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| colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: larger;" | '''Wolverhampton Girls' High School'''

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|'''School type'''

|style="padding-right: 1em;" | Girls' [[grammar school]] with [[sixth form]]

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|'''Affiliations'''

|style="padding-right: 1em;" | Wolverhampton City Council

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|'''Chairman of Governors'''

|style="padding-right: 1em;" | Professor Peter Ribbins [[PhD]]

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|'''Headteacher'''

|style="padding-right: 1em;" | Mrs Julie Lawton [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[PGCE]], [[Chartered Institute of Linguists|MIL]]

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|'''Location'''

|style="padding-right: 1em;" | Tettenhall Road, [[Newbridge, Wolverhampton|Newbridge]], [[Wolverhampton]]

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|'''Country'''

|style="padding-right: 1em;" | [[England]]

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|'''Number of pupils'''

|style="padding-right: 1em;" | 740

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|'''Teaching Staff'''

|style="padding-right: 1em;" | circa 70

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|'''Alumnae called'''

|style="padding-right: 1em;" | WGHS old girls

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|'''School web site'''

|style="padding-right: 1em;" | [http://www.wghs.org.uk/frameset.htm WGHS web site]

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{{Infobox school

| name = Wolverhampton Girls' High School

| logo = File:Wolverhampton Girls High School coat of arms.png

| logo_size = 150px

| image =

| coordinates = {{coord|52.591|-2.156|type:edu_region:GB_dim:100|format=dec|display=inline,title}}

| other_names = WGHS, Wolverhampton Girls' High, Girls' High

| motto = {{langx|la|Ludus Supra Praemium}} <br /> (The Game Before the Prize)

| established = 1911

| closed =

| type = [[Grammar school]];<br>[[Academy (English school)|academy]]

| religious_affiliation = N/A

| president =

| head_label = Headteacher

| head = Trudi Young

| r_head =

| chair_label = Chairman of governors

| chair = Peter Ribbins

| founder =

| address = Tettenhall Road

| city = [[Wolverhampton]]

| county = [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]]

| country = [[England]]

| postcode = WV6 0BY

| ofsted = yes

| urn = 140798

| staff = ~60

| enrolment = ~1015

| gender = Girls

| lower_age = 11

| upper_age = 18

| average_class_size = 30

| houses = Audley, Ferrers, Paget and Stafford

| colours = Red, navy blue, black

{{color box|red}} {{color box|navy}} {{color box|black}}

| publication = ''WGHS News'',<br /> ''WGHS Old Girls' Newsletter''

| free_label_1 = Former pupils

| free_1 = [https://www.wghsogu.uk WGHS Old Girls Union]

| website = {{URL|www.wghs.org.uk}}

}}

'''Wolverhampton Girls' High School''' is a [[Selectivegrammar school|selective]], single-sex school for girls at Tettenhall Road, [[Newbridge, Wolverhampton|Newbridge]],in [[Wolverhampton]] in the [[West Midlands]] of(region)|West [[EnglandMidlands]]. It has been awarded the status of [[Language College]] in the UK's [[Specialist school|Specialist Schools ProgrammeEngland]].

==Overview==

The school has a school uniform and is maintained by Wolverhampton City Council. There are some 740 girls enrolled, including about two hundred in the [[sixth form]]. The last Inspection Report (28 February 2006) by Michael Smith [[Office for Standards in Education|HMI]] called it an 'outstanding school'.

Wolverhampton Girls' High School, founded in 1911, educates girls from the age of 11 to 18. There are 1178 girls enrolled,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wolverhampton Girls' High School - GOV.UK |url=https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/140798 |access-date=2024-08-14 |website=get-information-schools.service.gov.uk |language=en}}</ref> including about two hundred in the [[sixth form]]. It was previously awarded the status of [[Language College]] in the UK's [[Specialist school|Specialist Schools Programme]], and converted to [[Academy (English school)|academy status]] on 1 April 2014.

==Entrance==

Entry to the school is via the Shropshire, Walsall and Wolverhampton Grammar Schools Consortium (Adams' Grammar, Newport Girls High, Queen Mary Grammar and High School and Wolverhampton Girls High School), testing Verbal Reasoning, Non-Verbal Reasoning and Numerical Reasoning.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Admission Appeals {{!}} Wolverhampton Girls' High School |url=https://www.wghs.org.uk/copy-of-admission-appeals |access-date=2024-08-14 |website=WGHS 2019 |language=en}}</ref> These tests take place during Year 6 of primary education (in September). [[Eleven-plus|11+ examinations]] must be taken in order to be enrolled in the school.

==Curriculum==

TheThere used to be four forms according to which house a student belonged to, however the school now has foursix forms forin each year,. and subjectsSubjects are taught in form groups. in years 7 to 9 and then in option groups for the more senior years.

Girls take [[English language|English]] and upat toleast three foreign [[language]]s, [[religious studies]], [[history]], [[geography]], [[mathematics]], [[physics]], [[biology]], [[chemistry]], [[technology]], [[information technology]], [[art]], [[music]] and [[physical education]]. The foreignForeign languages are chosen from [[French language|French]], [[German language|German]], [[Latin language|Latin]], [[Russian language|Russian]], and [[JapaneseSpanish language|JapaneseSpanish]].

At GCSE level, alongside [[English language|English]], [[mathematics]], [[biology]], [[chemistry]] and [[physics]], students are required to take at least one foreign language, and one of [[geography]], [[history]], and [[religious studies]]. Further, girls take two more subjects of their choice, and in year 11 are given the option to take GCSE-level [[Further Mathematics|further mathematics]] if they desire.

