Shrewsbury High School, Shropshire

For the public school in Massachusetts, USA, see Shrewsbury High School (Massachusetts).

Shrewsbury High School
Established	1885
Type	Independent day school
Head	Michael Getty
Location	32 Town Walls Shrewsbury Shropshire SY1 1TN England Coordinates: 52°42′18″N 2°45′25″W / 52.705°N 2.757°W / 52.705; -2.757
Local authority	Shropshire
DfE number	893/6018
Gender	Girls; Boys (3-13)
Ages	3–18
Houses	4
Website	www.shrewsburyhigh.gdst.net

Shrewsbury High School is an independent day school for girls from ages 3 to 18 and boys up to age 13 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. It is an original member school of the Girls' Day School Trust.^[1]

History

Shrewsbury High School opened as a day school for girls in 1885. It soon outgrew the site and moved to its present location on the banks of the River Severn in central Shrewsbury in 1895. The junior department transferred to Kennedy Road in 1959. In 2008 a new prep school was formed by the merger of the existing junior department with Kingsland Grange, a boys’ prep school. As a result, the school is now coeducational up to age 13 and its senior school remains girls-only.^[1]

The Senior Department is located on Town Walls, by the banks of the River Severn. The Junior Department is separate from the Senior Department and is situated a short walk away at Kingsland Grange in Kennedy Road.

Houses

Shrewsbury High School Senior Department has four houses, each named after an ancient Roman deity.

Apollo Yellow
Neptune Blue
Mercury Red
Jupiter Green

Following its success in the senior school, the House system was introduced to the junior school in September 2005 when Mrs Edwards joined Shrewsbury High School Junior Department as its Head. The Junior Department also has four houses, named after hills in Shropshire.

There are many house competitions that take place each term such as sports day, house drama and house charity events. Siblings are usually put into the same house. There are House Captains, Deputy House Captains and House Prefects of each of the four houses and also a Head Girl and a Deputy Head Girl. In the senior school these roles are taken by Sixth Formers.

Notable former pupils

Hilda Murrell, naturalist
Lois Baxter, actress
Mary Beard, classicist
Bob Warman, newsreader
Nick Owen, newsreader

Notes and references

1 2 History

External links

Schools in Shropshire (including Telford and Wrekin)

Secondary	Abraham Darby Academy Belvidere School Bishop's Castle Community College Bridgnorth Endowed School Burton Borough School Charlton School Church Stretton School The Corbet School Ercall Wood Technology College The Grange School Hadley Learning Community Holy Trinity Academy Idsall School Lacon Childe School Lakelands Academy Ludlow Church of England School Madeley Academy The Marches School Mary Webb School Meole Brace School Oldbury Wells School The Priory School St Martin's School Sir John Talbot’s School Sundorne School Telford Langley School Telford Park School Telford Priory School Thomas Telford School William Brookes School

Grammar	Adams' Grammar School Newport Girls High School

Independent (preparatory)	Castle House School Moor Park School Packwood Haugh School Prestfelde School

Independent (senior)	Adcote School for Girls Concord College Ellesmere College Moreton Hall School Oswestry School Shrewsbury High School Shrewsbury School Wrekin College

Sixth form colleges	Ludlow College New College Telford Shrewsbury Sixth Form College

Further education colleges	Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology Telford College of Arts and Technology Walford and North Shropshire College

Universities	Harper Adams University University of Wolverhampton University Centre Shrewsbury

Defunct	Wakeman School

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