New Hall operates the highly successful Diamond Model, where students are educated in co-educational classes from age 3 to 11 and again at Sixth Form. However, from 11 to 16 they are taught in single-sex lessons. Click on one of the four diamonds below to find out more about our divisions.
The main benefits of the ‘diamond model’ and five years of single-sex teaching derive from the ability to tailor pastoral and academic provision more sensitively and expertly to the needs of young people going through the physical, emotional and social upheaval of adolescence. Young teenagers are liberated from the negative peer pressure of having to perform in mixed classes. Gender stereotyping of subjects is also removed. Girls and boys follow an identical curriculum and do not learn to perceive subjects as being more suited to either girls or boys.
The Sixth Form experience at New Hall is about expanding students’ horizons, both in their specialist areas of study and, more generally, in terms of their personal development.
We aim to educate the whole person: academically, creatively and socially, in a community which also nurtures the spiritual dimensions of human life.
Famous alumni
- Christiane Amanpour, chief international correspondent for CNN
- Cindy Buxton, wildlife film-maker
- Leonora Carrington, surrealist artist
- Anya Hindmarch, fashion accessories designer
- Denise Holt, diplomat
- Emma Gilbey Keller, author and journalist
- Felicity Landon, freelance journalist
- Amanda Stretton, racing driver and motoring journalist
- Amber Rudd, UK Home Secretary (July 2016 – April 2018)
