Devonport High School for Girls
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| Devonport High School for Girls |
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| Motto | Honour without dishonour |
| Established | 1911 |
| Type | Independent all-female |
| Headmistress | Mrs. D B Hill |
| Students | 820 |
| Grades | 7-Sixth Form |
| Location | Plymouth, England |
| Website | Devonport High School for Girls website |
Devonport High School for Girls is a selective girls' secondary school (ages 11-18) in Plymouth, England. Its catchment area covers Plymouth, South-West Devon and South-East Cornwall.
It is a grammar school, and therefore caters for students at the top end of the academic ability range. These students are selected by means of the 11-plus exam, which tests potential students on mathematics, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning. The school has a Planned Adminssion Number of 120 pupils at age 11, reflecting the current school capacity.
As of 2006 it has some 820 pupils, of whom around 200 are sixth form students. It is maintained by the Department for Lifelong Learning of Plymouth City Council.
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[edit] History
It was established in 1911, 25 years after its sibling Devonport High School for Boys. The school moved to its current location which overlooks Central Park in 1937.
During WW2 the girls were evacuated to a Tiverton girls school, whilst the DHSG building was used as a machine shop for the dockyard. According to accounts at the time, an attempt to bomb the building was made, however it failed and instead destroyed Argyle football ground and several houses in surrounding streets.
[edit] Uniform
School uniform is a brown sweater bearing the school emblem, a brown v-neck jumper or brown cardigan; a long sleeved white shirt with school tie in winter, and a short sleeved open collar shirt in summmer; a knee-length brown skirt either pleated or A line with no splits; brown or black shoes (no high heels) and white socks or black/brown tights.
Coats should be dark in colour, scarves may be a plain dark colour or the school scarf.
The school tie colours are brown, yellow, beige and green, except for the girls in Year 11 who are now permitted to wear a plain brown tie, as an indication of their year group.
No jewellery should be worn except for a small stud in each ear.
Basic PE uniform consists of a yellow polo or Aertex shirt; a brown 'netball' skirt; brown gym briefs or black cycling shorts and yellow hockey socks.
[edit] General Information
The current Headteacher is Ms D B Hill. The previous three Headteachers were, Mrs M Smith, Mrs E B Dunball and Ms A Hill.
Every year on the last day of term before Christmas, the Lower Sixth (Year 12) put on a 'Sixth Form Entertainment' for the rest of the school. This usually involves as many of the teaching staff as possible, singing, dancing, dressing up and making fools of themselves for the enjoyment of the pupils.
The school has its own song, which the girls are required to learn and sing on special occasions.
Each school year from 7-11 is split into four tutor groups. These tutor groups originally formed the school 'houses', Falcon, Kestrel, Hawk and Eagle, however in modern times these names have been reduced simply to their first letter, eg. 7F or 9K.
The school motto is, 'Sine. Labe. Decvs.(Decus)' which translates from Latin as, 'Honour without dishonour.'
The school has now obtained Specialist Language College status, and has introduced Chinese into the curriculum from Sept 06'.
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