Bournemouth School for Girls
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Bournemouth School for Girls is a grammar school located in Bournemouth
, Dorset
, exclusively for girls.
It is a girls grammar school and sixth form college, teaching girls aged 11-18.
The school is represented by a Senior Team led by the Head Girl, Hazel Shearing, and the Deputy, Tara Shore. There are then 6 house captains, making up the senior team. Within each house there are designated positions of a sports prefect, performing arts prefect and a charities prefect.
(red), Marie Curie
(green), Rosa Parks
(yellow), Mary Shelley
(turquoise), Rosalind Franklin
(blue), and Christina Rossetti
(purple). The emblem of the school is a snowdrop, which features on all the House badges.
team, who have played at the Royal Albert Hall
. Every year the school performs either a junior (years 7-10) or senior (all years, except 7) musical. These involve the whole school. In recent years these have been "West Side Story", Les Misérables, Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, The Sound of Music', and Grease. The girls also participated in Bournemouth School's production of "Bugsy Malone".
and Bournemouth School for girls. The CCF is run mostly by senior cadets in the 6th forms at both schools. The CCF is open to pupils in year 9 (age 13) upwards with an annual recruitment usually in February. The CCF is split into three sections; Army, Navy and RAF, all with their own uniform. The structure follows a military system, with three senior cadets, three section ICs and other ranks.
Activities that cadets are able to take part in include gliding, flying, shooting, the Ten Tors walk, national exchanges and camps including Penhale central camp in the summer term. There is also a Band section that rehearses every week, also run by sixth form cadets, with each member choosing which uniform they wish to wear according to the section they want to be affiliated with.
, the boys' Grammar School which can be reached by walking up the steep hill on East Way, however governors at the school have made it clear that they would not like to make these links stronger, going against recent Ofsted
advice.
Bournemouth
Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. According to the 2001 Census the town has a population of 163,444, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is also the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth...
, Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
, exclusively for girls.
It is a girls grammar school and sixth form college, teaching girls aged 11-18.
Academics
Since September 2005, it has been a humanities specialist school. The headteacher is Mr Alistair Brien. The school has roughly 1100 students, including 300 in the sixth form. Many sixth form classes (including Theatre Studies, PE and Psychology) are open to boys from Bournemouth School, with whom the girls share a playing field.The school is represented by a Senior Team led by the Head Girl, Hazel Shearing, and the Deputy, Tara Shore. There are then 6 house captains, making up the senior team. Within each house there are designated positions of a sports prefect, performing arts prefect and a charities prefect.
Structure of the school
The deputy headteachers are Mrs Cuthbertson and Mrs Miles, who is also the Head of Sixth Form. Recently after Miss Pollard retirement, her role has been replaced by two new assistant headteachers(Ms A Collins and Mr D Sims) from the beginning of the Autumn term. There are six forms per year group, denoted by their house initials, A, C, F, P, R and S (prior to 2006 they were denoted using the number system and prior to 1997 they were denoted A, alpha, B, Beta, P and pi). This switches in Year 10 at the start of GCSEs, from having lessons with the form, to having lessons with a teaching group. For this, 2-5 students from each form are allocated, alphabetically, into a new teaching group. This remains the same for all core lessons (maths, sciences, English), and special groups according to choices are made for each student's individual choice of languages, humanities and arts. On Friday afternoon, year 11 have options in PE that include yoga and kickboxing. On a Wednesday afternoon the Sixth form have a Complementary Activities block in which many outside PE classes are run, including yoga, golf, urban funk and basketball. Students also spend time on work experience placements and doing work in the local community.House system
Since September 2006 a House system was reimplemented (it had existed when the school was located at the Landsdown site, before moving to its current position on Castle Lane). The Houses were named after influential women with assigned house colours, as follows: Jane AustenJane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...
(red), Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a physicist and chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes—in physics and chemistry...
(green), Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement"....
(yellow), Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus . She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley...
(turquoise), Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and graphite...
(blue), and Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems...
(purple). The emblem of the school is a snowdrop, which features on all the House badges.
Uniform
The school has a strict uniform code, which consists of blue and white striped shirt, blue skirt or trousers, and blue "tailored jacket" for Year 7 - 11. The Sixth Form may wear what they choose as long as this is not sportswear, trainers, flats, sandals, stilettos, socks, jeans, skirts, shorts, leggings, trousers, low-cut tops, jumpers, jackets, gloves, high-cut tops, t-shirts, coats, nail varnish, make-up, hair bands, necklaces, bracelets, rings or anything deemed unsafe. According to the school rules, the Sixth Form may not wear clothing that is revealing or not smart.Productions
The school has an award winning handbellHandbell
A handbell is a bell designed to be rung by hand. To ring a handbell, a ringer grasps the bell by its slightly flexible handle — traditionally made of leather, but often now made of plastic — and moves the wrist to make the hinged clapper inside the bell strike...
team, who have played at the Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall situated on the northern edge of the South Kensington area, in the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....
. Every year the school performs either a junior (years 7-10) or senior (all years, except 7) musical. These involve the whole school. In recent years these have been "West Side Story", Les Misérables, Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, The Sound of Music', and Grease. The girls also participated in Bournemouth School's production of "Bugsy Malone".
Other extra curricular activities
Bournemouth School for Girls enters teams every year in the Mock Trial Competition, MACE debating, ESU public speaking, Rotary public speaking and Schools' Challenge competitions. There are also friendly debates fortnightly between BSG and BS, held in Bournemouth School's lecture theatre at lunchtime. There is a lower school debating competition sponsored by local solicitors, HG Walker. Also running are sports clubs for table tennis, a gym club, trampolining and ultimate frisbee; as well as Junior Drama club, History club, Science club, and various support clubs for students having difficulty with subjects. There is also now a comedy club. A small group of students have also recently sent off their entry for Kid Witness News, an international documentary competition for schools.CCF
The school also has an active Combined Cadet Force, a rarity for a state-funded school. The CCF currently has over 150 members from both Bournemouth SchoolBournemouth School
Bournemouth School , is a boys' grammar school and sixth-form college occupying a site in Charminster, Bournemouth, Dorset, England and teaching children from years 7 to 13...
and Bournemouth School for girls. The CCF is run mostly by senior cadets in the 6th forms at both schools. The CCF is open to pupils in year 9 (age 13) upwards with an annual recruitment usually in February. The CCF is split into three sections; Army, Navy and RAF, all with their own uniform. The structure follows a military system, with three senior cadets, three section ICs and other ranks.
Activities that cadets are able to take part in include gliding, flying, shooting, the Ten Tors walk, national exchanges and camps including Penhale central camp in the summer term. There is also a Band section that rehearses every week, also run by sixth form cadets, with each member choosing which uniform they wish to wear according to the section they want to be affiliated with.
Ofsted
The school has close links with Bournemouth SchoolBournemouth School
Bournemouth School , is a boys' grammar school and sixth-form college occupying a site in Charminster, Bournemouth, Dorset, England and teaching children from years 7 to 13...
, the boys' Grammar School which can be reached by walking up the steep hill on East Way, however governors at the school have made it clear that they would not like to make these links stronger, going against recent Ofsted
Office for Standards in Education
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills is the non-ministerial government department of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools In England ....
advice.