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The four school houses are named after the four first headmistresses of the school; Bolton, Hastings, Luxton and Skeel. In recent years, the Junior School has also adopted the House system, so that girls can be in the same House as siblings further up the school. The House system includes inter-house
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A team of committed Sixth
Formers are appointed to a range of positions each year. This includes a Head Girl and two Deputy Head Girls, who work closely with the Senior Leadership Team on a range of projects and strategies. Included in this group is a series of Prefect House Captains who oversee all
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There were 738 students in the 2019–2020 academic year, of whom 151 were in the sixth form studying for A Level. The sixth form is overseen by a Head of Sixth Form. There are usually around 280 girls in the Junior School, which has its own Head. Nottingham Girls' High School is among the largest of
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In recent years, the school has invested in IT provision and training. Girls from Year 4 upwards are issued with a personal iPad; younger girls share iPad facilities. Classrooms have interactive whiteboards with Google
Classroom, and there is digital equipment for use across the curriculum, such as
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reformers. Nottingham Girls' High School was originally in
Nottingham's Oxford Street, with Mrs Bolton as Headmistress, before relocating to its current location in Arboretum Street, in a building that had been a lace manufacturer's house. When it first opened, it had 34 pupils, but by the time of
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There is a Sixth Form Centre adjoining The Squire PAC, with modern classrooms, a kitchen area and tuck shop, and an outside garden and decking area. There are two libraries – one in the Senior School and one in the Junior School – along with a lecture theatre, drama studio, music building, dining
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The school grounds include all-weather courts, grass pitches, a gymnasium, and the recently refurbished and expanded 1875 Sports Centre which includes the sports hall, fitness studio and state-of the art fitness suite. The outdoor learning area comprises a climbing wall. Upnah Wood has plentiful
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Originally placed in a group of
Victorian houses, the school has since expanded considerably. Its professional-grade performing arts centre, The Squire Performing Arts Centre is regularly used for music and drama productions at the school and can be hired for non-school conferences, meetings and
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The outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 caused the school to move to two separate locations: Ramsdale Park and
Daybrook. The Arboretum Street buildings were used to accommodate the South Notts Hussars until 1944–1945, when the school was able to move back. Ten years later, as the school
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Before the 1870s, education for girls in
Nottingham was fixed by social class, with limited opportunities for working-class girls to receive any post-primary schooling. Much of the development in girls' education was due to the work of
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in 1998 and eleven years later, in May 2009, the new Sixth Form Centre opened. In 2016 the old dining hall building was demolished and replaced by a performing arts centre, The Squire
Performing Arts Centre, after an alumna, Dame
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Nottingham Girls' High School was founded on 14 September 1875 by the Girls' Public Day School
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performances. It provides a source of education for girls interested in all aspects of the performing arts and theatre production work, from music to lighting, sound and costume.
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Bowering Sports Hall was opened by
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Nottingham in the eighteen eighties: a study in social change
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Category:People educated at Nottingham Girls' High School
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Independent selective girls-only day school in Nottingham
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557:Bason-Wood's campaign. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
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298:opened the Edinburgh Library.
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39:9 Arboretum Street
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