One of the most prestigious events of the year took place on Monday 9th of November.
Hundreds of people gathered in the Anglican Cathedral to see some lucky Belvedere students receive prizes for their various outstanding achievements. There were many categories that students won awards in including effort, attainment and some special awards such as the Harrington Prize for Poetry and The Doreen Cameron Prize for Art.
The school chamber choir put on an amazing performance of the Academy’s song Jerusalem and the orchestra provided an enjoyable musical interlude. One of the highlights of the ceremony was a visit from Barbara Harrison, who until very recently was the CEO of the GDST (Girls’ Day School Trust) which The Belvedere Academy is part of. She distributed the Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 prizes and certificates, special prizes and sports awards and spoke about the school and her views on its development. Overall the Belvedere Prize Giving was a great success, just like the students there.
By Claire Wood 7C
In Prize Giving students of The Belvedere Academy were congratulated by the congregation. Belvedere Prize Giving is a time when friends and family gather together and praise students who get awards that they have achieved in the last school year.
It was a great experience going to my first ever Prize Giving. I personally enjoyed singing in the choir at the Anglican Cathedral. The orchestra’s sound was amazing.
Head Girl Jane Friery said about how she felt as she went from Year 7 to Year 13 and I can’t wait to have a journey like hers.
By Bethany Nightingale 7C
Below is the speech given by the Principal, Peter Kennedy, at Prize Giving 2009.
Madam Chairman, Governors, ladies and gentlemen, members of staff past and present and students past and present, I am delighted to welcome you all once again to the magnificent setting of Liverpool Cathedral and to our annual Prize Giving ceremony. We will attempt to recognise the achievements of last year, celebrate the outstanding successes of Belvedere girls, and touch on some of the highlights of what was a particularly challenging year in the long history of our school.
I am particularly pleased to welcome our very special guest Mrs Barbara Harrison who, until recently, was CEO of the Girls’ Day School Trust. The GDST is one of the largest, longest established, and most successful group of independent schools in the UK with over 4,000 staff and over 20,000 students between the ages of three and nineteen.
The GDST family of schools consists of 29 schools in England and Wales and, as a charity, all its income is reinvested into these schools for the benefit of the students. Belvedere was the GDST’s first Academy and recently Birkenhead High School has become its second.
Barbara Harrison worked for the GDST for 13 years and led the Trust through a period of significant change, driving a programme of modernisation and expansion.
One of Barbara’s most notable achievements was her brave and innovative decision to turn The Belvedere School into The Belvedere Academy. At the time this was also a radical and controversial decision as no other independent school had made such a move, and there was a mixed response to the proposal to say the least!
After my appointment as Principal Designate in September 2006 I was fortunate to be able to work closely with Barbara as we made the changes necessary for a successful transition from a selective, fee paying independent school to an all ability, state funded larger academy. I can say from first hand experience that Barbara was a passionate supporter of this transition and worked exceptionally hard to ensure that the project was successful and that more girls would ultimately benefit from the unique educational experience offered by Belvedere.
I am sure, therefore, that she was particularly thrilled to read the comments of Her Majesty’s Inspectors who said the following in June 2009 as part of a glowing report:
“The Academy, like its predecessor school, is meeting its fundamental aim to inspire girls to high ambition and achievement.”
Barbara, thank you for your vision and support, thank you for joining us today and welcome back to Belvedere and to Liverpool. I shall now attempt to summarise just some of the work of Belvedere staff and students during our second year as an Academy beginning with our examination results for 2009.
Examination Results
External examination results were, once again, excellent with some outstanding individual performances.
Over 39% of all grades at A level were at grade A with 67% at B or better. Particular congratulations should go to Elena Teh and Rose McCann, both of whom achieved five A levels at grade A- a remarkable achievement! Most of our A level students achieved their targets and most have now started their new courses at university. We wish them every success and are delighted to see that some of them have been able to take time off from their studies to be with us today.
Results at GCSE were, once again, also excellent with 100% of the girls achieving 5 A* - C, with over 97% achieving a grade C or better in 5 subjects including English and Mathematics.
The HMI inspection found that “Students are well above average in the main Academy” and that “Standards of attainment in the sixth form are very high and well above average”.
I would like to congratulate both students and staff on such a fantastic achievement despite the disruptions and distractions of our major building programme to which I now turn.
