Plymouth High School for Girls
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| Motto |
Non scholae sed vitae discimus (Latin:For life not school we learn) |
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| Established | 1874 |
| Type | Community Grammar |
| Headteacher | Mary Utton |
| Chair of Governors | David Walters |
| Founder | Frederick Temple |
| Location |
St Lawrence Road Plymouth Devon PL4 6HT England |
| Local authority | Plymouth |
| DfE URN | 113532 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 835 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Anthony , Kendall , Latimer and Temple |
| Website | www |
Plymouth High School for Girls (PHSG) is a girls' grammar school founded in 1874. It is located on St Lawrence Road in Plymouth, Devon, England close to Mutley Plain and Plymouth city centre. PHSG is a Training School and an IB World School.
In February 1874 the Devon and Cornwall Girls' School Company was formed, opening a school for girls in Sherwell House, North Hill (only a few hundred metres from the school's current location), on 14 September that year. It was intended that the school should move to other premises and for this purpose a fund had been set up to purchase a suitable site. Land surrounding a detached property known as 'North Hill' was chosen and the first part of these new premises were opened by the Bishop of Exeter, Doctor Frederick Temple, on 21 January 1878. North Hill house became the home of the headmistress, Miss Kendall. A new building was designed by a Mr Paull and erected by Messrs Blatchford of Tavistock. £3,000 was expended on the purchase of the site and a further £10,000 on the buildings.
North Hill house was demolished in 1939 for the construction of a new wing.
By the 1960s the school was using rooms in the large building next door, known as 'The Annexe'. This had previously been The South Devon and Cornwall Blind Institute, built in 1876. The Annexe is believed to be located roughly where a fort stood during the siege of Plymouth in the Civil War of the 17th century, and before that to have been the location of The Maudlyn, a leper house. In around 1976 the school took over the whole building.
Plymouth High was once a fee-paying school, at least up until the 1940s.
During World War II an 'Emergency High School' was set up amalgamating Plymouth High School for Girls, Devonport High School for Girls and the now defunct Stoke Damerel High School for Girls with the PHSG Head Mistress, Miss Violet Turner, as its headmistress. The school was also one of the 19 food centres open in Plymouth by April 1941. The school was one of the three of these centres which served a two course meal between noon and 2:30pm and again between 5:30pm and 7:30pm for the price of 9d (nine old pence).
In recent times PHS has seen the building of the Newman Hall, the Science and PE blocks, the Metcalf building and a sixth Form centre.
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