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Norwich High School for Girls Motto Do thy best and rejoice with those who do better Established 1875 Type EY Setting Headmaster Mr Jason Morrow Location 95 Newmarket Road
Norwich
Norfolk
NR2 2HU
EnglandLocal authority Norfolk DfE URN 501303 Ages 3–18 Houses Britons, Celts, Romans, Normans, Danes, Saxons. Website norwichhigh.gdst.net Coordinates: 52°37′06″N 1°16′42″E / 52.61845°N 1.27842°E
Norwich High School for Girls is an independent fee-charging school with selective entry in Norwich, Norfolk, England. It was founded in 1875 and is now one of the twenty-nine schools of the Girls' Day School Trust. The school has one of the best academic records in Norfolk.[1] It consists of four sections-the Polliwiggle Nursery (Polliwiggle is the Norfolk dialect word for tadpole), Stafford House (the primary section of the school), Eaton Grove (the lower years of the secondary section) and the Sixth Form. A single-sex school, it educates girls from three to eighteen. The current Head Teacher is Mr Jason Morrow. The school hymm is To be a Pilgrim, while the school's motto is "Do thy best and rejoice with those who do better".
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Uniform
The uniform changes with the seasons, apart from the school blazer, which is bottle green with the school's arms embroidered on the breast pocket*.
The Winter uniform is a tartan kilt, mostly navy blue but with red and green criss-cross lines, plus a navy blue v-necked jumper with two green stripes along the collar, a white shirt and navy tights (or long socks in the Junior School) . In the Fifth Form (two years before Sixth Form) students are allowed to wear a straight skirt of the same fabric as the kilt. Black shoes are worn all year round.
The Summer uniform is a summer dress with a green block pattern of squares and circles, worn with short navy socks*. Fifth Formers may wear their winter skirt and a short-sleeved white blouse. In the Sixth Form, girls may wear their own clothes, so long as they are smart and not casual.
- Though the summer uniform is going to changed to a navy blue straight skirt with a white blouuse and navy blazer that will replace the bottle green one.
Year Naming
As many other independent schools, Norwich High School does not use the 'Year 1, Year 2...' method of naming forms within the school. This is as follows:
Stafford House
- Polliwiggle Nursery (ages 3 and 4)
- Infant Department
- Reception (ages 4 and 5)
- Kindergarten (ages 5 and 6)
- Lower I (ages 6 and 7)
- Junior Department
- Upper I (ages 7 to 8)
- Lower II(ages 8 to 9)
- Upper II(ages 9 to 10)
- Lower III(ages 10 to 11)
- Eaton Grove
(The Lower School)
- Upper III(ages 11 to 12)
- Lower IV(ages 12 to 13)
- Upper IV(ages 13 to 14)
- The Upper School
- Lower V (ages 14 to 15)
- Upper V (ages 15 to 16)
- Lower VI - Sixth Form (ages 16 to 17)
- Upper VI - Sixth Form (ages 17 to 18)
Facilities
The school's wide range of facilities include playing fields, tennis courts, a 25m indoor heated swimming pool, a gym, a sports hall, a state-of-the-art performing arts studio and a variety of learning tools including Language Labs, a well-stocked library, five computing suites and several Science Laboratories.
Recently parents implemented a new grass roots project that saw the road adjacent to the school, Albermarle Road turned into a one way system, with ample space for 4x4s.
Scholarships
Academic scholarships and means-tested bursaries are offered upon entry to Upper III and Lower VI. The scholarships offered in Upper III are music scholarships based on the performance of the candidate in an audition and academic scholarships on their performance in the transfer or entrance to the senior school examination, whereas the scholarships offered in Lower VI are based on the performance in an optional examination based on English, Mathematics, Science and a foreign language of the candidate's choice from French, German or Spanish.[2]
Notable former pupils
See also: Category:People educated at Norwich High School for Girls- Diana Burrell - composer
- Edith Cavell - martyr and nurse
- Olivia Coleman (born 1974) - actress
- Dorothy Jewson (1884–1964) - Labour politician
- Joyce Lambert (1916–2005) - botanist
- Jane Manning (born 1938) - opera singer
- Becky Mantin (born 1980) - television presenter
- Professor Shirley Pearce - Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University
- Emma Pooley (born 1982) - cyclist who won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Hannah Waterman (born 1975) - actress
- Nina Bawden
Headteachers
- Miss Ada Benson (1875)[3][4]
- Miss Wills (from 1875)[5]
- Miss A. M. Tapson (early 1880s)
- Miss Lizzie Gadesden (1884 to 1907, previously head of Newton Abbot High School, died 1918)[6]
- Miss Gertrude Mary Wise JP (1907 to 1928, previously head of Shrewsbury High School, died January 1935)[7][8]
- Miss Elsie Pringle Jameson (1928 to 1946, born 1880, died 1958)[9]
- Miss Prunella Riviere Bodington (1946 to 1953, later head of South Hampstead High School, born 1907, died 1984)[10][11]
- Miss Dorothy Bartholomew (to December 1976, died September 2011)
- Miss Rhoda H. M. Standeven (January 1976 to September 1985)[12][13]
- Mrs Valerie Bidwell (from September 1985 to July 2010)[13]
- Mr Jason Morrow (First Male Headteacher; September 2010 to present)
Bibliography
- Bodington, Miss P. R., Norwich High school 1875-1950 (Norwich High School, 1950)
- Brodie, Alan, Memories, Milestones and Miscellanies: 125 years of Norwich High School for Girls (Norwich High School for Girls, 2003)
References
- ^ Guardian Unlimited 2006 GCSE and A-level results http://education.guardian.co.uk/secondaries/tables/0,,1985499,00.html
- ^ "Norwich High School For Girls Bursaries and Scholarships". http://www.norwichhigh.gdst.net/about/Bursaries/Pages/default.aspx. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
- ^ The Times, April 21, 1875, Issue 28295, p. 4, col. E
- ^ File 'The Forgotten Benson', Ref. No. GDS/15/3/4, unpublished memoir by Sylvia Benians of Ada Benson (married name McDowall), head of Norwich High School, 1875, and of Oxford High School 1875-1879, in Records of the Girls' Day School Trust and predecessors
- ^ The Times, September 10, 1877, Issue 29043, p. 13, col. C
- ^ Press cutting of an obituary for Lizzie Gadesden (d. 1918), Ref. No. GDS/15/3/13 at archive.ioe.ac.uk
- ^ The Times, January 27, 1933, Issue 46353; page 1, col A
- ^ File 'Miss G. M. Wise' at archive.ioe.ac.uk
- ^ Papers regarding Elsie Jameson at archive.ioe.ac.uk
- ^ The Times, May 18, 1984, Issue 61834, p. 12, col. A
- ^ Papers regarding Prunella Riviere Bodington (1907-1984) at archive.ioe.ac.uk
- ^ The Times, March 22, 1975, Issue 59351, p. 16, col. C
- ^ a b The Times, April 17, 1985, Issue 62114, p. 16, col. C
External links
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- 1875 establishments in England
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