Wakefield Girls' High School A GSG School
- Wakefield Girls' High School
Wentworth Street
Wakefield
West Yorkshire
WF1 2QS - Head: Heidi-Jayne Boyes
- T 01924 372490
- F 01924 231601
- E [email protected]
- W wgsf.org.uk/wghs/
- A mainstream independent school for girls aged from 7 to 18 with a linked pre-prep school.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Wakefield
- Pupils: 833; sixth formers: 128
- Religion: Christian Inter-denominational
- Fees: £12,654 - £16,899 pa
- Open days: Early October
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Linked schools: Wakefield Grammar Pre-Preparatory School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Year 7 classes were happily looking at experimental probability in maths, learning the accusative in Latin and delving into medieval Mali and the Black Death in history. No stereotyping and plenty of girls achieving Arkwright engineering scholarships over the years. Music is a highlight of pupils' time at WGHS . We loved the girls’ single ‘I am me’ recently released on Spotify. Lots of sensible options in uniform and PE kit although the girls find the rules about hair and coats somewhat...
What the school says...
At Wakefield Girls’ High School, we provide a happily inspiring and empowering environment that enables every student to make their way in the world, their way. By embracing new ideas, encouraging students to think differently and instilling a joy of learning, we make it possible for everyone to be everything they want to be. At the heart of everything, we happily empower girls, developing their interests and values through our large extracurricular and Pathways To Success programmes. Students gain the skills they need for life after school, as well as flourishing academically and gaining GCSE and A level qualifications. ...Read more
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All-through school (for example 3-18 years). - An all-through school covers junior and senior education. It may start at 3 or 4, or later, and continue through to 16 or 18. Some all-through schools set exams at 11 or 13 that pupils must pass to move on.
Sports
Equestrian centre or equestrian team - school has own equestrian centre or an equestrian team.
Fencing
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmistress
Since 2018, Heidi-Jane Boyes. Originally from East Yorkshire she studied geography at King's College, London before 13 years travelling, honing her business and customer relations skills managing bars and restaurants. She always had the ambition to teach so returned to the University of Hull to take a PGCE. From there she spent five years in a state school in Hendon before moving to Eastbourne College as head of geography and then Brighton Girls' as deputy head academic. ‘The move to WGHS was an obvious one, I love working with the students and the relaxed purposeful atmosphere here.’
Engaging and a good communicator – ‘I do like to talk so rein me in.’ She is obviously just as concerned about the pastoral wellbeing of her students as their academic achievement, ‘We...
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Results by exam and subject
Subject results
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Special Education Needs
The learning support department at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School provides continuous support for pupils at both the junior school and senior school. The SENCo is a qualified teacher of dyslexia. Provision includes work on study skills/organisation, revision skills, a multisensory literacy programme, reading courses, diagnostic testing and exam concession reporting. It is a thriving department whose main aims are to raise self esteem and give the pupils the skills and strategies needed to take control of their own learning.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | Y |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | Y |
| Dyspraxia | Y |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | Y |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | Y |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | Y |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | Y |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| VI - Visual Impairment | Y |
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