- Camden School for Girls
Infobox UK school
name = The Camden School for Girls
dms = dms
motto = Onwards and Upwards
type = Voluntary aided
religion = Non-denominational
founder =Frances Mary Buss
county =London
city = Camden Town
country =England flagicon|England
LEA = Camden
ofsted = 100054
established = 1871
specialist = Music
head_label = Headmistress
head = Ms Anne Canning
chair_label = Chair
chair = Ms Penny Wild
enrollment = 998
gender = Girls
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 18
colours = colorbox|#00BD8A Camden green colorbox|white White
publication = Friday News
free_label_2 = Affiliations
free_2 = Camden Consortium
website = http://www.camdengirls.camden.sch.uk/
website_name = www.camdengirls.camden.sch.ukThe Camden School for Girls or CSG is a comprehensivesecondary school for girls, with a coeducationalsixth form , in theLondon Borough of Camden in NorthLondon . Founded in 1871 by the suffragetteFrances Mary Buss , who also foundedNorth London Collegiate School , CSG was one of the first girls' schools in England. It has about one thousand students of ages eleven to eighteen.The 1999
Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) report called it "a unique and very effective school in many ways". The most recent Ofsted report, written during March 2005, said CSG was "a very good school with excellent features".The school has been awarded specialist status as a
Music College .Camden old girls and boys
The following people were educated at the Camden School for Girls. Some of them went to only the sixth form.
*E. G. R. Taylor (1871–1966),geographer andhistorian
*Arabella Weir (born 1957),actress ,comedian andauthor
*Deborah Moggach (born 1948),writer
*Fiona Millar (born 1958), education campaigner, journalist and partner ofAlastair Campbell
*Lucy Kellaway (born 1959),writer andjournalist
*Emma Thompson (born 1959),actress
*Sarah Brown (born 1963), wife ofGordon Brown and PR consultant
*Catherine Wearing (1966–2007), television producer
*Geri Halliwell (born 1972), member of theSpice Girls
*Jodhi May (born 1975),actress
*Tom Hurndall (1981–2004),photographer
*John Hassall (born 1981), member ofThe Libertines and Yeti
*Joel Defries (born 1985), "Blue Peter" presenter
*Lily Donaldson (born 1987),supermodel
*Prudence Harbinger , fictional character in "The Sunday Telegraph ", created byLaurence Marks andMaurice Gran ee also
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London Borough of Camden
*Haverstock School
*Maria Fidelis RC Convent School
*South Camden Community School Further reading
*Doris Burchell, "Miss Buss' Second School", 1971.
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