St George's School, Edinburgh

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Established 1888 Deputy Headteacher Adrienne Armstrong Founder Dame Sarah Mair		Headteacher Alex Hems Phone +44 131 311 8000 Founded 1888
Motto Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye Type Independent day and boarding Location Garscube Terrace Edinburgh EH12 6BG Scotland Address Garscube Terrace, Murrayfield, Edinburgh EH12 6BG, UK Profiles Google+

St George's School for Girls is an all-girls independent school situated in the Ravelston district of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Until Session 2012/2013 the School's curriculum was based on the Scottish education system but incorporating aspects of the English education system. For example, GCSE Art was preferred and some A-Levels were available in sixth form. However, after the implementation of the Curriculum for Excellence, St George's chose to move entirely to the English system.

History

In 1876, some members of the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women began St George’s Hall Classes to provide teaching up to university entrance level, either by attendance in Edinburgh or by correspondence courses. In 1886 they started the first teacher training college in Scotland for women teachers in secondary schools. In 1888, they opened St George’s High School in a converted house in Melville Street in the centre of Edinburgh. It had only fifty pupils. Four years later, Scottish universities finally began admitting women, and some St George’s students were among the first female University of Edinburgh graduates. By 1914, numbers had swelled to over three hundred, so the school was moved to a new, purpose built school on its present site in Ravelston.

Notable Former Pupils

Kaye Adams, Broadcaster and Journalist

Katie Targett-Adams, Musician and Recording Artist

Phyllis Bone, Sculptor and first female member of the Royal Scottish Academy

Sheila Burnford, Novelist

Sarah Davidson, Model and Fashion Buyer

Emily Dudgeon, Athlete

Dr Cordelia Fine, Academic Psychologist and Writer

Dr Ione Fine, Professor in Psychology, University of Washington

Felicity Hammond, Photographer and Installation Artist

Sarah McVittie, Entrepreneur

Candia McWilliam, Award-winning Author

Penny Macmillan, Journalist and Broadcaster

Dr Doreen Miller FRCP FFOM, founder of Miller Health Management and former Chief Medical Officer at Marks & Spencer

Amanda Mitchison, Author

Annie "Spitfire" Penrose, daughter of Sir Robert McLean, Chairman of Vickers Aviation who suggested her childhood nickname for the Supermarine Spitfire

Brenda Mark, Artist

Lady Mary Ogilvie, Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford 1953-1966, and wife of Sir Frederick Wolff Ogilvie.

Lindsay Paterson, Politician

Catherine Philp Foreign Correspondent

Kathleen Scott, Baroness Kenett, Sculptor.

Marie Stopes, scientist, author and pioneer in the field of birth control.

Alice Thompson, Novelist, Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1996

Dr Jennifer Wallace, Director of English Studies, Peterhouse College, Cambridge

Lois Weatherup, Model and Miss Scotland 2004

Carol Brown Janeway, translator and editor.

Houses

There are six houses at St George's with girls first being allocated a house in Junior School. The houses are:

Argyll

Strathmore

Lindsay

Buccleuch

Moray

Douglas

Boarding

The girls from the ages of nine to eighteen live in Houldsworth House on the edge of the school grounds. The girls play an active part within the house, the student Head of Boarding being elected by the boarders themselves. As of January 2013 the school had more than 50 boarders, about 7% of the number of pupils. In March 2012, St George's School celebrated the centenary of boarding at the school

References

St George's School, Edinburgh Wikipedia

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Contents

History

Notable Former Pupils

Houses

Boarding

References