The Best of Both Worlds is a powerful educational vision for our pupils, combining the very highest standards of single-sex education in the classroom with extensive opportunities for girls and boys across the Foundation to collaborate throughout their school journey.
Traditionally, educational debates about gender have polarised into two camps.
One champions the unique benefits of bespoke single-sex education, which enables greater freedoms away from the narrowing effects of gender stereotypes; the other argues for the benefits of co-education, a more natural way to educate children that more closely reflects the ‘real world’.
A number of alternative models have developed over time, from the diamond structure adopted by some educational foundations to the ‘girls in the Sixth Form only’ model used by public schools including Westminster and Charterhouse.
The Best of Both Worlds is an innovative model developed within the Warwick Schools Foundation.
It embeds co-educational endeavour throughout the school experience, culminating in our superb shared Sixth Form, where lessons remain single-sex, but girls and boys from King’s High and Warwick School share the same bespoke social space.
Our Friday Afternoon Activities Programme provides the opportunity for every King’s High and Warwick School pupil in Year 10 and above to participate in a range of varied and valuable co-curricular activities in a co-educational setting. Students in Year 9 and above are also offered the opportunity to take part in the Combined Cadet Force, run in conjunction with Warwick School, or to participate in a variety of other collaborative activities.
While classes remain single-sex, our students have access to a shared Careers Hub, curriculum support, and collaborative social spaces. Whether in academics, music, sport, drama and joint productions, art, or extracurricular clubs, King’s High students work side by side with their peers from Warwick School, fostering a spirit of teamwork and creativity.
