Bournemouth School for Girls
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| Motto | "Passion for learning" |
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| Type |
Grammar school Academy |
| Headmaster | Alistair Brien |
| Location |
Castle Gate Close Castle Lane West Bournemouth Dorset BH8 9UJ England 50°45′00″N 1°51′10″W / 50.750°N 1.8528°WCoordinates: 50°45′00″N 1°51′10″W / 50.750°N 1.8528°W |
| DfE URN | 136996 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Students | 1,099 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Austen Curie Franklin Parks Rossetti Shelley |
| Colours | Blue and white |
| Website | www |
Bournemouth School for Girls is a grammar academy school located in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. It is a girls grammar school and sixth form college, teaching girls aged 11 to 18.
Since September 2005, it has been a humanities specialist school. The headteacher is Alistair Brien. The school has roughly 1,100 students, including 300 in the sixth form. Until 2012, sixth form classes (including Theatre Studies, PE and Psychology) were 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. There are then six house and deputy captains, making up the senior team. Within each house there are designated positions of a sports prefect, performing arts prefect and a charities prefect.
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.
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 Austen (red), Marie Curie (green), Rosalind Franklin (blue), Rosa Parks (yellow), Christina Rossetti (purple) and Mary Shelley (turquoise). The emblem of the school is a snowdrop, which features on all the House badges.
The school has an award winning handbell team, who have played at the Royal Albert Hall. Every other year the school performs a musical which involve the whole school. In recent years these have been West Side Story, Les Misérables, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Little Shop of Horrors, The Sound of Music, and Grease. The girls also participate in Bournemouth School's productions such as Bugsy Malone, Jesus Christ Superstar, and in 2014, a musical written by sixth form students based upon Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In the years where a musical is not performed, members of staff participate in a staff pantomime, with all proceeds going to charity.
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