This year the House Arts competition will be celebrated with an evening performance on Thursday 4th October 2018 at 7.00pm in the school hall. Each House has been exploring the music of Elvis Presley; with each House creating their own narrative inspired by three of his songs story through Drama, Dance, Music, technology and producing a theatre programme. The cast is drawn from Years 7-13 and is being directed by a team of Senior Prefects. You are warmly invited to attend what promises to be a highly enjoyable evening. Tickets can be purchased for £5.00 through our online box office. The box office will be open from Monday 1st October at 5pm to Wednesday 3rd October at 5pm; click here to buy tickets Please note that the limit for tickets for each family group is two due to the high demand for the evening. Any family booking more than two tickets will be contacted and only two of these tickets will be honoured. We look forward to seeing you there

Congratulations to all of our students on their fantastic GCSE results.  You have worked incredibly hard to secure such great outcomes, well done!  We are incredibly proud of the way in which you have given your personal best. Well done! These results are testament to the commitment and dedication shown by the girls and the incredible support that they receive from their families and the staff.  We wish all of our students the best of luck with the next stage of their education. It is always difficult to single out highlights but special mention should be made of the increase we have seen in the top grades with a fantastic 48% of all entries at grades 8/9/A*.  A staggering eight students achieved these grades in every one of their examinations.

Congratulations to all of our students on their personal accomplishments in securing outstanding A Level results.  The pass rate was 100% A*-E with an impressive 76% of entries at A*-B and a staggering 48% of entries at grades A/A*. Twenty seven students achieved the fantastic outcome of gaining A*s and A grades in all their subjects, with six of those achieving an A* in every subject. Two of our students, achieved a fabulous 4A* grades and both are going on to study at Cambridge, alongside five students securing places at Oxford. Five students also achieved 3A* grades amongst their results. Headteacher, Mrs Trudi Young expressed her pride in the students.  “This year’s A Level results are superb and the culmination of two years’ hard work and dedication by the students.  Our girls have grown as independent young women in so many ways over the last two years and seized every opportunity presented by school life.   I am so pleased that they now leave with such fantastic results, testament to their hardwork and dedication. I am also extremely appreciative of the support given to the students from both staff in school and families at home.  Our students leave with our very best wishes for the future.” Trudi Young

The deadline for on time applications to sit the Entrance Test of the Consortium of Schools in Shropshire, Walsall and Wolverhampton (September 2019 entry), was 4.00pm on Friday 6th July 2018. All applications after this time are considered late. The online application portal is closed temporarily but will reopen from 2.00pm on Monday 9th July to receive late applications.

The Governing Body is embarking upon a consultation with respect to the possibility of submitting a bid to the Selective School Expansion Fund. You may be aware that the government has made available £50 million to be allocated to grammar schools as part of this fund.  The purpose of the fund is to support the expansion of selective schools where: there is a need for additional places, both in terms of a shortfall of secondary places in the local area and a demand from parents for more selective places; and schools have ambitious and realistic plans for increasing access for disadvantaged pupils (by which we mean pupils eligible for the pupil premium), and they have plans to work with other local schools to increase access for disadvantaged pupils and to raise attainment. If the school is successful in its application to the DfE, we will use the bid monies to create additional classrooms and specialist spaces.  Whilst continuing with our stated strategy of prioritising Pupil Premium students who meet the school’s admissions criteria, running familiarisation sessions and further extending our outreach programme, the additional facilities would also allow us to: Increase the intake in Year 7 from 145 up to 180 with effect from 2020; and Increase the intake in Year 12 from 135 to 165 with effect from 2020. This presents an exciting opportunity to widen access to our school by providing more opportunities for more girls to join us, whilst meeting an increasing need for places across the city.  In addition, it offers a way of further enhacing our facilities for our existing students.  The school is always looking to the future and considering ways in which our provision can be extended and we believe that this presents an opportunity for the school to further develop but within the context of retaining our much loved traditions. We welcome your feedback on our proposals by Tuesday 31st July at 9am by email to SSEF@wghs.org.uk For further information please click here.

FAMILIARISATION SESSIONS Come and join us at one of our Familiarisation Sessions.  We are running a series of workshops for prospective students and their parents/carers at a number of locations and a variety of dates as specified and you may select a venue and date convenient for you. The same presentation and materials will be delivered at each session.  The sessions will last for approximately one-hour and provide an overview of what to expect when taking the Consortium Entrance Test. Should you wish to attend with your daughter any of the above familiarisation sessions then I would be grateful if you could kindly following this link and complete the electronic, attendance form so that we have detail of who will be attending and an idea of numbers for the host school to accommodate. We look forward to meeting with you.

