Sherborne Girls, also known as Sherborne School for Girls, is an independent day and boarding school for girls, located in Sherborne, North Dorset, England. There were 485 pupils attending in 2019–2020, with more than 90 per cent of them living on campus in the seven boarding houses. Recognition for Sherborne Girls has included a double "excellent" rating in its Independent Schools Inspectorate Report.
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Curriculum
The school, founded in 1899 by John and Charlotte Wingfield Digby, requires all girls to take English, maths, a science subject, religion and a foreign language. Most girls take nine or ten GCSEs and three or four A-Level subjects. Sherborne Girls previously offered the International Baccalaureate programme.
Some subjects at AS/A-Level are taught jointly with Sherborne School for boys, under a cooperation scheme. Both also collaborate in activities and functions such as theatre productions, specialist societies and social activities.
Facilities
The campus includes Oxley Sports Centre, which opened in 2007, with a swimming-pool, a fitness suite, squash courts, badminton courts, a floodlit AstroTurf hockey pitch, a climbing-wall, a bouldering-wall, grass pitches and dance studio.
Notable alumnae
Maria Aitken (born 1945), writer, producer and director
Leonora Anson, Countess of Lichfield (born 1949)
Camila Batmanghelidjh CBE (1963–2024), psychotherapist, founder and Director of Kids Company
Rosa Beddington (1956–2001), biologist
Nina Coltart (1927–1997), psychoanalyst and psychotherapist
Jane Cornwell (1938–2021), book editor
Margaret Dix (1902–1991), neurologist
Princess Elizabeth of Toro (born 1936), Ugandan lawyer and politician
Diana Reader Harris (1912–1996), educator and public figure
Princess Rahma bint Hassan (born 1969), Jordanian educator
Princess Sumaya bint Hassan (born 1971), Jordanian science activist
Deirdre Hutton DBE (born 1949), public servant
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (1889–1964), Indian cabinet minister
Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle DBE (1909–2013), youth and development activist
Sophie Kinsella (Madeleine Sophie Townley), (born 1969), author
Emma Kirkby DBE, (born 1949) early-music soprano