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  • About
    • Welcome from the Headmistress
    • Aims and ethos
    • Discover St Helen’s
    • What others say about us
    • Our day
    • Our campus
    • Our history
    • Our staff
    • Governors
    • Vacancies
    • Term dates
    • Policies and reports
    • Venue hire
  • Admissions
    • Visit us
    • How to apply
    • Register online
    • Schedule of fees
    • Bursaries
    • Scholarships
    • Bus routes
    • Uniform
  • Academic
    • Our academic ethos
    • Our curriculum
    • Junior Department curriculum
    • A level curriculum
    • Academic achievement
    • Results and leavers’ destinations
  • Well-being
    • Pastoral ethos
    • Form tutoring
    • Fun at St Helen’s
    • Personal development
    • Health Centre and counsellors
    • Peer mentoring
    • Chapel
    • Food
    • Sustainability
  • Beyond
    • Beyond ethos
    • Clubs and societies
    • Sport
    • Music
    • Drama
    • Art and design
    • Academic enrichment
    • Trips, expeditions and DofE
    • Student leadership
    • School Council
    • Our House structure
    • Library
  • Futures
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    • Careers
    • The Kate Scheme
    • Alumnae journeys
    • Results and leavers’ destinations
  • Our community
    • The SHSK Society
    • Alumnae journeys
    • Alumnae events
    • The Kate Scheme
    • School Archive
    • Parents
    • Partners
    • Charity
    • 125 Bursary Appeal
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    • Our new sixth form centre
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Curriculum

St Helen and St Katharine is a school where bright girls with enquiring minds thrive, as they grow into intellectually curious and erudite young women. Our curriculum offers a full, broad and stimulating range of subjects at all ages, while teachers capture the imagination, instil subject passion, promote inquiry and enable independent learning.

Art and Ceramics

Biology

A level Business (Edexcel)

Chemistry

Classics

Computer Science

Drama

Design and Technology

A level Economics

English

Food and Nutrition

French

Geography

German

History

Learning skills

Learning support

Mandarin

Mathematics

Music

Outdoor Learning

Physics

Physical Education

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A level Politics

A level Psychology

Religion, philosophy and ethics

Spanish

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