Chatham Grammar School for Girls

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Chatham Grammar School for Girls (commonly referred to as CGSG) is an all-girls grammar school in Medway, Kent, United Kingdom. It was opened in January 1907, by Miss Constance Wakeman. The current headmaster of the school is Mr. Gundry.

There are currently 970 pupils on roll, including 240 in the mixed sixth form, and 64 teaching staff.

The school has recently celebrated its centenary in 2007, including releasing 100 balloons and holding a school fete.

The Teachers Award ceremony (2007) held in Canterbury, Kent, saw Pamela Badcock receive the lifetime achievement award for her 46-year career at Chatham Grammar School for Girls, where she works part-time after retiring as deputy head. The 68-year-old started teaching when Harold Macmillan was prime minister, and in 1968, at the heart of the Cold War, led a school trip to Russia. The Teaching Award judges said she was not just a school treasure, "but a national one". Ms Badcock said: "I've always enjoyed it, I've never felt that I didn't want to go to work, and therefore I've just kept going because it's been such an enjoyable experience." ^[1]

It is said that the main building used to be a hospital for the wounded during World War I and World War II.