A wide range of visits by outside speakers and trips outside the school are organized to support course-work.

==Results==

Wolverhampton Girls' High School has been producing top results for many years, with all girls gaining five or more higher level [[GCSE]] passes in 2005 and 2006. About four out of five grades are either A or A*. Sixty per cent of girls gain nine or more GCSEs at grades A or A*.

The 2006 [[A-level]] results placed the school in fifth place in the performance league table for all maintained schools in the West Midlands.

In 2009, 100% of girls who sat GCSE examinations gained 5 or more A*–C GCSEs.<ref name=leaguetables>{{cite web|title=League Tables - Secondary schools in Wolverhampton|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/education/09/school_tables/secondary_schools/html/336_gcse_lea.stm|publisher=BBC News|access-date=13 March 2012}}</ref>

More than nine out of ten of the school's Year 13 girls go on to higher education, and the school celebrates their achievements.

Since the 2017 GCSE reforms, WGHS has continued to perform highly in subjects. Notably, in 2019, three-quarters of results were a grade 7 to 9,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wghs.org.uk/single-post/2019/08/22/GCSE-Results-2019|title=GCSE Results 2019|website=Wolverhampton Girls' High School|access-date=22 September 2019}}</ref> and 87% of students achieved at least a grade 4 in all 5 [[English Baccalaureate|EBacc]] subjects.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/school/140798/wolverhampton-girls'-high-school/secondary/ebacc-additional-measures?accordionstate=0|title=Wolverhampton Girls' High School - GOV.UK - Find and compare schools in England|website=Compare School Performances|access-date=22 September 2019}}</ref>

==Head teacher==

*Mrs Drucilla James, [[MEd]], September 1997 to 2003

*Mrs Julie Lawton [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[PGCE]], [[Chartered Institute of Linguists|MIL]], September 2003 to date

==Notable former pupils==

==Daily routine==

{{See also|Category:People educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School}}

*8.50 am: first bell (girls admitted to form rooms)

*[[Lindsay Ashford]], author

*9.00 am: Registration (by form teachers)

*[[Narinder Dhami]], author

*9.03 am: double bell (girls to Hall for Assembly)

*[[Jacqueline Elledge]], [[England women's cricket team|England]] cricketer<ref name=Levison>{{cite book|title=All in a Day's Cricket: An Anthology of Outstanding Cricket Writing|editor1=Brian Levison|editor2=Christopher Martin-Jenkins|publisher=Hachette UK|year=2012|isbn=9781780339061|section=Opening the Innings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mneeBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT37|access-date=8 January 2018}}</ref>

*9.20 am: Period 1

* [[Wendy Flavell]], professor of surface physics at the University of Manchester

*10.20 am: Period 2

*[[Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman]], Labour politician, first [[Lord Speaker]] of the [[House of Lords]]

*11.00 am: Recreation (years 10 to 13 may stay in form rooms, others must be out unless raining)

*[[Rachael Heyhoe-Flint]], captain of the [[England women's cricket team]]<ref name=Levison/>

*11.15 am: movement bell

*[[Ann Jago]], [[England women's cricket team|England]] cricketer<ref name=Levison/>

*11.20 am: Period 3

*[[Betty Joseph]] (1917-2013), British psychoanalyst

*12.10 pm: Period 4

*[[Caitlin Moran]], author and journalist

*1 pm - 2 pm: Lunch

*1.55 pm: movement bell

*2 pm: Register and Period 5

*2.50 pm: Period 6

*3.40 pm: Girls dismiss

==Notable WGHS old girls==

*[[Rachael Heyhoe-Flint]] [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]], captain of the [[England women's cricket team]]

*[[Hélène Hayman, Baroness Hayman]], Labour politician, first [[Lord Speaker]] of the [[House of Lords]]

*[[Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark]], [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician and educationalist

*[[Patience Wheatcroft]], Baroness Wheatcroft, journalist and Conservative peer, former editor of The Sunday Telegraph and Wall Street Journal Europe

*[[Anne Rafferty]], High Court judge

The school has an Old Girls' Union, which publishes a magazine, holds reunions, and has an Internet Forum which is free to all past pupils and Staff of WGHS (see external links). Every summer, there is an Old Girls' Supper.

*[[Sarah Clarke (Black Rod)|Sarah Clarke]], first woman to be appointed Black Rod in the UK Parliament

*[[Constance Wood]], pioneer of radiotherapy

*[[Jane Stevenson (politician)|Jane Stevenson]], Conservative Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton North East and Councillor for Tettenhall Wightwick

==References==

{{Reflist}}

*[http://www.wghs.org.uk/frameset.htm Wolverhampton Girls' High School] - official web site

*[http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:D2v9LvJtgqcJ:www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/pdf/%3FinspectionNumber%3D277149%26providerCategoryID%3D8192%26fileName%3D%255C%255Cschool%255C%255C104%255C%255Cpip_104402_20060320.pdf+headteacher+%22Wolverhampton+Girls%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk Inspection Report: Wolverhampton Girls' High School, 28 February 2006 to 28 February 2006]

==External links==

*[https://www.wghs.org.uk Wolverhampton Girls' High School] - official web site

*[http://s14.invisionfree.com/WGHS_Old_Girls_Forum/index.php?act=idx WGHS Old Girls Forum]

*[https://www.wghsogu.uk/index.html WGHS OGU] - Wolverhampton Girls’ High Old Girls’ Union website

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[[Category:Academies in Wolverhampton]]

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