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Folkestone School for Girls

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Established
  
1905

Headteacher
  
T.Luke

DfE URN
  
137837 Tables

Number of students
  
1,048

Type
  
Grammar academy

DfE number
  
886/5437

Phone
  
+44 1303 251125

Founded
  
1905

Location
  
Coolinge Lane Folkestone Kent CT20 3RB England

Address
  
Coolinge Ln, Sandgate, Folkestone CT20 3RB, UK

Similar
  
The Harvey Grammar School, The Folkestone Academy, Brockhill Park Performin, Dover Grammar School fo, Pent Valley

Profiles

Folkestone School for Girls (FSG) is an all-girls grammar school with academy status, located in Folkestone, Kent, England. It is situated next to Sandgate Primary School on Coolinge Lane. It has good reports from OFSTED, and excellent grades from the pupils.

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History

It started in 1905 as the Folkestone County School for Girls. The boys' grammar school is called the Harvey Grammar School.

Admissions

The school intended to use the entrance examination introduced by Dover Grammar School for Boys, but, after an objection by Kent County Council, it was ruled on 8 July 2005 by the Schools Adjudicator that the school should use the county's selection test.

Radiation

The school was chosen at random by the Radiocommunications Agency, which has since been incorporated into Ofcom, as one of a number of schools for which the radiation exposure from cellphone transmitter towers should be measured. The measurements were made on 23 November 2001. According to the measurements, the highest ICNIRP (International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection) public exposure level on the site was over four-thousand times greater than the lowest level.

House System

There are six houses named after historically important women: (Marie) Curie, (Amy) Johnson, (Jane) Austen, (Emmeline) Pankhurst, (Ada) Lovelace and (Mary) Seacole. Each house has an assigned colour, green, red, yellow, blue, orange and purple respectively. The houses also have their own prefects, chosen from Year 13.

Notable former pupils

  • Tracey Crouch, Member of Parliament (MP) for Chatham and Aylesford
  • Daphne Fowler, Brain of Britain winner 1997, BBC's Eggheads (TV series) team member 2003-Present
  • Alison Hastings, Vice-President of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), and Editor of Newcastle's Evening Chronicle from 1996-2002
  • Dame Sheila Sherlock, hepatologist
  • References

    Folkestone School for Girls Wikipedia