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Private day school in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
View of the old main entrance at the top of Charlbury Road .
Oxford High School is a private day school for girls in Oxford , England. It was founded by the Girls' Day School Trust in 1875, making it the city's oldest girls' school.
History [ edit ]
View on Banbury Road with No. 21 on the right, next to the current Oxford University Computing Services .
Oxford High School was opened on 3 November 1875, with twenty-nine girls and three teachers under headmistress Ada Benson , at the Judge's Lodgings (St Giles' House) at 16 St Giles' , central Oxford.[1] Girls' Public Day School Company . Pupils were given a holiday when the Assize Judge visited. The school moved to 38 St Giles' in 1879 and then to 21 Banbury Road at the start of 1881, in a building designed by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson , just south of the location of another Jackson building, the Acland Nursing Home .[2] Matilda Ellen Bishop .
Rapid expansion led to the ultimate removal of the school to Belbroughton Road in 1957. It became a direct grant grammar school in 1945 under the Education Act 1944 and chose to become independent in 1976 after the scheme was abolished. The junior section was opened in 1989 and further expanded in the 1990s to meet the growing demand. It absorbed two preparatory schools, Greycotes and The Squirrel, which meant girls could now be educated at Oxford High School from age 3 to Sixth Form .[3]
Academics [ edit ]
Oxford High School regularly ranks as one of the country's highest achieving independent schools in terms of examination results.[4] [5] South East in a Sunday Times [6] GCSE results and the best performing girls' school in the A Levels .[7] [8]
In 2006, the school became the first in Oxfordshire to make Mandarin a compulsory subject. Pupils will study it for at least a year accompanying French and can choose to either continue Mandarin or continue French.[9]
The girls in the senior school are divided into four houses, each named after an Ancient Greek deity:
Headteachers [ edit ]
Notable former pupils [ edit ]
Lucy Gordon
Josephine Barnes (1912–1999), first woman President British Medical Association (BMA)
Ursula Bethell (1874–1945), New Zealand poet and social worker
Vicky Bowman , former British diplomat
Emma Bridgewater , potter
Jacintha Buddicom , poet and childhood friend of George Orwell
Nancy Cadogan , artist
Catherine Conybeare , academic and philologist
Charithra Chandran , actress
Gail Davey , professor of epidemiology
Dame Cressida Dick (b. 1960), former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
Sian Edwards , conductor
Sos Eltis , author and academic
Rebecca Flemming , classicist
Amelia Fletcher economist, and indie band singer
Martha Lane Fox , entrepreneur lastminute.com[17]
Mel Giedroyc , actress/comedian
Lucy Gordon , actress/model
Emily Gowers , Professor of Latin literature at the University of Cambridge
Sophie Grigson , cookery TV/writer
Dame Pippa Harris , Film Producer
Ethel Hatch , British painter
Mary Hockaday , journalist
Dame Margaret Hodge , Labour MP and minister
Verena Winifred Holmes , engineer
Harriet Hunt , chess International Master
Elizabeth Irving , actress and founder of the Keep Britain Tidy Campaign
Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), poet
Ludmilla Jordanova , Professor of Modern History at the King's College London
Frances Kirwan , mathematician
Susan Lea Professor at the University of Oxford[18]
Anna Lapwood , Director of Music at Pembroke College, Cambridge and television/radio presenter
Dame Rose Macaulay , novelist
Serena Mackesy , journalist and author
Miriam Margolyes , (b. 1941), actress[19]
Ghislaine Maxwell , (junior section, left age 9), socialite and convicted child sex trafficker
Charlotte Mendelson (b. 1972), novelist
Anne Mills , health economist
Teresa Morgan , academic
Eleanor Oldroyd , BBC Radio Sport presenter
Ann Pasternak Slater , academic
Eileen Power (1889–1940), economic historian and medievalist
Rhoda Power (1890–1957), broadcaster and children's writer
Liz Shore , former deputy chief medical officer
Dame Maggie Smith , double Oscar-winning actress, seven times BAFTA Film Awards winner, Triple Crown of Acting
Barbara Strachey (1912–1999), broadcaster and writer
Catherine Tucker , American economist
Ayesha Vardag , Founder & President of Vardags, divorce lawyer
Anna Walker , British civil servant
References [ edit ]
^ "School History" . Archived from the original on 12 June 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2012 .
^ "Private schools make top grade" . Oxford Mail
^ "Oxford High School's A-Level results – 2008 – another stunning year" . Oxford Mail
^ "Oxford High named top of class in south east" . Oxford Mail
^ "New GCSE results show the difference in how youngsters improve at secondary school" . Oxford Mail
^ "Oxford schools top the league tables" . Cherwell
^ "School pupils to learn Mandarin" . Oxford Mail
^ "Bishop, Matilda Ellen (1842–1913), college head" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/48431 . Retrieved 20 September 2020 .(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Soulsby, Lucy Helen Muriel (1856–1927), headmistress" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/48573 . Retrieved 20 September 2020 .(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Brown, William Haig (1823–1907), headmaster headmistress" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/33634 . Retrieved 26 July 2020 .(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "No job for the boys as Abingdon School picks woman head" . The Times
^ "New Head for Oxford High School" . oxfordhigh.gdst.net. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 23 August 2010 .
^ "Introducing the New Head for Oxford High School" . oxfordhigh.gdst.net. 7 September 2017.
^ "Male headteacher is historic first for city girls' school". Oxford Times
^ "Famous Faces" . Oxford Mail
^ Anon (2018). "Lea, Prof. Susan Mary" Who's Who Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi :10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U290639 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Star attends Oxford High School 50-year reunion" . Oxford Mail
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