The King's High School for Girls
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Established | 1879 |
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Type | Independent day school |
Head Master | Richard Nicholson |
Location | Smith Street Warwick CV34 4HJ England Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
DfE number | 937/6089 |
Students | c. 700 |
Gender | Girls |
Ages | 11–18 |
Colours | Jade green and navy blue |
Website | www.kingshighwarwick.co.uk |
The King's High School (also called simply King's High or KHS) is an independent day school for girls in Smith Street, Warwick, England. One of its main feeder schools is Warwick Preparatory School, which takes girls from the ages of 3 to 11 and boys up to the age of 7.
History
Plans for a girls' school in Warwick were drawn up as long ago as 1875, but the school could not get underway until 1879. In this year boys from The King's School, Warwick, later to become known as Warwick School, who were being taught in Landor House, the modern site of the girls' school and the birthplace of the poet Walter Savage Landor, finally moved to their new buildings south of the River Avon. KHS, The Squirrels and Warwick School now form the Warwick Schools Foundation. The King's High School for Girls has suffered throughout its history from being very short of space, and, since its foundation, has taken over the buildings of two neighbouring schools. The premises of one of them, the former King's Middle School (which was only in existence from 1875 to 1906), caught fire in 1970.
There are now brand new buildings, including a new sixth form building, completed in 2006, on the former Middle School site. It was opened in December 2006 by Dame Judi Dench, new Art, Music and DT facilities, and new refurbished dining room. The school no longer has the lease on the former St Peter's Chapel, known as the Eastgate, situated at the top of Smith Street. There is an astroturf pitch and over 6 acres (24,000 m2) of playing fields on land adjoining Warwick School's own playing fields half a mile to the south.
Increasing levels of co-operation between Warwick School and King's High School for Girls has led to the joint teaching of certain AS Level and A Level subjects from September 2004, for example drama, physical education and most recently politics. Girls were also admitted to Warwick School Combined Cadet Force, founded in 1884, in 2003. In the same year a former sixth former and former head girl, Alice Woodhouse, received Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year.[citation needed] A group of girls, also, successfully swam across the English channel in 2013.[citation needed]
Headmistresses/Head Masters
- 1879 - 1895 M Fisher
- 1896–1913 M Lea
- 1913–1921 E M Edgehill
- 1921–1922 G Gargner
- 1922–1944 V E L Doorly
- 1945–1947 G M Wiseman
- 1948–1970 W Hare
- 1970–1987 M Leahy
- 1987–2001 J M Anderson
- 2001–2015 E S Surber
- 2015-present R Nicholson
Notable former pupils
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- Dr Barbara Ansell, UK founder of paediatric rheumatology.[citation needed]
- Kim Hartman, Actress, most notably Private Helga Geerhart in 'Allo 'Allo!.[citation needed]
- Catherine Bott, Soprano Singer and Radio Presenter[citation needed]
- June Tabor, Folk singer[citation needed]
- Lucy Rose, Indie/folk singer-songwriter[citation needed]
- Professor Dame Julia Slingo DBE, Met Office Chief Scientist[citation needed]
- Sophie Turner, Game of Thrones actress[citation needed]
- Dr Helen Castor, Historian, author and formerly a lecturer at University of Cambridge[citation needed]
External links
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- Articles with unsourced statements from September 2015
- Girls' schools in Warwickshire
- Independent schools in Warwickshire
- Organisations based in England with royal patronage
- Buildings and structures in Warwick
- Educational institutions established in 1879
- 1879 establishments in England
- Member schools of the Girls' Schools Association
- People educated at The King's High School for Girls