We are proud to announce that WGHS has been named in The Sunday Times Parent Power Guide 2026 for Top State Secondary Schools in the West Midlands. The Sunday Times Parent Power Guide  is widely regarded as the definitive ranking of the country’s top schools. Inclusion in this prestigious list places WGHS as the 8th highest-achieving school in the region and 61 st  highest-achieving school Nationally. Trudi Young Headteacher at Wolverhampton Girls’ High School said: ‘We are delighted to be recognised in The Sunday Times Parent Power Guide -Top Ten State Secondary Schools in the West Midlands. This achievement reflects the hard work, ambition and dedication of our students, staff and school community. We remain committed to providing an exceptional education, fostering an environment where every girl can thrive and preparing our students for their next steps.’ As a school we are incredibly proud of the academic successes of our students, but we believe these successes are one part of a much wider journey – offering opportunities inside and outside the classroom, supporting students to discover their strengths and passions. Equally important is our commitment to exceptional pastoral care, ensuring students feel valued and supported within our school community, allowing our girls to achieve their individual best while growing to become well-round, resilient and happy individuals.

Tickets for our annual festive musical event, Punch and Carols, are on sale now through our School Box Office: Your Box Office The event takes place on Tuesday 9th December, 6.30pm-8pm and tickets are £5. The Parents' Guild will also be drawing the Christmas Raffle at the event. Thank you to Daya in Year 8 for her fantastic poster design below.

Music lessons are available from the start of each term.   If your daughter wishes to start music lessons from next term, or wishes to continue having lessons next term, you will need to apply for the Spring term by clicking on this link: https://forms.office.com/e/aHXgkTgBZA     Students who are eligible for pupil premium support should apply via this link: https://forms.office.com/e/kC76hWP92x   The closing date for applications is Sunday 19 th  October.   We will confirm music lesson allocations for the Spring term during the week commencing Monday 10 th  November. Payment details will also be advised within this communication.   Please note, fees for lessons for the Spring term will be due for payment in full by Sunday 30 th  November.   If you do not wish your daughter to continue with music lessons in the Spring term, please do not complete an application. Meet some of our Peripatetic teaching team Mrs S England – Teacher of Flute, Saxophone, Clarinet and Piano    Mrs England is a graduate of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with 30 years of teaching experience in flute, piano, clarinet and saxophones. She is professionally active as a freelance flutist and regularly plays in shows and orchestral concerts, as well as teaching at WGHS and several other schools across Wolverhampton and Staffordshire. Mrs England endeavours to instil a love of music in all her students alongside encouraging goals such as taking graded exams and performing.   Mr O Eyre - BA Hons Musical Theatre, Arts Ed, London. Teacher of Voice  Mr Eyre is a classically trained singer in 'Bel Canto' technique. At the age of 17, he auditioned for Lord Andrew  Llyod Webber who funded his degree tuition and provided mentorship at is London Drama school, Arts Ed.    From here Mr Eyre went on to appear in numerous West End and Broadway shows such as 'The Phantom of The Opera', 'HAIR,' 'Christmas in New York' and 'Shrek the Musical,' covering and playing lead roles.  Mr Eyre’s career highlights include appearing in the '25th anniversary production of Phantom' at The Royal Albert hall and singing the as the finale soloist at 'The Olivier Awards' live on The BBC; as well as singing at The World's biggest music festivals, such as Latitude and The Isle of Wight, performing alongside the greats of the industry.   Mr Eyre has always coached Vocal technique alongside his performing, with near two decades experience. Teaching in Drama school settings, secondary schools, colleges and his own private practice, he has mentored hundreds of vocalists, many of whom have gone on to become professional singers. Mr Eyre’s clients are currently working in 'Hamilton- West End cast,' 'Cats- International tour cast' and 'Royal Caribbean Cruise casts' to name a few. He is now in his third year teaching at WGHS.   https://youtu.be/I7iNNbIHGcw  - Link to promotional video of Mr Eyre  Mr C White - Drums Mr White, drum kit and percussion teacher at WGHS, also has a busy and varied playing career. Currently on a break from the European tour of ‘Cats’, he is looking forward to the tour’s restart in November.   Recent credits include ‘Chicago’ (UK, European, and International Tours), ‘Wizard of Oz’, ‘ Shrek’,  and ‘Annie’ (UK Tour), as well as touring with former Wicked stars Kerry Ellis and Louise Dearman.    Beyond musical theatre, Mr White regularly plays percussion with the internationally acclaimed Jamhot Showband and performs with various orchestras. Passionate about education, he supports his students at WGHS and across Sandwell in discovering the joy and fun of learning an instrument, from their favourite song to exploring diverse music styles.  Dr Foster - Classical Guitar/Piano teacher    Dr Foster is a composer, performer and academic musician. He has worked for many years as an instrumental teacher and for over twenty as a university lecturer. He gained his doctorate, studying composition with Michael Finnissy, and his music has been heard across the UK and abroad. As a performer, Dr Foster studied classical guitar with Jim Bickel (a student of Julian Bream), flute with performers from both the BBC Northern and Halle Symphony Orchestras, and piano with Christopher Wood. He continues to compose and perform around the country and has been teaching composition, classical guitar and piano at the WGHS now for just over three years.

