Peterborough County Grammar School for Girls

Peterborough County Grammar School for Girls
Address
Cobden Avenue Peterborough , Northamptonshire/Cambridgeshire , PE1 2NY England
Coordinates	52°34′53″N 0°14′49″W
Information
Type	Grammar school
Motto	Non sibi sed deo et alteri Not for ourselves, but for God and others
Established	1904
Closed	1982
Local authority	Soke of Peterborough County Council/Huntingdon and Peterborough County Council/Cambridgeshire
Chair	Dr Jack Hunt
Head teacher	Miss Kate Wragge (1904–1936) Miss Vail (1936–1946) Miss Mona Mathews (1946–1969) Mrs Pat Halliday (1969–74) Mr Tom Martin (acting head) (Sept–Dec 1974) Miss Rosamund Roberts (Jan 1975–82)
Gender	Girls
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	c.700
Houses	Gordon, Kitchener, Marlborough, Nelson, Sidney, Wellington From 1956 – Burghley, Deene, Kirby, Milton
Publication	Chronicle
Website	http://peterborocountyschool.wordpress.com//

The Peterborough County Grammar School for Girls was an all-female grammar school in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England.

History

Peterborough County School for Girls

The school which was to become Peterborough County Grammar School for Girls opened on 17 September 1904 as a pupil teachers training centre in four rooms of the County Technical School in Broadway, with Miss Wragge as Headmistress.

In 1907, the school became Peterborough Girls Secondary School and moved to Park Road.

In 1911 the school changed its name to Peterborough County School for Girls and a new school building, designed by Annesley Brownrigg, was built on the corner of Lincoln Road (then the A15) and Cobden Avenue, near the junction with Burghley Road.

PCGS

In 1944 the school became Peterborough County Grammar School, administered by the Peterborough Joint Education Board, later the Peterborough City Education Committee.

The Chairman of the Governors, Jack Hunt, would have a school named after him. The New Hall was built in 1955, and new science labs were built in 1956. National hockey matches were played on the sports pitch.

In 1976, the school changed its name again to Peterborough County Girls School when it became a comprehensive school.

Closure

The school was closed in 1982, and school pupils and some members of staff moved to the Ken Stimpson Community School in Werrington.

The school buildings were demolished, apart from the caretakers house, and in 1985 the sheltered housing complex Lincoln Gate was built on the site.

Alumni

• Carolyn Aldworth (formerly Hill), S.R.N., former head of department, Central College Nottingham, freelance medical text book author
• Judith Bunting, Lib Dem MEP since 2019 for South East England
• Sylvia Cundell (formerly Gardner), retired Senior Crown Prosecutor, East of England, Crown Prosecution Service. MBE for services to Law and Order, New Year Honours list 2021
• Dr Clare Gerada MBE, chair of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners
• Prof Daphne Jackson OBE, UK's first woman physics professor, and after whom the Daphne Jackson Trust is named
• Marjorie Pollard OBE, an English field hockey player, and writer; the first woman to commentate on sport for the BBC.
• Phyllis Stedman, Baroness Stedman, of Longthorpe in the City of Peterborough OBE

External links

• History of the school