Building Update
The building and refurbishment work, started in March 2008, is now virtually complete and the staff and students are beginning to take advantage of what are now first class facilities across the curriculum.
We now have a smart new reception area which leads visitors into the new building and onto the corridor which contains our new, fully equipped fitness suite; drama studio with tiered seating and state of the art technology and doors which can be opened to create a large space for assemblies and whole school productions; and a superb dance studio. Also in the new building are six new science laboratories, and two new ICT suites. Significant parts of the existing buildings have been refurbished or repainted and the whole of the teaching block has been completely renovated. Modern Foreign Languages now has two specialist IT laboratories and the two Physics laboratories have been upgraded. In addition, sixth form seminar rooms, ICT breakout rooms and a new sixth form common room have been established.
Elsewhere we have increased the outdoor seating provision for break and lunchtimes and new lockers have been installed throughout the Academy to provide students with secure storage facilities. There has also been extensive planting of trees at the front of the school and areas at the rear have been returfed following the building works.
Belvedere has, therefore, benefitted enormously from the £11 million capital grant allocated to the school when it became an Academy. Staff and students now enjoy truly outstanding facilities which retain the history and traditions of the old Victorian villas but which have been enhanced by the modern extension and refurbishment.
It has been difficult for all of us working in what has been, in effect, a building site for the past 20 months or so. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the staff and students for their patience and hard work in adopting a “business as usual” attitude despite the unavoidable disruption caused by a major building programme taking place on a restricted, live site.
I would also like to thank parents for their patience and understanding during this difficult period and for supporting their daughters so well throughout.
Finally I would like to thank the design team led by Neil Ayres, the principal architect on the project, and in particular our building contractors, Mansells, for their willingness to work closely with the school to minimise disruption to the girls’ education and for their flexibility in what was a difficult contract, particularly in parts of the old, Victorian villas.
They leave behind a magnificent building with a unique combination of the old and the new which will serve the students of Belvedere for many years to come.
HMI Inspection
In June 2009 Belvedere Academy was inspected for the first time by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate. Two experienced inspectors spent two days with us interviewing staff, students, governors and sponsors and observing lessons at all key stages. As I have already said, the inspectors’ report was extremely encouraging for all of us, particularly during such a period of change and transition. HMI were particularly impressed with the girls, who they said “demonstrated exemplary attitudes and application to their work” and by what they referred to as “the harmonious climate evident in the academy and the strong positive relationships between staff and students”.
The inspectors were also impressed by the quality of teaching, some of which they found outstanding, standards in both the main school and particularly in the sixth form, and by the quality of leadership and management in the academy.
Importantly they found that “senior leaders and staff have maintained a climate of high expectations while offering support so that students feel well cared for” and that students “develop into confident and articulate young women”.
Finally, inspectors were extremely impressed by what they called our “excellent enrichment programme” to which I shall refer later.
I would now like to report on just some of the work of staff and students during the last academic year, beginning with our specialisms, Modern Foreign Languages and Science.
MFL
The Modern Foreign Languages department was particularly active last year in organising trips abroad where students can benefit so much from using a language in its natural environment. Trips were organised to Paris and Granada and sixth formers enjoyed periods of work experience in both France and Spain.
There were also two French theatre performances in school and enrichment was further developed with classes taking place in Mandarin, Arabic, Italian and Russian as well as support sessions in French and Spanish.
Latin continues to be an important part of our curriculum for many girls and the Year 10 Latin group visited Hadrian’s Wall, Ribchester and Lancaster as part of their study of the Roman Army. Some of the girls even studied Ancient Greek with three sixth formers, Louise and Rebecca King and Kim See Cheng, gaining level 1 certificates in this subject through enrichment sessions. Modern Foreign Languages have now moved into their new rooms, which include two language laboratories, and are looking forward to another exciting year.
Science
Our second specialism, Science, also had an eventful year gradually moving their considerable resources into their new area which contains six brand new laboratories, two refurbished laboratories and 3 new prep rooms. Science now has truly outstanding facilities and is generating considerable interest both inside and outside Belvedere with many sixth formers joining us from other schools to benefit from our growing strength in this area.
