Shrewsbury High School (SHS) is a school for girls in Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, in the West Midlands region of England. Lying on the River Severn, it is a civil parish home to some 70,000 inhabitants, and is the primary settlement and headquarters of Shropshire Council...

, Shropshire

Shropshire

Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. Founded in 1885, Shrewsbury High is one of the smaller schools in the Girls' Day School Trust

Girls' Day School Trust

The Girls' Day School Trust is a group of 26 independent schools - 24 schools and two Academies - in England and Wales, catering for pupils aged 3 to 18. It is the largest group of independent schools in the UK, and educates 20,000 girls each year...

, having roughly 750 pupils aged 3 to 18.

The Senior Department is located on Town Walls, by the banks of the River Severn

River Severn

The River Severn is the longest river in Great Britain, at about , but the second longest on the British Isles, behind the River Shannon. It rises at an altitude of on Plynlimon, Ceredigion near Llanidloes, Powys, in the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales...

. 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
  Apollo
  Apollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in Greek and Roman mythology...
  
   Yellow
• Neptune
  Neptune (mythology)
  Neptune was the god of water and the sea in Roman mythology and religion. He is analogous with, but not identical to, the Greek god Poseidon. In the Greek-influenced tradition, Neptune was the brother of Jupiter and Pluto, each of them presiding over one of the three realms of the universe,...
  
   Blue
• Mercury
  Mercury (mythology)
  Mercury was a messenger who wore winged sandals, and a god of trade, the son of Maia Maiestas and Jupiter in Roman mythology. His name is related to the Latin word merx , mercari , and merces...
  
   Red
• Jupiter
  Jupiter (mythology)
  In ancient Roman religion and myth, Jupiter or Jove is the king of the gods, and the god of the sky and thunder. He is the equivalent of Zeus in the Greek pantheon....
  
   Green

The House system proved so popular in the senior school that it 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, but they are named after hills in Shropshire.

• Wenlock
  Wenlock
  Wenlock may refer to:Places* Little Wenlock, Shropshire, England* Wenlock Edge, limestone escarpment near Much Wenlock* Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England** Wenlock ** Much Wenlock and Severn Junction railway...
  
   Is Blue
• Long Mynd
  Long Mynd
  The Long Mynd in Shropshire, England, is a part of the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is south of the county town Shrewsbury, and has an area of over 22 square kilometres , most of which takes the form of a heathland plateau. Most of the land on the Long Mynd is owned by...
  
   is Yellow
• Stretton
  Stretton
  -England:Stretton means "settlement on a Roman Road" . Of the seventeen places in England, all but two are situated on a Roman Road, the exceptions being Stretton Westwood and Stretton en le Field.-Cheshire:...
  
   is Green
• Haughmond
  Haughmond Hill
  Haughmond Hill is a small, shallow hill in the English county of Shropshire. It is covered by woodland for the most part, although there is an open cast quarry in use. Its proximity to the town of Shrewsbury has meant that it has become something of a forest park, with guided paths, car parking...
  
   is Red

If you had been to the junior department then you keep your house colour when you go to the senior school

There are many house competitions that take place each term, for example 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 members of the sixth form.

Notable former pupils

• Hilda Murrell
  Hilda Murrell
  Hilda Murrell was a rose grower, naturalist, diarist and campaigner against nuclear energy and weapons. She was abducted in her own car and found murdered five miles from her home in Shropshire, in a case which remains controversial.-Life:Hilda Murrell was born on 3 February 1906 in Shrewsbury,...
  
  , naturalist
• Lois Baxter
  Lois Baxter
  Lois Baxter is a British actress, best known for playing Marie Stanton in Coronation Street from 1976 to 1977, and Lady Caroline in the period drama When the Boat Comes In....
  
  , actress
• Mary Beard
  Mary Beard
  Mary Beard may refer to:* Mary Ritter Beard , United States historian and campaigner for woman's suffrage* Mary Beard , British classicist, literary critic, and journalist...
  
  , classicist

External links

• http://www.gdst.net/shrewsburyhigh/
• http://www.kingslandgrange.com