This year’s school production Mary Poppins, set in the leafy London suburbs of Edwardian England, will see a talented cast fully recreate the charm and magic of Cherry Tree Lane and the trials and tribulations of the Banks family who are in desperate need of a very “talented” nanny. You accompanied us on our first journey through the world of childhood adventure during House Arts. Now follow us in the footsteps of everyone’s favourite nanny who knows the benefit of a spoonful of sugar; Mr Banks and his troubles in the city; and Michael and Jane who simply want to fly a kite! Our fun-filled production will begin at 7pm and refreshments will be available before the performance and at the interval from the foyer outside the main school hall. The cast and production team warmly invite you to join us on Wednesday 4th or Thursday 5th of July 2018. Tickets for this event cost £5 each. Click here to buy tickets.

On the 4th of May, Girls’ High welcomed 120 Year four pupils from over 28 primary schools across Wolverhampton to participate in our maths challenge.  After tucking in to pizza and chips from the canteen, the pupils completed five rounds of fun maths activities, from shape making to solving worded problems in pairs. Despite many puzzled faces at the sight of fractions and the frantic changes to answers in the ten-second countdown, all children demonstrated excellent teamwork and had an enjoyable experience, which was topped off by their goody bags! It was lovely to see their enthusiasm for maths and how they adapted to different scenario questions after the initial ‘but that’s impossible!’ Well done to the pupils of West Park Primary School who scored the most points. Thank you to 9S pupils who helped with the marking, the outreach prefects who helped with hospitality and of course to Mrs Stanway who organised the event.  Overall, it was a successful afternoon for everyone and we hope that the next event will be even better!

Information for Admission to Year 7 in September 2019 We welcome visitors to the school for the above events. Appointments are not necessary. The Entrance Test for entry to Year 7 in September 2019 will be held on: Monday, 17 September 2018. Information about how to register your daughter for the Entrance Test will be available at one of the above events or from the Year 7 Admissions section of our website found here. Registration for the Entrance Test must have taken place by: 6 July 2018 at 4.00pm at the very latest. Arrangements about the Entrance Testing date will be posted to you week commencing 3rd September 2018. If you have not heard anything by the 10 September 2018, then please contact the school: 01902 551515 Parking Information: Please kindly note that there will be very limited car parking available within the school grounds during our Open Events and I would strongly discourage attempting to park your vehicle in either St. Judes’ Road West or Paget Road.  Therefore, may I suggest that you familiarise yourself with the local area and find alternative parking for your car well away from the school access points and then access the school on foot through the pedestrian gate in St. Jude’s Road West or on Paget Road.  The main school entrance off the Tettenhall Road (A41) will be for vehicle access and egress only for the very small amount of cars that we are able to accommodate on our school site.  May I request that you are courteous when parking your car, should you be travelling to us in this way, with our close neighbours.

Our inaugural Y5 Junior Maths Challenge took place this week on Tuesday 20 March 2018 where we welcomed 128 junior mathematicians (and their proud teachers) from twenty-eight Wolverhampton primary schools.  There was a jubilant atmosphere in the school hall from start to finish with enthusiastic primary school students working in pairs to problem solve a range of ‘fun’ mathematical activities. A huge congratulations to all Y5 students who participated in the event for representing their primary schools so energetically and congratulations to the three pairs of students from the following primary schools who achieved first, second and third place: First place – Wodensfield Primary (116 points); Second place – Merridale Primary School (113 points); Third place (joint) - Bilston C of E Primary School and East Park Academy (104 points). A huge thank you must also go to our own sixth form students who helped out on the day.  Our girls were outstanding role models for the younger students and without their help the event would not have been such a success. It was a pleasure to open our doors to these Wolverhampton primary students and hopefully our Year 4 Junior Maths Challenge at WGHS on Friday 4 May 2018 will also be a huge success.

I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to our 2018 Spring Concert which will be an exciting event with the second half dedicated to a Promenade style concert. We shall be selling Union Jack flags for you to wave priced at 50 pence and there will be refreshments available in the interval. The girls will be performing a show-stopping finale together in true proms fashion. The Concert involves most of our instrumental and vocal groups; Wind Band, Concert Band, Junior and Senior Choirs, Intermediate Strings and String Orchestra, Jazz Band, Vocal Ensemble, Rock and Pop and the Guitar group. To purchase tickets, click the link below https://yourboxoffice.co.uk/wolverhampton-girls-high-school/321-promenade-concert-2018

A reminder to students, The House Winter Games are not too far away now. Make sure you sign up to take part in the event you wish to be involved in. Remember house points are on the line! Good Luck!