Marina Gardiner Legge has been named as President of the Girls’ Schools Association and plans to highlight the transformative power of girls’ schools and girls’ education to build a fairer world for all, in her Presidency year.
As President, Marina will work closely with GSA member schools, teachers, other stakeholders, and girls themselves to advocate for a unique education that offers inspiring spaces of freedom and fairness to young women today; she continues the vital work of the Association which champions and places the best interests of young women at the heart of everything it does.
A mother of three girls herself, Marina believes that girls-only schools are uniquely able to equip young women for life in the modern world, honouring who they are, as they are, and empowering them to choose the lives they want to live.
Girls’ Schools Association President, and Head at Oxford High School GDST, Marina says: “GSA schools celebrate and support every young woman; I plan to ‘sing the joy’ of girls’ education and the way it changes lives for the better this year and I’m delighted to drive GSA’s mission with our growing membership in both the state and independent sector. No girl should feel as though she should have to apologize or minimise herself, or that she cannot study for or choose the life she wishes to live. In our schools girls are liberated to define their own parameters.”
