Wolverhampton Girls' High School

Infobox UK school
name = Wolverhampton Girls' High School


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established = 1911
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type = Grammar foundation school
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chair_label = Chairman of Governors
chair = Professor Peter Ribbins PhD
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specialist = Languages
street = Tettenhall Road
city = Wolverhampton
county = West Midlands
country = England flagicon|England
postcode = WV6 0BY
LEA = Wolverhampton
ofsted = 104402
staff = 60 (approx.)
enrollment = 739
gender = Girls
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 18
houses = Audley, Ferrers, Paget and Stafford
colours = Blue and Red
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Wolverhampton Girls' High School is a selective, single-sex school for girls at Tettenhall Road, Newbridge, Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of England.

Overview

The school was founded in 1911 and the main school building is an impressive marble structure, typical of that era. The school building has expanded since the 1980s to incorporate a new science block, technology block, geography rooms and a gymnasium. Pupils are required to wear a school uniform in the school colours of navy blue and red. The school is non-fee paying and is maintained by Wolverhampton City Council. Entrance examinations are held each November to select the following year's intake. Selection is by ability only and girls sit tests in English, Maths, Verbal and Non-Verbal reasoning.

The school body is split into four houses: Audley, Ferrers, Paget and Stafford.

There are some 741 girls enrolled, including about two hundred in the sixth form. It has been awarded the status of Language College in the UK's Specialist Schools Programme. The last Inspection Report (28 February 2006) by Michael Smith HMI called it an 'outstanding school'.

Curriculum

The school has four forms in each year, and subjects are taught in form groups in years 7 to 9 and then in option groups for the senior years.

Girls take English and at least three foreign languages, religious studies, history, geography,mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, technology, information technology, art, music and physical education. The foreign languages are chosen from French, German, Latin, Russian, Spanish and Japanese. A wide range of visits by outside speakers and trips outside the school are organized to support course-work

Results

Wolverhampton Girls' High School has been producing top results for many years, with all girls gaining five or more higher level GCSE passes in 2005 and 2006. About four out of five grades are either A or A*. Sixty per cent of girls gain nine or more GCSEs at grades A or A*.

The 2006 A-level results placed the school in fifth place in the performance league table for all maintained schools in the West Midlands.

More than nine out of ten of the school's Year 13 girls go on to higher education, and the school celebrates their achievements.

Head teacher

*Mrs Drucilla James, MEd, September 1997 to 2003
*Mrs Julie Gurtrude Lawton BA, PGCE, MIL September 2003 to INDEFINITE.

Notable Alumnae

*Rachael Heyhoe-Flint OBE, captain of the England women's cricket team
*Hélène Hayman, Baroness Hayman, Labour politician, first Lord Speaker of the House of Lords
*Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark, Conservative politician and educationalist
*Narinder Dhami, author

The school has an Old Girls' Union, which publishes a magazine, holds reunions, and has an Internet Forum which is free to all past pupils and Staff of WGHS. Every summer, there is an Old Girls' Supper.

References

* [http://www.wghs.org.uk/frameset.htm Wolverhampton Girls' High School] - official web site
* [http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:D2v9LvJtgqcJ:www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/pdf/%3FinspectionNumber%3D277149%26providerCategoryID%3D8192%26fileName%3D%255C%255Cschool%255C%255C104%255C%255Cpip_104402_20060320.pdf+headteacher+%22Wolverhampton+Girls%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk Inspection Report: Wolverhampton Girls' High School, 28 February 2006]