- Ten per cent of the Year 7 intake at this girls’ school is selected according to musical aptitude and music is a vibrant part of the enrichment programme, which features an orchestra, string, woodwind and brass chamber ensembles and a choir.
- The annual drama festival is a highlight of the year. Year 12 pupils produce and direct a play with each class of younger students and many girls join in the whole-school productions, taking roles on stage or behind the scenes.
- The Liverpool school’s motto is “Be brave. Be bold. Be Belvedere.” There is a range of clubs from sports to knitting, and pupils can now join a new Royal Navy section of the Combined Cadet Force at the school.Trips to London and beyond — including Berlin, Zambia and China — contribute to personal development.
- The Rising Stars programme promotes high aspirations among the most able pupils and provides challenges to stretch them, taking part in the Liverpool Schools Parliament, essay competitions and more.
- The MP Esther McVey and Jane Lightfoot, a classics professor at the University of Oxford, are former pupils.
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