball and athletics regionally.
Activities: Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Young Enterprise, sportleaders’ award. £6000+ raised by school activities last year for charities. Over 20 clubs eg gym, netball, fencing, dance, trampolining, badminton, drama, Christian Union, Amnesty International, chess, maths, internet, science, astronomy, bridge.

School life
Uniform: School uniform worn except in the sixth form.
Houses & prefects: Competitive houses. Prefects and head girl, elected by staff and girls. School Council.
Religion: No compulsory worship.
Social: Visits to sporting events, galleries, museums, artists’ studios and places of historical interest. Technology race and residential activity holidays are regular events. Overseas visits include language exchanges, music tours (Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Hungary).

Discipline School aims to encourage pupils to be self-reliant and self-disciplined; number of rules is kept to a minimum but all are expected to behave with courtesy and tolerance towards others.

Alumni association is run by Mrs S Cowie, c/o the school.