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We are delighted to have maintained our Schools Award for 2025-28. We are now one of the schools with the longest standing record of holding this award, and we are grateful to everyone who has contributed via events and programmes to make this happen
The International School Award celebrates the achievements of schools that do exceptional work in international education. Click here for more information about the award.
We are proud to share that Didcot Girls' School has been awarded the Equal Access to Football Award from the England Football Association. The prestigious award is in recognition of the girls' football offering we have at DGS both within lessons and extra-curricular time.
You can find out more about the initiative here.
We are delighted that Oxfordshire Music Service has recognised Didcot Girls’ School and St Birinus School for our excellent music provision. The Music Mark School award is given annually to schools who value and provide a high-quality musical education both in and out of the classroom.
As a Trust, we are incredibly proud of the staff and students who work every day to make the Music Departments a supportive and enjoyable place to be.
As of 2022, we have successfully achieved the Bronze Games Mark in PE as part of the School Games Mark award. This award rewards and recognises a school's sport engagement and provision against the national benchmark to keep young people active.
As part of the award, the School Games Mark recognises the maintenance and growth of a school's delivery of 60 minutes of physical activity for every child, the positive experiences students receive and a clear focus on the transition points in a student's school life.
In achieving the bronze standard, DGS PE department are demonstrating they are providing and engaging their young people in high quality school games opportunities, evidencing to be an 'actively engaged school'.
Didcot Girls’ School is now a member of IRIS (The Institute for Research in Schools), which gives young people in member schools access to the world of real, cutting-edge science, by bringing university and industrial experts and kit into school laboratories, and helping students get involved with authentic scientific research. Thanks to ever more powerful technology, today's school students can access top level scientific data, collaborate with scientists around the globe, process information at lightning speed, develop innovative experimental ideas and contribute to scientific discovery. IRIS helps students and their teachers do this.
Affiliated Arkwright School
DGS is affiliated to the Arkwright Engineering Scholarships, a registered charity that administers the most prestigious scholarship scheme of its type in the UK.
The Arkwright Trust identify, inspire and nurture future leaders in Engineering, Computing and technical (as opposed to aesthetic) Design. They do this by awarding Arkwright Engineering Scholarships, through a rigorous selection process, to high-calibre students who apply when in year 11. If students are successful, they receive a financial award and the support of a mentor through their A Levels as well as opportunities to attend courses and events for Arkwright Scholars. They are then ideally situated to pursue Engineering, Computing or technical Design at university or through a higher-level apprenticeship and to pursue careers in the field.
Arkwright Engineering Scholars have achieved excellent academic success and made enviable career progress throughout the twenty-five years of the scheme. In that time The Arkwright Trust awarded over 4100 Scholarships.
We are delighted that our first two applicants, Hilary Griffiths and Vanessa Taylor are both now Arkwright Scholars.
Mandarin Excellence Programme
We are delighted to have been chosen as one of only 30 schools nationally to take part in the Mandarin Excellence Programme, a government-funded five year programme to teach Mandarin intensively to students from Year 7 to Year 11. Our first group of 26 students are making excellent progress and show great commitment to each of their 4 lessons per week and in addition complete up to 4 hours of homework per week. They also enjoy a variety of enrichment activities throughout the year, both in school and further afield. This builds up to the fantastic opportunity of attending a Summer Camp in China after their second year of study.
The Royal Society Schools Network
The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. It works to support excellence in science, through its policy work, journals, scientific meetings, events, worldwide partnerships and grants and awards.
The Royal Society Schools Network comprises teachers and staff from schools and colleges across the UK who are focussed on excellence in their STEM provision. The schools share their experience and work with the Royal Society in order to develop scientific expertise and promote excellence in Science, Computing and Mathematics teaching. Network member schools can gain targeted support for activities including access to scientists from the cutting edge of industry and academia. Teachers also have the opportunity to feed their views into the work of the Royal Society as well as engaging with other projects and activities.
DGS has recently been selected as a member of the Royal Society Schools Network and our students have already benefited by helping to judge the Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Award and donating the shortlisted books to the school library.
Institute of Physics
The Science Department at Didcot Girls' School has participated in a two year long research project committed to encouraging more girls to choose A level Physics. We are delighted to have received this recognition of our work - and also delighted that just over 50% of the students studying A level Physics in the Didcot Sixth Form College are girls!
