Year 3 learn about the history of Bromley High School

As part of Year 3’s history topic ‘Hi, Bromley High!’, the girls are learning about the history of the school.

As active learners, the pupils eagerly hunted for evidence of the past within the school site and were amazed by what they could find once they looked more closely!  The girls spotted many artefacts taken from the old school building in Elmfield Road, including terracotta tiles which have been built into the school building and also old furniture, including the gong which was used to summon the Hawthorn girls to lunch.

Bromley High School was founded on 18th January 1883, one of a wave of pioneering Girls’ Public Day School Trust schools which opened towards the close of the Victorian era. Its founders sought to provide young women with a broad and rigorous academic education far beyond the narrow range of female accomplishments intended to prepare young women for the domestic sphere.

“That was the best history lesson ever!”Carla, Year 3 pupil