All girls or mixed secondary school?

aliasojo

bylromarha wrote: »

My time at Helenswood was the making of me.

I'm not surprised. I've just Googled and read their menu. (You can tell a lot by the food that's offered. )

Far, far better than some of the offerings I've seen. :D

GwylimT

Girls perform better at single sex schools while boys perform better in a mixed setting, my son went to a single sex school however for us single sex was the only option for grammar schools where we lived. When the time comes my daughter will attend a single sex school.

Dunroamin

Angelicdevil wrote: »

Me too! I went to a mixed primary, mixed state secondary for a year prior to be taken out and dumped in a private all girls' school.

I hated it. Everyone was so cliquey (having gone to the lower school together) and !!!!!y.

My self esteem went through the floor and my grades went from top of the class to average.

I wish I had had the opportunity to fight to stay at my mixed state school. My life would have been very different now, although, to be fair at 30 I've found my place and I am very happy, but I know I would have followed my dream career had I not have been put in the all girls' school. A place where technical things were for boys and girls made dresses and played netball.

Erg, such bad memories of an all girls' school. If I ever have children (unlikely), they would definitely be going to a mixed school.



Hmm I was bullied really badly at the all girls' school because I wasn't allowed to "tart" myself up with make-up and perfume! My parents also didn't agree with young girls having designer outfits or bags etc, so I was an outcast due to that as well.

I'm surprised at that - most private schools are very hot on correct school uniform.

Angelicdevil

Yup, we had our nails, heels and skirt length inspected on the way in to assembly but as soon as that was over up went the skirts, out came the heels and makeup.

Back then it was all about designer bags, one thing that wasn't regulated at our school and of course, out of school at the weekends there was no one to enforce what one wore

bylromarha

aliasojo wrote: »

I'm not surprised. I've just Googled and read their menu. (You can tell a lot by the food that's offered. )

Far, far better than some of the offerings I've seen. :D

It was where my Buddha days started...

claire16c

Angelicdevil wrote: »

Me too! I went to a mixed primary, mixed state secondary for a year prior to be taken out and dumped in a private all girls' school.

I hated it. Everyone was so cliquey (having gone to the lower school together) and !!!!!y.

My self esteem went through the floor and my grades went from top of the class to average.

I wish I had had the opportunity to fight to stay at my mixed state school. My life would have been very different now, although, to be fair at 30 I've found my place and I am very happy, but I know I would have followed my dream career had I not have been put in the all girls' school. A place where technical things were for boys and girls made dresses and played netball.

Erg, such bad memories of an all girls' school. If I ever have children (unlikely), they would definitely be going to a mixed school.



Hmm I was bullied really badly at the all girls' school because I wasn't allowed to "tart" myself up with make-up and perfume! My parents also didn't agree with young girls having designer outfits or bags etc, so I was an outcast due to that as well.

On average though girls do better at single sex schools in 'technical' subjects. They tend to end up doing more 'feminine' subjects at mixed schools.

So it sounds like it was more a case of the particular school you went to. And getting bullied over things like that is definitely not restricted to single sex schools! It doesn't sound like those issues had anything to do with it being an all girls school.

claire16c

aliasojo wrote: »

I'm not surprised. I've just Googled and read their menu. (You can tell a lot by the food that's offered. )

Far, far better than some of the offerings I've seen. :D

Mmm looks good sign me up :rotfl:

Angelicdevil

claire16c wrote: »

On average though girls do better at single sex schools in 'technical' subjects. They tend to end up doing more 'feminine' subjects at mixed schools.

So it sounds like it was more a case of the particular school you went to. And getting bullied over things like that is definitely not restricted to single sex schools! It doesn't sound like those issues had anything to do with it being an all girls school.

You're possibly correct about it being restricted to my school but my experience of an all girls' school (and a mixed school) has cemented in my mind that a mixed school is better.

Just to add, my school didn't even offer technical subjects!!! The most technical it got were the core science and maths classes. I excelled at my CDT lessons in the mixed state school where we did electronics, woodwork etc, imagine my horror on arriving at the girls' school only to be told that we only make dresses and blouses here :eek:

From my experience, I think it's healthier to be mixing with the opposite sex.

barbarawright

claire16c wrote: »

On average though girls do better at single sex schools in 'technical' subjects. They tend to end up doing more 'feminine' subjects at mixed schools.

So it sounds like it was more a case of the particular school you went to. And getting bullied over things like that is definitely not restricted to single sex schools! It doesn't sound like those issues had anything to do with it being an all girls school.

At my all girls school, 50% of students did all-science A-levels. In fact 25 / 30 girls in my class did 3 sciences for O-levels. I looked it up recently and it's still much the same. I disliked it intensely (for one thing, I'm not sciencey at all) but I doubt the problems of !!!!!ery and cliqueyness (?) are unique to single sex schools.

tea_lover

The only negative I would say about subject choice at the all-girls school I attended was that there wasn't enough traditional girls' subjects on offer! I did technology (woodwork, electronics, etc), and all science A levels, but no cooking. We did food technology but it didn't involve any actual food - the only thing I can remember was a project on working out the costs of running a baked potato stall. Which was quite interesting, but oh my it would be nice if I could cook something... anything!

My niece has just started at the same school and so far has had cooking, contact rugby, woodwork, etc. It seems a lot more balanced now.