Excited to announce that applications for our next intake of Pathway to Bath are open now!.

This award-winning blended curriculum enrichment programme for Year 12 students from Widening participation backgrounds offers students

• The opportunity to work on an undergraduate topic in a subject of their choice alongside academic tutors and undergraduate mentors
• A chance to attend a free 3 day residential at the University of Bath
• The opportunity to receive a guaranteed conditional offer to the University of Bath

Watch the video from our 2025 residential. Students can apply via the website now and the deadline is 4 January 2026.

Here at The Purbeck School, we have been celebrating Black History Month through engaging assemblies, recognising Black History writing in the Library, and investigating Black History within lessons.

Black History Month 2025

The girls played out of their skins at the netball league yesterday. They probably faced their most difficult competition of the league so far. But they have really come into their own, Cerys now holds her space beautifully, which allows Immi and Leah to place beautiful high balls into the circle, for Cerys to score from.

As always, Lucy pops the ball in for fun from anywhere in the circle. The defence makes it hard for the other team to score, and although we still need to work on backline passes, the girls really work hard at bringing the ball out of defence and up the court. The first game was very close against QE, but the girls managed to win 6V5, the second game was against St Edwards. This was end-to-end stuff, goal for goal. We did at one point get into the lead, but St Edwards did not give up, and we ended up drawing 8V8. Poole High was the girls' third game.

We are very fortunate as a school to have a fully funded membership of The London Library, a private members’ library for the field of Humanities. This is made possible by an anonymous donor, to whom we are extremely grateful.  Pupils can access their entire collection, both physical and digital, and it is of enormous use to 6^th formers researching projects for EPQ and NEA work.
This week we had the added treat of visiting in person. After a quick introduction to the history of the building and collection, and a guide to its physical layout, students were let loose in its 17 miles of shelved books. We had given our topics of interest to the librarian in advance, and she had kindly created a printed list of suggested resources relevant to their studies – our mission was to find those books in the mass of tunnels, shelves, raised platforms and slightly terrifying see-through wrought iron balconies.

The girls had their first round of their league last night. It was so lovely to see them play such beautiful, flowing netball, the last 4 years of training accumulating into a mutual understanding of where each other's space is, the central passes worked beautifully, and the team really gelled. As a result, they won their first game against Lytchett 11 V 6, and their second game against Parkstone B  8 V 7. It was wonderful to see Cerys holding her space in the circle, where perfect balls were fed in from the attack, Immy, Lucy, and Leah, often resulting in Cerys scoring goals right under the post.