Our Enrichment Timetable and Learning Boost sessions for the Autumn term are now available to view here: Wolverhampton Girls’ High School

To purchase tickets for this years House Arts please click here: Your Box Office

On Friday 26th September The WGHS Parents' Guild will be hosting a social event for Year 7 students - A Girls' Night In. From 4.30pm-7.30pm, Year 7's are invited to come along to hang out with their friends, watch a movie with some snacks (Barbie or Jurassic Rebirth) and play some games. The cost of a ticket is £6.50. Please use the QR code on the poster below to purchase tickets. Consent forms are to be collected from The Hub and returned to The Hub once completed. Thank you for supporting this event.

We are delighted to announce that our students have achieved outstanding GCSE results this year! These results reflect our student’s resilience, hard work, and dedication to their studies from Years 7-11; along with our wonderful teaching staff’s commitment to our students’ education at WGHS.  These results follow the exceptional A Level results we announced last week.   GCSE Results 2025 50% of results at grades 8 & 9  72% of results at grades 9-7 Key Highlights: 411 Grade 9 results awarded 887 Grade 9 or 8 results awarded 72% of our students achieved Grade 9-8 in Geography 70% of RS students achieved Grade 9-8  83% of Food Prep and Nutrition students achieved Grade 9-7 79% of Maths students achieved Grade 9-7  78% of Latin Students achieved Grade 9-7  77% of Chemistry students achieved Grade 9-7    A huge congratulations to Dori, Isha and Gurroop who achieved the incredible feat of earning all Grade 9’s, well done to you all! A special mention to the 12 students who achieved all Grade 8’s and 9’s – Sara, Gurleena, Kersten, Areesa, Holly, Keerat, Sharina, Millie, Amber, Gabrielle, Elise and Sarah, such a wonderful achievement   Headteacher Trudi Young was thrilled with Year 11’s achievements, "I am so happy for our Year 11 students. Their hard work has paid off, and we couldn't be prouder of their fantastic achievements. For those of you continuing your journey into Sixth Form we look forward to welcoming you back; to those of you moving on we wish you all the very best for the future!"

