Manchester High School for Girls

Manchester High School for Girls is an English independent day school for girls and a member of the Girls School Association. It is situated in Fallowfield, Manchester.

Manchester High School for Girls
Address
Grangethorpe Road

,
M14 6HS

England
Coordinates
Information
TypeIndependent day school
MottoToday's Students, Tomorrow's Successful Women
Religious affiliation(s)Mixed
Established1874
Local authorityManchester
Department for Education URN105592 Tables
Head MistressMrs Helen F Jeys
GenderGirls
Age4 to 18
Enrolmentc. 950
LogoSquircle
Websitemanchesterhigh.co.uk

The Head Mistress is Helen Jeys who took up the position in September 2020 and is the 11th head teacher in the school's history.

History

The Manchester High School for Girls, Dover Street (since 1947 part of the Victoria University of Manchester)

The school was founded in 1874 by nine men and women who were prominent citizens of Manchester: it was first established in Chorlton on Medlock. A new school was built in Dover Street in 1881. (The building is now occupied by the University of Manchester School of Chemistry).[1] The founding group included Prof Augustus Samuel Wilkins, Harriet, Robert Dukinfield Darbishire and Edward Donner (afterwards Sir Edward Donner, Bart.)[2] The first headmistress was Elizabeth Day. Day was replaced as head by Sara Annie Burstall in 1898.[3]

In September 1939 the school was evacuated to Cheadle Hulme and by 1940 a new school building was under construction at Fallowfield. The unfinished buildings at the Grangethorpe Road site were destroyed by bombing on 20 December 1940. In 1941 the school moved temporarily to Didsbury and by 1949 a new building at Grangethorpe Road began to be occupied. The move into the new school was complete by 1952. The Grangethorpe site was occupied by a large private house and gardens from 1882 to 1936.

Preparatory department and senior school

Manchester High School for Girls has a Preparatory Department for girls aged 4 to 11 with the majority progressing into the Senior School. Prep pupils have an infant section, two assembly halls and a playground and gardens. There are also specially designated areas for Mathematics and Science, a music room, library and two computer-suites providing multi-media facilities. In 2006, the school introduced the teaching of Mandarin to girls in Years 3 and 4.

Manchester High's curriculum includes traditional disciplines such as Latin. Pupils are also tutored in areas such as Mathematics, Sciences and Art and Design Technology. MHSG is a multi-cultural school embracing many faiths. Assemblies are organised by Sixth Form students and include Christian, Hindu and Sikh, Humanist, Jewish, Muslim and Secular themes.

A purpose-built Music House has 12 practice rooms and several classrooms, including one with space for orchestra rehearsals. A floodlit, all-weather hockey pitch, tennis courts, netball courts, a rock-climbing wall, and a swimming pool provide facilities for year-around sports.

Fees

For the academic year 2017/18 fees ranged from £8,337 per annum for infants to £11,472 per annum for seniors.[4]

Former staff

  • Edith Aitken, the first head of Pretoria High School for Girls[5]
  • Elizabeth Day, the first headmistress of the school
  • Sara Annie Burstall, the second headmistress of the school
  • Catherine Chisholm (1879–1952), Manchester High School doctor: 1908 – 1944, GP and paediatrician: the first woman to graduate from Manchester University Medical School in 1904, founder of the Manchester Babies Hospital [later the Duchess of York Hospital] in 1914, in 1950 became the first woman to be awarded an honorary Fellowship by the Royal College of Physicians.

Notable former pupils

References

  1. "Manchester High School for Girls". Ardwick Heritage Trail. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
  2. 100 Years of Manchester High School for Girls, 1874–1974. Manchester: Manchester High School for Girls (compiled by K. L. Hilton)
  3. Sara Annie Burstall, Oxford Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 30 January 2016
  4. http://www.manchesterhigh.co.uk/page/?pid=24
  5. Barbara E. Megson, 'Aitken, Edith (1861–1940)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 12 June 2017
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