Queen Mary's High School

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Queen Mary's High School
Established 1893
Type voluntary aided grammar
Head Teacher Mrs Diana Woods
Chair of Governors Mrs V. M. Fairbank
Specialisms Languages and Mathematics and Computing
Location Upper Forster Street
Walsall
West Midlands
WS4 2AE
England Flag of England
LEA Walsall Borough Council
Ofsted number 104261
Students 700
Gender Girls (mixed sixth form)
Ages 11 to 18
Houses Austen, Brontë, Eliot
Website www.queenmaryshigh.org.uk
Coordinates: 52°35′22″N 1°58′34″W / 52.5895, -1.976

Queen Mary's High School, situated on Upper Forster Street, Walsall, is an all-female selective education school and entry in Year 7 is by passing an entrance exam. It is twinned with Queen Mary's Grammar School, and like the Grammar School is part of the Queen Mary's Foundation.

The main body of the school is girls only, but the Sixth Form is open to applicants of both genders and is conditional on a minimum grade achievement at GCSE.

The school is a Language College[1] and it is compulsory for girls to take two languages to GCSE out of French, German, Spanish and Japanese. The school has recently been awarded Mathematics and Computing College status as well.

Average class sizes in lower school are about 24 girls.

The school is divided into houses named after famous 19th-century female authors - Austen (after Jane Austen), Bronte (after Charlotte Brontë) and Eliot (after George Eliot).

The main school building is a listed building.

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[edit] School events

  • Annual prize giving,
  • Christmas carol concert,
  • House Dance Competition,
  • House Netball,
  • House Rounders,
  • Inter-house Athletics Competition,
  • Murder Mystery Evening,
  • Annual Cabaret evening,
  • Various charity events including fundraising for BBC Children in Need. [1]

[edit] Staff

  • Diana Woods - Head Teacher
  • Ros Garner - Deputy Head Teacher
  • Veronica Simpson - Deputy Head Teacher
  • Carol Kenny - Assistant Head and Head of 6th Form
  • Jane Rutherford - Language College Director
  • Christine Burton - Deputy Language College Director
  • Marguerite Appleton - Head of Maths
  • Gail Ralphs - Head of English
  • Gina Rees-Boughton - Head of Science

[edit] Houses

  • Austen
  • Brontë
  • Eliot

[edit] Notable Alumnae

  • Meera Syal - actress and writer
  • Pavan - judge and Queen's Counsel; former human rights solicitors
  • Kamaljit Kaur Khera - "rich" nhs enterpraneur

[edit] References

  1. ^ Specialist Schools Home. DfES (July 2006). Retrieved on 2006-08-02.

[edit] External links

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