Colchester County High School for Girls

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Colchester County High School for Girls
Address
Colchester County High School for Girls
Norman Way

Colchester
,
Essex
,
CO3 3US

England
Coordinates 51°53′08″N0°52′32″E / 51.8855°N 0.8755°E / 51.8855; 0.8755
Information
Type Grammar academy
MottoWisdom Giveth Life
Established1909
Local authority Essex County Council
Specialist Science and Languages
Department for Education URN 137515 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Chair of GovernorsLaurence Jones
HeadteacherGillian Marshall
GenderGirls
Age11to 18
Enrolment874
Website http://www.cchsg.com/

Colchester County High School for Girls is a selective girls' grammar school with academy status in Colchester, Essex. The school consistently scores highly in the league tables for the UK. [1] [2] It was joint first in the country in the 2018 secondary GCSE league tables, [3] and ninth in the country in the 2015 A-Level league tables. [4] Entrance to Year 7 is by an academic selection test, the Eleven Plus. Entrance into Year 12 is by GCSE grades, although priority is given to pre-existing pupils.

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History

The school was originally located in the Albert Hall in the High Street (now the Co-operative Bank), until its intended premises at the top of North Hill (now the Sixth Form College) were completed. Later, the lower school moved to Greyfriars on East Hill and, in 1957, moved to new buildings in Norman Way, off Lexden Road. Most of the buildings are unchanged, but an extension, including new science laboratories and Sixth Form facilities was added in 2002. The 'mSchool' was added between 2006 and 2009, with new facilities for music, mathematics and the mind; its 'iLab' (innovation laboratory) is one of the few in the UK outside a university.

In 2018 new classrooms, including a new healthy living studio; a new sixth form centre with a lecture theatre and an IT suite were completed;In 2017, the top floor of the science block, or 'S-block’, was refurbished to facilitate the Colchester Teacher Training Consortium (CTTC).

It was founded in 1909 as a girls' school for Colchester, and subsequently became a grammar school admitting girls from North East Essex and beyond on the basis of an 11+ selection test. The school is situated a mile to the west of central Colchester, and celebrated its centenary in 2009–2010.

Specialisms

The school was one of the first Science Specialist Schools in the country. It later became a specialist Modern Language school too, teaching French and German as well as Latin.

School motto

Wisdom Giveth Life has been the school's motto since the school opened in 1909. [5] This reading is still included in the traditional school assembly at the start of each academic year:

Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
For Wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the days of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

— -Ecclesiastes, chapter 7, verses 11–14

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  2. ↑ "DfE Schools and Local Statistics". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
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