Norwich High School for Girls

Norwich High School for Girls
Motto Do thy best and rejoice with those who do better
Established 1875
Type Independent day school
Headmistress Mrs Kirsty von Malaisé
Location 95 Newmarket Road
Norwich
Norfolk
NR2 2HU
England
Coordinates: 52°37′06″N 1°16′42″E / 52.61845°N 1.27842°E / 52.61845; 1.27842
Local authority Norfolk
DfE number 926/6123
DfE URN 501303 Tables
Gender Girls
Ages 3–18
Houses Britons, Celts, Romans, Normans, Danes, Saxons.
Website www.norwichhigh.gdst.net/

Norwich High School for Girls is an independent day school for girls 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 as one of the best academic results in East Anglia.[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.

History

Norwich High School for Girls was founded in 1875 as the first GPDST school outside London. Originally situated at the Assembly House, Norwich, the school moved to its present location Eaton Grove, 95, Newmarket Road, Norwich in 1933.[2]

Year Naming

Norwich High School uses its own nomenclature for the year groups.

Stafford House

Junior Department
Eaton Grove

(The Lower School)

The Upper School

Facilities

The school's facilities include a sports hall, performing arts studio, main hall (including stage), junior school hall, lecture theatre, boardroom, 25 metre swimming pool, 13 acres of playing fields, fitness suite, 6 tennis courts and 1 astro turf.[3]

Uniform

Uniform consists of a navy blazer, white shirt, tartan kilt (Reception - Upper IV) or tartan pencil skirt (Lower V - Upper V) and navy tights. Pupils in Lower and Upper VI do not follow a dress code and instead wear smart casual.

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.[4]

Notable former pupils

Headteachers

References

Notes
  1. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/education/school_tables/secondary/12/html/alevel_926.stm?compare=
  2. ↑ http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/views/derek-james/remembering_the_norwich_high_school_s_rich_history_1_1212805
  3. ↑ http://www.norwichhigh.gdst.net/366/welcome/facilities
  4. ↑ "Norwich High School For Girls Bursaries and Scholarships". Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  5. ↑ Tozer, Malcolm, ed. (2012). Physical Education and Sport in Independent Schools. John Catt Educational Ltd. p. 293. ISBN 9781908095442.
  6. ↑ RFU England Women - Sophie Hemming
  7. ↑ The Times, April 21, 1875, Issue 28295, p. 4, col. E
  8. ↑ 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
  9. ↑ The Times, September 10, 1877, Issue 29043, p. 13, col. C
  10. ↑ Press cutting of an obituary for Lizzie Gadesden (d. 1918), Ref. No. GDS/15/3/13 at archive.ioe.ac.uk
  11. ↑ The Times, January 27, 1933, Issue 46353; page 1, col A
  12. ↑ File 'Miss G. M. Wise' at archive.ioe.ac.uk
  13. ↑ Papers regarding Elsie Jameson at archive.ioe.ac.uk
  14. ↑ The Times, May 18, 1984, Issue 61834, p. 12, col. A
  15. ↑ Papers regarding Prunella Riviere Bodington (1907-1984) at archive.ioe.ac.uk
  16. ↑ The Times, March 22, 1975, Issue 59351, p. 16, col. C
  17. 1 2 The Times, April 17, 1985, Issue 62114, p. 16, col. C
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