St Dominic's High School for Girls

St Dominic's High School for Girls
Motto	Veritas ("Truth")
Established	1920
Type	Independent day school
Head	Mr H R J Trump
Chair of Governors	Mr R Turton
Location	Bargate Street Brewood Staffordshire ST19 9BA England
DfE number	860/6005
DfE URN	124471 Tables
Students	230~
Gender	Girls
Ages	3–18
Former pupils	Dominicans
Website	www.stdominicsschool.co.uk

St Dominic's High School is an independent day school for girls aged 3 to 18 and boys up to age 7 (boys up to the age of 11 from September 2014) in the village of Brewood, Staffordshire, England. The school is centered on a large Victorian brick building in rural Staffordshire, just north of Wolverhampton. Founded in 1920 by the Dominican Order resident in Staffordshire, it is now an inter-denominational school but retains its Christian ethos and the historic logo featuring the cross from the order's seal.

History

St Dominic's was founded by the Dominican Sisters in 1920 as a small convent school for girls to train them in the "domestic arts". Dominican Convent School opened with just half a dozen girls but grew steadily over the years. In 1974 it became St Dominic's Brewood Trust and an inter-denominational Christian school. A sixth form was opened in 2007. In September 2010 it changed its name from St Dominic's School to St Dominic's High School for Girls. The first male head was appointed in 2012.^[1]

Bargate House

The building it was founded in is Bargate House, now occupied by the Senior School. Bargate was once a workhouse for the Penkridge Union during the Industrial Revolution and was sold to Wolverhampton wine merchant Louis Connolly in 1919. Connolly, who was a devout Catholic, sold it to Fr O'Toole, a local priest. Fr O'Toole then offered it to the Sisters to use it as a school or an invalid home. Bargate was designated a Grade II listed building in 1985.^[2]

Notable alumni

Fran Unsworth - BBC's Deputy Director of News and Current Affairs.^[3]

References

↑ History
↑ Bargate House. British Listed Buildings
↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/managementstructure/biographies/unsworth_francesca.html

External links

Schools in Staffordshire (including Stoke-on-Trent)

Middle	Oldfields Hall Middle School

Secondary	Abbot Beyne School Alleyne's Academy Birches Head Academy Blessed William Howard Catholic School Cannock Chase High School Cardinal Griffin Catholic High School The Cheadle Academy Chesterton Community Sports College Clayton Hall Business and Language College Codsall Community High School The de Ferrers Academy Erasmus Darwin Academy Excel Academy The Friary School Hagley Park Academy Haywood Academy JCB Academy John Taylor High School King Edward VI School Kingsmead School Landau Forte Academy, Amington Landau Forte Academy QEMS Leek High School Moorside High School Nether Stowe High School Norton Canes High School Ormiston Horizon Academy Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy Ounsdale High School Paulet High School The Rawlett School Sandon High School Sir Graham Balfour School Staffordshire University Academy Tamworth Enterprise College Thistley Hough Academy Thomas Alleyne's High School University Academy Kidsgrove Walton High School Weston Road Academy Westwood College Wolgarston High School Wolstanton High School

Grammar	St Joseph's College

Special	Abbey Hill School and Performing Arts College Blackfriars School Shenstone Lodge School

Sixth form colleges	Moorlands Sixth Form College City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College Stafford Collegiate

Independent	Abbotsholme School Abbots Bromley School Denstone College Lichfield Cathedral School Newcastle-under-Lyme School Stafford Grammar School St Dominic's High School for Girls St Dominic's Priory School

Independent (preparatory)	St Joseph's Preparatory School Vernon Lodge Preparatory School Yarlet School

Former	Berry Hill High School and Sports College Brewood Grammar School Edial Hall School Longton High School Mitchell High School

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