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Northampton High School Welcomes New Headmistress
We are delighted to welcome our new Headmistress, Dr Helen Stringer, to Northampton High School.
Dr Stringer joins us from the Stephen Perse Foundation in Cambridge where she has taught since 2007, having been Vice-Principal (Curriculum) since 2010.
Dr Stringer graduated in History from the University of Bristol 1984 before completing her Masters and Doctorate at the University of Sussex and teacher training at the Institute of Education in London. She has over 20 years of teaching experience at schools including Channing School, Highgate, James Allen’s Girls’ School, Dulwich and Leicester Grammar School.
Dr Stringer is passionate about breaking down barriers to success for girls and young
women. She is looking forward to working alongside governors, staff and parents to ensure that “every student leaves school equipped to take her first independent steps towards fulfilling her ambitions, meeting life’s challenges and making her contribution to an ever-changing world.”
At Northampton High an ambitious teaching and learning ethos is complemented by superb pastoral care and strong school- family partnerships which build confidence, positive attitude and zest for learning and life. Dr Stringer believes that these qualities are vital ingredients for success and happiness in a world full of opportunities, pressures and uncertainties.
Come and visit us at our Open Day on Saturday 10 October, 10am – 1pm. For more details and information on the Bursaries
and Scholarships available, please visit our website www.northamptonhigh.gdst.net or contact our Registrar Mrs Berry on 01604 765765.
A Bold, Imaginative and Reflective Education
Bedford Girls School
Choose Bedford Girls’ School, and your daughter’s education will be among the most exciting journeys she will ever take. It will shape the
woman she becomes and forge the unique ideas, opinions and dreams that will come to define her in adulthood.
Bedford Girls’ School is an exceptional girls’ day school for pupils aged 7 to 18. It is well regarded as a contemporary centre of excellence in all girls’ education.
We have an expert understanding of
the way girls think and learn and we are dedicated to preparing her for life, as well as for examination success. We support and challenge every girl to achieve her best; academically, culturally, socially, physically, personally and morally, so that she is able to understand her role in the wider world, to work collaboratively towards positive change and to develop critical and independent thinking skills.
As well as excellent GCSE, A Level and the International Baccalaureate results, we
pride ourselves on helping girls to exceed their potential in every area of the curriculum. As a forward thinking school we embrace the latest educational thinking and integrate technology into the classroom.
To learn more about what being Bold, Imaginative and Reflective really means for your daughter, we welcome you to our next Open Morning on Saturday 10th October 10am. For more information call our Admissions team on 01234 361918 or visit www.bedfordgirlsschool.co.uk.
A level success
have led to many successful admissions to the most competitive universities and courses, including Agriculture, Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Mathematics and Economics.
At AS, top results were again achieved with forty-two of the pupils gaining at least one A grade. Over a third of all results in Art, Chemistry, Economics, Latin, Maths and Politics were at Grade A. The Extended Project Qualification is an increasing strength of the School with seven of the eleven entrants gaining an A or A* in the Lower Sixth. We wish all of our pupils future success whether, as in the vast majority of cases, this is in Higher Education or to those who are off directly to new ventures in the workplace.
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Wellingborough School
Wellingborough School has again enjoyed a good year of A level and AS results. We continue to be really
proud of our pupils, some of whom have built on modest GCSE and AS results to perform very well in the exams for which the results are published today (August 13). Whilst attention in the media often focuses on those achieving the highest grades many of our pupils have achieved, through hard work and support, results which are well above what may have been expected in view of their prior performance. They deserve our congratulations.
Our strength across the breadth of subjects offered at Wellingborough is indicated by over
a quarter of our pupils taking Art, Business Studies, Economics and History gaining an A* at A Level. Thirty Eight of our eighty pupils gained at least one A* and we have maintained our A* grade performance at over 17 per cent of all grades. The results overall