Gerrans School Competitors

The Cornwall College Group (CCG) comprises of ten campuses across Cornwall and Devon, including: Cornwall College (Camborne and St Austell), Duchy College (Rosewarne and Stoke Climsland), Falmouth Marine School, Bicton College, the Plymouth Engineering Skills Centre, Newquay University Centre, and Cornwall College University Centre at the Eden Project.

Truro High School for Girls is a leading independent school in the heart of Cornwall, dedicated to providing an exceptional education for girls aged 3-18. A World Class School for High Performance Learning, and Small Independent School of the Year (2020), Truro High has a strong reputation for academic excellence, pastoral care, and extracurricular success. We are proud to nurture confidence, ambition, and a lifelong love of learning. At Truro High, small class sizes and inspirational teaching create an environment where every student is known, valued, and encouraged to reach their full potential. The school consistently achieves outstanding results, with a strong emphasis on STEM, the arts, and humanities, enabling students to progress to top universities and careers in diverse fields. Beyond the classroom, students benefit from a rich programme of extracurricular activities, including sport, music, drama, and debating. The school is particularly renowned for its STEM and enterprise programmes, which have received national recognition. With a warm, supportive community and a commitment to empowering young women, Truro High provides a dynamic and forward-thinking education. The school equips students with the confidence, skills, and resilience to thrive in an ever-changing world, ensuring they leave as capable, ambitious, and compassionate individuals ready to make their mark on the future.

We are proud to provide an excellent comprehensive education for over 1620 students aged 11–18 [including 260 in the Sixth Form] from Newquay and the surrounding area. Tretherras is extremely popular with parents, and is regularly oversubscribed in all year groups, because of its warm welcoming ethos, extremely high standards and wide range of extra curricular activities. The staff work very effectively as a team and the atmosphere at Tretherras is characterised by positive relationships between everyone. Students enjoy being part of a successful school: they are all valued individually and know they are central to our work and that their all round achievements will be celebrated. Sustaining our excellent reputation does not come about by accident: creating and maintaining an ethos in which all students feel they belong and can achieve is absolutely everyoney’s priority. “At the heart of this outstanding school are the excellent care, guidance and support that students receive” [OFSTED 2010]. Tretherras is proud to offer an exceptionally broad curriculum, individually tailored to each student’s needs. The quality of the learning experience is paramount, and at KS3 great emphasis is placed in all subjects on acquiring the essential learning skills, named “THE TRETHERRAS WAY.” •MOTIVATION •RESILIENCE •COLLABORATION •RESPONSIBILITY •SELF AWARENESS •AN ENQUIRING MIND •CREATIVITY Newquay Tretherras is part of Cornwall Education Learning Trust (CELT), a family of Cornish Primary and Secondary Schools, with a strategic vision of ‘learning together to help every child achieve more’. This is an exciting time to join our large and dynamic Trust, which is responsible for educating learners across four secondary schools, one junior school and eight primary schools, with a Free School (primary) to open in 2021.