Westminster School
Public school in Westminster
Follow Westminster School on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
| 2023 | Westminster School achieves exceptional academic results, with 82.3% of A-level candidates scoring A* or A. |
| March 2022 | Challenge Consultancy, led by Femi Otitoju, published a Race Review of Westminster School that revealed systemic racism and made 25 recommendations for addressing racial diversity and sensitivity, including recruiting diverse teaching staff and implementing a racial harassment policy. |
| March 2022 | Westminster School issued a 'sincere and unreserved' apology for harm caused by racism, sexual harassment, and other harmful sexual behaviour after independent reviews were commissioned following national campaigns by Everyone's Invited and Black Lives Matter. |
| November 2021 | Cancelled plans for Chinese schools in response to changes in Chinese education policy. |
| March 2021 | Alumni compiled a 21-page 'dossier of rape culture' at Westminster School, containing 76 entries documenting alleged rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment experiences of female pupils, with accusations directed at both students and teachers. |
| 2020 | Over 250 Westminster School alumni signed a collective letter addressing racism within the school, criticizing the curriculum's lack of black authors and the school's overlooking of Britain's role in the slave trade. |
| 2020 | RR (Rigaud's) house began admitting girls as boarders, ending its previous single-sex boarding policy. |
| December 2017 | Announced plans to open six schools in China, with the first opening in Chengdu in 2020. |
| 2014 | Harris Westminster Sixth Form opens nearby, a collaboration between Westminster School and the Harris Federation. |
| 2010 | School and Westminster Abbey celebrate the 450th anniversary of their royal charter. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip unveil a statue of Elizabeth I in Little Dean's Yard. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia article Westminster School, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.