We wish all our agents a very Happy New Year and good health and happiness in the Year of the Dragon!
Thank you for your support over the past year. We look forward to working with you in the next year.
At this half-way point in the academic year, we would like to share some of the remarkable successes that we have enjoyed so far, this academic year:
Amelia, a Year 12 student, has emerged as the national champion in the TES Poetry Competition at the TES SEND Show 2023.
Photographed here with Michael Rosen, former Children's Laureate, and winner of the 2023 PEN Pinter Prize winner for his "fearless" body of work.
Our cricketers are in the spotlight once again as Roedean is featured as one of the best places for school cricket in Sussex in The Cricketer's highly esteemed 2024 Schools Guide.
We're thrilled to share the latest news that not only did we make the list, but we secured a spot in the top 20!
Women’s cricket was one of the underpinning values of the founding Lawrence sisters’ vision for Roedean, and we are proud to be continuing their legacy well into the 21st century.
Kelly, in Year 11, is a winner of the Research Award 2024 run by Medefine, following a research internship. Kelly created a poster which highlights her research about treatments and genes involved in non-small cell lung cancer. She then adapted her poster into a patient friendly leaflet, about the importance of genetic testing. Her work will be showcased virtually at UCL and may be chosen to be displayed in either the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health, or at the Oxford Cancer Charity.
Our Spring half-term culminated in a phenomenal production of Legally Blonde. Once again, the Roedean Theatre was transformed as our brilliant performers, from Years 9 to 13, gave their all in a dazzling performance! The performers were accompanied by a talented live band made up of students and staff.
The musical’s emphasis on female empowerment and breaking stereotypes, is a reminder of the important of girls and young women believing in themselves and challenging societal barriers.
Our recent musical gala concert, Waltzing Through Time was a great success. The concert combined music from different time periods with a dance theme and included classical and popular music. The showcase included performers from the choir, three orchestras and the newest rock band, as well as a number of our talented dancers. It was wonderful to see how the performers moved from Tchaikovsky and the Can-Can to Fat Boy Slim without missing a beat!
Our Year 13 students have started to receive offers from universities, for a range of excellent courses at many different institutions.
4 students have received offers to study at the University of Cambridge and two students have received offers to study at the University of Oxford. This is the highest number of Oxbridge offers that Roedean has received in the last decade! We are very proud of the following students:
■ Amelia – Land Economy at Queen’s College, Cambridge
■ Ella – Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford
■ Euran – Mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge
■ Ottavia (OR) – Philosophy and Theology at Trinity College, Oxford
■ Rose – Mathematics at St John’s Cambridge, Cambridge
■ Tina (OR) – Mathematics at Newnham College, Cambridge
In addition, six students have secured offers for highly competitive medical courses:
■ Nettie and Dawn – Medicine at Leeds University
■ Sam – Medicine at Aberdeen
■ Ayten – 2 offers for Pharmacy
■ Erin– Veterinary Medicine from the Royal Veterinary College
■ Belle - Veterinary Medicine from the University of Surrey
Students have also received offers to study Psychology and Applied Medical Sciences, both at UCL, Photography at Kingston, History at Exeter, and Business and Management at Durham, to name but a few.
We are thrilled to announce that Roedean has been included in the Spear’s Magazine 25 Best UK Schools Index and is among the top 100 leading private schools globally. Spear's 25 Best UK Senior Schools in 2024
We celebrated International Women’s Day on Friday, 8 March. Our theme was #InspireInclusion. Although women have more opportunities than ever before, they can still face inequality. The vision of the founding Lawrence sisters was to provide girls with an education that would rival any boy’s education, and this vision remains central to Roedean’s ethos today. We welcomed 22 speakers to Roedean covering a range of experiences and backgrounds. These inspiring women who are at the forefront of their fields addressed our students on topics ranging from “She Changes Climate: Using Female Superpowers for Climate Action” to “A Career in International Diplomacy and Peacemaking”.
As we reach the mid-point of the Spring Term, we are also nearing the completion of our enrolment process for the 2024/2025 academic year.
Please refer to the table below for a summary of the spaces available, together with the CEFR English level required across the different year groups.
Year Group Availability CEFR English Level Required
Year 7 Places available B2
Year 8 Places available B2
Year 9 Limited availability B2+/C1
Year 10 Limited availability B2+/C1
Year 11 No places available
Year 12 Limited availability C1
Please contact the Admissions team to enquire about space availability in the various year groups before submitting any registrations as spaces are expected to fill up quickly.
Students will need to have evidence of their English level in the form of a UKiSET or IELTS report.
Please note that both the Pre-A Level Programme and the One Year GCSE Academic Programme have been discontinued with effect from September 2024. We will no longer be offering entry into Year 11 at Roedean going forward.
All our curriculum brochures have been updated for our 2024-25 academic year. Please see links below, as well as our current Co-Curricular booklet:
■ If a family registers directly, please contact the Roedean Admissions team, and ask us to link the family’s record to your agent account. This will ensure that you receive all communication that is being sent to the family.
■ Interviews and scholarship assessments will only be offered to candidates whose test results meet the necessary academic requirements (which includes their English language level and their ability to fully access the curriculum).
■ Candidates who are not offered a place in the first instance may be added to a waiting list. However, there is no guarantee that a place will be offered to waitlisted candidates.
■ Offers must be responded to within the two-week deadline. Please could we ask for your support in advising us timeously if families are not accepting our offer.
■ Agent contracts are signed once a student’s place has been accepted and the deposit has been received.
■ Roedean pays a 10% commission for the first three terms that a pupil attends Roedean.
■ Payments are made per term, in arrears.
■ Please register your candidates early in the Autumn Term (or prior to the Autumn Term) to give your candidates the best opportunity to secure a boarding place. Year 9 and Year 10 are extremely popular and early registration is recommended for these year groups.
■ We welcome scholarship applications from our international candidates. Candidates must have sat the entrance tests to be considered for the scholarship assessment process. Please refer to the link for further details. Roedean Scholarships
■ Candidates applying for 11+ and 13+ scholarships must be registered by 26 September 2024. Scholarship assessments will take place in early January 2025 and award decisions will be communicated by the end of January.
■ Candidates applying for 16+ scholarships must be registered by 4 October 2024. Scholarship assessments will take place in late October/early November and award decisions will be communicated by the beginning of December.
We would love to welcome you to Roedean. Please contact us to arrange a school visit: admissions@roedean.co.uk
Use our 360 Virtual Tour to enjoy the campus if you are unable to visit in person: Roedean 360 Tour
We would love to hear from you about what you and your families are interested in. Our new Agent Newsletter will be sent to our agents every half term.
With best wishes,
Emma Shelver International Registrar els@roedean.co.ukadmissions@roedean.co.uk