Brighton Girls is an all-through school in the heart of Brighton and a founding school of the Girls’ Day School Trust. In 2020 we won a competition that supported their ambitious project to reunite the senior school and prep school on one site, creating ‘a family of big sisters and little sisters’. Sensitive refurbishment of Montpelier and the Grade II listed Vicarage and Temple has transformed them into wonderful learning and socialising spaces fit for the twenty-first century while enhancing their charm and character. Headteacher Rosie McColl said: "I wanted life, buzz and activity to return to this central space, but also wanted to instil a feeling of tranquillity for a school that puts wellbeing at the centre of the experience. This sense of industry and activity, juxtaposed with calmness, is something that visitors comment on when first entering the space we now call ‘The Hive’. Ceilings have been raised, spaces have been opened up, colours have been chosen sympathetically - light has returned to the school."