Norwich High School for Girls

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Established 1875 Headmistress Mrs Kirsty von Malaisé DfE URN 501303 Tables Founded 1875		Type Independent day school DfE number 926/6123 Phone +44 1603 453265 Local authority Norfolk
Location 95 Newmarket Road Norwich Norfolk NR2 2HU England Address 95 Newmarket Rd, Norwich NR2 2HU, UK Motto Do thy best and rejoice with those who do better Profiles Twitter

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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. 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.

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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.

Year Naming

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

Stafford House

Polliwiggle Nursery (ages 3 and 4)

Infant Department

Reception (ages 4 and 5)

Kindergarten (ages 5 and 6)

Lower I (ages 6 and 7)

Junior Department

Upper I (ages 7 to 8)

Lower II (ages 8 to 9)

Upper II (ages 9 to 10)

Lower III (ages 10 to 11)

Eaton Grove

(The Lower School)

Upper III (ages 11 to 12)

Lower IV (ages 12 to 13)

Upper IV (ages 13 to 14)

The Upper School

Lower V (ages 14 to 15)

Upper V (ages 15 to 16)

Lower VI - Sixth Form (ages 16 to 17)

Upper VI - Sixth Form (ages 17 to 18)

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.

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.

Notable former pupils

Nina Bawden (1925–2012) - novelist and writer of children's books

Diana Burrell (born 1948) - composer

Edith Cavell (born 1865) - nurse, executed by Germans in 1915

Jane Clarke, former TV editor of After Nine, acting director of the BFI in 1997, and Chief Executive of BAFTA in 1998

Olivia Colman (born 1974) - actress

Jane Hissey (born 1952) - illustrator and author

Dorothy Jewson (1884–1964) - Labour politician

Joyce Lambert (1916–2005) - botanist

Jane Manning (born 1938) - opera singer

Sophie Hemming - England rugby union international

Becky Mantin (born 1980) - television presenter

Dame Prof Shirley Pearce (born 1954) - Vice-Chancellor from 2006-12 of Loughborough University, and Professor of Health Psychology from 1994-2006 at UEA

Emma Pooley (born 1982) - cyclist who won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Alice Walpole, Ambassador to Luxembourg since 2011

Hannah Waterman (born 1975) - actress

Victoria Williamson (born 1993) - track cyclist

Headteachers

Miss Ada Benson (1875)

Miss Wills (from 1875)

Miss A. M. Tapson (early 1880s)

Miss Lizzie Gadesden (1884 to 1907, previously head of Newton Abbot High School, died 1918)

Miss Gertrude Mary Wise JP (1907 to 1928, previously head of Shrewsbury High School, died January 1935)

Miss Elsie Pringle Jameson (1928 to 1946, born 1880, died 1958)

Miss Prunella Riviere Bodington (1946 to 1953, later head of South Hampstead High School, born 1907, died 1984)

Miss Dorothy Bartholomew (to December 1976, died September 2011)

Miss Rhoda H. M. Standeven (January 1976 to September 1985)

Mrs Valerie Bidwell (from September 1985 to July 2010)

Mr Jason Morrow (First Male Headteacher; September 2010 to 2015)

Mrs Kirsty von Malaisé (from September 2015 to present)

References

Norwich High School for Girls Wikipedia

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