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Mayfield girls excel in latest A level exams

Mayfield, a leading Catholic independent day and boarding school for girls, is proud to announce that its students have excelled in this year’s A-Level examinations, achieving an outstanding 81% of grades at A*-B, with half of all grades awarded being A* or A.

  • Academic
  • Sixth Form
Year 10 Day of 'Actions Not Words'

Cornelia Connelly’s motto, “Actions Not Words,” emphasises living the Gospel through actions. She believed God's love should adapt to the needs of each era. Year 10 girls enjoyed a day themed around this inspiring principle.

  • Pastoral & Spiritual
Year 8 Girls Visit Worth Abbey

Yesterday, 11 girls from Year 8 travelled to Worth Abbey to take part in the annual diocesan Good Shepherd celebration.

  • Pastoral & Spiritual
Confirmation 2024

Congratulations to the nine Mayfield girls who were confirmed on Sunday!

  • Pastoral & Spiritual
Actions Not Words

This morning ten of our Year 12 students helped out with the primary school sports day in the park across the road.

  • Pastoral & Spiritual
  • Sixth Form
Ascension Day Celebrations

On Thursday we celebrated Ascension Day. We marked the day as a whole school community, with Mass in the morning, followed by a picnic-style lunch.

  • Pastoral & Spiritual
Bakhita Charity Day

Incredible news! Bakhita House has achieved a significant milestone, raising over £1000 for Maggie's on their Charity Day today!

  • Pastoral & Spiritual
Mrs Bligh appointed Headmistress

The Governors of Mayfield School are delighted to announce the appointment of Mrs Deborah Bligh as Headmistress of Mayfield School from 1 April 2024.

Live Simply Days

In response to feedback from parents and students, we have replaced our family fast days with 'live simply days'. 

  • Pastoral & Spiritual
Sleep Out

Last Friday, 18 Year 11 and 12 girls braved a chilly night outdoors, raising £2,435 for the Cardinal Hume Centre in London to support the homeless.

  • Pastoral & Spiritual
Avila House Feast Day

Avila House celebrated its first Feast Day on Wednesday, raising over £170 for Maggie's charity.

  • Pastoral & Spiritual
Year 11 Day of Recollection

Gratitude, vital for physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing, was the theme for the Year 11 Day of Recollection on Monday.

  • Pastoral & Spiritual
Anti-Bullying Ambassadors

On World Mental Health Day, nine pupils volunteered for an Anti-Bullying Ambassador training workshop.

  • Pastoral & Spiritual
Year 7 Day of Recollection

Year 7 students enjoyed their Day of Recollection at Ashburnham Place, exploring the outdoors and making fresh juice from hand-picked fruits.

  • Pastoral & Spiritual
World Religions Day

Year 9 engaged in a captivating carousel of activities, exploring various aspects of World Religions through a creative lens.

  • Pastoral & Spiritual
Marian Procession and Mass

In the Catholic tradition, the month of May is devoted to Mary. The sun was (finally) shining as we started our Marian Procession outside St Gabriel’s House on Sunday Morning.

  • Pastoral & Spiritual
Miss Beary standing in Mayfield school grounds

It is with great sadness that Mayfield School announces that its Headmistress, Miss Antonia Beary, is retiring on the grounds of ill health with effect from 31 August 2023.

One in four grades awarded are the top GCSE grade

Mayfield, the leading Catholic independent day and boarding school for girls, is celebrating an impressive set of GCSE results, with one in four of grades awarded being the top grade (grade 9).

  • Academic
Mayfield Girls celebrate impressive A level results

Mayfield, the leading Catholic independent day and boarding school for girls, is celebrating another impressive set of A level results, with a 100% pass rate and over half the grades awarded being A* or A.  

  • Academic
  • Sixth Form
Mayfield girls strike gold

A team of Lower Sixth pupils from Mayfield School have received a coveted Gold Award for their experimental project work in this year’s British Physics Olympiad competition, placing them in the top four nationally.

  • Academic
  • Sixth Form
Mayfield Girls engineer a sustainable future

Three Sixth Form girls from Mayfield have won a national engineering accolade for their plan to reduce carbon emissions and make Mayfield village more sustainable, placing second out of 140 Schools from across the UK in this year’s ICE CityZen Competition.

  • Academic
  • Sixth Form
Muddy Stilettos review of Mayfield

Muddy Stilettos, one of the UK's leading digital lifestyle platforms, visited the School recently to undertake a review. Their verdict...?

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  • Boarding
  • Creative Arts
  • Equestrian
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Mayfield's very own Murder Mystery!

Last week, Caedmon - Mayfield's prestigious senior drama group - performed 'Before the Ink was Dry', a darkly comic murder mystery written by our talented Sixth Formers.

  • Creative Arts
  • Extra-curricular
Model United Nations Conference in Poland

Last week Cosima, Lizzie and Esme from Year 12 along with Rosie, Iulia and Sophie from Year 11 attended the 7th Annual Model United Nations Conference in Poland.

  • Academic
  • Extra-curricular
Mayfield girls celebrate A level results 2022

Mayfield, the leading Catholic independent day and boarding school, is celebrating an impressive set of A level results after what has been a challenging few years for those sitting Public examinations.  

  • Academic
  • Sixth Form
A pudding fit for The Queen

The British pudding comes in all shapes and sizes and at the beginning of term we launched a competition to find Mayfield's very best puddings, in honour of Her Majesty The Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

  • Extra-curricular
Narnia comes to Mayfield

Last week saw three wonderful performances of the play The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, by Mayfield Theatre Company Seniors.

  • Creative Arts
A Football First for Mayfield

Today saw Mayfield play their first ever competitive football fixture, when our U13s took on Sevenoaks Prep.

  • Sport
Mayfield attends Model United Nations

Last weekend 16 girls - in Years 9, 10 and 11 - represented the UK and Eritrea at the Model United Nations conference at Magdalen College School in Oxford.

  • Academic
  • Extra-curricular
OC Lizzie Cranfield on working in the Army

To mark International Women’s Day, OC Lizzie Cranfield joined the school assembly to talk about her experience of working in a male-dominated environment in the Army and ‘breaking the bias’.

Gold for Mayfield at Chemistry Olympiad

Mayfield's Sixth Form Scientists picked up four Gold awards at the recent Chemistry Olympiad, the leading chemistry competition for secondary students across the British Isles.

  • Academic
  • Sixth Form