Newport Girls' High School

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Newport Girls' High School
Address
Wellington Road Newport , Shropshire , TF10 7HL England
Coordinates	52°45′48″N 2°22′53″W / 52.7632°N 2.3813°W / 52.7632; -2.3813
Information
Type	Grammar school; Academy
Local authority	Telford and Wrekin Council
Department for Education URN	136516 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Chair of Governors	Tony Brown
Executive Headteacher	Michael Scott
Head of School	Sophie Webster
Gender	Girls
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	800
Admission	Selective
School Type	State Grammar (Girls)
Website	https://www.nghs.org.uk/

Newport Girls' High School is an all-girls grammar school with academy status in Newport, Shropshire, England.^[1] The school was opened in the 1919 by a group of female governesses as a single-sex day school for local girls. The school is selective and is an all-girls intake with an intake of 120 students per year. Until 2003 the intake was 32 per year, from 2003 56 a year, rising to 84 in 2013 and increasing further to 90 in 2019. The school has also achieved Maths and Computing specialist status. It was named the ‘West Midlands State Secondary School of the Year’ in 2020 by the Sunday Times.

Miss Jessie McWean (1877-1971), headmistress 1919-1939. Daughter of a master mariner, born in Birkenhead.^[2] Studied at London, Cambridge and Oxford, formerly at the Barrow-in-Furness secondary school for girls, Senior Mistress for Languages at county secondary in Clapham, London, French Mistress at the Priory School, Shrewsbury.^[3] Retired 1939 to Gloucestershire.^[4]

Miss Elsie Pascall Ward (1900-1973), headmistress 1939-1945. Daughter of an accountant to a Ragged School Union, born in Brixton. Studied at London. Formerly taught at Ashford, Kent, Penzance, and the Girls' Modern School, Bedford.^[5] Left to take up a position in London. Retired to Sussex.

Miss Olive Kenyon Crowther (1908-1990), headteacher January 1946-1950, formerly Senior Classics Teacher at Pate's Grammar School, Cheltenham and at Altrincham Girls' High School,^[6] relinquished her position July 1950 on marrying clergyman Howard Spencer Stanley (1901-1975), sometime Chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales.^[7]

Hereon under development

c 1968 a headmistress resigns

Acting headteacher 1968-70

Miss Margaret Mantripp, headteacher 1980-December 1991, formerly chemistry teacher (appointed 1964), head of science (1967), deputy head (1970). Retired December 1991.^[8]

Mrs Kaye B. Harrison, headteacher January 1992-. Left to take up position as headteacher at Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls.

Mrs Edwina Gleeson, headteacher

Mr Michael Scott, headteacher 2018-

Until the establishment of Newport Girls' High School and despite the long-established Adams' Grammar School providing boys' education, the town and its satellite villages had no publicly-funded secondary education for girls. The County Education Committee of Shropshire County Council approved the design of what remains as the street facade of the school in 1920. This was designed by the Committee's architect George Henry Bailey (1856 or 1857-1930) who had practiced in London before moving to Shropshire in 1910.^[9] Its neo-Georgian front with white painted sash windows, stone window reveals and brick facing, alongside original wooden entrance doors and internal sky lantern in the main entrance hall, are comparable to other surviving commissions of this period, particularly surviving buildings at Wombridge Infants' School, Oakengates, Weston Rhyn Primary School (the brick later rendered), Maesbury Primary School (closed 2012), Walker Technical College (now residential) and Harlescott Junior School.^[10] The main facade were built using Lilleshall common bricks, with cornices of Lilleshall seconds red, although there was criticism within the Committee during building that these bricks were of insufficient quality and the same as being used in local coal mines.^[11] The builder A.H.Woodhouse of Hanwood, near Shrewsbury, was paid £12 000^[12] and the building was first occupied in 1925.

The school originally had four houses; Bronte, Cavell, Curie and Keller, each named after a famous woman in history. Girls were assigned to houses based on their surname in alphabetical order. The school later changed these houses to 3 new houses, named Seacole, Roddam and Austen. Each house has a colour, Seacole (green), Roddam (yellow) and Austen (red) with a house captain from the sixth form assigned to each house. There are many events throughout the year in which the houses compete against each other to win the event, or in individual categories. These include competitions such as House Drama, House Bake Off, House Art/Photography, House Quiz, House Dance, House Board Games, House Charity and House Music, and also includes regular school events such as Sports Day. Students also participate in inter-house sports competitions, based on the half-term's focus. House captains are assigned to each house as well as sport captains; these are typically members of sixth form.

At the end of each academic year there is a house point cup for houses with the highest number of house points. House points are gained by effort and contribution.

• Newport Girls' High School official website