One hundred years since its founding in 1923, Benenden School still strives to inspire future leaders while instilling a sense of community and kindness
Journalists who have braved war zones to report the truth. Humanitarians who have founded global charities. Princesses whose humanitarian work has touched millions. Trailblazing women who have smashed the glass ceiling. The MI5 Director-General who responded to terrorist attacks?and the priest who comforted victims? families.
Benenden School has been inspiring leaders for 100 years.
It is no wonder that, in the run up to its Centenary year, the School was named among the Spear?s list of the top global schools. Spear?s summarised Benenden School as ?inspiring leaders who care,? which seems a fitting tagline for a school that devotes so much time and energy to working in partnership with other schools and community groups, and has helped to shape the school?s aim to inspire future thinkers and leaders to shape a better world. Benenden School
This aim would surely have made Benenden School?s Founders proud. When these three pioneering women ? Kathleen Bird, Anne Hindle and Christine Sheldon ? left their roles as schoolmistresses at Wycombe Abbey School to set up Benenden in September 1923, they were pursuing their stated ethos: ?A happy school with personal integrity and service for others always in mind and where everyone would be given the chance to follow her own bent.?
A century later, Benenden School still follows that sa...