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  • Photography for Queen Elizabeths Hospital (QEH) school in Bristol. QEH is a single sex (male) fee paying school located in the Clifton area of Bristol. These images are for use in an advertising campaign starting in the Autumn of 2011.

Welcome to FIDS!

BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS

The Forum of Independent Day Schools (FIDS) was set up to promote and support Independent Day Schools.

Schools within FIDS have a distinctive and easily recognized ethos based on long traditions of aspiration and high achievement. They offer an academically challenging curriculum from 11 to 18 and achieve high standards in extra-curricular activities, pastoral care and pupil behaviour. Our main aim is to explore imaginative solutions to improve social mobility and widen access.

Part of the FIDS approach has been to seek contact with political leaders and to ensure that the case for independent day schools as an important part of national education is recognized. Many FIDS schools were former Direct Grant Schools and users of the Assisted Places System. We would like to see further productive links between the independent and state sectors.

THIS YEAR                              SUPPORTING EVERYONE

 

JUNE 14                       EMOTIONAL WELL BEING

SUPPORTING HEADS, DEPUTIES AND STAFF

at the LANSDOWNE CLUB, LONDON

School of the Week

Withington Girls School

Withington Girls’ School (WGS) is an independent day school for around 640 girls aged seven to eighteen. It was founded in 1890 by a group of eminent and far-sighted Manchester families who wanted the same educational opportunities for their daughters as were already available for their sons. A-level and GCSE results consistently confirm the School’s […]

Blog

  • WHITHER CAREERS?March 18, 2018 - 10:29 am

      A recent report produced by a panel of technical, business and academic experts from around the world suggested that 85 per cent of the jobs that will exist in 2030 haven’t been invented yet. It looks as if we will soon need drone managers, and vertical gardeners may help to utilise the limited surface […]

  • British Science WeekMarch 18, 2018 - 10:25 am

    The ability to take time to critically reflect on a situation or development is a key skill which we endeavour to develop in our students. As such, the weekend always provides a good opportunity to model this behaviour and reflect on the week just gone and look forward to the week ahead.  There is always […]

  • People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you careMarch 12, 2018 - 5:24 pm

    Okay – well, here is a quotation… “People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care”. That particular quote is quite possibly well known to you: it has certainly been around for a long time, and has been attributed to pretty much every quotable grandee going. And it is most […]

  • Reading for pleasureFebruary 20, 2018 - 11:02 am

    One of the greatest pleasures of Half Term is the opportunity to read for pleasure without the distraction of e-mail or the phone. I’ve really enjoying Madeleine Bunting’s excellent ‘Love of Country’, a cultural trek across the Hebrides. Reading for pleasure is something we tend to take for granted in independent schools, rich as we […]