Shrewsbury High School, Shropshire
Shrewsbury High School is a private day school for girls from ages 4 – 18 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. It is an original member school of the Girls' Day School Trust.[1]
History
Shrewsbury High School opened as a day school for girls in 1885. In 1893 the rising star Ethel Gavin took over as head.[2] The school had outgrown its site and it moved to its present location on the banks of the River Severn in central Shrewsbury in 1895.[citation needed] Gavin moved on to another headship in 1897.[2] The junior department transferred to Kennedy Road in 1959. In 2008 a new prep school was formed by the merger of the existing junior department with Kingsland Grange, a boys’ prep school. The Junior Department has now moved to the historic Town Walls campus as an all-through all-girls school from 4-18.
The Senior Department is located on Town Walls, by the banks of the River Severn.
Notable former pupils
- Lois Baxter, actress
- Mary Beard, classicist[3]
- Alice Bunn, Director of UK Space Agency[4]
- Hilda Murrell, naturalist
Notes and references
- ^ History
- ^ a b Sayers, Jane E. (2004). "Gavin, Ethel (1866–1918), educationist and headmistress". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55584. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
Ethel Gavin had a meteoric career: headmistress of the Shrewsbury high school in 1893 at the age of twenty-seven, she was appointed to Notting Hill high school at thirty-four
(Subscription or UK public library membership required.) - ^ Laity, Interview by Paul (10 November 2007). "A life in writing: Mary Beard, Britain's best-known classicist". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ "she-works | Dr Alice Bunn". She Works | Careers Site for Women. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
External links
- School Website
- Profile on MyDaughter
- ISI Inspection Report
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