Private school Headington Rye Oxford

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Headington Rye Oxford was founded in 1915 with the aim of providing "a good education for girls to meet the requirements and opportunities that time presents." The school is located 1.5 km from the centre of the beautiful historic city of Oxford - a place of student learning for nine centuries. Excellent transport links - the school is easily accessible by bus, train and car, Heathrow Airport is just an hour away.

Oxford is a vibrant, vibrant city with fantastic museums, art galleries, theatres, restaurants, cafes and many academic events: lectures and seminars. There are many beautiful parks, reserves and forests. The city has been inspired by countless famous writers. Oxford educated 27 British prime ministers, at least 30 international leaders, 50 Nobel Prize winners and 120 Olympic champions.

Headington Rye Oxford has over 1,000 students.

DIRECTOR (stand 2026)

Caroline Jordan, Education - University of Oxford, Master of Geology; Manchester University, postgraduate certificate with the right to carry out teaching activities.

FAMOUS SCHOOL GRADUATES

• Emma Watson, actress (Harry Potter films)
• Baroness Janet Young, politician, first female leader of the House of Lords
• Francis Gardner, Cardiologist
• Katie Greaves, Olympic champion in rowing
• Alice Hart, journalist
• Janet Hazband, Emeritus Professor of Radiology
• Elizabeth Longford, historian and biographer
• Elinor Layen, child writer
• Baroness Ann Mallalley, politician, lawyer
• Christina Onassis, shipping tycoon
• Julia Somerville, TV presenter
• Sophie Summer, model
• Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, interior decorator
• Barbara Woodhouse, trainer

KEY FACTORS

• Excellent academic performance: Headington Rye Oxford is in the top 50 schools in the UK and in the top 10 schools in the IB program. Moreover, girls usually achieve higher grades than their predictions at admission.
• Graduates enter the best universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, Ivy League universities.
• Large selection of subjects - more than 20 options on the GCSE program and about 30 on the IB program.
• At school, girls develop leadership skills - high school students create and manage their own clubs, organize events for their peers and younger girls: from dance competitions to the creation of a school magazine.

EQUIPMENT

The school covers an area of ​​9 hectares. It has excellent facilities: a modern library, fully equipped classrooms with rich digital capabilities. The music school includes 10 classrooms for individual lessons, 6 classrooms and rehearsal rooms, a recording studio, two large halls for performances. A beautiful art school with 4 workshops, a gallery, a room for printing photos, a studio for practicing textiles. The school has a theatre with 240 seats and a rehearsal room with mirrors.

Headington Rye Oxford has excellent sports equipment: all-weather illuminated sports fields, a modern sports complex, and a 25-meter pool. In 2015, a chic sports centre was built, designed in conjunction with leading fitness experts Elite Sport Performance Technologies, who also support a number of national training centres and football clubs in the Premier League. Here it is:

• Dance studio with an area of ​​270 square meters with a special floor, which is used in the top ballet schools in the world.
• A magnificent fitness centre with the latest equipment for cross fit and strength training.
• Fully equipped Technogym 'Artis' Cardio Vascular complex, including treadmills, various cross-trainers, exercise bikes and rowing machines.
• Bicycle studio with 20 bicycles for group activities.
• Rowing centre with 21 exercise machines.

PROGRAM

GCSE

A two-year program for obtaining a certificate of general secondary education. Required to study 6 subjects, 4 subjects are studied by choice.
What is the difference between IGCSE and GCSE programmes?

A-level

A two-year university preparatory program. Pupils choose 4 subjects for in-depth study.
Find out more about A-level program

BTEC

An alternative to the A-level program: a pre-university preparation course with maximum emphasis on developing practical skills, applying theoretical knowledge in real life. You can get a BTEC qualification in the following specialties: sports, entrepreneurship.
Find out more about BTEC program

ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD

Accommodation in a residence on the territory of the school in one of 5 houses. More than 200 girls live here. The atmosphere in the houses is cheerful and friendly, the girls benefit greatly from the friendships they form at school. High school students live in separate houses.

Meals in the school cafeteria. Headington Rye Oxford offers a wide selection of healthy dishes for every taste and diet. For lunch, you can enjoy hot meals, vegetarian and vegan main dishes, soup, jacket potatoes, pasta, sandwiches and salads. Every day, students are served hot and cold desserts, including yoghurts and fruits. The menu is different every day, and the school food committee meets regularly to discuss and consider options.

