Dr Kevin Stannard, MA PhD., Director of Innovation and Learning at the GDST

• Gender affects the way that students experience education
• Girls face pressures to conform to gender stereotypes – pressures which are stronger in the presence of boys
• Girls need and deserve space in which to develop their full potential, and to make informed and unconstrained choices about interests, subjects and careers
• In girls-only schools their needs and preferences can be fully accommodated within a dedicated learning environment
• Successful girls’ schools are those in which a dedication to girls’ education is reflected in their physical design, curriculum and co-curriculum offer, teaching and learning approaches, and in their whole-school culture
• Today’s girls’ schools serve to subvert, rather than support, gender stereotypes and a priori assumptions, by offering an education designed for and dedicated to the development and empowerment of successful, confident and adventurous girls.