About the school

Central Foundation Girls' School is a multi-site school with two campuses less than ten minutes walking distance apart.The Harley Grove campus is the base for Years 7, 8, 9, and 10 students (11-15 year old students). The College Terrace Centre is the base for Year 11 and Sixth Form students (16 year old).

Central Foundation Girls’ School is a voluntary aided comprehensive school. Its charitable foundation is the Central Foundation Schools of London Trust. It is linked with the Central Foundation Boys’ School in Islington.

Visitors often comment on the happy atmosphere of the school and we take pride in our community spirit. Students’ safety and wellbeing is our priority. We have well developed systems of pastoral support with an emphasis on respect, rights and responsibility. The ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity of our community is a great strength and we actively promote equality of opportunity. This includes excellent provision for students of all abilities, particularly the gifted and talented.

The school’s location in Bow, an area of London with a rich historical legacy and easy access to the City provide a plethora of enrichment opportunities for our students. They have all the inspiration and support needed to become the confident, articulate and competent young women who leave our sixth form to go on to further achievements each year.

Curriculum for the 21st century

• We offer a broad and balanced curriculum, which enables all students to engage in core subjects and, at KS3 (ages 11 – 14), the whole range of national curriculum subjects. All students study citizenship as part of their entitlement.
  
• At KS4 (ages 14 – 16), while students are encouraged to retain some balance, we also try to introduce a degree of flexibility, which includes vocational opportunities in up to eight different subjects, including health and social care, catering and hospitality, hair and beauty, physical education, travel and tourism, and business.
  
• Our Sixth Form (ages 16 – 19) offer is inclusive. A mix of vocational and more traditional academic subjects is available at KS5, and we seek to ensure that the curriculum offer meets external requirements at the same time as being progressive.
  
• We are exploring ways of expanding our vocational offer in partnership with other schools and colleges in Tower Hamlets, especially in Hospitality and Catering and in Multimedia courses.
  
• We have created a new faculty to bring vocational, work based and enterprise education together. It is working to promote the status of vocational courses.
  
• Our Work Related Learning Coordinator works with the Vocational Faculty to ensure that all students have opportunities to experience work related learning and enterprise (including work experience placements for all year 10 students).

To find out more about the school and its premises please visit the school website.