Rugby High School for Girls
| Motto | 'She Has Set Heights In Her Heart' |
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| Established | 1928 |
| Type | Grammar School Academy |
| Headteacher | Charlotte Marten |
| Specialisms | Science and Languages |
| Location | Longrood Road Rugby Warwickshire CV22 7RE England |
| Local authority | Warwickshire County Council |
| DfE URN | 125769 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 746 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Ryder, Hepworth and Sharman. |
| Colours | Navy Blue, Light Blue. |
| Website | www.rugbyhighschool.co.uk |
Coordinates: 52°21′09″N 1°17′10″W / 52.3525°N 1.286°W
Rugby High School for Girls (commonly known as Rugby High School) is a selective girls' grammar school situated in Bilton, Warwickshire, England. To attend this school, all students must have reached the high standards of the 11+.
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[edit] Admissions
The school has a specialist science status, and a recently acquired special language status.
It caters purely for female students aged 11 to 16, and joins with Lawrence Sheriff School, a selective boys' grammar school, to teach those aged between 16 and 18. 6th formers studying at Lawrence Sheriff School attend lessons at Rugby High when their subject is not catered for on the Lawrence Sheriff site and vice versa.
In the 11-16 age range, the school has a three-form intake. Each year group numbers roughly 90 girls.
[edit] History
It was opened on 10 February 1928 by Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl. There were eight class rooms, two music rooms, a laboratory and science room, and a kitchen for teaching domestic science. It could accommodate 196 girls. The headmistress was Miss Nonita Glenday.
[edit] Traditions
The school introduced a house system during the academic year 2000-2001. The houses are named after Sue Ryder, a charitable woman, Barbara Hepworth, a modern artist and Helen Sharman, the first Briton to enter space. The houses are assigned to whole form groups, and they can gain house points by taking part in various school events, such as the annual Sports Day, interform sports, or Pink Day (in support of Cancer Research UK). The system is not very different from the interform system previously in place, with girls in the same form all being placed within the same house. However, the house system has created a link between different year groups and has encouraged wider participation in school events other than the interform.
The House colours are Green for Sharman, Yellow for Ryder and Red for Hepworth. Each form is given the initial of their house, to come before the initial of their form tutor, eg. 10SW, is a Year 10 form, in Sharman House, and they have Mrs Wallace as a form tutor.
The school also has a 6th Form Entertainment, produced by the year 13 students - sometimes with assistance from the staff - at the end of the Autumn term. This tradition was suspended for several years after a script was deemed to be offensive to members of the staff. It was resurrected in The academic year 2004-2005, with greater involvement and participation from the staff. The new format the entertainment took was of a variety show, with music and dancing displays, followed by a panto-like skit. The skit is often based around a famous story or event, but with students playing the roles of teachers. Previous years included Cinderella (1999), Big Brother (2000), The Wizard of Oz (2001) and The Sound of Music (2005). Each Christmas, there is also a Decorated Classrooms competition, where students take a theme and decorate their classrooms, often acting out performances while being judged. For example, a Year 10 form 10SW, did a 'Christmas at Hogwarts' presentation where they acted out scenes, this won in 2010. Recently, for decorated classroom 11ST acted out a teacher nativity, with the head teacher being the 'virgin marten'. This was an excellent[opinion] performance which won them the year 11 decorated classroom prize. the same form won 4 out of 5 decorated classrooms, the one they did not win, being the circus act they did in 2008.
[edit] Notable former pupils
- Dame Fiona Reynolds CBE, Director-General of the National Trust since 2001, and Director of the Council for National Parks from 1992-8
- Dame Barbara Stocking, DBE (b. 28 July 1951, Rugby, Warwickshire) is Vice Chair of the SCHR and Chief Executive of Oxfam GB. She joined the latter in 2001.
- Colette Hume, Education Correspondent for BBC Wales Today and a network stand-in for Wales Correspondent Wyre Davies for BBC News network services.
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