Girls' Day School Trust
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The Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) is a group of 26 independent schools in England and Wales. The organisation was formed in 1872 to provide affordable day school (non-boarding) education for girls. Until the 1990s it was known as the Girls' Public Day School Trust.
The first school opened in Chelsea and is now known as Kensington Preparatory School. The first school outside London opened in Norwich in February 1875.
The organisation became a charitable trust in 1905, but changed to a fully independent, limited company in 1976, when the government's Direct Grant scheme ended. As the name suggests, this scheme used grants to support independent, academically selective schools outside the non-selective public education system of the time. To remain academically independent and selective the GDST schools became a registered charity accepting no government money.
[edit] GDST schools
As at September 2006, these were:
- Birkenhead High School
- Blackheath High School
- Brighton & Hove High School
- Bromley High School
- Central Newcastle High School
- Croydon High School
- Heathfield School, Pinner
- Hilden Grange School
- Howell's School, Llandaff
- Ipswich High School
- Kensington Preparatory School
- Norwich High School
- Nottingham High School for Girls
- Notting Hill & Ealing High School
- Oxford High School
- Portsmouth High School
- Putney High School
- Royal High School, Bath
- Sheffield High School
- Shrewsbury High School
- South Hampstead High School
- Streatham & Clapham High School
- Sutton High School
- Sydenham High School
- The Belvedere School, Liverpool
- Wimbledon High School
Kensington and Hilden Grange, with other additions to the GDST family are planned for 2006 and 2007.
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