article_snippet.sent: Teenage girls do better in single sex schools as Teenage girls can focus on Teenage girls work rather than impressing boys, a leading headmistress says.
article_snippet.sent: Rhiannon Wilkinson, head of Wycombe Abbey in Buckinghamshire reportedly said that a 'boy free' environment stops girls from being held back by the opposite sex, who are known to mature slower.
article_snippet.sent: Rhiannon Wilkinson, head of Wycombe Abbey in Buckinghamshire also suggested that single-sex boarding schools give pupils relief and protection from the 'highly sexualised world' and allow single-sex boarding schools to 'remain girls for longer.' 'My wide educational experience in both mixed and girls' schools has shown me clearly that girls are best served educationally in girls teenage years in a boy-free work environment,' Rhiannon Wilkinson, head of Wycombe Abbey in Buckinghamshire said according to the Telegraph.
article_snippet.sent: Rhiannon Wilkinson, the head of Wycombe Abbey in Buckinghamshire, pictured, claims a 'boy free' environment allows teenage girls to focus on teenage girls work .
article_snippet.sent: Rhiannon Wilkinson, head of Wycombe Abbey in Buckinghamshire added: 'In co-ed environments lots of girls when adolescence kicks want to be liked by boys not just for boys intelligence and want to be popular with boys.
article_snippet.sent: But Rhiannon Wilkinson, head of Wycombe Abbey in Buckinghamshire said in all girl environments pupils are 'free from that,' according to the Telegraph.
article_snippet.sent: Tony Little, head at Eton College, has previously said that single sex schools allow children to retain children 'innocence' For girls this can happen as early as 10 years old, but for boys it can take until between 15 and 20 for the same.
article_snippet.sent: Tony Little, the head of Eton College, has also spoken of the benefits of single sex schools.
article_snippet.sent: He said Tony Little, the head of Eton College allow children to retain Tony Little, the head of Eton College 'innocence' and be 'Tony Little, the head of Eton College' for longer. '
highlights_snippet.sent: 'Boy free' environment stops girls from being held back by opposite sex .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Girls in single sex education don't have to worry about impressing boys .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Comments made by head of Wycombe Abbey School in Buckinghamshire .
  