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Leeds Girls' High School, Leeds

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Leeds Girls' High School details

Address:

Leeds Girls' High School
Headingley Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS6 1BN

Telephone:

0113 274 4000

Fax:

0113 275 2217

Email:

admissions@lghs.org

Website:

www.lghs.org

Authority:

Leeds

Admissions:

Selective

Gender of entry:

Girls

Age range:

3-18

Number of students:

974

Affiliation:

GSA

Gender of sixth form:

Girls

Last inspection:

February 2004. Read the full inspection report.

General information

Headteacher: Sue Fishburn, appointed in September 1997.

Staff: 68 (men 14, women 79).

Motto: "Age quod agis" ("Be serious in what you do").

Background: Offering a lively, purposeful and happy atmosphere, Leeds Girls' High School aims to develop latent talents, provide a challenging education and value individuality. The school welcomes diversity, with girls from different backgrounds. Founded in 1876, the school has a curriculum that selects the best of the new and retains all that has proved valuable. Latin and classical Greek are offered alongside IT and business studies, allowing pupils to pursue their own interests and talents. The school considers the close relationship between staff and girls important. Heads of sections and form tutors offer help throughout the day and a buddying system provides new girls with an older friend to help them settle in. A carefully balanced programme of personal, social and health education allows girls to make informed choices about their conduct and attitude. There is an emphasis on self-directed learning and research skills, complemented by two libraries and three computer suites. Music is central and the day often starts with a performance in assembly. Girls also play and sing in city and national youth orchestras and choirs. Lunchtime clubs support taught drama and there are several full-scale productions each year. The school is in the process of merging with Leeds Grammar School, with all age groups scheduled to come together on one site by September 2008. The new school will be called The Grammar School at Leeds and will have coeducational classes in the sixth form and junior school, but single-sex teaching for years 7-11.

Alumni: Zoe Hudson, arctic explorer; Dame Pauline Neville Jones, former chairman, Joint Intelligence Committee; Nicolette Jones, journalist.

Streaming/setting: From 12 plus for mathematics and modern languages.

Approach to discipline: Achievement and success are praised. Care for each other and the property of others is at the care.

Uniform: Uniform up to 16 years. No sixth form uniform. Students are expected to wear their uniform smartly and appropriately.

Higher education: 97% (2 Oxford 5 Cambridge).

Vocational qualifications: All Year 9 pupils takes the Engineer Computer Driving License).

Special needs: No special provision.

Inspection: February 2004: Leeds Girls' High School is a very successful school that enables its pupils to achieve high standards not only in the formal curriculum but also in its extensive extracurricular programme. It brings together pupils from diverse backgrounds and creates an atmosphere in which they want to learn. Teaching of very good quality was seen in all parts of the school. Pupils' personal development, pastoral care and behaviour are very good.

Feeder schools: Richmond House; Froebelian School; Wigton Moor Primary; Shadwell Primary; Bramhope Primary.

Boys' age range: 3 to 3.

Girls' age range: 3 to 18.

Over-subscribed: 2:1.

Before-school care: from 07.00.

After-school care: to 18.00.

Percentage admitted according to academic ability: 100.

Senior girls: 607.

Senior girls 11-18: Y.

Average class size (juniors; under-11): 20.

Average class size (seniors; 11-16): 22.

Average class size (sixth form): 13.

Principle admission ages: 3 plus, 4 plus, 7 plus, 11 plus, 16 plus.

Bursaries: Music, Other.

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