SHIRBURNIAN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 2021-2022
This has been another extraordinary year at Sherborne Qatar School for Girls, and I would like to state how delighted I am with the school community we have started to develop. I am proud of the academic progress most girls have made this year; how senior management, the teachers and teaching assistants, have worked tirelessly to develop and grow the academic and pastoral provision for our pupils; how the administrative, support and facilities management teams have worked so hard ‘behind the scenes’, keeping the school resourced, functioning, clean and safe for everyone; and of course I am grateful for the amazing support we have received from our parents. This academic year will always be remembered as the year where:
From the
HEAD MISTRESS 8
•
The school accepted its first Year 7, 8, 9 and 10 pupils; all 134 of them, from over 20 different schools here in Qatar!
•
The Primary classes grew from one form entry to nearly full capacity (three form entry) in many year groups.
•
The school grew rapidly from 112 pupils in June 2021 to 409 pupils by March 2022; this bringing its own unique challenges but also feelings of excitement, teamwork and creativity as we started to see the school evolving.
•
Face-to-face learning was still interrupted by the global pandemic, COVID-19 restrictions and in school COVID Testing, but this was also the year in which our skills at delivering online learning to our pupils improved beyond measure.
•
The school grew from 29 staff in 2020-2021 to employing over 70 personnel by September 2021.
•
We set up the Parents Representatives Group and started to build even better positive relationships with our families.
•
The parents, pupils and staff raised over 26,000 QAR for our charities: Qatar Cancer Society and United World Schools.
•
We hosted the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebration with a whole school British tea party, British style street parties in the corridors, special jubilee activities in class, and everyone dressed in red, white and blue or in traditional regal clothes.
