Coombe Girls' School
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| Established | 1955 |
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| Type | Academy |
| Location | Clarence Avenue New Malden London KT3 3TU England Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| DfE number | 314/4004 |
| DfE URN | 137848 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Gender | Girls |
| Ages | 11–18 |
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| Website | www |
Coombe Girls' School is an all-female secondary school and mixed-gender sixth form with academy status in New Malden, South-West London, England. The school is a Leading Edge School, a Training School and specialises in languages. The school and nearby Coombe Boys' School are known jointly as The Coombe Federation.
History
Coombe Girls' School, formerly called Coombe County Secondary School for Girls, was established in 1955, and has remained an all-girls school ever since. The school is linked with Coombe Boys and also with King's College Wimbledon.
Since September 2012 Coombe Girls' School has had a new Headteacher, Mrs. Walls. She succeeded Mrs. Campbell.
Houses
The school sorts the pupils into house tutor groups. Art, Citizenship, Drama, Computing, Music and PE are taught in these groups[1]. These are named after seven of the planets in the solar system:
- Venus
- Mercury
- Mars
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Pluto
- Neptune
Each group has a form tutor who will be with the class for registration before school and before fifth period. This tutor will stay with their class, unless they leave the school, for the whole five years in which the girls are pupils of the school.
Up to Year 9 other subjects, apart from Maths and Technology are taught in 'teaching groups', named:
- Byars
- Dahl
- Eliot
- Fine
- Lewis
- Rosetti
- Wilson
Exam Results
Coombe Girls' School's overall exam results ranked in the top 20% of similar schools' results, and in the top 20% of all schools, for 2013.[2]
The Federation was named one of the best state secondary schools in the country in Tatler magazine's 2015 State Schools Guide.[3] The Federation is designed to be a mutually beneficial relationship for both schools, with pupils at each centre gaining new and innovative learning opportunities.
Notable former pupils
- Jacqueline Wilson, author
- Sandy Denny, singer
- Ann Packer,[citation needed] Olympic medalist
- Katherine Miller, Special Adviser to Ed Balls
- Professor Juliet Lodge Nee Mayer, author, European Woman of Europe 1992, expert member of the Privacy Committee of the Biometrics Institute
References
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- Training schools in England
- Girls' schools in London
- Academies in Kingston upon Thames
- Educational institutions established in 1955
- 1955 establishments in England
- Secondary schools in Kingston upon Thames
- New Malden