As well as considerable examination success, some of our girls achieved success in competitions such as the Chemistry Olympiad, a nationwide event in which Laura Carson gained one of the top 12 marks in the country and where Laura, Elena Teh and Kate Teiman gained 2 silver and 1 bronze certificates between them. In the Biology Olympiad Elena Teh won a silver award and Carmay Lin a bronze, with Laura Carson and Elena Teh also gaining a bronze award and commendations in the Physics Olympiad.
In the junior version of the British Biology Olympiad two Year 10 girls, Katie Oliver and Lara Edison, achieved silver awards which makes them two of the highest achieving young biologists in the country.
Science trips have also been popular with Biology visits to Malham to complete Year 12 and 13 field work, a visit to Chester Zoo to study chimpanzee behaviour, attendances at Liverpool University for the Christmas Lectures, and a Year 11 visit to the Undergraduate Halls in Manchester for a series of Science lectures.
Congratulations should also go to two of our young scientists, Anna Reilly and Emily Fulham who both took part in the Nuffield Bursary Summer Programme where they spent 4 weeks working alongside leading research Physicists at Liverpool University. Emily and Anna both produced high quality reports which were presented to the public at Liverpool Football Club in October 2009.
In technology two of last year’s Year 8 students, Rebecca Caulfield and Rachel Burns, won a “Design a School Meal” competition run by Healthy Schools Liverpool and Radio City.
During National Science and Engineering Week the Science Department invited the girls to participate in a variety of activities. One of the highlights was when Mrs Rigby introduced the girls to her hobby of scuba diving by walking onto the stage during a Key Stage 3 assembly wearing full scuba gear. This certainly made the girls sit up and take notice and is perhaps a lesson for some of us in how to grab an audience’s attention.
English
English continues to go from strength to strength and this should continue following its recent move into a newly refurbished suite of rooms in the teaching block.
One of our students, Rachel McIver, won a city wide competition to become The Athenaeum Writer in Residence. This is a very prestigious award and Rachel won £1,000, honorary membership to the Athenaeum, work experience at the Daily Post which also published her story, Pippa’s Box, which was broadcast on Radio Merseyside. Congratulations to Rachel on an outstanding achievement.
Due to the success of Media Enrichment, a Media GCSE class has been introduced for the first time, with girls at both Key Stage 4 and 5 taking part in National Schools’ Films Week.
English also held its first Belvedere Academy Spelling Bee for students in Years 7 and 8 with Areej Yusuf emerging as the Year 7 champion and Sophie Mulligan winning the Year 8 competition.
English also entered Year 10 for their GCSE Language examinations a year early with 50% of the girls achieving A* or A. These are outstanding results for Year 10 students who can now focus on achieving similar grades in English Literature this year. These students also went to “Poetry Live!” at the Philharmonic Hall in December last year where they had the opportunity to listen to poets such as Carol Ann Duffy, Grace Nichols, John Agard and Simon Armitage reading their own work. Key Stage 3 students visited London overnight and took part in such varied activities as a Shakespeare Workshop and going to see the musical “Hairspray” in the West End.
Humanities
The Humanities Curriculum is a large group of subjects including History, Geography, Religious Studies, Politics, Psychology and Sociology, all of which led a full year of activities extending beyond the taught curriculum to enrich the experiences of the girls.
For example, in December 2008 Year 8 students were given the opportunity to take part in preparing Christmas Festivities at Stanley Palace, a 16th Century Grade 11 listed building in the heart of Chester. The girls were welcomed by staff dressed in sixteenth century costume who explained the domestic arrangements of the house. The girls also took part in Tudor games and dances and were able to dress up in period costume to take part in a short play.
In February 2009 GCSE students visited Berlin and Krakow and experienced a powerful and emotional visit to Auschwitz where the youngest member of the party, Amber Paige Moss lit a candle on the railway track into Birkenau on behalf of the Belvedere community in remembrance of all those who suffered during the holocaust. A similar trip has been arranged for February, 2010.
In March 2009 Year 12 Religious Studies students visited Liverpool Hope University for a day conference dedicated to US Politics. Talks, led by academics from the Universities of Keele, Leicester, Manchester and Liverpool Hope dealt with such wide ranging issues as the expectations of the Obama Presidency, the legacy of George W Bush and analysis of the recent US presidential results.
In Geography field trips were organised for every Year group to a variety of locations including the Albert Dock, the Peak District, Wirral Country Park, Ormskirk and Snowdonia.
