Head of Junior House Faculty

Westfield Independent Day School for Girls in Gosforth provides a first class all round education for girls from 3 to 18 years in separate senior and junior houses on a fine six acre site in the heart of Gosforth. Great emphasis is placed on academic excellence, with each girl achieving to the very best of her ability. 

Examination results are impressive.  At GCSE most girls achieve nine GCSE passes with 50% of those regularly at Grade A* and A.  At “A” level the pass rate was 97% with 88% of grades at A*-C.   All Sixth Form leavers usually achieve a place in their first or second choice of university.

The atmosphere is warm, caring and happy, with emphasis on small teaching groups and an excellent staff student ratio, enabling every girl to receive close individual attention.  A high profile is given to Careers and Higher Education advice.  Work experience and work shadowing are arranged for all senior girls at Westfield ensuring that they ultimately find a suitable career. 

The curriculum is broad and balanced with specialist teaching in both Senior and Junior Houses and a wide range of subjects on offer at GCSE and "A" level.  In addition to this there is a busy programme of extra-curricular activities.  Currently girls enjoy membership of Amnesty International, Senior and Junior Debating Clubs, Young Enterprise and Environmental Groups.  Westfield girls may take part in Hip Hop, Drama Club, Holiday Spanish Groups, Computing and Fencing, to name but a few of the extra-curricular activities on offer.  Music has a very high profile.  All girls in Junior House learn to play the violin and later have opportunities to take up many other instruments.  There is a large and flourishing orchestra, a Chamber Group, Ceilidh Band, Clarinet and Flute Groups as well as Wind Ensemble and Choir.

Westfield has a well deserved excellent reputation for sport, with a number of City and County players and girls qualifying for national teams.   

Many girls at Westfield are involved in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and regularly achieve Bronze and Gold Awards.  Service to the Community is emphasised with groups of girls assisting with  schools for children with special needs and helping at a local residential care home. 

Westfield is international in its outlook.  The school is a member of the prestigious ‘Round Square’ organisation - a group of over 70 like-minded schools including Gordonstoun and Wellington College as well as a number of schools overseas.  All of the member schools share the same philosophy, based on the thinking of Kurt Hahn who founded Gordonstoun, and regular student exchanges take place between the schools.

Westfield girls may also join with students from other Round Square schools to participate in joint service projects. Westfield students have joined Gordonstoun to restore Celtic temples on North Uist, they have helped St. Anne’s girls run a holiday in Windermere for children from one parent families.  Others have travelled to St. Petersburg to help run an orphanage there, to India to help to build a village library, to Kenya to help to build a school and to Thailand to lay on a water supply to a remote village.  Sixth formers have taken part in an environmental project in Hungary and a group worked in an Aids orphanage in Cape Town.  Westfield students have visited Australia, Kenya, Germany,  Canada, South Africa and the USA for the Annual Round Square Conference hosted by a member school.

Westfield is totally committed to educating the whole person and to providing a high quality education for girls from 3 to 18 years.