Huge congratulations to our Year 13 students who have achieved exceptional A Level results this summer! Their hard work and dedication over the past two years in Sixth Form has truly paid off.  They have been a fantastic cohort, and we are extremely proud of them all.    Results Highlights 2025:     50% of grades awarded at A* or A   78% of grades awarded A*-B     Particular success was seen in Art, Theatre Studies and Russian with 100% of students achieving A*-B; Additionally, 91% of Business students and German students, and 90% of Further Mathematics students achieved A*-B.   Many of our students are now heading off to university this September, with a significant number gaining places at prestigious ‘Russell Group’ universities including Birmingham, Cambridge, Exeter, Imperial College London, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York. Our students will study a diverse range of courses including Biology, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Dentistry, Economics, English, English Law and French Law, Fine Art, Human Social and Political Sciences, Law, Medicine, Modern Foreign Languages and Economics, and Speech and Language Therapy.  We wish them all great success.     A special congratulations to Gajani, Annika, Ria, Riya, Claudia, Eve and Sakina for their incredible achievement of straight A*s. 45 WGHS students achieved A*/ A grades across 3 or 4 A Level subjects – congratulations, a wonderful achievement! We must make mention of an outstanding performance in English Literature by Amy, who has been recognised by the OCR exam board for her 100% exam result and hailed as one of the top performing students in the country. Well done to her!   Headteacher, Trudi Young, is ecstatic with the students' achievements, "Congratulations to our Year 13 students.  We are so proud of each and every one of you. You have worked so hard and achieved fantastic results – the best we have seen at Girls’ High for many years. With 78% of grades awarded A*-B it really is a phenomenal achievement and testament to the hard work and support of students and staff.  Well done!  From all at Girls’ High, we wish you the very best for the future.”    Our students are now deservedly going to enjoy the rest of their summer break before their next steps, be it University, Degree Apprenticeships or taking a gap year, we wish them all the very best for their future.

On Monday 16th of June, English Literature A-level students had the privilege to meet with Liz Berry, an acclaimed poet from the Black Country, for a poetry workshop. Through this workshop, we were able to visualise the creative process in which Berry’s The Republic of Motherhood pamphlet was written, as well as being taken behind-the-scenes to her own first drafts of her own poetry. In this workshop, students were encouraged to use their imagination through word association games, inspiring us to push our creativity to form comparisons of our own. Only in our poetry could a sequined sash become a skyscraper, and a red colander become Paddington’s hat! Next, Liz Berry walked us through expanding our metaphors further from comparisons and reading out our ideas to the group. Although we were hesitant at first, we soon gained our confidence to share how a myriad of items and concepts pair and contrast with one another – explaining our visions and interpretations of these concepts to deepen our poetic skill. After this, we were assigned to enter pairs or threes and offered a selection of words from certain poems. Consequently, we were tasked to collaborate, to create our own poems from these words. It was interesting to see how many different interpretations there could be of the same poetry and was also an excellent opportunity to work with others to see their own linguistic process. We were then privileged to hear Liz Berry’s own process in composing the pamphlet’s titular poem The Republic of Motherhood. We were allowed to analyse and compare her notes compared to the finished poem and were able to discern how her language choices influenced the meaning of the poem and how lines were rearranged and cut to communicate what she was saying. As well, she described how she wrote down ‘the first thing that came into my [her] head’ when constructing a first draft, highlighting her thought process throughout the writing of the piece. After a short break, we were given our final activity – to make a poem using Liz Berry’s own poetry, and to make a collage with it. For 40 minutes we worked alongside our teachers and peers to make our own mark from what we had learnt previously. The talent displayed by everyone was incredible! Themes varied from love stories, to guilt and past trauma, and media ranged from magazine images to sheets of music, to even tinfoil and glitter. Once finished, we cleaned up and placed our masterpieces in the centre of the hall – our own little art gallery encompassing the artistic talent of each and every one of us. Everyone and put in their best efforts to express themselves in their work. We gathered around our work and were given the opportunity to personally ask Liz about the production of The Republic of Motherhood, from whether poems were cut, or how the decisions on the order of poems were made. I think I can speak for all of us when I say I thoroughly appreciated this afternoon, both as an insight into our NEA poems and as a creative change of pace from our usual work. One student mentioned they particularly enjoyed it because these types of activities are seldom offered past primary school, and this goes to demonstrate how valuable this activity was to both the students and the staff. We found both a learning experience and a solace in poetry that Monday afternoon, and so I would like to thank Liz Berry for coming in, and the teachers for organising this insightful event! By Emily, Year 12

