City of London School for Girls

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City of London School for Girls
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City of London School for Girls
Barbican
London, EC2

United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°31′09″N00°05′40″W / 51.51917°N 0.09444°W / 51.51917; -0.09444
Information
Type Private day school
Motto Latin: Domine Dirige Nos
(O Lord Direct us)
Established1894
FounderWilliam Ward
Local authority City of London
Department for Education URN 100001 Tables
HeadmistressJenny Brown
GenderGirls
Age7to 18
Enrolment707
HousesFleet, Tudor, St. Bride & Ward
Colour(s)Red  
Former pupilsCity of London Old Girls' Association
Website http://www.clsg.org.uk

The City of London School for Girls (CLSG) is a private school in the Barbican in the City of London. It is the partner school of the all-boys City of London School and the City of London Freemen's School. [1] All three schools receive funding from the City's Cash. [1] It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) and the Girls' Schools Association.

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History

The school was founded using a bequest by William Ward, a merchant of Brixton, in 1881 and opened in Carmelite Street in 1894. [2] It was his conviction that girls should be given a broad and liberal education with an emphasis on scholarship; he left a third of his fortune to the City of London to fund the foundation of a girls' school. The school is still administered by the Corporation of London, and the Board of Governors is appointed by the Court of Common Council. The school also receives financial support from the City Livery Companies as well as banks and other City firms. The school has strong links with the all-boys City of London School, 15 minutes' walk away, which likewise is run by the Corporation.

The school moved to new buildings in the Barbican Estate in 1969.

General

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City of London School for Girls

The school has an excellent academic reputation. In 2018, it was rated by The Sunday Times as the second-best independent school in the UK, based on GCSE and A-Level results. [3] It has previously topped The Times A-level league table of England's independent schools and its table of prep schools. It has contributed two female participants to UK International Mathematical Olympiad teams. [4]

The Good Schools Guide describes City as having a "famously diverse mix of pupils and staff as befits the school's situation in the heart of the city". [5] The school previously had a small prep school, but this was dissolved in 2022 to form part of the new City Junior School. The school admits some students at 16.

Fees are currently £7,926 per term for the senior school exclusive of school lunches, and entrance is by examination. Approximately 25% of students receive bursary assistance of some kind, including full bursaries. [6]

The school is secular, yet has mildly Christian traditions, with an optional annual Carol Service in the neighbouring St Giles' Church. There is a Jewish Society as well as an Asian Society, an Oriental Society and an African-Caribbean Society.

City has a house system which consists of four houses. The four houses are Fleet (after Fleet Street), Tudor (after Tudor Street), St. Bride (after St. Bride church on Fleet Street), Ward (after William Ward, the founder of the school). There are a variety of inter-house competitions, including Drama, Debating, Maths, Art, Music, the Inter-House Quiz and at Sports Day, as well as several other sports competitions throughout the year.

There have been 12 headmistresses of the school; as of April 2024 the headmistress is Jenny Brown.

Extracurricular

The school is adjacent to the Barbican Arts Centre and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and has a strong focus on the arts. The school offers joint music scholarships with the Guildhall Music School. [7] Since 2005, the school has held a drama festival called Moat Fest.

The school has a swimming pool, a lecture theatre, two netball/tennis courts, a drama studio, an all weather playing field and an indoor gym with climbing wall, as well as a gym complete with exercise equipment such as treadmills and weights. The school has several times won the national European Youth Parliament competition and has a debating programme.

The school offers language exchanges to France, Spain, Germany and China, as well as other travelling opportunities through schemes such as World Challenge, which has seen girls go recently to Venezuela. Duke of Edinburgh Award expeditions have been confined to the UK since 2001 when student Amelia Ward was killed whilst abseiling on a Duke of Edinburgh trip in South Africa.They regularly have exchanges from countries such as Australia, China, Germany, France, and Spain.

It is the only school to have won the international Kids' Lit Quiz twice, in 2010 and 2014.

Buildings

The school is situated in a Grade II listed building in the Barbican.

The school has attracted controversy with recent expansion plans. In January 2018 plans were advanced to expand prep school for four- to seven-year-olds in an underground car park of an adjoining tower block, Thomas More House. The plans met with significant local opposition. A further plan for expansion was prepared by Nicholas Hare Architects, again meeting with strong opposition, and was subsequently abandoned. [8]

Head Mistresses

Notable former pupils

For a fuller list, see Category:People educated at the City of London School for Girls

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References

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  2. ↑ "City of London School For Girls (CLSG History)". Archived from the original on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 1 July 2008.
  3. ↑ Papers, Passed (29 November 2018). "Sunday Times Parent Power league table 2019". School Entrance Tests. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  4. ↑ "International Mathematical Olympiad---Past UK Team Members (UK IMO Register)". www.imo-register.org.uk. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  5. ↑ "City of London School for Girls, London". The Good Schools Guide. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  6. ↑ "Fees, Bursaries & Scholarships". City of London School for Girls. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  7. ↑ "City of London School for Girls (scholarships)".
  8. ↑ Weale, Sally (22 January 2018). "Top London school plans new wing in underground car park". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 History of CLSG Archived 3 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine at clsg.org.uk. Retrieved 2 February 2014
  10. ↑ 'COLTON, Gladys M.', in Who Was Who 1981–1990 (London: A. & C. Black, 1991, ISBN   0-7136-3336-0); online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007
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