A team of 3 Year 9 students came 7th in the Geographical Association North West School Quiz, up 5 places on last year’s performance.
Sociology and Psychology, both relatively new subjects on the Belvedere curriculum, continue to grow and develop with increasing numbers of both internal and external students choosing to study them in sixth form. Both subjects are current and issues discussed are relevant and up to date requiring regular use of the internet for research purposes. Examination results were excellent and we expect both subjects to develop rapidly as the numbers in our expanding Sixth Form increase.
The Arts
As usual, our PE department had a busy year with all year groups competing in the Liverpool Schools Netball Leagues. All the teams acquitted themselves well but most notable were the Under 16s who finished as Liverpool City champions and Liverpool Teachers’ Association Tournament champions, a fantastic double triumph! The Under 14 team also finished as champions in the LTA tournament and most of our teams reached the semi finals at least in their respective tournaments.
After the Easter break girls from Year 7 to Year 13 competed against other GDST schools in rounders, table tennis, volleyball, badminton and swimming. The PE department would like to thank parents for their wonderful support in getting the girls to the Academy in time for matches and events and for collecting them at the end at often unsociable hours.
The Community Sports Leader Level 2 Award continues to be offered to Year 12 with 43 candidates qualifying for this prestigious award this year.
The Princes Park Community Tennis Club also continues to flourish with students continuing to benefit from having a professional coach.Finally some of the students continue to excel outside school with Paige Bowden in swimming, Scarlet Griffin in gymnastics and Maira Malik Year 7 in Tiekando some outstanding examples.
Congratulations to all our sporting successes who can now take advantage of our new fitness suite with its professional standard exercise machines and equipment to lead them to even greater success in the future.
In Music there were some outstanding individual successes, perhaps the highlight of which was Hannah Parsons in Year 13 winning Pianist of the Year at the Liverpool Festival of Music. Nneka Cummins, now in Year 12, also excelled passing Grade 8 violin with merit.
The Spring Term also saw the first concert in the newly refurbished Hall with its new stage and sound system. This was a spectacular success with choirs, orchestra and soloists wowing the audience with some outstanding performances.
You will be able to hear both the orchestra and the choir during our Prize Giving today and later during the Academic Year.
Drama
With a new subject leader and a new vision and direction the last year has been a busy and exciting one for the drama department.
Drama now has a studio style theatre that would rival many professional venues. With tiered seating that holds 164 the studio is the perfect space for holding smaller, more intimate performances. The hall and main stage have had an equally impressive make-over with state of the art lighting, sound and projection facilities. As performance and learning venues both spaces, which can be combined to produce a much larger space, inspire teachers and students alike and encourage creativity and a professional ethos.
Belvedere has become a partner school of the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse which has afforded our students privileged access to a range of opportunities including theatre performances and workshops where they have worked alongside industry professionals. Around 250 students from various year groups have participated in Stage Combat, Stage Make-up and Trestle Mask Workshops with similar numbers having attended “Stage to Page” workshops where they work alongside the director and several actors to dissect the process of bringing a scene to life. Our students have been to numerous shows and have even travelled to London to see four plays in three days, Billy Elliot, The Lion King, Wicked and Women in Black. A similar trip is planned for this year with 90 students becoming more excited by the day about their forthcoming trip to the West End!
The Drama Festival continues to be the highlight of Belvedere’s Year and is a wonderful example of older students working with younger girls to produce short plays which are then performed in front of the lower school. Last year’s festival was won by Hocus Pocus and this year’s takes place on 8th December with celebrity judges already confirmed and prize winners’ trophies on order. It is shaping up to be something very special, particularly as the girls will be taking advantage of our new stage facilities for the first time.
The talents of our students will be further showcased next May when the Drama department in conjunction with Music and Art will produce Sondheim and Lapine’s fairy tale musical “Into the Woods”. This will be the first time in several years that Belvedere has produced a whole school musical on this scale and we hope that parents will turn out in force to support the girls as they take to the stage next May.
Art
The Art department had an outstanding year, particularly in terms of examination results. Art A Level 100% of grades were A or B, at GCSE 100% of grades were A* - C with almost half the grades awarded at A* or A and in terms of value added, Belvedere was the top performing GDST school in the country in A Level Art. Not surprisingly the A Level and GCSE exhibition held over a two week period in June was extremely well received by staff, students, parents and visitors to the Academy. More recently, our Open Evening for prospective parents held in October, which attracted almost 1000 people to Belvedere, allowed many more people to view some of the outstanding art work now displayed throughout the Academy.
