Queen Mary's High School

Queen Mary's High School

Infobox UK school
name = Queen Mary's High School


size =
latitude = 52.5895
longitude = -1.976
dms =
motto = Semper Fidelis
motto_pl = Forever Faithful
established = 1893
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closed =
c_approx =
type = voluntary aided grammar
religion =
president =
head_label = Head Teacher
head = Mrs Diana Woods
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r_head =
chair_label = Chair of Governors
chair = Mrs V. M. Fairbank
founder =
founder_pl =
specialist = Languages and Mathematics and Computing
specialist_pl= yes
street = Upper Forster Street
city = Walsall
county = West Midlands
country = England flagicon|England
postcode = WS4 2AE
LEA = Walsall Borough Council
ofsted = 104261
staff =
enrollment = 700
gender = Girls (mixed sixth form)
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 18
houses = Austen, [Charlotte Brontë [Brontë] , Eliot
colours = Yellow, Blue, Red
publication =
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website = http://www.queenmaryshigh.org.uk/
website_name = www.queenmaryshigh.org.uk

Queen Mary's High School, situated on Upper Forster Street, just outside of Walsall town centre, is an all-female selective education school and entry in Year 7 is by passing an entrance exam. It is twinned with Queen Mary's Grammar School, and like the Grammar School is part of the Queen Mary's Foundation.

The main body of the school is girls only, but the Sixth Form is open to applicants of both genders and is conditional on a minimum grade achievement at GCSE (no fewer than 5 GCSE's above 'B' Grade, including the subjects you wish to take).

The school is a Language College [cite web
title=Specialist Schools Home
publisher=DfES
month=July | year=2006
url=http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/specialistschools/
accessdate=2006-08-02
] and it is compulsory for girls to take two languages to GCSE out of French, German, Spanish and Japanese (of which they have no choice in which two they take). The school has recently been awarded Mathematics and Computing College status as well.

Average class sizes in lower school are about 24 girls.

The school is divided into houses named after famous 19th-century female authors - Austen (after Jane Austen), Bronte (after Charlotte Brontë) and Eliot (after George Eliot).

Unlike it's sister school Queen Mary's Grammar School, the buildings of Queen Mary's High School are of a listed status. However, whilst technologically the school may not be lacking (for instance each classroom is equipped with interactive SMART Boards), the school buildings and site are very cramped, so much so, that for Physical Education lessons pupils have to board a coach to the boys school, a 5 minute drive away, which is of a modern build and is surrounded by its own large field.

References

External links

* [http://www.queenmaryshigh.org.uk School website]
* [http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/qmarys/qmhome.html Internal Home Page]


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