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Highsted Grammar School

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Established
  
1904

DfE URN
  
136305 Tables

Phone
  
+44 1795 424223

Number of students
  
864

Local authority
  
Kent County Council

Headteacher
  
Anne Kelly

Ofsted
  
Reports

Motto
  
Esse quam videri

Founded
  
1904

Type
  
Academy (English school) Grammar school (United Kingdom)

Location
  
Highsted Road Sittingbourne Kent ME10 4PT England

Address
  
Highsted Rd, Sittingbourne ME10 4PT, UK

Similar
  
Borden Grammar School, Fulston Manor School, Westlands School, Invicta Grammar School, Maidstone Grammar School

Highsted Grammar School is a state-funded selective secondary school (grammar school) for girls in Sittingbourne, Kent.

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History

The school was established in 1904 in Brenchley House on Sittingbourne High Street as Sittingbourne High School for Girls. It moved to its current site in Highsted Road in the late 1950s, at which time it was known as Sittingbourne Girls’ Grammar School (SGGS).

In common with many secondary schools in England, Highsted has a house system. When formed in 1904 the houses were: Briton, Cymru, Scots and Spartan. The houses now are: Chanel, Eliot, Franklin, Keller, Roddick, Seacole.

The modern school

The school, now known as Highsted Grammar School, converted to Academy status in 2011. It now takes both boys and girls into its Sixth Form. In September 2013, Anne Kelly took over the post of headteacher after the retirement of former headteacher Jennifer Payne.

A Facebook page was set up in 2014 with the aim of creating a Highsted Old Girls Association.

Notable former pupils

Rachel Talalay, film and television director and producer.

Jane Shilling, journalist and author.

References

Highsted Grammar School Wikipedia