Mathematics
The Mathematics Curriculum Area consists of Mathematics, Business Studies and ICT and all enjoyed a particularly successful year in 2008/2009. Once again our Year 9 mathematicians performed exceptionally well in the end of Key Stage 3 SAT examinations with 95% exceeding the National Expectations of level 5. An amazing 72% of girls gained a level 7 or 8 with 27% reaching the gold standard of a level 8.
Special congratulations go to Tyra Steele who has made 4 levels of progress since Key Stage 2 and to 26 other students who made 3 levels of progress. We expect the current Year 9, the first Academy intake, to perform at least as well later this year. We also entered four teams for the Liverpool Mathematics Society’s Pop Quiz at John Moores University and the Year 12 Further Mathematics team came joint 2nd behind Grange School Cheshire. This meant that we were the top school in Liverpool for the third year running and the girls are determined to win again next time.
Jade Flaherty of Year 12 participated in the Intermediate Mathematics Olympiad organised by the UK Mathematical Trust and was among the top 5% nationally winning a week at a summer school for gifted and talented mathematicians at Queens College, Birmingham in July.
Four of our Further Mathematics students, Kellie Bateman, Emily Fulham, Anjaly Sunil and Angie Zhen, spent a taster day at Newnham College, Cambridge in May where they attended lectures and toured various colleges and teaching facilities.
Examination results in Mathematics were outstanding at both GCSE and A Level with 63% achieving A* or A at GCSE, 94% achieving A or B at A Level and 100% achieving A or B in Further Mathematics in Year 12.
This year the Mathematics department will be taking part in a video conferencing project with Motivate at Cambridge University during which our girls will present their solutions to given tasks live to the presenter and the three other schools taking part, two in Southern England and one in Karachi, Pakistan.
Business Studies continues to grow at Belvedere with courses now at both A Level and GCSE. Young Enterprise and Make Your Mark business groups were active during Enrichment and a Marketing Team drawn from Year 13 created an alternative prospectus for the Sixth Form which included a very successful photo shoot with professional photography, make-up and costumes. The results of their work impressed both staff and students and can be seen on a promotional banner in the Outer Hall and on our website.
Following ex Belvedere student Natalie Haywood’s visit to the Academy to talk to girls about her successful career in business plans are now in place to invite other successful business women into school to provide role models for Belvedere students to emulate in the future.
ICT continues to develop rapidly as facilities are improved in this area. New examinations have been successfully introduced and this year the current Year 11 class will have the opportunity to gain the equivalent of two GCSEs in the subject.
Key Stage 3 students have been involved in animation competitions and Miss Foster and Miss McDonnell would like to thank all the staff, students and parents who voted for their favourite animation through the school website. Similar plans are in hand for this year so watch our website for details.
Work Experience
Our Year 11 students enjoyed 1 or 2 weeks’ work experience after completing their GCSE examinations in a wide variety of placements including Police dog handling, The Royal School for the Blind, Village Vets in Woolton, a Dentist, an Opticians and even at Smiling Wolf, a graphic design company. All the girls were superb ambassadors for Belvedere and we received lots of positive feedback from their various placements.
An extremely successful Careers Fair was held in January which was attended by large numbers of students from Years 9 – 12 as well as many parents. 55 different careers were represented by the same number of people who gave up their time for the benefit of our students and we are very grateful for their support.
This has been just a snapshot of some of the work taking place at Belvedere during the past year or so and I’ve had to leave so much out or we would have been here until Christmas Eve! I’m sure you will agree it represents an impressive range and gives you some idea of the richness of the educational experience available to the students of Belvedere. Our Enrichment programme has been referred to several times and this is rapidly becoming a real strength with an ever increasing number of activities for the girls to enjoy. The majority of these activities take place on three evenings each week but a great deal takes place at other times including during the school holidays and at weekends.
For example The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is a popular activity every year at Belvedere and last year over 40 girls in Year 10 started their Bronze Award. Despite not being able to complete their final examination due to factors outside our control most girls completed their service, skills and physical recreation sections of the award.
