Newport Girls' High School
Telford and Wrekin, United Kingdom
About Newport Girls' High School
Newport Girls’ High School is a girls' grammar school located in the market town of Newport, Shropshire. With around 680 pupils aged 11-18, the school is a selective academy, with entrance examinations required of any prospective students.
In 2019, the School was successful in gaining £2.3m to expand further under the government's Selective Schools Expansion Fund. An additional 30 pupils per year joined the school at Year 7 from September 2021 and an ambitious building programme (dining room, kitchen, science laboratory, computer suite and four classrooms) opened in January 2022.
The school’s sixth form is also open to students from other local schools. Newport Girls' High School converted to an academy in 2012 and operates under its own trust.
Headteacher
Mr A Jones
Values and vision
Newport Girls' High School takes great pride in its strong reputation for academic excellence. The secondary school works hard to provide a high-quality curriculum with a broad range of subjects. Teachers also seek to ensure that pupils have a caring and comfortable environment in which to learn.
The school day at Newport runs from 8.50am until 3.45pm in order to make time for daily assemblies and longer breaks. A wide variety of extra-curricular activities is available including sports such as fencing, netball and hockey.
Students join NGHS from Newport, Telford, Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Market Drayton and villages in between. Around 40% of students live in Newport.
Ofsted report (November 2022)
"Leaders and teachers are highly ambitious for all pupils throughout the school, especially those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). They make sure that the most important knowledge and skills in each subject are taught in the most effective sequence."
"Pupils rapidly develop the exceptionally positive learning behaviours expected by leaders and teachers. There is no disruption of lessons."
Location
The school is very well led. Leaders, including governors, never rest on the laurels of their current success.
- Ofsted 2022 reportSixth-form students are an integral part of school life. They are very effective role models and often run clubs for younger pupils, who aspire to be like them.
- Ofsted 2022 reportWhen speaking to other parents about lockdown education, we are very grateful that our daughter goes to NGHS.
- Current ParentThere is a real buzz across the school about learning, the curriculum and the best ways to teach. Teachers work together to enhance provision across the school by reviewing specific aspects of their work.
- Ofsted 2019Since his appointment, the headteacher has worked hard to ensure that the school is open to new ideas and continuously improving. He has built a strong culture of sharing professional practice in school.
- Ofsted 2019I cannot thank the school enough for the support they have shown my daughter over the past seven years
- Year 13 Parent - Parental Survey
