National Curriculum Plus: EHS is a selective school where standards and achievements are high. We provide a broad, balanced and flexible curriculum which takes account of government National Curriculum requirements but moves beyond them.

Traditional and Progressive: the curriculum at every level of the senior school combines the traditional with the progressive: Biology, Chemistry and Physics are taught as separate sciences from Year 7, for instance, and Latin is taught throughout the school – but there is also Learning to Learn in Year 7, Dance GCSE, PE as an examination subject at GCSE and A level, and A level courses in Theatre Studies, Psychology, Economics and Business Studies as well as a Sixth Form course in thinking Skills.

Curriculum in Key Stage Three (Years 7 to 9): in Year 7, all girls study a common course: English, Drama, Mathematics, the three Sciences, French, Latin, Geography, History, Religious Studies, Music, Art and Design, Design Technology (Textiles), Home Economics (Food), ICT, Physical Education, Learning to Learn and PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education, including Citizenship). In Year 8, each girl chooses a second language – German or Spanish – and continues this with all the other subjects into Year 9.

Curriculum in Key Stage Four (Years 10 and 11): the following GCSE subjects are compulsory: English and English Literature (Dual Award), Mathematics, the three Sciences (either as three separate GCSE subjects or as Dual Award) and a Modern Foreign Language (either French, German or Spanish). Non-examined courses are compulsory in Religious Studies, Physical Education and PSHE. All girls then select options from the wide range of subjects available to take their total number of GCSE subjects to nine or ten. These options include Latin, Geography, History, Religious Studies, Music, Art and Design, Design Technology (Textiles), Home Economics (Food), ICT, Physical Education, Dance, Theatre Studies and Drama – as well as Greek.

Enrichment: breadth of education is very important at EHS, and we build enrichment into the curriculum in a number of ways. A number of Enrichment Afternoons are planned each year, when we suspend the timetable for the whole of the Senior School and use the time to engage in a wide range of educational activities. While day visits to places that enrich and extend the curriculum are organised within the school day for each year group each year (Bath, Chedworth, Goodrich Castle, the Space Centre, Thinktank, the RSC in Stratford, Dovedale, the Lake District...), trips and visits further afield take more than a day and are arranged to take place in school holidays: the biennial Choir visit to Italy, the Geography visit to Iceland, activity weekends for Years 7 and 9, Year 8 skiing and triennial sports tours to the Southern Hemisphere.