Merchant Taylors' Girls' School
The continuing increase in pupil numbers enabled the purchase in 1911 of the adjoining house, "The Mulberries", which doubled the existing space.Two generous donations from a former headmistress ensured further development of facilities forming the basis of the network of buildings.Early governors of the school insisted that the girls learnt traditional female pastimes alongside these more rigorous subjects, hence sewing, cooking and singing all played their part on the curriculum.A war effort was also undertaken during WW2, making camouflage netting, scrubbing floors at local hospitals and raising money for 'Warships Week'.Today's Sixth Formers continue this tradition by helping local schools, charity shops and nursing homes.Merchant Taylors is partnered through the British Council's Connecting Classrooms Programme with Nelson Mandela High School, Sierra Leone.