The girls spent two days in the Peak District in March learning basic camping and map reading skills and despite awful weather still managed to have good fun and greatly impressed the qualified training staff with their positive attitude and enthusiasm.
This year some girls are progressing to the Silver Award and are preparing for their April expeditions to North Wales.
Inspired by the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, some of our girls wish to broaden their experience and are planning a four week trip to Cambodia this year with World Challenge. The girls have to each raise £3,600 to be able to take part in the trip which in the current economic climate is proving very difficult. To try and help the girls the Cathedral has very generously allowed us to organise a collection for World Challenge to take place today as you leave. The girls will be at the back with buckets so please give generously.
Another major success stemming from an enrichment activity was Alexandra Hall, now in 10D who entered a photography competition winning a fantastic first prize which was a trip to South Africa to the Shamwari Game Reserve. Alex went with her Mum and Miss Dearden, her photography enrichment teacher, and returned with some breathtaking photographs of the African landscape and animals such as elephants, lions and giraffes in their natural environment. Some of these photographs are featured in the Summer Term edition of our newsmagazine which is compiled by Miss Murphy and the Journalism Enrichment Club.
A major enrichment activity was last year’s momentous trip to China, organised by Mr Sterry, when 38 students and 4 staff spent 12 days in China visiting Tianamen Square, The Great Wall, the Olympic Stadium, the Jade Buddah Temple and the Terracotta Army to name but a few. The girls also rode bikes and rickshaws, visited a Chinese University and a silk factory and watched amazing acrobatic shows and, as Mr Sterry said in the Special Edition of the Newsmagazine commemorating the trip, bought every fake Prada bag and fake pair of Gucci sunglasses east of the River Danube!
I would also like to offer my personal thanks to all the staff who made such a wonderful trip possible and to all the staff who work so hard to enrich the lives of the girls of Belvedere in many ways. I think, girls, you should give them a well deserved round of applause.
Staffing
A number of teachers left at the end of last year including Mrs Ball, Curriculum Leader for Mathematics who relocated to London with her family; Mrs Davies and Mrs Cunningham who both retired; Mrs Vaughan who took up a part-time post in another school and Miss Dearden who left to teach in a College of Further Education.
We were joined by Mr Burns, Miss Pybis and Miss Nuttall in Mathematics, Mrs Beer and Mrs Follett in English, Miss Bell in PE, Ms Carroll in PHSE, Miss Jones in RS, and Miss Kehoe in Science. Miss Fisher joined us as our new Receptionist, Mr Francis joined the ICT team and Mr McEvoy joined the Science Department as Biology Technician. Mrs Carter became our new Pastoral Assistant and Miss Davies joined the Finance team.
I would like to thank all our leavers for their outstanding service to Belvedere and wish them all well in the future. I would also like to once again welcome our new staff and wish them well in their new careers here at Belvedere.
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank our support staff without whom Belvedere simply would not work. We are lucky to be supported by such a dedicated group of people who work in Administration, Finance, Estates, ICT and Learning Support and who support the work of the girls, the staff, the Senior Management Team and myself so well. I think they also deserve a round of applause from all of us.
To conclude, we have emerged from a difficult period of transition, fundamental change, major building works and general upheaval in an extremely strong position. Examination results and standards remain high, recruitment of students is excellent with over 450 applying for places in last year’s Year 7 and 31 external students joining our Sixth Form in September 2009. Her Majesty’s Inspectors have produced a glowing report on our progress and we now have the most wonderful facilities a school could wish for with a unique blend of old and new, of traditional and modern, of large and small, and of flexible spaces capable of offering our girls the educational opportunities they deserve.
We have a strong and committed teaching staff and dedicated support staff, an outstanding Senior Management Team and our students are a credit to the long and distinguished history of Belvedere. We receive strong support from our Governing Bodies, both the Academy Trust Board in London and the Local Governing Body here in Liverpool, from our sponsors the GDST and HSBC and from our parents.
I am extremely proud to be Principal of Belvedere, but even prouder of our girls and of their many achievements, some of which we are about to recognise today in our annual Prize Giving ceremony. I look forward to continue working with you to ensure that Belvedere continues, as the Inspectors said, to “meet its fundamental aim to inspire its girls to high ambition and achievement,” and to produce “confident, articulate young women” for many years to come.
Thank you.