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Type
  
Secondary Academy

DfE number
  
???/4109

Ofsted
  
Reports

Number of students
  
930

Headteacher
  
Mr I Raikes

DfE URN
  
104955 Tables

Phone
  
+44 1704 567591

Colors
  
Green, Silver

Location
  
Hastings RoadHillside, SouthportMerseysidePR8 2LTEngland

Address
  
Hastings Rd, Southport PR8 2LT, UK

Similar
  
Stanley High School, Birkdale High School, Formby High School, Range High School, Maghull High School

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Greenbank High School is an all-girls secondary academy school located in Hillside, Southport, Merseyside, England. It was judged as an outstanding school by Ofsted in November 2010.

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Admissions

Greenbank does not have a sixth form, taking girls only from the ages of 11–16. The uniform is bottle green, and consists of a green jumper, a newly introduced striped white and green blouse, and a green skirt (or green formal trousers). It is an eco-school at Bronze Award level. The school has a Pupil Leadership Team and a school council. It also has an Interact group that help raise money for charities at home and abroad.

It is situated on the west side of the A565, east of the Royal Birkdale Golf Club and next to Hillside railway station.

Grammar school

It was known as High School for Girls, a grammar school, administered by the County Borough of Southport. It had around 650 girls in the early 1960s, 800 by the late 1960s, and 850 in the 1970s. It had moved into new buildings in 1958.

Comprehensive

It became a girls' comprehensive for ages 11–16 in 1978, with the last sixth form leaving in 1980.

Greenbank was the first Specialist school to be designated in Sefton, and one of the earliest schools in the UK to be designated with a specialism in Modern Foreign Languages. Today it teaches (French and Spanish) to all KS3 pupils, and all pupils study at least one language to GCSE level. Other languages taught include German, Russian and Mandarin Chinese.

The school has a sports hall, gymnasium, fitness room, floodlit all-weather pitch, playing fields and recently refurbished changing facilities.

Academy

On 1 November 2011, Greenbank High School formally gained academy status.

Teachers

  • Tina Cullen, England International hockey player
  • Academic performance

    2010 results 93% achieved 5 or more passes A*-C with 69% achieving five or more passes A*-C including Mathematics and English. Thirteen pupils gained straight A* and A grades in 10 or more subjects. In addition, 75% of the girls achieved at least A*-C in a Modern Foreign Language.

    High School for Girls

  • Edith Batten OBE, educationist
  • Miranda Richardson, actress
  • Margaret Smith, Lord-Lieutenant of Aberdeen from 1999–2003
  • Carol Wiseman, TV drama director in the 1980s and 1990s, notably of The Queen's Nose, Blue Heaven, Love Hurts (TV series), and the BAFTA-winning (1987) A Little Princess
  • Georgia Dehn, Journalist
  • Holly Fletcher, Låpsley, singer
  • References

    Greenbank High School Wikipedia


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