Brighton Girls GDST is ISI rated ‘Excellent’.[citation needed] The school was founded in 1876 and has 450 pupils.[citation needed] The school has a Prep School (Early Years, Key stages 1 &2), High and Sixth Form, making it the only all-through girls’ school in Brighton.[citation needed]
Brighton Girls is one of the schools of the GDST (Girls' Day School Trust).[citation needed] Its main site is at Montpelier Road and includes the Temple building in the Montpelier area of the city with the Prep School opposite on Temple Gardens. In addition to netball courts, sports hall, gym and dance studio, the school also has its Astroturf playing field and further sports facilities on nearby Radinden Manor Road.
The Head of Brighton Girls is Rosie McColl, who started in the autumn term of 2019.[citation needed]
The Good Schools Guide describes Brighton Girls as a school that is “certain of its own value and ethos, with individual encouragement producing fantastic results and grounded girls”.[2]
History
[edit]The main part of the school is housed in The Temple, Thomas Read Kemp's former home situated in the heart of Brighton.
Brighton Girls School was the tenth school founded by the Girls' Day School Trust in 1876.[3] The first head of the school was Edith Creak who at twenty years old appointed the first staff. Creak had broken glass ceilings as one of the first women to study at Cambridge and to graduate from London University.[3]
Its founders had radical ideas about education for women.[citation needed] The school founders' names are now used as the houses, Stanley, Lyttleton, Grey and Gurney. Their Latin motto is translated as "Truth is the way".
Entrance examinations consist of: 11 + Maths, English & VR; 13+ Maths, English, Science, MFL; 16+ Minimum of 5 GCSE passes (including English Language & Maths) with 8/7 s in subjects to be pursued; applicants are also interviewed.[citation needed]
Pupils can take part in a number of societies and extra-curricular activities. School pupils are divided into four Houses: Grey, Gurney, Lyttelton and Stanley; the Houses compete in a series of events and competitions to earn points, which go towards the House Cup, also known as the Banfora Cup, at the end of each academic year.
In 2021, 26 per cent of the school's GCSE grades were grade 9, the highest, and another 26 per cent were grade 8.[1]
The school underwent a rebranding in late 2019, including the change of name (from 'Brighton and Hove High School' to 'Brighton Girls'), as a well as an updated logo.[4]
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^ abMatthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004), "Edith Creak", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/51760, retrieved 24 July 2023
