The Sunday Times has released its annual, prestigious list of the best schools in the UK, including the top private ones.
The newspaper has published its annual league table of the nation's schools. READ MORE:The Sunday Times has released its annual, prestigious list of the best schools in the UK, including state, grammar and private educational establishments.
According to the newspaper, pupils at the private school, once a state grammar, have access to AI tutors, are encouraged to take 'sleep lessons' and see their grounds transformed into a fairground as the summer break approaches every year. Here, FEMAIL looks at the overall winning school, as well as the educational institution awarded best Independent Secondary School of the Year for GCSEs 2025.
Pupils at the Surrey-based school - where the headmaster is Shaun Fenton, the son of Seventies glam rocker Alvin Stardust - can also learn to referee, earn their pilot's licence or train to teach English as a foreign language. Students are encouraged to get involved with charitable work through such activities as food bank drop-offs, teaching children in a domestic abuse refuge and tree-planting.
St Paul's Girls' School, in Hammersmith, which has notable alumni including actress Rachel Weisz and British politician Harriet Harman, was founded in 1904 by the Worshipful Company of Mercers. Pupils from the age of 16 can ask to be identified either as boys or gender neutral, according to reports in 2017.
In 2021, the school revealed it would no longer use the term head girl as it said it is too 'binary'. Instead, the position is referred to as 'head of school'. The school also sparked fury among some parents again in 2021 after inviting American researchers to speak to pupils about changing sex. From the moment parents of prospective students walk through the Gothic-revival arch of Brighton College's principal building, it's clear that nothing has been left to chance.
This houses 18 university-standard laboratories, a cinema , a 'strength and conditioning suite' with parquet floor, a 25-metre heated indoor pool and double-height sports hall with basketball court and dance studio.
If you are Year 13 in upper sixth-form, it will set you back £21,640 for full boarding, whereas day fees are £10,080. Boarding options are not available for year seven or year eight. Pupils at the school - which is known for concentrating on art and music - are urged to take music lessons or join choirs, and perform in concerts, plays or musicals.
A spokesman said at the time the school looks forward to ‘reaching the point at which we can make this significant change... enabling any child who would flourish here to be able to come, irrespective of gender’. The Henrietta Barnett School in Hampstead Garden Suburb was named Britain's best state school in the Sunday Times' latest list
Parents should, she says, put the individual needs of their child front and centre: 'Academic outcomes should just be a starting point for parents, there are so many things that are just as important, such as pastoral care, extra-curricular/enrichment programmes and discipline processes.'
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