A PIONEERING PAST

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.

From the first, the school was founded to prepare its pupils to break boundaries: our alumnae include the first woman to achieve a PhD in Computing from Oxford and the first woman to trade on the floor of the London Stock Exchange. In the present day, we cultivate a global perspective in our students, inculcating an understanding of their responsibilities in a world of complex problems and limitless opportunities.

The principles of breadth, fearlessness, inclusiveness and a focus on developing the individual to achieve her potential were all enshrined from the GDST’s early beginnings, and remain true of the GDST family of schools today.

Its motto Fides et Opera ( By faith and by works) reflects the school’s intention to imbue pupils with self-belief and a strong sense of social purpose, and to nurture their conviction that much may be achieved by hard work and consistent effort.