Why cHooSE TudOR hALl?

Tudor Hall is celebrating 175 years of girls’ boarding education in September 2025 and we have been tailoring everything we do to optimise girls’ educational experience and outcomes for all that time. We are proud of the expert educational excellence that the Tudor has provided since 1850 that has served to inspire and empower generations of young women. Here, every girl has the opportunity and support to be, and do, whatever she aspires to.

All-girls' schools have a singularly important distinction: put simply, girls do better at all girls' schools than in other educational settings. There is no shortage of evidence around why girls in single-sex schools do better than their peers, including a report* in 2024 confirming that girls at girls’ schools outperform boys and girls at co-educational schools, and outdo boys at all boys schools, equivalent to 10% higher GCSE grades in 2023.. At Tudor, this means embracing the 'no limits to learning' approach of the High Performance Learning pathway to become a World Class School. Our value-added in 2025 typically added one grade to every subject at GCSE, and at A Level we are in the top 16% of all schools nationally for value-added.

*FFT Datalab analysis as reported by The Guardian, May 2024

Not only does learning in a single sex environment mean that there is freedom from any the stereotyping of being in classes with boys , but it also means girls in the same cohort achieving places at Oxford University, or the London School of Economics, or the Jimmy Choo Academy (London Fashion Academy).

As an all-girls school, we can truly optimise the learning experience of every girl, without also having to cater for the other 50% of the classroom. Tudor parents can read T3: The Tudor Teacher, a termly publication written by the School’s teaching and learning community – the staff and the pupils – which shares the how, why and what this looks like in our classrooms, boarding houses, sports pitches, creative and performing arts centres and beyond.

Here, there is a huge range of ways Tudor girls can explore their talents or lead - and be seen to lead - across school life. Girls can choose from more than 200 co-curricular activity sessions each week and in the Sixth Form, they have additional invaluable opportunities such as gaining barista skills, a Leith’s professional cookery qualification or a lifeguard qualification while at school.

Such is the strength in depth among Tudor girls, that it is a long-standing tradition to appoint a new Head Girl team each term (a Head Girl and two Deputies) to be ambassadors for the School and to lead the prefect team and wider school in charity and voluntary projects, and initiatives such as peer mentoring. Tudor girls know they have a voice and will be heard.

Pastoral care and support is tailored entirely to Tudor girls’ needs, challenges and ambitions. Our horizontal boarding model, in which every boarding house is home to an entire year group of girls, creates a very special environment in which girls get to know everyone in their year instead of finding themself in a House with just a small group of those the same age. Tolerance, diversity of opinion, compromise, understanding, kindness and inclusion thrive, creating a community where every pupil is truly known. As we put it, every girl has her own story and is empowered to tell it.

The horizontal Houses also ensure that each Housemistress and their staff team are experts in the particular challenges and issues that age group are likely to face. For example, it means that the rhythms and pattern of life in Todd House (for Years 7 and 8) caters to the needs of girls just beginning their senior school career, or dipping their toe into boarding and being away from home for the first time.

We are particularly proud to be actively engaged with more than 3,000 Old Tudorians (OTs) - an astounding number. Our alumnae return to Tudor again and again; they play a key role in careers events and offering internships and advice to both current pupils and recent OT graduates. They also make an invaluable contribution to our Oxbridge pathway, supporting candidates with practice interviews. Tudor ‘on tour’ is a very popular programme of staff visits and events in university towns to catch up with recent leavers. Reunion events for alumnae 5, 10, or 20 years after leaving Tudor are, without fail, very well attended.

“What they get on their journey is exceptional”

“It provides an opportunity for girls to be themselves”

“We looked past the shiny stuff in other schools and saw the ethos at Tudor”

“It’s a total education, a good balance between academic and non-academic, a broader learning base with a wide range of subjects”

“There is an ineffable vibe about the place and it has got it in spades”

Source: current parent interviews conducted independently, April 2025