Welcome to our School News page. Here you can keep up-to-date with everything that has been taking place at Carshalton Girls.
Calling year 11! Join our Sixth Form Induction on Monday 7th - Tuesday 8th July. See below for what's happening on the day, and please fill in the form at the bottom of the page to confirm your attendance by Monday 30th June.
To celebrate World Environment Day, on Wednesday the 11th of June, the Year 7 Geography Society have planned a day full of events.
Money raised through these events will go towards the school adopting an endangered snow leopard through the WWF charity. This will help protect the species and support the WWF's work in conservation schemes.
Money will also go to the Pack for a Purpose charity, which will provide school supplies to schools in South Africa.
The Geography Society will be setting up a craft sale, selling handmade goods. This includes origami, bracelets, notelets and bookmarks. Prices start from 10p up to £1.50.
There will also be a station where students can make their own bracelets during the lunchtime break. This will be £1 to take part in.
The Society will also be running a bake sale on the day during break and lunch times outside the Sixth Form block.
Prices will range from £1 and upwards.
We would love it if you could help us by donating cakes/ bakes!
Please bring in any donations on Wednesday the 11th of June before AM tutor time to the sixth form common room and label these with your form group.
If you are donating homemade items, please ensure to label the product with all ingredients used.
House points will go to the house which brings in the most donations!
To win your own snow leopard soft toy, we will be holding a raffle. Tickets will be £1 and there will also be more soft toys to be won.
Culture Day is Friday 23rd May, and we look forward to seeing many students dressed in clothes from their culture.
We would like students to wear clothing or cultural attire that represents themselves through their culture, their heritage, or their identity. Ideas for what pupils might like to wear include:
The aim is to encourage all students to explore and discuss with others who they are and how they identify in a positive and joyful way, promoting and celebrating diversity and equality. With this in mind, it is important that students do not wear or bring any items of clothing or accessories that could in any way be offensive or cause harm to others. Students must not dress in a way that conflicts with our school’s values. In particular, students must not wear any items that promote particular political views, or which could be seen to insult others, whether individually or as a group, or promote or justify violence, or the oppression of others in any way. We expect all students who participate to show appropriate sensitivity to their peers.
Similarly, we would request that students do not simply come wearing a tracksuit or similar, like on a regular non-uniform day; the aim is that everyone can enjoy learning more about others in our community. If pupils do not wish to participate, they should wear school uniform as normal. If you have any questions about the suitability of the items that your child would like to wear, please contact us in the first instance.
Students in Years 8 and 12 will have their ARD on Thursday 8th May. Parents and Carers are invited to book an appointment to meet with a member of the year team (Tutor, Head of Year or a member of the SEND team) to discuss their progress. ARD gives parents/carers the opportunity to raise any concerns or issues, as well as hear feedback on their behaviour and involvement in the wider school community.
Appointments can be booked here: chsg.schoolcloud.co.uk, and we expect students to attend with their parent/carer.
Students will work from home and have a remote learning day. Work will be set through our MS Teams platform.
The 10-minute appointments will take place either face to face, at school, or online. The face-to-face appointments are between 8.30am to 10.30am and the online appointments are between 10.40am and 2.30pm. Please only book for one meeting. If you are coming into school, make your way to the student entrance five minutes before your appointment so we can register you and take you to the correct room. There is no parking available on the school site.
Please bear in mind that the schedule is very tight and we will have to keep to time; if you wish to continue the discussion after the allotted time, please feel free to make a follow-up appointment.
To continue our work on strengthening our community at CHSG, we are delighted to be giving you the opportunity to express your opinion on parent and carer engagement and your overall confidence in the school’s strategy. Our goal is to open up a communication channel where your voice is heard and organised in such a way that we can create the best learning environment for your child. To help us with this, we're working together with the Edurio survey platform.
To complete the survey, please click here: edurio.com/poll/myCJke
Surveys are completely anonymous and confidential, though the responses will be aggregated for the purpose of analysis. Please note that the survey needs to be completed in one sitting. The survey will be available until the end of the day on 14th May 2025 and the survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete. All students will complete a student survey in the coming weeks, and we are running a competition to see which year group will have the most parent responses and, so please help your daughter’s year group win the prize by completing the survey.
Your opinion and honesty are much appreciated. If you have any questions or concerns, please be in touch.
We look forward to your feedback!
Mrs P Durrett
Assistant Headteacher
A recording of the Year 11 exam information can be viewed below.
The start of the Summer Term arrangements are as follows:
All students return to school to register at 11.00 am. The school gates will be open at 10.40am. The first lesson will be period 3.
Year 8 had an assembly introducing and explaining the Options Process. We understand that there is a lot of information to take in. All the key messages and information are also contained in the Options Booklet below. It also contains an overview of the Key Stage 4 curriculum, the Options Process and details about all subjects. Students have also been 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 choices are made.
We ask that you and your daughter carefully consider these choices and select subjects that are balanced and meet her strengths and aspirations. We will endeavour to meet the choices of each individual student, but unfortunately, this cannot always be guaranteed. The viability of any course is dependent upon the number of students who select it and the staffing available to us.
This year, we launched a House Writing competition to celebrate both 2025 World Book Day and International Women's Day. The challenge was to put one of our house mascots - Kalpana Chawla, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Audrey Hepburn and Mary Seacole - into a story genre that you wouldn't expect to find them in!
The judging panel consisted of 5 English teachers and 2 A-level English scholars (who were previous writing competition winners). It was wonderful to read all the entries and discuss their merits. We certainly have some very talented writers at CHSG! Our winners were Soumya M (Y10) and Sarah J (Y7) who both produced fabulous, imaginative stories.
Soumya's science fiction tale, 'Starlight and Shadows' was set on the spaceship Celestial Dawn, where Audrey Hepburn, the ship's cultural diplomat, must convince yet another cosmic warlord that peace and understanding can be won at very little cost to humankind.
Sarah's Audrey Hepburn in her story, 'Stardust', is suddenly transported from a Parisian café in 1961 to the year 2147. Dodging hovertrams, flying cars and drones in her heels is a big problem. But escaping Project Eternal to become a Kindness Robot is an even bigger one!
Friday 4th April is the last day of term and will be an early finish. Students will be dismissed as per below:
We will be having a Mufti Day on the last day, please note that students wearing mufti are expected to follow these rules:
If your child has a PE lesson on Friday, please ensure that they bring their kits as usual as they will still be expected to change into appropriate sportswear for this lesson.
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On Friday 21st March we are raising funds for Comic Relief by hosting a bake sale.
Students are encouraged to bring in baked goodies (with full ingredient lists) on this day and drop them off in the Sixth Form Common room.
The bake sale will run during breaks and lunch times to raise money. This will also be run as a house competition. Whoever raises the most money will win!
There will be a mix of prices, so there is something for everyone. Please bring cash.