| Wolverhampton Girls' High School | |
| School type | Girls' grammar school with sixth form |
| Affiliations | Wolverhampton City Council |
| Chairman of Governors | Professor Peter Ribbins PhD |
| Headteacher | Mrs Julie Lawton BA, PGCE, MIL |
| Location | Tettenhall Road, Newbridge, Wolverhampton |
| Country | England |
| Number of pupils | 740 |
| Teaching Staff | circa 70 |
| Alumnae called | WGHS old girls |
| School web site | WGHS web site |
Wolverhampton Girls' High School is a selective, single-sex school for girls at Tettenhall Road, Newbridge, Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of England. It has been awarded the status of Language College in the UK's Specialist Schools Programme.
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 HMI called it an 'outstanding school'.
Curriculum
The school has four forms for each year, and subjects are taught in form groups.
Girls take English and up to three foreign languages, religious studies, history, geography,mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, technology, information technology, art, music and physical education. The foreign languages are chosen from French, German, Latin, Russian, and Japanese.
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.
More than nine out of ten of the school's Year 13 girls go on to higher education, and the school celebrates their achievements.
Head teacher
Daily routine
- 8.50 am: first bell (girls admitted to form rooms)
- 9.00 am: Registration (by form teachers)
- 9.03 am: double bell (girls to Hall for Assembly)
- 9.20 am: Period 1
- 10.20 am: Period 2
- 11.00 am: Recreation (years 10 to 13 may stay in form rooms, others must be out unless raining)
- 11.15 am: movement bell
- 11.20 am: Period 3
- 12.10 pm: Period 4
- 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 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 politician and educationalist
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.
AMG's school poem
The following poem by A. M. G. (an old girl of the school) is often quoted:
'Eheu fugaces', Horace sings
'Labuntur anni' and no power
Can stop the clock a single hour
Or stem the onward stream of things.
Autumn, Spring, Summer - Ah, how fast
Term follows term, nor knows delay!
Time in his torrent sweeps away
All our dear treasures of the past.
And yet, not all. For thought can stay
Awhile, till in the mind arise
A cinema of memories,
Bright pictures of a by-gone day
When holidays are here at last,
And all the term's long drive is done,
Leave off; and slowly, one by one,
Turn back the pages of the past.
And since to share with friends can be
An added joy in all things, take
This book of mine, for friendship's sake,
And share your memories with me.
- A.M.G. (July, 1936)