Journey to a land far, far away as Wolverhampton Girls’ High School proudly presents Shrek The Musical JR. – a hilarious and heartwarming adventure for all ages! Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film, this musical brings everyone’s favourite ogre to life on stage in a whirlwind of laughter, friendship, and fairy-tale fun. Join Shrek, our unlikely hero, as he teams up with a chatty Donkey, rescues the fiery Princess Fiona, and stands up to the pint-sized Lord Farquaad – all while discovering that true beauty comes from within. With catchy songs, magical moments, and a cast of beloved characters, Shrek The Musical JR. is a joyful tale that proves even the most unexpected heroes can save the day. Don’t miss this ogre-sized evening of music, mischief and marvellous entertainment! To purchase tickets visit: Your Box Office

On Friday our Year 7 students enjoyed a live performance by the Toscana Strings String Quartet, which featured the story of Wind in the Willows and Peter and the Wolf, brought to life through music and dance. In 2019, Toscana Strings were awarded Best Workshop Provider by Primary Music Magazine with two of the performers, Miss Bourne and Mrs Clennell, being our talented instrumental teachers. They’ve since teamed up with Laura Tye, former soloist with Birmingham Royal Ballet, to create dynamic concerts that combine music and dance, now performed in schools and public venues. Our Year 7's were taught mimes and dance moves to join in with the performance, as well as the opportunity for a Q&A session at the end of the performance. Year 7 really enjoyed the fantastic performances, full of music and dance! See reviews from 3 of our students below: I really enjoyed the string Quartet performance as they really helped me to understand the harmony and the dynamics of the string family that we study in music. The thing I found interesting was the different stories they were telling and replacing some instruments to get the same results as the original instruments would give. For example, they replaced the flute (from the woodwind family) with a viola. I really enjoyed the fact that we could join in with the dancer when she was acting as the character and the general performance. - Sakina, Year 7 student.   I was truly impressed by the overall quality of the performance. The execution was flawless, with each aspect of the music and dance. The way they engaged with the audience made the experience incredibly enjoyable. 5/5 review, I can't wait to watch future performances and definitely recommend watching. - Daya, Year 7 student.   I thoroughly enjoyed the event—it was interactive, engaging, and a lot of fun to watch! The story conveyed through the performance was exceptionally clear and easy to follow, which made it all the more enjoyable. It was truly impressive to see how music and dance combined to bring the narrative to life so vividly. Personally, my favourite part was the interactions, where we all stood up and were able to take part - no matter how funny the move! I look forward to any events like this in the future...🎻🩰 - Keerat, Year 7 student.

The lowest test score to gain an automatic place this year is 206 The lowest Pupil Premium test score to gain an automatic place this year is 202 Waiting List places should be offered to girls with test scores of 202 to 206 as and when they become available IMPORTANT INFORMATION If your daughter HAS been offered a place at our school Many congratulations! You will receive an offer letter and Accept / Decline option by email within 48 hours. This should be completed and returned to the school as soon as possible, even if you are declining the place. If your daughter HAS NOT been offered a place at our school: • If your daughter’s test score is 202 to 206, and WGHS is listed on your Local Authority preferences form, she may be eligible for our waiting list and the school will confirm this within 14 days. We will email you to inform you of your daughter’s position on the waiting list at that time. The waiting list will remain active until 31st December 2025. After this time, your daughter will have the opportunity to reapply for an In Year Transfer place. • If your daughter’s test score is below 202, we are sorry to say that she is not eligible for our waiting list for this year and your application will go no further. However, she will have the opportunity to reapply for an In Year Transfer place after 31st December 2025. • If your daughter’s test score meets our cut off score but you have had no offer from us, this may be because: When you first applied for the entrance test, you did not tick the box giving permission to share your daughter’s test scores with our school. We are happy to discuss this with you and you may need to contact your daughter’s test centre to give permissions. Our school was not named on your Local Authority Preferences Form You may apply for a late preference change with your home Local Authority. This means that your daughter will have the opportunity to join our waiting list if her score meets this year’s waiting list cut off score as stated above. You have been allocated a school that you listed at higher preference to our school on the Local Authority Preference Form. Please call us. You applied late to the Local Authority with your school preferences and your daughter will not be considered for a place until after National Offer Day. Please call us. If you would like to launch an Appeal, please visit the Admissions Appeal page on this website to find our school appeals form. This should be submitted to Wolverhampton City Council, not to the school.