Camden School for Girls
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| The Camden School for Girls | |
| Motto | Onwards and Upwards |
| Established | 1871 |
| Type | Voluntary aided |
| Religion | Non-denominational |
| Headmistress | Ms Anne Canning |
| Chair | Ms Penny Wild |
| Founder | Frances Mary Buss |
| Specialism | Music |
| Location | Sandall Road Camden Town London, NW5 2DB England  |
| LEA | Camden |
| Ofsted number | 100054 |
| Students | 998 |
| Gender | Girls; mixed in the sixth form |
| Ages | 11 to 18 |
| Colours | Camden green
White |
| Publication | Friday News |
| Affiliations | Camden Consortium |
| Website | www.camdengirls.camden.sch.uk |
The Camden School for Girls or CSG is a comprehensive secondary school for girls, with a coeducational sixth form, in the London Borough of Camden in North London. Founded in 1871 by the suffragette Frances Mary Buss, who also founded North London Collegiate School, CSG was one of the first girls' schools in England. It has about one thousand students, of ages eleven to eighteen.
The 1999 Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) report called it "a unique and very effective school in many ways". The most recent Ofsted report, written during March 2005, said CSG was "a very good school with excellent features".
The school has been awarded specialist status as a Music College.
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The following people were educated at the Camden School for Girls. Some of them went to only the sixth form.
- E. G. R. Taylor (1871–1966), geographer and historian
- Dame Julia Cleverdon (born 1952), charity worker.
- Arabella Weir (born 1957), actress, comedian and author
- Deborah Moggach (born 1948), writer
- Fiona Millar (born 1958), education campaigner, journalist and partner of Alastair Campbell
- Lucy Kellaway (born 1959), writer and journalist
- Emma Thompson (born 1959), actress
- Sarah Brown (born 1963), wife of Gordon Brown and PR consultant
- Catherine Wearing (1966–2007), television producer
- Tamsin Greig (born 1967), actress
- Geri Halliwell (born 1972), member of the Spice Girls
- Jodhi May (born 1975), actress
- Johnny Borrell (born 1980), lead singer of Razorlight and actor
- Tom Hurndall (1981–2004), photographer
- John Hassall (born 1981), member of The Libertines and Yeti
- Joel Defries (born 1985), Blue Peter presenter
- Lily Donaldson (born 1987), supermodel
- Anna Shaffer (born 1992), played Romilda Vane in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Prudence Harbinger, fictional character in The Sunday Telegraph, created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran
[edit] See also
- London Borough of Camden
- Haverstock School
- Maria Fidelis RC Convent School
- South Camden Community School
[edit] Further reading
- Doris Burchell, Miss Buss' Second School, 1971.
