St George's School for Girls, Edinburgh

 

Educational Excellence For Girls Of All Ages

Situated in the heart of Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital city, St George’s School for Girls is a flexible and open learning community which allows our day and boarding students to grow and develop at their own pace and in their own direction. What is wonderful is that much of this community has been inspired by the enterprise and creativity of the students themselves.

  • Anne Everest - Head's Message 22-05

    Anne Everest - Head's Message 22-05

    St George's is an independent school. In practice that means that, so long as we fulfil expectations and overtake the standards required by the inspectorate, we have the power to decide the direction in which the school should go. Our ethos, to which the whole school community is committed, guides the direction of travel: we want to provide each girl in our care with the means by which she can make her own way in the world, confident, courteous, independent and well educated.

    St George's is also a girls' school - and that makes us a bit different from other local schools...

    Please click here to read all of the message »

  • Eyes Wide Shut – Running Blind

    Eyes Wide Shut – Running Blind

    We entered a competition where we had to write about the area we live in. It had to have 200 words in it. The ESPC sponsors Libby Clegg, a paralympian who suffers from a deteriorating eye condition known as Stargardt's Macular Dystrophy disease, and one of the prizes of the competition was meeting Libby in person.

    We won !!! There is also a possibility that we may win £500 worth of sports equipment, but we will have to wait until nearer her visit to be notified of that.

    We will get to meet Libby in October and hear all her stories about the Paralympics and how she competes in the races.

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  • Australian Gap Year U6 Leaver Opportunity

    Australian Gap Year - U6 Leaver Opportunity

    Somerville House, a Protestant private girls school in the middle of Brisbane (Queensland, Australia) needs Assistant Boarding Mistresses - full board in exchange for 14 hours duty a week and if the mistresses do more hours they are paid.

    Any female students in sixth form finishing this year who would like a GAP JOB in Brisbane Australia from July to end of November this year or/& from the end of January to June would be suitable.

    The school will sponsor the work permit, all they need is the return fare to get here.

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  • No Minibus Service - 25/28 May

    No Minibus Service - 25/28 May

    This is just a reminder that there will be no complimentary minibus service to Haymarket on the afternoon of Friday 25 May and no morning or afternoon service on Monday 28 May, as both school minibuses will be in use for Duke of Edinburgh expeditions.

    St George's has a large and active Duke of Edinburgh's Award with about half of those eligible taking part at any one time. The aim of the Award is to provide an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding personal development programme and so it takes in almost all aspects of extra-curricular school life.

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Quick links

  • Examination Results

    This section of the school website hosts the records of several years of our exam results, each available as a fully detailed PDF document which you can download for viewing or printing.  The figures will include Standard Grade, Intermediate 2, Higher and Advanced Higher Level pass rates for St George's pupils.

    From 4th August 2011 students all over Scotland began receiving their Standard and Higher Grade results and we now have the overall school results, after all appeals, posted on our website. Please click below for full details ...

    Examination Results »

  • Bursary Fund

    We hope you may wish to contribute to our bursary fund, which helps to support new students from families on lower incomes and current students who face financial difficulties. In these uncertain times, we can never be sure who may need financial help. It is also important that the school provide bursary money so that it may keep its charitable status, which will help to ensure St George's future success, whatever the economy's ups and downs.  To make giving to the bursary fund as simple as possible, we now have this "Just Giving" link. Thank you for your support.

    Bursaries »

  • International Links

    St George's has many international links with schools and institutions in Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia, Chile, South Africa, Rwanda, Russia, China and a whole host of other countries. Many of our students participate in exchanges, work experience and visits and it is always a life-enhancing experience for all of them.

    From a very early age there are classroom connections and international projects with partner schools in France, Italy, Germany, Russia, China, Australia, the USA and Africa, where many girls communicate via the internet using various tools ...

    International Programme »

  • MyDaughter Website

    The site mydaughter.co.uk aims to unlock and share the expertise and experience of the heads and staff within girls' schools. We deal with girls day in and day out and over the years have had thousands of girls pass through our care.

    There cannot be many issues to do with educating or raising girls that we have not had to face in our careers or been asked to advise parents about. Many of us are parents, too. We think that we are particularly well placed to offer the sort of objective, up-to-date information and advice that parents tell us they are looking for about raising and educating their daughters ...

    MyDaughter Website »