Townley Grammar School

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Townley Grammar School, normally referred to locally as Townley is a grammar school with academy status for girls on Townley Road, Bexleyheath, in the London Borough of Bexley, England. It was previously known as Bexley Technical High School for Girls, and then Townley Grammar School For Girls to present day. The school consists of Years 7-11, single sex (girls), and a female and male sixth form.AcademicsThe Sixth Form returns excellent exam results; in excess of 98% of students enter higher education at 18, and the school regularly appears in the Sunday Times Good Schools Guide.In 2008 the school had 4 students going onto courses of study (including Medicine) at Oxbridge, the highest number for a state school in Bexley.At GCSE, students perform well, consistently achieving a 100% pass rate. In order to be admitted to the school, students must pass the eleven-plus test in order to gain entry to year 7.OrganisationGirls are mainly taught in their tutor groups for the first two years . These form groups are further divided for practical subjects, such as Home Economics, Music, Design Technology, I.C.T and Art.In Years 9, 10 and 11, pupils are grouped into streams according to their learning rate in certain subjects such as Mathematics, Science and Modern Language.In Year 7, girls now do two languages, French and German or Spanish and German in their tutor groups. From 2017 though, year 7 students started to learn Latin as another language beside Spanish and German or French and German.