Wirral Grammar School for Girls

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Wirral Grammar School for Girls
Address
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Heath Road

Bebington
,
Merseyside
,
CH63 3AF

England
Coordinates53°20′55″N 3°00′52″W / 53.3485°N 3.0145°W / 53.3485; -3.0145Coordinates: 53°20′55″N 3°00′52″W / 53.3485°N 3.0145°W / 53.3485; -3.0145
Information
TypeGrammar school;
Academy
MottoLatin: Monumentum Aere Perennius
("A monument more lasting than bronze", from Horace's Poem 3:30)
Established1931
Department for Education URN137171 Tables
OfstedReports
Head teacherMrs Elaine Cogan
GenderGirls
Age11 to 18
Enrolment1068
Houses6: Unitas (green), Esperance (orange), Ferens (yellow), Virtus (blue), Alpha (purple), Invicta (red)
Colour(s)Blue
Websitehttp://www.wirralgirls.co.uk/

Wirral Grammar School for Girls is an all-girls grammar school on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England.

Admissions[]

It is on Heath Road, Bebington, on the Wirral Peninsula, England, next door to Wirral Grammar School for Boys. The school consists of lower school (ages 11–16) and Sixth Form (ages 17–18), and entrance is by the 11-plus examination. Mrs Elaine Cogan has been its head teacher since 2001.

Consistently high achieving, Wirral Grammar School for Girls has been designated as a "high performing school" by the Specialist Schools Academies Trust and has received an Ofsted rating of 'Outstanding' in every department.[1]

History[]

It was founded in 1931. It was known as the Wirral County Grammar School for Girls until the late 1990s, being administered by Cheshire County Council before 1974, then by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council. In the early 1970s, it had around 900 girls.

The school operates a strict uniform policy with skirts being compulsory for all pupils. In 2021, a petition started by a pupil to allow all girls the right to wear trousers was deemed "unacceptable behaviour" by the school's then headteacher, Elaine Cogan.[2]

Academic performance[]

The school attains some of the best A level results in North West England, coming third for A-Level Points per Pupil in the 2012 Wirral Local Authority area league table.[3]

Notable former pupils[]

See also: Category:People educated at Wirral Grammar School for Girls
Former head girl Alison McGovern in 1998, now Labour MP for Wirral South since 2010

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Wirral Grammar School for Girls - Inspection report", Ofsted 29 January 2008.
  2. ^ Koncienzcy, Rebecca (25 March 2021). "Head says petition for girls to wear trousers is 'unacceptable'". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  3. ^ "BBC News - Secondary school league tables in Wirral". BBC.co.uk. 23 April 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  4. ^ https://lincoln.ox.ac.uk/people/anna-duncan

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