As a parent, one of your most important duties is helping your daughter prepare for the future, and her education is a key factor. Her time is now. Why an all girls school? That is why we encourage you to consider sending your daughter to the High School for Girls Potchefstroom. Our high academic learning environment is designed to make our young women the centre of learning, leadership, growth and endless opportunity. At Potch Girls High, each young woman will have the opportunity to develop and grow spiritually, intellectually and socially.
Free of the pressures of competing for attention socially and academically, the girls are free to be themselves in the classroom, focus on their work and develop into strong leaders. Here, the peer pressure is positive. Current research confirms our belief that within the structure of a single-sex school young women become better students and more confident about their abilities.
Research shows that young women in all-girl schools have higher self-esteem, are more interested in non-traditional subjects such as science and math and are less likely to stereotype jobs and careers. They are generally intellectually curious, serious about their studies and overall achieve more. Students in single-gender schools have fewer disciplinary problems and fewer unexcused absences.
Students did just over an hour more homework per week and watched less television per weekday.
