Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School
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| Motto |
Meliora Sequamur (Let us follow better things.) |
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| Established | 1881 |
| Type | Voluntary controlled grammar school |
| Headteacher | Dr Baxter (temporary) |
| Chair of Governors | Ash Rehal |
| Location |
Old Dover Road Canterbury Kent CT1 3EW England Coordinates: 51°15′53″N 1°05′48″E / 51.2648°N 1.0966°E |
| Local authority | Kent |
| DfE number | 886/4534 |
| DfE URN | 118840 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Staff | 72 |
| Students | c. 1025 |
| Gender | Girls (co-ed Sixth form) |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Curie, Johnson, Nightingale, Pankhurst, Austen and Fonteyn |
| Colours | Navy, gold and white |
| Publication | L-mag |
| Website | SLGGS website |
Simon Langton Girls’ Grammar School is a single-sex voluntary controlled grammar school in Canterbury, Kent, England. The school originated in the Middle Ages as an educational foundation for children in Canterbury, emerging as a separate school for girls in 1881. Its sister school is Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys which resides a mere half mile away.
The school is 'selective' in its intake, with prospective Year 7 students having to take the Kent Procedure for Entrance to Secondary Education ("eleven-plus") examination. Around 155 new students are accepted every year at age 11, and around 60 students every year join the sixth form from other schools. 2010 saw the successful introduction of boys into the sixth form.
In the school's Ofsted inspection (July 2014) it was rated 'Good' overall.
The history of the school begins with the Blue Coat Boys' School housed at the Poor Priest's Hospital which had been founded in the Middle Ages. In 1881, two new schools (a girls school and a boys school) succeeded it and were called the Canterbury Middle Schools. However, to dispel rumours that they were solely for the use of the middle classes, they were renamed in 1887 to become the Simon Langton Girls' and Boys' schools, named after Simon Langton, an Archdeacon of Canterbury who in 1248 had left behind legacies to the Poor Priest's Hospital.
During the Baedecker Blitz in the Second World War, the old school buildings were destroyed - they were situated in what is now the Whitefriar's Shopping Centre and rebuilt on its present site (just off the A2050) in 1950.
In 2005, Simon Langton Girls' became a specialist school in music and information and communication technology (ICT). In 2008, the national Gold ArtsMark has been awarded to the school for the third time in 2008, for excellence in Art, Music, Drama, Dance and Textiles. ArtsMark is the benchmark for arts education provision and Simon Langton Girls' received the Gold award in 2002, 2005 and 2008. Jane Robinson became the head teacher in January 2008.
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