SPORT

The school follows the motto "Sport for all." Sports classes are held for girls of all ages and abilities. Not every girl likes team sports, so the school has many other opportunities for healthy physical activity: from cheerleading to equestrian sport, from fencing to rock climbing. Each girl has the opportunity to improve, develop and succeed in one or another sport, and the school seeks to help each student find her favourite sport.

The school offers sports: athletics, aqua aerobics, badminton, basketball, cricket, running, gymnastics, hockey, water polo, yoga, volleyball, rugby, tennis, swimming, English foot, netball, lacrosse.

The school offers additional classes with a professional trainer in the following sports (classes are available at an additional cost): badminton, cheerleading, horse riding, fencing, gymnastics, martial arts, Pilates, rowing, taekwondo, tennis, trampolining, yoga.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

After classes, various interest clubs are held at the school: debates, classical civilizations, robotics, a program for the prize of the Duke of Edinburgh, the United Cadet Corps (CCF), a literary circle, journalism, the Young Entrepreneurs club, a philosophical cafe, a movie club, creative writing and much more another.

For creative girls, additional classes are held in art, photography, fashion design, making films - the school offers clubs where you can experiment with different techniques and develop your own style.

Dancing is a very popular trend in school. Classes are held for students of different levels of training: from ballet to street dance, with the ability to prepare for competitions and performances on the professional stage.

The theatre is very popular, every year the school puts on a large number of performances oriented to different age groups, with an open listening process. Girls can play on stage, stage shows or the exciting art of making costumes.

At a music school, girls learn to play one or more musical instruments (18 instruments are offered to choose from!) Over 450 individual musical lessons take place every week. Girls can join one of the school ensembles. Concerts are regularly held at the school and beyond.

COST, 2026-2027

£18,882 - £20,688 per semester.
There are 3 semesters in the school year.

Included in cost

• Teaching
• Accommodation and meals

Extra paid

• Deposit - £3,250
• Deposit for overseas boarder- £12,500
• Flights
• Transfers to / from the airport
• Visa
• Services of the company "Paradise"
• Guardianship (as required by British law)

Our services and fees

Impressions from a school visit

Natalia Strein
Founder of ‘’Paradise’’

Tender Ksyusha from Nizhny Novgorod, 18, meets me at the threshold of Headington Rye Oxford - a serious Oxford school for girls. The school has three rowing gyms: in this sport, they are ahead of the rest of the world. But Ksyusha has NO TIME FOR ROWING OR MUSHROOMS: Oxford University is her destiny.

In October, she will be invited to tests. Their goal is to understand HOW SMART you are. Oxford does not need nerds. The value of its graduates is that they are people who can quickly find a simple solution to a complex problem. My husband and I tried: out of 10 questions, we answered 2 correctly.

Ksenia is studying 3 subjects in her last year of a British school: chemistry, biology, economics. She is entering BIOCHEMISTRY. She wants to work in a laboratory with CANCER and DISEASES OF AGE.

She entered Moreton Hall School at the age of 14, where she studied for two years. And there she realized what her CALLING was. Her parents, however, had other plans. They forced her to study economics and IT. The girl REBELLIOUSLY repeated the 12th grade, starting the A-level program again, but with different subjects.

"My academic performance is much higher, because I do what I like!" - says Ksyusha. A SILVER MEDAL in two Olympiads is evidence of this. And in the summer she completed an INTERNSHIP at the Vavilov Institute of General GENETICS, 4 weeks.

According to Ksyusha, Russian schools have LESS RESPECTFUL teacher-student relationships. And the students themselves are not always friendly to each other.

"The approach to learning is RELAXED, students waste a lot of time on useless things. Classes are not divided into levels, and SOME PULL OTHERS, which slows down progress"

Nothing pulls Ksyusha to Headington Rye Oxford, and she flies at full sail to her CHARITABLE DREAM. If not Oxford, then Impérial College London. The girl talks about how the BIOCHEMISTRY COURSE is organized with the same excitement that most of her peers experience in the Gucci department! "The course at Impérial also includes bioinformatics," she says. "And at Oxford, there is an emphasis on chemistry and mathematics, which I like less. But I can't miss such a chance! OXFORD IS OXFORD!" Of course.

At the age of 30-35, the girl plans to open HER OWN BUSINESS, in the field of BIOCHEMISTRY, of course. Here she is, the PRIDE and FUTURE of Russia!