Our School Fund empowers our school community to voluntarily support our extra curricula enrichment programme, and to help improve our facilities further.

Year 8 had an assembly in which the Options process was introduced and explained. We understand that there is a lot of information to take in, so all the key messages and information are also contained in the Options Booklet, which also gives an overview of the Key Stage 4 curriculum, the Options process and details about all subjects. Your child will also be given a hard copy to bring home for ease of reference. Please read this carefully as it will provide insight into the components of each specification before those all-important choices are made. 

There are also a wide selection of information videos on the Year 8 options page. These have been made by subject leaders and contain further information about course content, further study and careers information. 

We ask that you and your child consider these choices very carefully and select subjects which are as balanced as possible but also meet her strengths and aspirations. We will endeavour to meet the choices of each individual student but unfortunately this cannot always be guaranteed as the viability of any course is dependent upon the number of students who select it and the staffing available to us.  

The next key date in the process is Options Evening on Thursday 20th April from 5.30pm to 7.30pm. On this evening there will be a presentation explaining the Options process which will take place at the start of the evening and will be repeated at 7.00pm, so you can be flexible about your time of arrival. The evening will also give you the opportunity to meet and hear from leaders of option subjects. 

On behalf of all the CHSG staff I look forward to welcoming you into school on Options Evening. 

Kind regards 

Mr Sambrook 
Deputy Headteacher 

As you will be aware we were visited by OFSTED on 24 and 25 January 2023. It now gives me great pleasure to share the final report and the outcomes of this inspection with you (I have to admit it has been incredibly difficult for me keep this fantastic news under wraps for the past month!) Due to our excellent outcomes last year we were inspected under a Section 8 inspection meaning that inspectors are evaluating whether the school remains good, with no change in the overall grading. Had there been any concerns over provision or results we would have been inspected under a Section 5 inspection. I am delighted to inform you that we remain ‘Good’, with so much of our work being identified by the inspectors as being outstanding!    

Before we go any further I would like to take the time to acknowledge and thank everyone who has been involved in this inspection. My fantastic and supportive staff, our wonderful students and the wider #teamchsg who make our school a great place every day, not just during these 2 days. I want to thank the parents and carers who support us endlessly by ensuring their child meets our expectations and, like us, believe in the power of a great education. There were so many positive emails from parents and carers and I thank you all for taking the time to do so. I can assure you, we didn’t ‘pull out any stops’ or do anything differently to what we normally do on a daily basis, which makes this report even more pleasing for everyone in #teamchsg.

Now to the report! Throughout the 2 days inspectors were incredibly positive about the school (especially the staff and students) and the learning environment we have created. In this report they have acknowledged the hard work and commitment of my staff and have more importantly ratified many of the decisions we have made as leaders since the last inspection. They understood our mission and praised our high expectations of our students. They could see what our priorities were and how much progress we have made in the past 3 years, despite the pandemic. Student feedback was incredibly positive in the survey. As the Lead Inspector put it “this is clearly a great school, on its way to being an excellent school”.

I could fill this email with positive quotes, but a few select ones that bring me great pride include: 

“Carshalton High School for Girls is a calm, welcoming school. Pupils are happy and feel safe. Leaders have developed a culture where pupils behave well and work hard. Adults in the school know pupils well and support them to achieve.”    

“Leaders are ambitious for all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). This is realised in the curriculum offered and the wider opportunities that leaders provide.”

“The curriculum is taught well, and low-level disruption to learning is rare. The positive learning environment helps pupils to achieve well. Pupils are kind to one another, and their interactions are warm.”

“Pupils behave well around the school. Relationships between staff and pupils, and between pupils themselves, are positive. Pupils are confident in reporting bullying and say that staff tackle it effectively.”

Despite this fantastic report I can assure you that we will not rest on our laurels, and we will continue with our mission of being ‘a centre that is fearless in its commitment to excellence’. If anything we are now even more motived to take our school towards “Outstanding” in the near future, and keep improving as we have done. However, the outcomes of our students will always remain my greatest motivator, not an inspection grading. 

You will no doubt see that despite it being a Section 8 inspection it was a very thorough process and certainly the most thorough I have been involved in (this was my 5^th inspection – first as Head!). However, through this level of challenge I believe the inspectors really got a flavour of who we are as a school and the excellent provision that we offer. I will leave you with the final quote that matters the most to me – “pupils enjoy their learning and value the time and support teachers give them. They appreciate teachers recognising their efforts”.  I cannot ask for any more than that!

Kind regards

Mr M M J Devenney

We run a range of lunch time and after school extra curricular clubs, click the button below to see this terms clubs.

There is no need to book, students are encouraged to turn up and register to a club.

With a range of clubs available there is something for everyone.

We know that exams do not only affect the students, but parents can also find them difficult and stressful. 

Here at CHSG we want your child to succeed so Mrs Durrett and I have prepared the presentation below with a view to providing some advice on how best to support families and students in the run-up to exams.

Your support can make a real difference, we know that teenagers perform best when they, their teachers and their parents all do their bit.

Here are the links referred to in the video:

• Student finance information
• 12 ways to Active Recall in 12 minutes 

I hope you find the presentation useful, thank you for taking the time to watch it.

If you have any questions, please do email me: bnorman@carshaltongirls.org.uk 

Mrs Norman
Director of Sixth Form

Our KS4 & KS5 art students had a fantastic opportunity to participate in a workshop run by established portrait artist Paul Brandford. Students explored expressive drawings with charcoal and monochromatic paintings and discovered different ways of approaching the idea of creating a portrait.