Southfield School for Girls

Southfield School is a girls-only, comprehensive, non-denominational secondary school with co-educational sixth form situated in Kettering, Northamptonshire.

The school first opened in 1976 as an amalgamation of Kettering High School for Girls and Rockingham Road Senior Girls School. It fought off closure declarations from the local authority and went on to thrive, gaining specialist sports status in 2004 and science college status in 2009. In 2021 Southfield School became part of Orbis Education Trust which comprises of:

• Southfield School, 11-18 years of age, single sex (mixed sixth form), 1,200 place secondary school (Ofsted rating – Good, with outstanding features (April 23).
• Kingsthorpe College, 11-18 years of age, mixed sex, 1,500 place secondary school (Ofsted rating – Good, December 2019).
• A third school will soon join the Orbis family: Hanwood Park School, 900 place secondary school.

Headteacher

Scott Nevett

Values and vision

Southfield aims to provide for the future needs of our students. Careers and types of employment opportunities are evolving and changing continually. Some are yet to be created and so we see it as our obligation to prepare our students to be competitive in anticipation of the unknown. Therefore, our strong focus on academic attainment is equalled by our commitment to develop transferable skills and personal characteristics through the many opportunities we provide.

We provide an education that prepares our young people for a future in which they will need to be adaptable, resourceful and ethical in facing complex challenges. Being a Southfield student will mean the chance to be successful and have a positive influence on the global community. We aim for all of our students to be able to make an impact and leave a positive imprint on the world.

We nurture our students with the future in mind today.

Our shared values of Optimism, Resilience, Balance, Individuality and Synergy.

Ofsted report

As you will read, we continue to be a good school with two aspects of the inspection judgements deemed to be ‘Outstanding’. The first is the superb Personal Development our students receive, which includes opportunities such as; our bespoke Healthy Living and form time curriculums, careers guidance, our enrichment and electives programme, clubs, trips, DofE, and the CCF.  The second area is the exemplary Sixth Form provision we provide for all of our Post-16 students.

We are immensely proud of the wealth of positive aspects of our school highlighted in the report and would like to thank the whole school community for their continued support and positive engagement with our journey.

Even though we are proud of how this report shows the best of Southfield, we are not complacent.  It goes without saying that everyone involved with the school wants to continue moving the school forward, positively, with high expectations across the board.