SCHOOL UPDATE
School Update After almost four years of preparation and an enormous amount of planning, September 2021 saw Charterhouse welcome girls into the Under School for the first time. This means that after fifty years of a coeducational Sixth Form, the School will have girls in every year in September 2022 – just a few months away.
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his year was almost certainly the year with the single largest intake of new pupils ever. 110 boys entering as Fourths were joined by nearly 60 girls, 24 girls in the Removes and more than 100 boys and girls in the Specialists. In total we had more than 300 new joiners, and, in another first for the School, more girls than boys.
New Pupils in September 2021 – our largest ever intake
And it all seemed so completely normal. Of course, for the great majority of the
new Fourths who now come from mixed Prep Schools, a mixed Year 9 was nothing remarkable, and Charterhouse moved into the fully coed era without missing a beat. However, in the background, a great deal of work had gone into being ready for the start of the year, and despite the significant impact of Covid on construction projects, a steady flow of minor miracles, ably coordinated by the Estates Department, meant that our two new Houses were looking fantastic for the start of the year. Both are new-build Houses, with Saunderites relocating to the first and our newest girls’ House, Northbrook, opening its doors for the first time in the other. These are first class new facilities, with light and airy social spaces and common rooms alongside a mixture of quads and double rooms
Northbrook and Saunderites, on a misty autumn morning...
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