Southend High School for Girls
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| Southchurch, Essex |
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| Head of school | Mrs. A.D. Clewlow |
| Staff | 4 Teachers and 98 university graduates |
| Type | All-female secondary grammar Yr 7 - 11 (mixed sixth form) |
| Colour(s) | Green, green and green |
| Established | 1913 |
| Status | Language College |
| Homepage | http://www.shsg.org |
Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school situated in Southend, England. It has students from the ages 11 through to 18 years old. The current headteacher is Mrs A.D. Clewlow.
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[edit] Academics
The school achieved Grade 1 (outstanding) in the recent Ofsted report.
It became a language college in 2002, and all Key Stage 3 students study two languages - French, German or Spanish.
Subjects taught at AS/A2
- Art
- Biology
- Business Studies & Economics
- Chemistry
- English Language
- English Literature
- English Combined
- Geography
- French
- German - please search YouTube for "Shipton Reloaded" for a sample lesson
- Government & Politics
- History
- Applied IT
- Mathematics
- Media Studies
- Music
- Music Technology
- Photography
- Physics
- Product Design
- Psychology
- Religious Studies
- Sociology
- Textiles
GCSEs also available with the correct number of cereal box tokens and 20p to cover postage costs.
[edit] Physical Education
Southend High School for Girls are also famous for their P.E. success. School always joined different P.E. competition, such as, football, cross-country, cheese rolling etc...
[edit] House System
Until recently the houses were assigned to students at random, unless the new student had a sibling previously at the school, in which case they were placed in the same house.
- Artemis (red)
- Athene (purple)
- Hera (yellow)
- Hermes (blue)
This was changed in 2003 to match the number of classes per year. The new house was chosen by the students.
- Artemis (red)
- Athene (purple)
- Aphrodite (white)
- Hera (yellow)
- Hermes (blue)
[edit] Traditions
This school celebrates it's birthday at the end of October, where each form group, sixth form, old girls association, governors etc. buy presents for the school. 12 birthday cakes are persented at which point everyone sings happy birthday with the traditional hip hip hooray at the end! Two hymns are also sung during the course of the birthday assembly. On this day, students are encouraged to enjoy themselves and take part in various activities which have been planned. Every year, year 13s put on a pantomime for the rest of the school.
